HEX: HEX was my introduction to computer programming (but that is ancient history now)!

COBOL: Created a complete mainframe inventory and ordering system (for a bakery) as my final course project

JCL / FORTRAN / PASCAL: I learnt these along side COBOL

Windows Batch: Many years experience writing up small utilities that harness the powers of the operating system (still using)

AHK: Enhanced language to utilise Windows shell and all available options within (still using). I've built screen scrapers, file management utilities and logging analysers amongst others in AHK.

SQL/Dbase/MySQL: Multiple systems over the years, including enhancements to a business wide notifications and reporting system

Microsoft Visual Basic: Several years of development, culminating in developing an IBM-Midframe overlay system utilised in a customer support environment nationally. 

VBA: I've built utilities within Excel to perform functions like roster-management (EG: verify staffing levels are correct, and proposed staffing impacts of leave taken) as well as various little excel management utilities along the way.

Python: (May-June 2019) Completed initial learning. Have already began developing my own library of functions.

Google Go (GoLang) (2019): learning alongside Python.

AWS (June 2019): Completed Amazon Web Services Beginner through to advanced trainings.

HTML: I have been creating and editing HTML and it's variants since about 2000.

Angular JS: (June 2019):  Learning Angularjs including Web Development and Machine Learning amongst others through online studies!

AI / Prompt Engineering: (2023): Have learnt to instigate and develop AI prompting for both ChatGTP (text) and multiple AI Art generation platforms. can now generate consistent "on topic" art works such as: A unique person in multiple poses, places, outfits etc. See the top of this page for an example of consistent character creation. My creations are not based on any particular person so they are not at risk of legal actions (EG: Creating a character based on a known person/celebrity). All of my characters are built from the ground up!

Projects

Below I have included some samples of work I have completed. In cases where you see "customer" records, they are actually mine. There are also no items within these documents that identify other people or network services as this would be a breach of confidentiality. If the content will not directly load (on mobile or PC), click the link provided to be taken to the page directly.

2022 Update: It would appear that the hosting service I was using has lost several links so I have removed anything that is no longer accessible.

Python Windows 10 Registry Reader (weblink, 2019)

My first actual application built in Python. The application identified which files on a Windows-10 pc are being used as wallpapers through the registry. This worked with up to two screens. Unlike many options that were available on the web which simply presented the "temp" copy of the wallpaper file, my app actually opened up Explorer  to the source file being used, allowing a user to delete it if they no longer want it on their pc. This was handy when you have a pc like mine that has over 3000 wallpapers to search through.

2022 Update: I have decommissioned Registry Reader. It is still available on GitHub but this was windows 10 specific.

Excel/VBA Roster Management Tool (Photo only, Circa 2012)

This roster tool monitored the number of staff on in each of several workgroups, and allowed managers to move staff into different roles which they were qualified for, and see immediately if it would cause any rostering short-falls. This worked across approximately 6 teams and would highlight any teams immediately if moving one of their staff members had caused the area to not meet it's rostered staffing requirements

Any move of staff was simply a change of the letters in the box, and only impacted rostering for that day.

Visual Basic IBM Mid-Frame fault management system (6 pages, Circa 2004)

I built an application overlay which allowed full GUI control and configuration of user services within an IBM mainframe interface session. The interface also allowed queue control of tickets assigned to multiple work groups as well as allowing management or staff to monitor and report on workflows within each team using the system. This was adopted nationally by the Mobile Customer Investigations team for fault queue management and reporting.

2022: Link lost on provider site. Will be updated once source links found.

ECG Report writing tool (Circa 2008)

In Major Incident Management report writing was taking an average of approximately 40 minutes to complete, causing delays in issuing business critical communications when required. I saw need to improve these timeframes, and as such built this "report overlay" system which could extract data from internal reporting systems and compile it into the one interface tool where all reports could be produced. The average turnaround time for reports went from approximately 40 minutes down to 12 minutes across the team. As a further improvement the tool was rolled out across the infrastructure business and I led training to all users which helped to improve communications consistency and reliability as well.

HTML/CSS Choppaz Den - My original personal website (Circa 2004)

This was designed (at the time) purely for personal experience using HTML and CSS!

Note: Original hosting site discontinued. Recommissioned on GitHub 2026

MS Access Inventory Tracking System (6 pages, Circa 2004)

This application allowed the user to create, update or remove mobile phone device sets. Sets or individual components could then be allocated to "owners" or have components loaned out to users who required them with ease. This also allowed tracking of components and sets so when components were urgently required teams could identify who had those components. 

2026: A presentation pack of the functionality will be uploaded once found (original links lost)

Certifications

While I have lost more documents than I have found, I have attached certifications and other documents here to show history where possible. As the list of courses I complete grows, I will add them in here for easy reference.

GitHub

Google Go (GoLang) basics

Python

Advanced Excel

COBOL, PASCAL, FORTRAN, DBASE, SQL, JCL

COBOL, PASCAL, FORTRAN, DBASE, SQL, JCL