UTS (Mar 2018 – Present)

The University Of Technology Sydney (UTS), is a public research university located in Sydney Australia. I am currently commencing my second year, completing my Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) – Diploma in Profession Engineering Practise, majoring in Software Engineering.

Applications Programming (High Distinction), and Data Structures & Algorithms (Distinction)

Key Learnings:

  • Applying the core fundamentals of Java patterns and data structures to an actual application
  • Introduction of object-oriented programming (OOP) and developing a comprehensive understanding of the topics behind OOP, such as inheritance and polymorphism
  • Applying different algorithms to improve how an application can execute a task
  • Obtaining an understanding of Big-O notation and the importance of time and space complexity when developing an application

Projects:

  • A PC building application designed to explore the components required to build a PC
  • Developed an application that implements algorithms on a directed graph data structure
The output of my second assessment (PC builder application)

Development Details:

  • IDE : NetBeans
  • Language: Java, JavaFX

Software Studio (High Distinction) – Web Development

Key Learnings:

  • Applying an agile methodology to the development of various software projects
  • Developing an understanding of core software development tools such as GitHub and Jira
  • Implementing technology stacks such as MERN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS) in web-based applications

Projects:

  • Web-based dating application that utilises machine learning to match users before they interact with each other
  • Online E-commerce software website application
  • Automatic student subject enrolment application
  • Online anti-cheating system for student examinations that utilised facial recognition to authenticate a student’s identity
The output of Auxilium (Online E-commerce software website application)

Digital Forensics (Distinction) – Cyber Security

Key Learnings:

  • Analysing how to explore and restore data from a corrupt state and in a secure manner
  • Familiarising the legal requirements associated with carrying out a forensics procedure 
  • Exploring different digital forensic processes such as order of volatility and chain of custody

Projects / Tasks:

  • Applying various applications and command-line tools such as the XXD, file, EXIF tool commands to restore a corrupted image to its original state
  • Recovering deleted files from an external disk / hard drive
  • Monitoring web traffic and identifying malicious activity