About Me James Cordon

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Achievements

  • Commissioned by Microsoft to create headline content for their 2021 Minecraft summer celebration sale, alongside colleagues. This project achieved several million sales in the first week.
  • Received “Undergraduate Exceptional Achievement award 2017/18” for having fourth highest average grade in the first year.
  • Awarded “Best Microsoft Azure Hack” prize at 2018 MLH Local Hack Day hackathon.
  • Received “Computing & Media Faculty Award” in 2017, and Chair of Governors Award” in 2013.

Education

University of Nottingham October 2017 - July 2020
BSc (Hons) Computer Science Degree Classification: 1st Class
  • Experience of using version control software (git, remote hosting on a GitLab server)
  • Modules include Software Engineering, Functional Programming, Image Processing, Mobile Device Programming, Graphics, Compilers, and a Project-Based Dissertation
Ashfield Comprehensive School September 2015 - July 2017
  • 4 A Levels: Computer Science (A), Mathematics (A), Physics (B), and Further Mathematics (C)
Frederick Gent School September 2010 - July 2015
  • 10 GCSEs: 2 A*s, 3 As, 5 Bs
  • Took on roles as a "Senior Student" and as Deputy Head Boy

Work Experience

RASA Studios June 2017 - Present
Programmer & Video Editor
  • In my free time I am a member of RASA Studios, a Minecraft building and video production team
  • Volunteering as a programmer (game logic and story sequences within our shows and maps)
  • Volunteering as a video editor (editing vlogs, "let's play" videos and gameshow series)
HackNotts November 2018, November 2019
Volunteer
  • 24 hour hackathon hosted by the University of Nottingham's Hack Society
  • Helping student hackers with debugging problems, checking attendees in, supervising throughout students during the event
  • Also included the creation and open-sourcing of the event-wide display system (shows time remaining and messages from the organisers)
November 2020 Moderator
  • 2020's event was held exclusively online, as gatherings were not allowed due to COVID-19
  • Helping student hackers with debugging problems, ensuring attendees were polite and following chat rules
  • Providing a welcoming atmosphere and helping others in the event's livestream chatroom
UoN Computer Science Mentors Program September 2018 - June 2019
Mentor
  • Volunteer program to help first year students better understand the modules' content, and helping these students to settle into the university as a whole
  • Assisting with "welcome week" activities within the School of Computer Science
  • Collaborating with colleagues to run weekly and monthly "drop-in" sessions

Notable Projects

Discord Games Bot for April Fools' 2022
  • Collaboration with colleagues at RASA Studios to create games based on those in the Noxsquad Gameshow, with the primary interaction between players being Discord chat commands
  • Utilises Node.js, MongoDB (using Mongoose), and Discord.js
  • More information available on the project page
University Dissertation Project: Collab Video
C++ Platformer/Shooter Game

Skills

Languages
  • ARM Assembly
  • C
  • C++
  • CSS
  • Haskell
  • HTML
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Kotlin
  • PHP
  • Python
  • SQL
Technologies
  • Android
  • Browser Extensions (Chrome and Firefox)
  • Discord.js
  • FFmpeg
  • Flask
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jekyll
  • jQuery
  • LaTeX
  • MongoDB
  • Node.js
  • OpenGL
  • OpenMPI
Miscellaneous
  • Community Moderation
  • Playing Music (Guitar, Piano)
  • Video Editing