As FOI Manager, I am responsible for ensuring that The National Archives UK meets its legal obligations under FOI and overseeing FOI activity throughout The National Archives, including managing internal reviews and appeals to the Information Commissioner’s Office and Information Tribunal, managing FOI caseloads and FOI Centre staff, and coordinating the FOI Panels process with the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives.

As the Access Manager it is my responsibility to ensure that The National Archives and government departments meet the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and expectations of the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives. As such, I work closely with contacts across government, and compile and quality assure the schedules of departments' closed and retained records going forward for approval to the Advisory Council. I assist departments with their FOI/access queries, and work alongside The National Archives' Transfer and FOI Teams to promote transparency and ensure that appropriate records are opened and available to the public.

As a Transfer Adviser I am responsible for delivering expert advice and guidance to government departments in the care and preparation of government records and documents for transfer to The National Archives. As such I am involved in ensuring that government departments understand and implement required procedures and that the records they send to The National Archives are properly catalogued and prepared to a high standard for transfer and preservation in the archives. This work requires exceptional attention to detail, and a high degree of interpersonal and negotiating skills in working with departmental contacts.

As a News and Data Analyst at Bloomberg, I work as part of the News Operations team within the Global Data Department in the optimisation, classification, and organisation of various media output. As such, I am fully trained to use the Bloomberg Terminal, and I work closely with data, news, and social media to ensure their relevance for clients. Some of my duties include:- Optimising news searches through the analysis of hourly search data and identifying how the efficiency of individual searches may be improved for clients.- Adding, Promoting, and Deleting aliases for People, Tickers, and Wires as appropriate in order to further improve the Bloomberg News Search Engine.- Classifying and tagging news articles by Topic, Ticker, and Person codes in the Goldenset Project.- Annotating tweets and articles for the BNED Team for the purpose of Natural Language Processing.- Writing descriptions of news topics and functions, and researching online news sources for the purpose of implementing them into the system based on their importance and relevance.

As Chairperson of the UCC Film Society, my duties included the chairing of committee meetings, organising the society and ensuring that the society was active, successful, and, most importantly, engaged with the student body. Under my leadership, the society was nominated for 9 Society Awards, while I personally won the prestigious Bene Merenti award for outstanding organisation, promotion, and leadership of the society from 2013-2014.Other achievements over the past year include raising the profile of the society, and ensuring that it was always active and successful, with multiple and varied events each week, including film screenings, competitions, social nights, and workshops, while I was also heavily involved in both the production and post-production stages for our short films. Additionally, due to my time management skills, I successfully balanced both my college work and society work, and succeeded at both.

As an instructor for the UCC Societies Summer Camp, I was responsible for creating and coordinating the Film-making module for the camp. The summer camp took place over seven weeks, with up to sixty teenagers (aged between 11 and 16) taking part in the camp each week.I created the timetable and outlined the structure of the Film-making section of the camp, and taught the teenagers the fundamentals of film-making each week, including script writing skills, directing actors, camera operation, and editing, before then supervising and assisting the filming of each group's short films. Due to my enthusiasm and hard work with the teenagers, the film-making module was voted the best of the four activities in six out of the camp's seven weeks. I gained much experience and learned varied skills while working in this position: - How to coordinate and construct a productive course and timetable - Teamwork with other instructors - Teaching skills - Time management skills - Presentation skills