129 lines
6.3 KiB
Svelte
129 lines
6.3 KiB
Svelte
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<div
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class="hero height-minus-nav bg-gradient-to-br from-primary from-10% to-accent to-80%"
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>
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<div class="hero-overlay bg-opacity-30"></div>
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<div class="hero-content text-left text-accent-content flex-col lg:flex-row">
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<SkeletonImage
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src="https://cdn.nickbland.dev/nickbland%2Fstatic%2Fimages%2Fprofile.webp"
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altText="Profile of me."
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/>
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<div>
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<h1 class="mb-6 text-6xl font-bold text-wrap text-center text-primary-content">
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Hello, my name is Nick
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</h1>
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<p class="py-5 text-lg max-w-xl text-center text-primary-content">
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I am a Junior Systems Administrator with a passion for building stuff. I have my
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own homelab which I use to test my new creations on the path to my goal-career in
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cybersecurity. At the moment, I'm a student at Griffith University.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="hidden lg:flex divider divider-horizontal divider-start">Scroll</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<h1 class="my-6 text-6xl text-center text-base-content font-bold">About Me</h1>
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<TextContent>
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Since 2014, I've had an interest in programming and making things. This portfolio serves
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as a place for me to collate and show off some of the work that I've done and
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experiences I've had.
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</TextContent>
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<TextContent>
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At the moment, I've returned back to Uni to finish my degree after achieving a point in
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my career that I am happy with. With the experience I've gained, and after finishing my
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studies, my plan is to work in the cybersecurity field.
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</TextContent>
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<Divider />
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<h1 class="my-6 text-6xl p-5 text-center text-base-content font-bold">
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Skills & Confidence
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<Skills />
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<TextContent>
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While this isn't an exhaustive list of all my skills, it is a brief list of skills and
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interests I wished to highlight.
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</TextContent>
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<h1 class="my-6 text-6xl text-center text-base-content font-bold">Education & Goals</h1>
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<Countdown />
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<TextContent>
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As of 2023, I have returned to studying a Bachelor of Information Technology at Griffith
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University using the experiences I gained from both QUT and work environments. Having
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previously studied Computer Science at QUT from 2019-2021, I gained critical knowledge
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on how computers worked at a low-level, and other concepts such as networking. Following
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the COVID pandemic, I decided to take a break from studying to pursue getting hands-on
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experience in work environments.
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</TextContent>
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<TextContent middle={true}>
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From my previous work experience, I found that employers look more for relevant skills
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and industry knowledge over the type of degree or the majors and minors you study. The
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mentorship I gained from those jobs was what influenced me to change my degree over from
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Computer Science, and opt for the no major or minor route.
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</TextContent>
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<TextContent>
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As time has progressed, my goals and ambitions have also adapted. Initially, I wanted to
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be a systems administrator. But upon reaching that goal, I shifted my gaze to another
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long-held interest: cybersecurity. Given that the industry is ever-changing, I felt it
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appropriate to not hem myself in to a single major or minor, and to focus on the bigger
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picture the IT industry presents.
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</TextContent>
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<h1 class="my-6 text-6xl p-5 text-center text-base-content font-bold">Experiences</h1>
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<Timeline />
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<h3 class="p-5 text-4xl text-center">Informal Experience</h3>
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<TextContent>
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Griffith University has also been helpful in engaging me with industry panels and
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experiences. In early 2024, one of my units had a panel with some industry experts who
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discussed what they thought the future of the IT industry would look like. Between talks
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of AI, and other new technologies, I came away from that panel feeling better about the
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path I had taken. All the experts agreed that the IT industry is a constantly changing
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field, and that standing still is the worst mistake you can make as a newcomer.
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</TextContent>
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<TextContent middle={true}>
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Another extracurricular activity I undertook was the 2023 'James-Jam'. In this activity,
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groups were formed and given two weeks to construct a working game in p5play.js. The
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theme was a game remniscient of Homeworld (1999). While this wasn't a competition, our
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group did an amazing job at constructing a fully working game. You can play the game at
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<a class="link" href="https://gamejam2023.nickbland.dev/">this link here</a>. And if you
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want to view the source code, it can be found
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<a class="link" href="https://github.com/NickBland">on my GitHub</a>.
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</TextContent>
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<TextContent middle={true} classes={"pt-5"}>
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Outside of work experience and university, I also aim to learn new projects in my own
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time. For example, the website you are reading this on was built by hand, by me. You can
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find the source code for this project, and others at my personal <a
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class="link"
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href="https://git.nickbland.dev">GitLab instance here</a
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>
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or my <a class="link" href="https://github.com/NickBland">GitHub here</a>.
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</TextContent>
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<TextContent middle={true} classes={"pt-5"}>
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Moreover, I also have my own homelab setup. Utilising Proxmox, I use Proxmox to run
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virtual machines and containers for various services that I use for myself and my
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friends. For a list of services that I am running, you can visit my <a
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class="link"
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href="https://status.nickbland.dev/">AWS-hosted status page here</a
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>.
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</TextContent>
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<TextContent>
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The homelab is a constantly evolving project that has enabled me to self-teach myself
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aspects of linux administration in a safer environment. In the future, I may have a blog
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with some of the more interesting projects I've worked on.
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</TextContent>
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<h1 class="my-6 text-6xl p-5 text-center text-base-content font-bold">Contact</h1>
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<TextContent>
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Thanks for checking out my site, if you want to get in contact with me, you can find me
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on <a class="link" href="https://github.com/NickBland">GitHub</a>, or send an email to
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<a class="link" href="mailto:hello@nickbland.dev">hello@nickbland.dev</a>.
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</TextContent>
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