Bio

My name is Neil Allen and I am 23 years old. As mentioned earlier, I have recently graduated from Newcastle College where I studied BA (Hons) Creative Practice and specialised in Illustration and Animation. I am an avid doodler and enjoy experimenting with multimedia technology and software. I don't care much for zombies.

Qualifications

Accompanying my GCSEs, I have the following qualifications.

National Diploma (ND) in Multimedia Design (Merit, Pass, Pass)
Foundation Degree (FD) in Illustration and Animation (Pass)
Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Hons) Creative Practice (2:2)

I achieved these qualifications whilst studying at Newcastle College, Gateshead. During my time spent at Newcastle College I have made a number of valuable contacts and have learnt a lot in terms of both animation or illustration techniques and also with regard to client-employee interaction and working towards a brief.

Skills

Below follows a list of software and programming languages in which I am experienced. Some items from this list, such as Adobe Flash, Photoshop and the programming language HTML, I have been using for almost ten years.

Software
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Flash
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere
Final Cut
Maxon Cinema 4D
Microsoft Office Access
Microsoft Office Excel
Microsoft Office Powerpoint
Microsoft Office Word
Microsoft Visual Studio
And a variety of online content management systems (CMS) such as PHP-Nuke, osCommerce and phpMyAdmin.

Programming languages
ActionScript (2 & 3)
CSS
HTML
JavaScript
PHP
XML

I am quick to learn new software or programming languages and enjoy developing the skills I already posess.