Graham Ellis - Summary of Training Record
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2010-05-21 05:55:04 - Graham Ellis
It's surprisingly rare that I'm asked for my own training record ... and that's probably no bad thing, as it's only a part of what I have learned over the years. It's a vital part, but the additional practical experience, and hours and days of less formal study, add together to make a more complete picture. However, here's a partial report listing the formal bits (and some less formal ones) of where I learned some of what I know.
2010 - Level 2 - Food Safety in Catering
2008 - Talking to the Press
2007 - Member of Melksham First
2006 - Emergency First Aid - Appointed Person
2006 - Member of Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry
2006 - Finalist, Wiltshire Business of the Year
2005 - Python Programming - with Mark Lutz
2004 - MySQL - with Monty Widenius and David Axmark
2004 - Advance Perl (Perl Whirl - with Larry Wall)
2004 - PHP - Advanced - with Rasmus Lerdorf
2003 - Member of Federation of Small Businesses
2000 - Advance Perl (Perl Whirl - with Larry Wall)
1998 - Training on driving a narrowboat on public trips
1997 - Swimming Pool Life Guard
1994 - Open GL - Silicon Graphics
1993 - Irix (basics, user, admin) - Silicon Graphics
1992 - Shell Programming - First Alternative
1992 - Advanced C Programming for Unix - First Alternative
1992 - Solaris Systems Administration - First Alternative
1984 - Solaris for Users, Solaris for Programmers - Sun
1982 - The X Windows System - Hands on Training
1980 - Sales Training by TACK
1979 - The Basic programming language - Tektronix
1977 - Principles of Computer Graphics (Tektronix)
1976 - B.Sc. (Hons) 2.1, Computer Science, City University
1975 - Best Practise in Programming (Fortran based) - Dr Colin Day
1972 - Driver training (full driving license)
1971 - A Levels - Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry, Biology
1970 - O Level - English Language
1970 - School Crossing Patrol training ("Lollipop Man")
1969 - O Levels - French, Additional Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Woodwork
1968 - O Level - Maths
I could add so much - a session at the BBC, and another in a Church Hall in Holborn by Perl Gurus (Perl 6, Advanced Perl). "Train the trainer" sessions at a place of work. Twice yearly training days / conferences on matters relating to rail campaigning. And to add further, our library of books where I'm an avid browser, and on-line browsing too. There's further information on my background [here].
Illustration: The niche courses which I need to attend in order to be able to then teach at the next level are very rarely within daily communting distance of home. I have travelled to Canada, to Alaska, Californis, Florida and Colorado, to Italy, Greece and Turkey - and closer to home to London too - for elements of my own training.