Fergus Crawshay Ray-Murray

D.O.B. 26/05/1978
www.oolong.co.uk * 8/10 Harrismith Place, Edinburgh EH7 5PA * fcrm@oolong.co.uk
0131 661 1411

Employment

• April 2005 - present
  Online Officer for the Edinburgh International Festival - writing and editing content, image editing; HTML, CSS, Photoshop, PHP, Dreamweaver (part-time - 20 hours per week).
• April 2004 - February 2006
  Working in spare time (full time in February and March 2005) on Resonata, a project funded by Alt-W to further develop an interactive physics teaching tool.
• November 2003 - February 2005
  Working as an administrator at Scottish Widows.
  
• June 2002 - May 2003
  Working part-time for Digital Visual on an experimental mathematics project exploring the predator/prey-type interactions of floating-point cellular automata pairs and their possible application to models of the mind as a dynamical system, and more simply for the creation of attractive and intriguing visuals. Converted old C code to Java, added controls and modified the model in various ways; switched to C++ using OpenGL for 3D display. Working on short film of the model.
  
• June - October 2001
  MSc project placement at BBC Research & Development department: creating a prototype for what has become the BBC's Virtual Replay system. Working on my own to create a Java3D display engine and integrate it with an existing robot football package; reported weekly to the Virtual Production group and completed a final 10,000-word writeup for my MSc and the BBC R&D library.
  
• Late 1999 - August 2000
  Office work, mostly for Islington Council; using Word, Excel, Visual Basic, etc.

Qualifications

• 2000-2001
  MSc Computer Games Engineering
  University of Essex
  
• 1996-1999
  BSc Physics and Philosophy, Hons (2.ii)
  University of Bristol
  
• 1994-1996
  A Levels: Physics (A) + special paper (merit); Maths (B); Law (D).
  LA SWAP Consortium, London
  
• 1992-1994
  GCSEs: 3 A*, 4 A, 1 B.
  Acland Burghley School, London

Skills and Interests

• Cooking - versatile vegan cook, some catering experience
• Writing and editing - have contributed pieces on many subjects, from sciences to teas, to the eclectic writing collection everything2.com, for which I am an editor and lead the science writing group.
  
• Web design using Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS; maintaining personal website as a showcase for my work since late 1999
  
• Photography - digital, 35mm, medium format; landscapes and cityscapes, macros, etc.
  
• PhotoShop and PSP for photo editing, retouching, digital art and general graphics work
  
• Sculpture in clay and polymer clay
  
• Science - particularly physics and the science of taste perception and nutrition
  
• MS Office - extensive experience in office and academic environment
  
• Languages - basic French, general linguistics knowledge, a smattering of Bengali
  
• Childcare/camping - with voluntary organisation Forest School Camps since early childhood, now as staff. This has provided invaluable experience of working together with others in a small team, not to mention strong skills in catering, fire-building and survival.

References available on request.