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Professional Experience Resumé
2004 - Date Freelance Contractor 1998 - 2004 CIX, part of Pipex 1996 - 1998 Freelance Contractor 1995 - 1996 AMF UK 1978 - 1995 Bass Leisure Entertainments
Long experience in the leisure industry, TV and Video production and extensive IT experience with organisational and training skills.
2004 - Date CIX Freelance
Managing the CIX technical support department. Website development. I.T. and Video Production services.
1998 - 2004 Senior Analyst, Pipex.
Second line technical support and technical trainer. Freelance web designer.
1996 - 1998 Freelance
Working on a number of projects for CIX Internet, Chanterelle Publishing Ltd and DSD Systems.
These include Internet publishing, database design, video production, technical support and some UNIX
administration.
Oct 1995 - Oct 1996 AMF UK
European Technical Manager, Automatic Scoring Division
Set up and managed a technical support centre covering Europe.
Developed a service contract programme for telephone support and four hour on site hardware support.
International restructuring and downsizing resulted in redundancy.
1977 - 1995 Bass Leisure Entertainments
Technical Manager/Trainer
Joined Bass Charrington from school as junior technician. Played a key role in Bass Leisure's expansion into tenpin bowling, providing technical expertise and training, implementing automatic scoring systems and providing support for such systems countrywide.
1988 – 1995 APN Tele-Video
APN Tele-Video was my own video production company, running alongside my employment at Bass Leisure. APN Tele-Video was initially set-up to televise major tenpin bowling tournament events on Screensport, ITV and Sky Sports. I also went on to produce many industry training films, corporate videos and hired camera equipment and edit suite facilities. Upon joining AMF in 1995 I sold the APN Tele-Video production facilities however I continue to trade as APN Tele-Video for my freelance work designing web applications and video projects.
Academic and Professional Attainment
Physics, Maths, English, Stage Lighting, Metalwork, Building Studies
City and Guilds Radio Amateurs Examination
Courses Attended
1986 Using the Commodore Amiga for video production. Triangle Television. 1987 TV and video production. Sutton College of Liberal Arts/Thames TV, Teddington 1991 MS Windows 3.11/Excel, Interskill. 1992 AMF automatic scoring systems, Xenix O/S AMF Bowling Inc., Richmond, VA, USA. 1998 Digital Imaging, Photoshop, North East Surrey College of Technology. Cambridge Certification. 1998 Hands on UNIX, Learning Tree International. 1999 UNIX Workstation Administration, Learning Tree International. 1999 UNIX Server Administration, Learning Tree International. 1999 UNIX System Security, Learning Tree International. 2001 CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate. 2005 Film Directors' Course in Motion Picture Production, Brighton Film School.
Trainer Training
1988 Craft Trainer Award
1992 Group Trainer Award
Computing Experience
Since building my first computer in 1981 I have gained experience in the following areas:
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