Experience

Borders College

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Programme Manager DYW Borders

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  I am supporting the great team at DYW Borders, helping connect young people to engaging businesses and the world of work. We are a government funded programme, as part of the Young Person Guarantee and the 16+ targets. We have DYW coordinators in each of our Border high schools who aim to be a supporting link between teachers, pupils, parents and our businesses. I am supporting the great team at DYW Borders, helping connect young people to engaging businesses and the world of work. We are a government funded programme, as part of the Young Person Guarantee and the 16+ targets. We have DYW coordinators in each of our Border high schools who aim to be a supporting link between teachers, pupils, parents and our businesses.



Scottish Borders Council

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Creative Learning Officer

  • Mar 2018 - Present

  I oversaw the Creative Scotland YMI (Youth Music Initiative) for the Scottish Borders and the Creative Learning Network (Education Scotland). Under the YMI programme I worked with a team of talented music tutors, community groups and schools to deliver high quality music making opportunities. The Creative Learning Network supported employability and Creativity (Meta skills). I worked with partners in the community and support Funding applications for projects that develop the YMI and CLN aims. During 2020 I was successful in applying to deliver Creative Scotland's £50K 'Small Grant Fund' in the region and lead the successful bid to the Paul Hamlynn Foundation to secure £150K for a 2 year project to develop digital skills through film in the Hawick cluster of primary schools. Show less



Kevin Greenfield Photography

• Scottish Borders

• Photographer

  • Sep 2007 - Present

  I was a commercial photographer, with a Documentary Photography degree, covering both studio and location projects for business and the Third Sector. The range of work I undertook included reportage, commercial, events and studio. My work was used by clients across the UK in reports, websites, brochures, catalogues, events and promotions. I had a well equipped modern studio with specialist studio & location lighting for stills or video. I produced video with one project involved making 32 short pierces for the Borders Business Awards My own documentary work explores our interaction with land and the outdoors (perhaps not surprising considering my background!) Show less



Various

• UK wide

• Freelance Outdoor Instructor. Centre Manager and Education Officer

  • 1993 - 2012

  I have taught and led groups in outdoor centres, across the UK, gaining a broad range of outdoor qualifications, leading sessions in climbing, gorge scrambling, hillwalking and canoeing. I started as a trainee, moved on to being a head Instructor and later a manager of a busy 80 bed residential outdoor centre. I was became the Outdoor Education and Excursions Education Officer for a local authority and set up a new peripatetic outdoor service from scratch. Following a period working as a consultant in this role, I moved to the Borders with my family and set up as a self employed photographer. Show less



Lighting Cameraman

• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lighting Cameraman

  • 1996 - 2006

  I worked with major media companies and quality corporate broadcasters, travelling extensively and worked with Digital Video & 16mm film. During my time in the media I filmed and photographed across the world and met a wide a range people; in world class hotels, to windy North Sea Oil rigs, meeting people from Prime Ministers in No. 10 to migrant worker in shanty towns, filming from helicopters in Tobago to dhows in the Indian Ocean. I was fortunate to have travelled to many countries, from war torn Somalia to the uptown condo’s of New York; I was less fortunate to have been ambushed in the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh. My first job in Scotland was filming the Mountain Bike World Cup downhill race at Fort William for Sky Sports. Show less



Location Sound Recordist

• Sound recordist

  • 1992 - 1996

  I worked as a location recordist on a wide range of productions, using mostly SQN-s 4 track recorders. I also used NARGA's, mini discs and DAT on film productions. I was involved in a lots of projects but one I recall was working with BASE jumpers on a programme about Leonardo's parachute for the BBC's Tomorrow's World. I worked as a location recordist on a wide range of productions, using mostly SQN-s 4 track recorders. I also used NARGA's, mini discs and DAT on film productions. I was involved in a lots of projects but one I recall was working with BASE jumpers on a programme about Leonardo's parachute for the BBC's Tomorrow's World.



Camera assistant

• London, United Kingdom

• Camera Assistant & Runner

  • 1992 - 1996

  My first job was with a 16mm Aaton film camera and a Nagra filming in Holland ( I learned how to load the camera magazine on the ferry!) I worked with a range of broadcast and film equipment from Digital Beta to Arri. I carried, focus pulled, dollied, stayed up all night charging the batteries, made the tea and one day, I was allowed to try the camera! I also worked for one of the many TV post production hoses in Soho, London; delivering cans of film around, helping keep the faculty running and open 24hrs a day. We used to transmit Eurosports all day for example! Show less