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Upper Beeding, England, United Kingdom

Leveraging the latest technology to solving customer challenges and ensuring projects are delivered on time with technical accuracy, whilst maintaining our strong reputation for outstanding customer and installation support; overseeing site commissioning efforts and assisting with project documentation for large-scale projects.

Midlands, Uk

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Responsible for technical project design and system delivery of complex audio visual experiences for themed entertainment and media based attractions across the globe.

Aldgate, London

Managing a team of AV engineers and developers creating cutting edge interactive brand experiences for large agencies and blue chip clients.Working alongside an amazing team of creative people in a fast paced, high energy environment and applying my experience of systems design to an entirely new market segment.Supporting existing projects at an SLA level as well as supporting business development in pitching new ideas and attending client briefing to really understand custom requirements.

Lutterworth, Uk

Whilst still supporting project engineering work I am now focussed on a new role evaluating over-the-horizon technologies to support our innovation pipeline and responsible for originating and developing new proprietary ideas to feed into our Solutions Architects Team. I revel in the challenge of pioneering new and exciting methods to problem solve and support business development.Through effective management of connected people, partners and processes I am constantly seeking to open up new alliances to build and strengthen any mutual competitive advantage to enhance our strategic partnerships.If you have something new to share, I need to know about it.

Responsible for technical knowledge transfer and talent incubation for our integration team. I am constantly evaluating new technologies in order to incorporate them into new system designs and processes.

Software and Solutions Manager responsible for sucessfully introducing new technologies and software to continually innovate solutions for use in Immersive Theatres. Still performing Technical Lead Engineer on large scale projects ensuring technical specifications, timescales and budgets are met and also responsible for managing the Media Development Team.

Lead Project Engineer also performing pre-sales support function, mainly concentrating on Digital Theatres. Managing a team of engineers and support staff and also understanding more about workflow and content generation and interaction.

Lead Engineer in Visualization Team designing and managing worldwide installs of Reality Rooms for the Oil and Gas, Planetarium, and Science/Education markets. I have extensive software (both Windows and Linux) and projection experience along with programming skills for Crestron and AMX control systems and have had some exposure to video conferencing systems. I thoroughly embrace new technologies and enjoy incorporating them into new and evermore complex systems that are very easy and intuitive to use.

Worked in the “Special Products Team”, collating information and producing manuals for simulation display systems. In depth use of Adobe Framemaker including writing EDDs and other templates. Produced animated Christmas card in Flash for Internet delivery. Publishing of informal magazine plus other marketing information.

Supporting various clients in and around the City of London mainly on the Apple Macintosh platform; networking and internetworking via TCP/IP and ISDN, configuring email and conferencing systems, system advice & installation and training in non-linear digital video editing software. Intimate knowledge of the Mac OS, interfacing into PC/NT networks and recommending upgrade strategies at a corporate level. Intensive use of 3D modelling software, animation tools and Filemaker Pro database programming. Extensive domestic travel involved.

Creating and maintaining Internet website, producing paper & electronic presentations, market research, database management, direct mail campaigns, design input into advertisements & other promotional items. Self-taught in areas of Internet design and Macromedia Director/Shockwave multimedia design. I was also involved in the setting up of the company intranet.

Documentation of Installation, User and Service Manuals for professional digital audio equipment. Extensive use of CorelDraw, Ventura and other DTP software to produce detailed drawings as well as text layouts, advertisements, graphics etc. Organised exhibitions from concept through stand design to actually being on the booth supporting the sales activities.

Beng, Electronic, Control And Systems Engineering

Certificate In Marketing

Gce A-Levels, 2X B'S, 1X C, 1X E

Gce O-Levels, 3X A'S, 5X B'S, 1X C