And another thing…

What to say? In a nutshell (a largish one) -

My name is Jennifer Keane.  I’m a full time web development professional, and I love my job. I’ve been coding websites for so many years that I can’t really remember when I started, although I definitely remember some very early experimentation with our free Eircom webspace when I was a young wee thing. I continued learning elements of web and graphic design while studying for my degree at NUI Maynooth. While there, I first cut my teeth on CSS and from there, on to scripting languages like Perl, before putting together some custom CMS modules in PHP and MySQL for some different clubs and societies in the college. My final year project in computer science was heavily based in web design – building a web based cataloguing system for use by scholars studying manuscripts, using Perl. I graduated from NUI Maynooth with a double honours degree in computer science and biology, and started my very first web design job in the real world. From there, the rest is history (albeit recent history!).

I’m an almost full time martial artist, training between 5-6 days a week. I train Jiu Jitsu, Kenpo, and Escrima, and I regularly travel both within Ireland and abroad to train at seminars. It is an occasionally difficult schedule to keep, as I’m regularly running from work to class, or from one class to another, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I absolutely love it all, and hope to keep training in some way or other for the foreseeable future.

I’m an information broker, I love to have it, to learn new things, to share it. I’m rarely found without a book somewhere nearby, and I’ve usually got 2 or 3 on the go at any one time. I like to soak up all the info from the books, and if I find a topic I like, I’ll try to read as much as possible about it.

I think it’s never too late to make a change, so I am studying neurocomputation and language processing in my spare time, as well as taking classes in one language and maintaining home study in another. Some day, I will take up a masters degree, possibly part time, and most likely in the area of neurocomputation and language studies. I want to fill my head right up to the brim with everything that I can get in there!

I think there’s nothing that can’t be done, once you set your mind to it, and I intend to keep testing this hypothesis until I run out of time, or steam.