RICHARD COHEN

 

 

q       Personal Details

 

Full Name:

Richard Jonathan Cohen

Date of birth:

26th October 1979  (age 22)

Address:

c/o Carla Griffiths

 

 

 

Wolfson College

 

 

 

Oxford OX2 6UD

 

 

 

 

q       Education

 

1998-2002

Christ’s College

Cambridge

CB2 3BU

 

BA/MEng (Hons) Engineering

 

2:1 achieved in finals, modules taken in:

§         Electronic circuits

§         Control & signal processing

§         Communications systems

§         Computer systems

§         Economics

4th year project title: “The Automated Transcription of Musical Signals”

 

1987-1998

Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’
School

Butterfly Lane

Elstree

Borehamwood

Herts WD6 3AF

GCSEs:

10 A* grades  (1996)

A-levels:

(1998)

Physics

Chemistry

Maths

Further Maths

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q       Work Experience & Employment

 

Sophos Plc

November 2002 – present.

Virus Researcher – I analyse computer viruses to determine how they infect and how to protect and disinfect them. This involves knowledge of a wide range of computer languages, as well as the disassembly tools to allow us to look at and understand the executable code.

 

Data Connection

100 Church Street
Enfield
Middlesex EN2 6BQ

 

July-September 2001

Vacation Student Software Engineer – I spent the summer learning and programming in a portable C-based language to improve their label-switching network software.

Whitby Bird & Partners

60 Newman Street
London W1T 3DA

 

July 2000

June-August 1999

January 1999

University Sponsorship Student – I helped on various CAD-based projects, and spent time on site. Ultimately realised that civil engineering did not attract me sufficiently.

 

GEC Marconi

Stanmore

September 1997

Work Shadowing – I was able to sample different R&D projects.

 

Basedata Ltd

London N12 8UB

July-August 1997

Database and List Manager – I provided targeted lists of names and addresses to companies for mailing purposes.

 

q       Other Skills

 

Knowledge of computer systems.

Programming experience in Assembly, C/C++, Javascript, VDL and Matlab

Regular user of IDA Disassembler and SoftIce Debugger,

as well as of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Clean UK Driving Licence

 

q       Interests & Achievements

 

Double Bass (grade 8)

leader of section in

Cambridge University Music Society and

 

Piano  (grade 7)

Ballroom Dancing

Gold Crest Science Award

School Prefect

School Honours Tie

 

 

 

Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra

 

q       References

 

Available on request    

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