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Nottingham, GB

De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom

Senior lead on the delivery and development of library and learning spaces, facilities, building and operations management and associated digital services for Library and Student Services at DMU. Worked extensively towards the #FutureLibraryDMU project that was parked at RIBA stage 2 in June 2024. Elected to take redundancy under restructuring driven by.

De Montfort University, Leicester

Senior Management Team member with portfolio covering: front-line services and assistance to library users; user engagement; space and building planning; brand and marketing; incident planning and business continuity; project management; service performance management and market intelligence; staff recruitment, management, training and development.

Boots Library, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham

Management of lending and frontline services teams, cross-campus service development, space planning, refurbishment, project management. Project Manager for UK's first full-collection academic library RFID self service conversion project

Barnes Medical Library And Main Library, University Of Birmingham, Edgbaston

Borrower services management at UoB main campus library and Site Librarian for Barnes Library serving medical school and NHS trust. Team management and development of user services at both locations, refurbishment projects, cross-campus service development

ex-University Of Central England (UCE) Birmingham Institute Of Art And Design

Front-line service delivery and team management across four site libraries comprising the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) for what was then UCE (previously Birmingham Polytechnic). Studied alongside full time work to attain professional qualifications in LIS

Coventry Central Library And Mobile Library, United Kingdom

Teeth cutting experience of front line service delivery and development in public libraries. Lending and enquiry work, Media Team processor and Mobile Library Team member, developing customer base on a new weekly route for the City's new, and award winning, mobile library.