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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Teaching English as a second language online to children aged 3-15 years. Using both company-provided proprietary software, as well as other popular online conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Skype, to teach English as a second language to a range of ages and proficiency levels. Utilising both self-created and company-provided teaching materials.

Nara-Shi, Nara, Japan

Dubai

Eclipse Staging Services, now part of the global PSAV group, provides technical audiovisual solutions to events ranging from small meeting to large scale concerts and opening ceremonies. The Hire Manager builds quotations and proposals in line with the Company’s quality, safety, and professional standards. The role involves creating cost effective and practical event solutions using technical, venue, and logistical knowledge, both personally acquired and in collaboration with technical and operations department heads. Key requirements of the roles involve understanding stocked inventory and the computer systems in place to manage sales and logistics, and also maintaining relationships with external suppliers across a variety of live event resources.

Adelaide, Australia

Adelaide Convention Centre is host to some of the largest events and conferences in Australia, employing hundreds of staff across many disciplines at any one time. Working as a technician here involves setting up, operating, and troubleshooting high end audiovisual systems, maintaining a working knowledge of all venue facilities, software, and procedures, managing teams of technical and venue crew, liaising with end clients, and assisting customers, conference delegates, and internal staff with computer and IT related and technical issues.

Adelaide, Australia

Freelance events technician working on conferences and live events across a range of audiovisual and staging disciplines.Primarily engaged at the Adelaide Convention Centre, which hosts some of the largest events in South Australia. The venue utilises leading technologies such as Riedel Mediornet, Dante, and Extron audiovisual network based systems. The vision systems available at the Adelaide Convention Centre include Spyder X20 and X80, HD live video switchers and broadcast cameras, and Christie Roadster and Boxer projectors.I am also employed by other leading event production companies such as Technical Direction Company, Novatech, and Scene Change. Aside from having a working knowledge of a variety of audiovisual equipment, a conference technician needs to know their way around Windows and Mac OS computers, have good typing skills, be able to join - and assist people in joining - wireless and cabled networks (and troubleshoot connections), and offer basic software and hardware support to customers, venue staff, and conference attendees.

South Australia, Australia

Designed and implemented café fit out, stock and equipment acquisition, menu, and all promotional and graphics aspects of the business. Responsible for day to day running of the business, which involved customer service, cooking, cleaning, stock ordering, making espresso coffee, and bookkeeping. Successfully sold the business in March 2012.

Sydney

Haycom provides high-end audiovisual support to high profile corporate clients. Many events involve widescreen projection, multiple display destinations, and scaling of a variety of video formats.My responsibilities included technical direction, set-up, and operation of audiovisual systems for live events. I am proficient with high-end vision switching, distribution, display, and projection equipment.I can set up monitoring and control LANs between PCs and equipment . I can also design graphics and presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, and Adobe Photoshop, on both Mac OSX and Windows platforms. Key requirements were providing technical specification, onsite project management, managing small technical teams, setting up and operating a range of audiovisual equipment, technical troubleshooting, end-client liaison, time management, equipment preparation, and repairs and maintenance.

Key Responsibilities were to identify and resolve equipment, logistical, and technical staff shortages in a timely manner. This role involved sourcing specialist audiovisual equipment and key staff, working to budgets, and keeping accurate records of all activities.Effective management and utilisation of inventory, vehicles, staff (both full time and casual), and information systems, as well as regular problem solving, being paramount in fulfilling these responsibilities. Shipping and receiving local and interstate freight on a daily basis, as well as regular stock-takes and capex budgeting were also involved in this role.

Sydney, Australia

Progressed from store-person, to logistics coordinator, to purchaser over 6 years. Primary functions of the warehouse and logistics roles involved shipping and receiving freight locally, interstate, and overseas, picking and receiving orders, small fleet maintenance, local radio despatch, and supervising shift teams and drivers. The purchasing role involved managing significant budgets to stock and maintain rental equipment and consumables across twenty local departments, and numerous interstate offices. A valuable experience in managing staff and inventory, requiring frequent problem solving and changing plans on the fly, to ensure timely delivery of quality corporate events.

Leadership And Sales Training, Business Administration And Management, General

During COVID-19 industry downtime, spent some time attending online courses from Skillsoft and Franklin Covey, along with internal.

Tefl Certificate, Teaching English As A Second Or Foreign Language/Esl Language Instructor

Information Technology Certifications, Information Technology

ITIL Foundation 2011 Edition - Certified February 2014 Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Support.

Certificate Iv, Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia

HTML, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Music Production.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Communication And Media Studies