About Me

Kieran O'Shea - Mug ShotProfile

Name: Kieran O’Shea
Age: 25
Location: Swindon, UK
Occupation: Software Developer

Hobbies & Interests: Hiking, golf, jazz, cinema, radio broadcasting, traveling, computing, programming, electronics and photography.

Favorite things:
Music: Jazz, Blues, Funk, Soul
Books: Catch 22, My Family & Other Animals, Lord of the rings, His Dark Materials, Le Petit Prince
Films: Lord of the Rings, Donnie Darko, James Bond, The Birds, The Wicker Man, The Matrix, The Italian Job, The Grudge, Sin City, Signs, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Freedom Writers, Cool Runnings, 28 Days Later
Place: Any place where I’m happy

Curriculum Vitae:
I’ve done a lot of things with my life that relate to work. Check out my CV.

Mug Shot:
The mug shot on the top left was taken during a trip to Middlesbrough in November 2008. There are most likely better photos of me knocking about in the photo gallery if you care to look over in that direction.

Life Story

I was born in Colchester, Essex but have no recollection of the area as my family moved away very soon after my birth to the city of St. Albans, Hertfordshire. I later learned that not being brought up in Essex freed me from a stigma from which I would likely never have escaped. Thats not to say of course that I believe the stigma that Essex is a bad place, indeed we moor our yacht there, I’m just simply glad I got through school scot free in that regard.

I went to Nursery, Infants and Junior school all at the same establishment, Prae Wood School in St. Albans which was conveniently located very close to where we lived. These days I’m quite proud of the proximity fact as it meant that as a child I didn’t end up unwittingly contributing to one of the big environmental issues of today - the school run.

I don’t remember an awful lot about my younger years but I do know that I began sowing the seeds of the technically minded individual that I’ve now become. From a young age I was working on woodwork projects with my Father and in addition spent a lot of time dabbling with Lego, Mechano and electronics in my after school time. Dismantling things to see how they worked and then miraculously putting them back together became my forte.

My secondary education took place at Verulam school, a moderate distance from our house on the other side of St. Albans.