About

There's only one thing you need to know about me:

I enjoy design more than anything else.

ANYTHING.

Even more than chinese chicken wings, cups of tea, and reruns of Red Dwarf!

But if you want the long story then here it is…

I grew up in North Wales, and have always had a passion for making things.

My portfolio is the story of my life really. After leaving school I worked as a Design Engineer for 9 months, and then traipsed around Europe for three months.

In university I studied engineering at Imperial College London, and made some more cool things. Along the way I dropped by India, and developed a love for masala tea.

Since university I've been fortunate enough to work on a great project with a startup in London. It's exciting, but has been hard work. But as long as the tea keeps flowing, everything will be fine.

Contact

Email: dan at danieltownsend dot co dot uk

Twitter: @danieltownsend

Skills

These are some of the technical skills I've developed along the way. It's not a complete list, but gives you some insight into the tools I like to use.

CAD

• Solidworks - Advanced (> 6 years experience).
• Eagle CAD - Advanced (used intensively for 1 year).
• I'm also familiar with other packages such as Alibris and Autocad.

Web design

• Django - Advanced (used intensively for > 1 year in a professional environment).
• HTML, CSS - Advanced (> 5 years experience).
• Javascript, JQuery - Intermediate.
• I'm familiar with a range of operating systems, with a preference for Mac OS X and Ubuntu.

Programming

• Python - Advanced (used on a daily basis for embedded system and web programming).
• C - Intermediate (used for embedded system programming on Arduino and PIC platforms).

Updated on: Feb. 21, 2012, 10:47 p.m.