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About me

My name is Vicki and I live in a small village just outside Wisbech with my husband, Si, our 5 dogs, 3 cats &, 2 chinchillas.

I've always had a love of animals. I've done voluntary work for the RSPCA and CARES Animal Hospice. I spent over a year working as a vet nurse and now work as a dog trainer for a local dog club, Garrity DTC. I teach pet obedience classs, agility and clicker training workshops. My husband and I also foster dogs too.

We spend a lot of time training and walking our own dogs. We've competed in competative obedience (winning from pre-beginners upto and including novice with Pip), shown in breed (Crufts Qualified 2008-2010) and now most weekends are spent attending agility shows and CaniX events. We've also had a dabble at sheepdog training, flyball and working trials along the way.

Open University

I am currently studying towards a Degree in Computing with The Open University.

So far I have obtained a Certificate in Computing and Mathematics, a Diploma in Computing and a Certificate in Web Applications Development

Completed Computing Courses:
  • M363 Software engineering with objects (2009)
  • TT382 Open source development tools (2007)
  • M254 Java everywhere (2006)
  • TT380 Databases within website design (2006)
  • TT282 The server-side of application development (2006)
  • M364 Fundamentals of interaction design (2006)
  • TT281 The client side of application development (2006)
  • M253 Team working in distributed environments (2005)
  • M254 Java everywhere (2005)
  • M263 Building blocks of software (2005)
  • TT280 Web basics: design, development and management (2005)
  • T183 Design and the Web (2005)
  • M206 Computing: an object-oriented approach (2005)
  • MU120 Open mathematics (2004)
  • M150 Data, computing and information (2004)

Other Completed Courses:

  • S180 Life in the oceans: exploring our blue planet (2009)
  • S182 Studying mammals (2008)

Running

I started running for charity in 2005. I started off by running Race For Life and went on to do the Cancer Research UK 10 managing to raise over £970 in total. In 2006 I went on to run the Silverstone Half Marathon to rasie money for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People and managed to raise another £573.26. In 2007 I ran the London Marathon to raise even more money for Hearing Dogs and raised over £1600.

See my running page for results and other running events I'll be doing.


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