Alba Gray Email & Phone Number

Shrewsbury, England, United Kingdom

Primarily interior design illustration but also working to briefs such as children's books and marketing materials. Hand drawn/painted illustrations, enhanced and touched up digitally.

Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

Web design, Wordpress, Wix, Squarespace, content creation, scheduling, research and data analysis

Building websites for local business owners and providing a service that teaches them how to maintain and manage these sites themselves.

Tokyo, Japan

Taking the role of T1 and T2 to plan and create lessons, collaborating with other teachers when necessary and monitoring progress of students.

Tokyo, Japan

EFL teacher at a Japanese Senior High School. I led all my own classes, provided 1-to-1 training and created my own lesson materials. I'm most proud of helping a student to get a high enough grade on the TOEFL test to go to a university in the US.

Tokyo, Japan

Annual English Communication Workshop for adults. I helped run games, interacted with them and in the afternoon held one-on-one personalised coaching sessions with students where I created learning plans and addressed individual needs.

Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

Working at a historic hotel helping guests, providing information and helping with all hotel tasks

Translating Italian, English and French for various businesses, working on start-up company websites and Powerpoint presentations for meetings, particularly pharmaceutical based companies.

Working hard on customer relations to promote sales growth whilst also monitoring stock control, organising and assembling POS, packaging product, using the till and ensuring optimum efficacy.

Bar tending, till operation, waiting tables, working at reception taking calls, bookings, and dealing with complaints

A very enjoyable four months helping Japanese students with their English by booking appointments and tutoring them in specific areas of the English language they found difficult. This could involve grammar, group work, spelling, or even their applications to universities in the USA. During this post I created my own teaching material and used Powerpoint.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, Distinction

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), French Language And Literature, 2:1

Including: 3 years of Japanese language and culture classes 1 year living in Japan 3 months living in France

Japanese Language

Year abroad studying at a Japanese University in the Kansai region

Education record

Maths: A* French: A Graphic Communication: A