Experience

Wollens

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SOS Scripter

  • janv. 2016 - - aujourd’hui

  - Writing scripts/programs to perform various trickery within SOS Connect- Database work with the system, using Progress- Speeding up the lawyers' workflow- Making things easier for the lawyers - Writing scripts/programs to perform various trickery within SOS Connect- Database work with the system, using Progress- Speeding up the lawyers' workflow- Making things easier for the lawyers



The Scouts

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Scout Leader and Assistant Group Scout Leader

  • janv. 2004 - - aujourd’hui

  I helped out at Cubs when my oldest son started..... (back in 2004)I am fully trained as a Cub leader, Scout leader (my current role) and also Group Scout LeaderI organise section meetings each week, and various camps across the year.We have camped in France, and Denmark and other exciting places.I help with training of other leaders, in particular camp-fires with songs and sketches.This is a fantastic "Job" which makes a huge difference in our community, and to the young people involved. I work with an amazing team of helpers, and we have almost as much fun as the youngsters.



Otter Nurseries

• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Father Christmas

  • déc. 2016 - déc. 2016

  Keeping alive the magic of ChristmasChatting with children and families about ChristmasDelivering a quality present to each childHaving Christmassy fun with visiting families Keeping alive the magic of ChristmasChatting with children and families about ChristmasDelivering a quality present to each childHaving Christmassy fun with visiting families



Otter Nurseries

• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Father Christmas

  • nov. 2015 - déc. 2015

  Keeping alive the magic of ChristmasChatting with children and families about ChristmasDelivering a quality present to each childHaving Christmassy fun with visiting families Keeping alive the magic of ChristmasChatting with children and families about ChristmasDelivering a quality present to each childHaving Christmassy fun with visiting families



Great Grottos Ltd.

• United Kingdom
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Father Christmas

  • déc. 2014 - janv. 2015

  Keeping alive the magic of Christmas.Conducting a "visit to Santa" for children (and their parents)Delivery of the appropriate gift to the childBeing jolly and Father Christmas-like at all times :-) Keeping alive the magic of Christmas.Conducting a "visit to Santa" for children (and their parents)Delivery of the appropriate gift to the childBeing jolly and Father Christmas-like at all times :-)



Great Grottos Ltd.

• United Kingdom
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Father Christmas

  • déc. 2013 - janv. 2014

  Keeping alive the magic of Christmas.Conducting a "visit to Santa" for children (and their parents)Delivery of the appropriate gift to the childBeing jolly and Father Christmas-like at all times :-)

• Father Christmas

  • déc. 2013 - janv. 2014

  Keeping alive the magic of Christmas.Conducting a "visit to Santa" for children (and their parents)Delivery of the appropriate gift to the childBeing jolly and Father Christmas-like at all times :-)



Willowbank Primary School

• Teaching Assistant - Outdoor Learning

  • févr. 2013 - nov. 2013

  Outdoor learning for all classes....- from foundation through to year 6.- range of hour-long sessions on the school grounds to day trips out to local woodlands- discovered the seasons, nature-around-us, movement of the sun, fire, pondlife and other exciting things that are around us.- encouraged the children to notice their surroundings, and changes through the year Outdoor learning for all classes....- from foundation through to year 6.- range of hour-long sessions on the school grounds to day trips out to local woodlands- discovered the seasons, nature-around-us, movement of the sun, fire, pondlife and other exciting things that are around us.- encouraged the children to notice their surroundings, and changes through the year



Met Office

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Technical Lead

  • nov. 2003 - janv. 2012

  Analyse and design complex solutions to a third-part weather visualisation software.Build relationship with 3rd party software development house based in Slovakia, with issues involved in language barrier, seperate locations and different company policies/ethics and working styles.Responsible for support, upgrades and maintenance of high profile road-based forecasting software. (SME in Oracle, VB/Delphi apps, client/server based issues on speed, availability and resilience)On-call support for various high profile customers and areas.Expert at diagnosing, fixing and working around IT problemsData analysis - working out what information helps forecasters from our large dataset

• Software Engineer

  • mars 1999 - nov. 2003

  - customer liaison for PC upgrade rollout to commercial area- software design and coding for forecaster tools- maintenance of software- CM tools and management- problem solving- on-call response to problems

• Radar Network System Manager

  • sept. 1994 - mars 1999

  Manage the radar networking systemDevelop software for radar networkSystem management serversProblem solveElement of on-call support

• Weather Radar Archive Manager

  • nov. 1989 - sept. 1994

  Build and maintain archive of Weather Radar dataManage offline storage of mediaHandle customer requests for dataRecycle old data/mediaSystem management of servers/networkOther projects as required



SLB

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Geophysicist/Data Processing

  • janv. 1985 - nov. 1989

  Seismic survey data processing.Addition of Geometry data, various corrections, final product production, layout and delivery to customers. Seismic survey data processing.Addition of Geometry data, various corrections, final product production, layout and delivery to customers.