Leading the IT Services team at LWC and development of IT strategy and facilitating digitisation across Lord Wandsworth College and the family of schools. In addition the role will continue to have responsibility for teaching and leading Creative Digital Media.

An evolution from Head of Computer Science, Digital Studies covers a range of different skills such as project management, digital literacy, media and Computer Science.

Key roles include rolling out a pre-pandemic BYOD system, created policies for how these devices should be managed and used in classrooms, and run training sessions to ensure staff/student uptake and confidence in using technology effectively.The role has continued to develop to study the relationship between blended and hybrid learning and its impact on traditional teaching pedagogy and the way we can create new digital pedagogy to teach effectively with technology.

Head of ICT in charge of creating the full curriculum for ICT and being the Network Manager looking at improvements, managing staff and control of ICT budgets.During my time in charge of ICT at Ludgrove we have progressed from using ICT as an Office tool/Art tool to it also being used for programming, 3d animation and design, visualisations, e-publishing, web design and sound editing. Each class moves subjects half termly so as to enable them to experience as wide a range of different… Show more Head of ICT in charge of creating the full curriculum for ICT and being the Network Manager looking at improvements, managing staff and control of ICT budgets.During my time in charge of ICT at Ludgrove we have progressed from using ICT as an Office tool/Art tool to it also being used for programming, 3d animation and design, visualisations, e-publishing, web design and sound editing. Each class moves subjects half termly so as to enable them to experience as wide a range of different skills as possible and then use extra curricular ICT periods/time at home to further improve their ability in the subject. This has led to a number of students becoming not only proficient at Office skills but to be increasingly capable of using advanced and professional software packages such as Blender and Unity to become ever improving digital creators.Further to the teaching and curriculum I have also led several projects concerning ICT at a school level to ensure that Ludgrove becomes a more technologically forward thinking school. These have included moving the school onto GSuite (Google Apps for Education) and using Chromebooks in classrooms for research and production of work, redesigning and planning the renovation of the ICT suite and offices, leading the project to move the school onto an Office 365 based system and being the main point of contact and decision making for the new Ludgrove Website (To be completed September 2017).In addition to ICT I have taught Maths to a wide ranging selection of age ranges and I have become the Master I/C of pre-testing for senior schools including VR/Non VR preparation and administering the tests.As a Sports coach I have coached from U10 - U13 for Football, Rugby and Cricket with great success including 4 unbeaten regular seasons. I have assisted the coaching of an U11 football team becoming runners up in the national prep school championship and am a Head Coach of a team that are group winners of the U11 rugby nationals finals. Show less

Teaching ICT throughout the school to GCSE level and teaching Business Studies at GCSE level and developing a curriculum for the teaching of GCSE Computer Studies (was due to start in September 2013).During my time at Fort Hill I was promoted to Second in Department to oversee improvements in the topics taught in the ICT department and outreach projects with local schools. Additionally I was tasked with training other members of the ICT department in the use of elements of Adobe… Show more Teaching ICT throughout the school to GCSE level and teaching Business Studies at GCSE level and developing a curriculum for the teaching of GCSE Computer Studies (was due to start in September 2013).During my time at Fort Hill I was promoted to Second in Department to oversee improvements in the topics taught in the ICT department and outreach projects with local schools. Additionally I was tasked with training other members of the ICT department in the use of elements of Adobe Creative Suite and Games Programming Software (Scratch and GameMaker Pro). Show less

Initially in charge of all technical theatre projects within the school being involved in productions ranging from short works by Sarah Kane and Frantic Assembly to large scale productions such as 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'​ and 'Cabaret'​ and outdoors productions 'Alice in Wonderland'​.Throughout this period of time I became more involved with the ICT department, initially with regards to post production and editing and then games programming and sequencing.This extra… Show more Initially in charge of all technical theatre projects within the school being involved in productions ranging from short works by Sarah Kane and Frantic Assembly to large scale productions such as 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'​ and 'Cabaret'​ and outdoors productions 'Alice in Wonderland'​.Throughout this period of time I became more involved with the ICT department, initially with regards to post production and editing and then games programming and sequencing.This extra work culminated in the opportunity to complete my GTP course in ICT teaching with Lord Wandsworth College under the tutelage of Ed Coetzer leading to an 'Outstanding'​ rating at the end of the year.During this training year I laid the foundations for computing programming at Lord Wandsworth College. Show less

Working in post production as a freelance video editor using Final Cut Pro.The key elements of the job involved pitching for business, negotiation with clients, working with directors to discuss their vision for the project, editing down from tapes and producing a final product either on DVD or for transmission.Projects included:On the town Live performances by ChickenshedSOAS ACS awards (Transmitted in 2007 by OBE… Show more Working in post production as a freelance video editor using Final Cut Pro.The key elements of the job involved pitching for business, negotiation with clients, working with directors to discuss their vision for the project, editing down from tapes and producing a final product either on DVD or for transmission.Projects included:On the town Live performances by ChickenshedSOAS ACS awards (Transmitted in 2007 by OBE TV)Freelance editing for Artist video portfolios Show less