About Me

Hi there. My name is Chris.

I live in the U.K. with my partner and 2 stepchildren.

I perform various roles in my day-to-day life.

I'm a Developer

Sometimes I'm a software developer, creating web-based apps using my own programming language, Vortex, running in my own IDE, StormChaser, creating complex and useful applications using just an iPad - no PC required.

I'm a Teacher

Other times I am a teacher, with over 14 years experience teaching computing to students from GCSE / Level 2 BTEC Qualifications all the way up to HND.

Many people over the years have said some nice things about me. Below are some of the testimonials that have been written about me by colleagues and students.

My Name is [BM] I am an Ex-Student \ Past Student at [College] after spending 5 years there as a student and undertook the courses of Level 2, 3 Yr1\Yr2, 4 (HNC) and 5 (HND). The following courses I was took under some great staff there who were well educated, with amazing experience and a real insight of working in the industry and providing outstanding teaching.

During my time at [College] I was fortunate enough to have Chris Lewis as a Tutor in which he taught myself in Level 3, 4 (HNC) and 5 (HND) and through my time being a student at [College] I cannot express enough to say how much Chris lessons and teaching was remarkable each time I walked into any of his lessons.

During my time as a student in the HND Course, Lessons would always start on time at the second, if any student was late it would be for you to catch up, but this wasn’t frequent and Chris provided assistance in helping any students late for whatever reason they might have been late for. However, Chris was never one to slow down anyone else from learning and as they were much to cover there was much to teach at making sure all student got sufficient amount of understanding and knowledge so all could do any work given to enable success.

Whilst Lessons started on time they always finished on time too unless there were a few bits of the lesson yet to go through, but this was never a problem and didn’t stop anyone neither. But they also picked up on time even still. For example: Breaks, Lunch and so on.

Work was always given on the exact start date and every student would have had the same amount of teaching, understanding and more to get any work handed out done any other work would require the student to do their own research and work or ask for help if they needed. We also had the same hand in date and time to get the work completed.

Furthermore, Work was always marked in good time too, Chris always made sure all work was marked to expected standard and if you had to do a re-submission for whatever reason you had the same amount of time to get the re-submission done too. Chris’ marking was never late or took long amount of time to get results of the work back.

Finally, it was a pleasure and an incredible experience to have Chris as a tutor for the years he taught me in and the above follows all the years in which he was my tutor! This was the same for everybody. As my time as a student I learnt an` expediential amount of skills and insight and so on and this was the same with all that taught me. Chris took that extra mile however at making sure of success for his students. When I first came to [College], I never thought I’d be where I am now, No I not in any amazing career, But I have the knowledge, skills and results to help push myself there and I cannot thank all the staff and Chris enough for their amazing effort and time at making this happen.

Thank You!

- BM

I'm an Assessor

I am an assessor with City and Guilds, Grading Level 4 Apprentice Software Developers for their End Point Assessments.

I'm a Creator

My YouTube Channel has online courses on programming and web development, and examples of some of my work in VR.

You can access the channel here!

Alternatively, you can check out some of my playlists from here!

I'm an Author

I have written a number of articles on Medium about my experiences with all sorts of technical things. If you would like to take a look, Just click here and see what you think!

I have self published two books, have started writing countless others, and have another few left in me still. I can consider myself a "proper author" as one of the books was pirated! Shows it may actually be worth reading!

I'm a Musician

Okay, this one is pushing it a bit, but I did create a whole album during lockdown of instrumental music that personally I like to listen to still!

I'm a Human

I am an inclusion advocate, passionate about the use of technology to create a level playing field for everyone, no matter what your situation or circumstance. To this end I have built apps to help with Dyslexia and other Special Educational Needs. You can download them both from Tornado Design

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Why History Begins?

Every day is a new day, and is when a new history begins.