Chijioke Nwankwo

Msc Advanced Information Systems (2003 - 2005)

I am currently studying a Master's degree in Advanced Information Systems (AIS) at Birkbeck College, which is part of the University of London, on a part-time basis. I decided to study a Master's degree in AIS in order to fill some of the knowlegde gaps that have been created by my first degree and working in the industry.

My previous degree was a BSc Hons. in Applied Computing and Computer Communications. The Applied computing major was predominanly made up of computer programming in various programming languages like Assembly, Pascal, C, C++, Java, etc. The Computer Communications major concentrated on the various network technologies, topologies, protocols and their implementations.

I currently work, as a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) developer for a broadcasting company based in London. One of the major areas I have concentrated on over the past couple of years has been the development of J2EE compliant web applications. The framework of choice for the web development is an open source project, created by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), called Struts . Some of the technologies I use to carry out my job are Struts, JSP, EJB, JDBC, Servlets, etc.

My full name is Chijioke Obioha Nwankwo (see below for a meaning of my name). I was Born in London and raised in the Central part of Nigeria. I am Igbo by tribe and speak 2 out of the 3 major languages in Nigeria (Hausa, as spoken by the northerners and Igbo, as spoken by the easterners). I lived in Nigeria for 20 years before I relocated to England to further my education.

• Chijioke - Chi means God, ji means to hold or share, oke means share or portion (God shares out blessings)
• Obioha - Obi means heart, oha means all (Accepted by all)
• Nwankwo - Nwa means child, nkwo is the name of a particalur market day in igbo land (A child born on nkwo market day)

My interest in distributed computing and client server technologies was brought on by the content of first degree. Since I graduated I have been very interested in the possibilites and capabilities of distributed computing. Majority of my work involves working with location-transparent distributed applications.

When I am not working and studying, I try and keep fit, by going to the gym as well as swimming and cycling on occassions.

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