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After Graduation - what happened next? - I took a summer off to do several Church missions, and then found a job working as a temp administration officer for the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA). I was still applying for jobs as a web designer, but they were few and far between in Stirling! I was then interviewed by Scottish and Universal Newspapers (S&UN), and given a three week trial (29 Nov - 18 Dec, 1999). During my time at S&UN, I built a website dedicated to Robert Burns - Scotlands favourite poet.

S&UN were taken over by the Trinity Mirror group just after my three week trial and all hiring was postponed indefinitely. I had really enjoyed my 3 week stint, and now knew that I definitely wanted to become a full-time web designer. I went back to working at SEPA until I could find a web design job. I didn't have to look very far! While I was working for the Personnel Department, the Head of Training (Martin Patterson) asked if I would consider building an Intranet site for his department.

When I had designed and launched this Intranet site, I was then asked to build another Intranet site, and then another, and then another…. In the end, my two week return to SEPA lasted 7 months! I built Intranet sites for:

• Training and Development
• Procurement
• Finance
• Standard Financial Instructions
• Environmental Management Team
• Organisational Development Team

I am not permitted to show any screenshots of any of these sites, as they are only available as part of SEPA's Intranet. I do however, have a reference from the man who first hired me at SEPA to build his Intranet site.

Reference from Martin Patterson