Michael Cordingley Email & Phone Number

Halifax, United Kingdom

Over the last 4 years, I have been working towards the successful implementation of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) across the Council whilst remaining responsible for the operation of our Corporate Records Unit and leading records management. As part of the GDPR program, I successfully led the creation of the Council's Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) reviewing and documenting 600+ business processes. This has involved creating and running workshops, and training sessions focused on educating staff about GDPR whilst providing teams with practical ways of assessing business processes in light of these changes.In addition to communicating changes in the law, I needed to use soft skills to persuade, negotiate and empathize with staff as they carry out business process reviews towards achieving compliance. This has extended beyond business process reviews to include assessing and updating in-house and procured ICT systems in terms of how they comply with GDPR requirements.

Halifax, United Kingdom

As a records and archive management officer, I was responsible for creating, setting up, and managing the operation of Council Documents Stores. In 2017 this culminated in the creation of the Council's first Corporate Records Until, an offsite high-density storage facility to house approx. 200,000 physical records. I am also responsible for assisting the Corporate Information Manager in ensuring Records Management (RM) compliance and best practices are being adhered to:Accomplishments- Operationally responsible for creating and running the Council's first central document store- Arranged longer term storage and management of 200,000+ records- Led on the cataloging of 75,000+ manual (physical) client records. - Collaborating with ICT and Major Projects teams to specify, design, and implement the Council's Management System for Records (MSR) to manage the storage, retrieval and disposal of physical records. - Successfully saved £15,000 by identifying alternative suppliers. - Established secure SOPs for the collection, movement, and tracking of records across the authorityResponsibilities - Engaging with management colleagues to ensure council RM policies are being met- Required to have a working knowledge of RM in the context of Children’s Social Care. - To review the council's corporate document retention schedule towards creating service-specific schedules based on record series - To provide written standards, guidance and procedures on all aspects of RM- To produce software-specific documentation, training manuals, and training materials as required.- To answer all queries to do with the retention and storage of Information Assets - Supervising up to 6 Data Entry Clerks- To have knowledge of the Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information ActRecords Management │ Compliance │ Change Management │ Risk Mitigation │ Database Architecture │ Records Retention │ Document Storage │

Halifax, United Kingdom

Working as a member of the Adults, Health and Social Care (Social Services) administrative team I was responsible for performing daily administrative duties and for back-scanning service user files. This included:• Collating and organising confidential files for digitisation onto an Electronic Filing System.• Testing electronic filing processes and updating written procedures.• Checking the validity of client information.• Scheduling meetings using Microsoft Outlook Schedule Assistant • Monitoring workflow and preparing statistical information.• Identifying files related to other directorates and arranging their return.• Knowledge and experience of using scanning equipment and software Scanning │ Document Imaging │ Data Validation │ Document Reduction │ Office Administration

Liverpool, United Kingdom

After graduating from Liverpool John Moores University in June 2008, I remained involved with the university as a Research Assistant and Sessional Lecturer in the Schools of Geography and Social Science. As a sessional lecturer I carried out scheduled teaching in two modules; Sustainability in the Third World, and Eco-tourism. As a research assistant, I helped senior staff prepare for literature reviews by providing up-to-date articles relating to research agendas as well as supporting staff set up and running meetings, workshops, and conference visits. Accomplishments• Delivered lectures to second and third-year students • Helped determine lecture content and research objectives.• Produced annotated bibliographies and reading lists for lecturers and students.• Tutored individual students with project ideas, statistical analysis, and Microsoft office skills• Performed internet searches for relative journal and newspaper articles relating to research focuses.• Wrote summaries, briefing notes & annotated bibliographies for staff & senior academics• Travelled around England to support staff, attended meetings, and conferences, and contributed to discussions.Lecturing │ Research │ Tutoring │ PowerPoint │ Report Writing │ Conservation Ecology │ Eco-tourism │ Ethics │

England

During the summer of 2011, I worked as Ecological Field Surveyor and was responsible for conducting ecological surveys of bats and newts. This was a seasonal position. The role involved working with ecologists and administrators to gather field data and process this data so it could be used to meet ecological compliance standards.Skills and responsibilities • Species identification, and the ability to identify bat species using bat detectors and frequency-zeroing• perform dawn and dusk surveys of both species within best practice guidelines• Surveying ponds using bottle traps and pond torching. • Organise and prepare field equipment • Recorded data in the field prior to data input, merging, and retrieval in the office.Field Work │ Research │ Data Collection │ Bats Surveys │ Newt Surveys │ Environmental surveying │ Species Identification │ Data Analysis │ Best Practice │ Methodologies

Over 5 months in 2011, I worked on a freelance/voluntary basis as part of an international team of 3 England, Sri Lanka and the United States, to improve access to and the searchabilty of articles published in the journals 'Gajah' is the bi-annual journal of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group. Gajah had been available online for a number of years, however, searching for and downloading individual articles could be difficult. To overcome these issues a small (voluntary) programme of work was undertaken to brake make individual articles available online. Accomplishments & responsibilities • Broke all volumes down into individual articles which were then catalogued• Metadata standards were established and metadata added to individual articles• Articles were made available online and now appear on Google Scholar • Breaking journal volumes into articles using adobe acrobat• Organising, administering and collating workloads to and from team members.• Establishing and maintaining databases of articles in MS Excel, Access & RefWorks. • Codifying articles and inputting metadata.Publication │ Remote Administration │ PDF Creation │ Metadata │ Search Engine Optimisation │ Document Parsing │ Cataloguing │ Data Transfer

Bardia National Park, Bardia District - Nepal

In 2006, as part of my undergraduate degree, I worked for 6 months in rural Nepal researching the impact wild elephant populations were having on people living in habitat corridors between formally protected areas. The research focused on pulling together and analyzing information about HEC the habitat corridor to identify potential trends and to report any new insights to local and regional management groups. Accomplishment• A 30 page report summarising the issues and findings of the research was submitted to WWF• Successfully mapped NGO and Non-NGO sponsored watchtowers in the study area• Quantitative data on HWC incidents was sourced, cleansed and analysed• Able to show incidents of HEC temporal patterns of conflicts• Publication of an article in a peer reviewed journal• Mapping available data using ArcGIS to identify trends in both space and time • Presentation of the issues and findings given to established academics. Research Methods• Rapid assessment and mapping of local mitigations methods• Sourcing and translating local and regional datasets on human-wildlife conflict• Conducting interviews with residents about Human Elephant Conflict via a translator• Documentation of recent Human Elephant Conflict incidents • Documentation of local mitigation methods were documented and describedResearch │ Fieldwork │ Mapping │ GIS │ ArcGIS │ Qualitative Research │ Quantitative Research │ Wildlife Management │ Conservation Issues │ Project Management │ Report Writing │ Data Gathering

Msc, Conservation And Rural Development, Merit

Dissertation: An exploratory study on the distribution of potential Community Conservation Areas (CCAs) [Indigenous and Community.

Bsc (Hons), Wildlife Conservation, 2:1, Average Grade 69%

Honours Project: Investigation into the use of 'Morphological Function' of Diatoms for detecting inital changes of river water quality.