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Eastbourne, England, United Kingdom

Plumpton Green, East Sussex, UK

• Independent commercial science laboratory specialising in building materials analysis. Primarily responsible for designing, developing and implementing new systems and procedures to facilitate company expansion.
• Designed and implemented new (temporary) expenses recording and reporting processes to enable accurate VAT reporting and cash flow projections.
• Designed, developed and implemented new systems and processes to radically improve speed and significantly reduce manual interventions in analysis and reporting of XRF data.

Haywards Heath, West Sussex, UK

• IT consultancy for small businesses and non-profit organisations. Key duties:-
• Website development, maintenance, administration, search engine optimisation and social media management for clients.
• Writing news and data-driven news articles for several websites which includes data cleansing and data analysis.
• General IT support for clients including operating systems, computer networking, and printing issues.

Brighton, United Kingdom

• IT Consultancy specialising in open source Learning Management Systems (LMS - i.e. Moodle) and Content Management Systems (CMS i.e. Drupal). Main responsibilities: Providing technical consultancy and technical writing.
• Writing technical design and infrastructure documentation.
• Data migration from Fuel LMS / MS SQL Server to Moodle / MySQL.
• Application / Hosting support of Moodle, MySQL, Linux, Drupal, Elgg, Apache.

Brighton, United Kingdom

• IT Consultancy specialising in Learning Management Systems (LMS). Main responsibilities: Configuring, implementing and supporting Learning Management Systems (Docent, SumTotal and Plateau) and their database management.
• Upgrading / migrating data from one LMS to another (MS SQL Server).
• Data cleansing activities.
• Database performance tuning.
• Trouble-shooting SCORM compatibility issues with various LMS.

Brighton, United Kingdom

IT Consultancy specialising in Learning Management Systems (LMS). Main responsibility: Designing, developing and testing customisations and datafixes for Learning Management Systems (Docent LMS - JavaScript / MS SQL Server).

Mitcham, Surrey, United Kingdom

• Global IT Consultancy and Outsourcing firm. Main responsibility: Analysing, designing, developing, testing, implementing and supporting enhancements and fixes to the British Gas Learning Management System (Docent LMS.
• Authored a wide range of support documentation for the LMS prior to implementation.
• Authored knowledge transfer plans for myself and team members.
• Liaised with client, other technical teams and vendors to resolve issues.
• Trained new team members.

Worthing, West Sussex, United Kindom

• Regional Electricity Company. Main reponsibility: Designing, developing, implementing and supporting MS Office-based applications. Most were MS Access front-ends with VBA code, with back-ends being MS Access, SQL.
• Improved supportability by establishing and implementing a best practice approach to new and existing applications (including re-usable code developed by team members).
• Improved knowledge transfer between team members by developing an MS Access application providing key information about the applications supported.
• Managed the day-to-day running of the support team when the team leader and other key members moved to other roles.

Croydon, United Kingdom

• Regional Electricity Company. Primarily responsible for writing and running Oracle SQL scripts to update configuration data tables in the main Customer database (e.g. tariffs). Key achievements:-
• Improved speed and accuracy of SQL scripts by adapting existing MS Excel VBA macros for bulk inserts and updates.
• Improved analysis and design processes by updating and enhancing existing MS Access tools.
• Updated technical support documentation for new processes.

Bsc (Honours), Information Technology, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Designed and developed an HTML tutorial for fellow students. Four-week paid Summer work placement as a Computer.

Certificate, Natural Sciences, Pass

First year degree level distance learning course (S103: Discovering Science). Modules covered: Water for life; A temperate Earth?; The.

High School

A-Levels: Computer Science; English Literature; History. GCSEs: English Language; English Literature; Business Studies; Information.