I have spent 28 of the last 31 years (since leaving school) in full-time Christian work of one sort or another, as well as a two-year sojourn into the world of data technology. Working at a Christian conference centre, I learnt all manner of practical skills, from off-set lithography printing to cooking for a hundred people, and much in between. More recently, working for over 18 years as a parish priest in rural Norfolk, the Christian work has been more of what you might expect: preaching, christening, marrying, eulogising at funerals, visiting the sick, dying and lonely, investing in local communities and all that goes with managing charitable institutions. Years of church work, leading teams in changing cultures and diverse contexts, has helped equip me with key skills, like adaptability, emotional intelligence, collaboration, self-learning and creativity.My first love was computer science - well, that and flying aeroplanes, but apart from a memorable opportunity to fly a 1942 Stearman bi-plane, as a result of conducting a good funeral, and a fabulous parachute jump for my 40th birthday, my life's path so far hasn't allowed for much flying.So, computer science and data. At school, for computer science, we had the option of creating and using a database on an existing platform - or using BASIC to code our own platform. I was the only pupil in my year to choose the latter option. As well as a couple of years in the industry, before entering Anglican ordination, I have kept my hand in and my mind up-to-date with changing technologies.Alongside my Christian ministry day job, the two big tech projects I've developed (as well as setting up and managing various smaller WordPress websites), have been:1. The website where school chess teams could compete with each other in real-time2. The content management system for church websites, built on a LAMP stack, using a lot of JQuery and utilising the CodeIgniter MVC PHP library. Actively developing this over the last 15 years, has meant I have had to keep up with web technologies.Even within my direct "minister of religion" work, I have always been interested in using data technologies to help with the charity finances and as a way of modelling and monitoring ministry.
Listed skills include Public Speaking, Social Media, Preaching, Theology, and 10 others.