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      <img alt="Gordon Pedersen" id="profile-picture" src="https://cdn.some.pics/deathau/664198254e57d.jpg">
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    <h1 id="name">Gordon Pedersen</h1>
    <h2>Curriculum Vitae</h2>
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    <p>I am a software developer and tinkerer based in Melbourne, Australia.</p>
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    <p>I have over 15 years experience delivering software projects, in a variety of industries, from ideas and discovery right through to deployment and maintenance.</p>
    <p>I love solving problems, partiularly from a user perspective. This leads to a passion for UX/UI design. I'm also profficient in many different front-end and back-end languages and frameworks.</p>
    <p>I have a passion for learning, and I'm a great communicator, able to mediate conversations and convey complex topics to make them more understandable.</p>
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<h2>Experience</h2>
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  <span class="p-name">Co-founder, Senior Software Architect, Head of Front-End</span> <br> <span class="p-location">Aerion Technologies</span> <br> <time class="dt-start" datetime="2008">2008</time> - <time class="dt-end" datetime="2023">2023</time>
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  <span class="p-name">Tutor (various courses)</span> <br> <span class="p-location">La Trobe University</span> <br> <time class="dt-start" datetime="2006">2006</time> - <time class="dt-end" datetime="2008">2008</time>
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<h2>Education</h2>
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  <span class="p-name">Auslan Level One</span> <br> <span class="p-location">Expression Australia</span> <br> <time class="dt-start dt-end" datetime="2022">2022</time>
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  <span class="p-name">Bachelor of Computer Science for Games Technology</span> <br> <span class="p-location">La Trobe University</span> <br> <time class="dt-start" datetime="2004">2004</time> - <time class="dt-end" datetime="2008">2008</time>
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<h2>Projects</h2>
<p>The below is a selection of projects I have worked on over the years, in order to better demonstrate my experience.<br/>They are presented in no particular order, and by no means represent everything I have worked on (I also plan to expand this section over time).</p>

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  <li><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa-solid fa-globe"></i></span><a href="/cv.01">Robotic Mission to Mars</a>
  <a href="/cv.01"class="summary">An interactive educational game which simulates a Robotic Mission to Mars, including control of a real-life robot!</a></li>
  <li><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa-solid fa-globe"></i></span><a href="/cv.06">Pathogen Attack</a>
  <a href="/cv.01"class="summary">Another educational game, this time exploring the human immune system.</a></li>
  <li><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa-solid fa-globe"></i></span><a href="/cv.02">LDToypad.NET</a>
  <a href="/cv.02"class="summary">A .NET library for communicating with the LEGO Dimensions toypad.</a></li>
  <li><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa-solid fa-globe"></i></span><a href="/cv.03">Shopfront Solutions</a>
  <a href="/cv.03"class="summary">A platform for digital marketing in the retail sector.</a></li>
  <li><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa-solid fa-globe"></i></span><a href="/cv.04">Cube Tube</a>
  <a href="/cv.04"class="summary">Nostalgia inducing, 8-bit style, side scrolling tetrominos, ON A TRAIN!</a></li>
  <li><span class="fa-li"><i class="fa-solid fa-globe"></i></span><a href="/cv.05">Sliding Panes (Andy Matuschak Mode)</a>
  <a href="/cv.05"class="summary">A unique way to view open panes in Obsidian.</a></li>
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