Experience

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  TLT LLP

  • United Kingdom
  • Law Practice
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Head Of Knowledge Management

    • May 2022 - Present

    Management of KM Research Team. KM champion contributing towards change management projects firmwide.

  • Research Manager, Knowledge Management

    • Feb 2020 - Jun 2022

    Managing the day to day activities of the KM Research Team to deliver the key service lines of legal and business research, current awareness and horizon scanning and legal resource provision.

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  Strode College

  • Head of Learning Resources & Leisure Courses

    • 2012 - Feb 2020

    Responsible for the management and continuous improvement of support services for the Colleges Learning Resource Centre (LRC/Library); Moodle elearning platform / Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) & college subscription databases; AV & Reprographics; Copyright Compliance; College Shop and Adult Leisure Courses (incl Summer Workshops). Careers Leader; Data Protection Officer (DPO) and FOI Officer.Staff management. Staff training incl theatre presentations for staff & students. Budget holder.

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  Jisc

  • Birmingham, United Kingdom

  • Speaker @ Digifest

    • Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
    • Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Speaker at Jisc's Annual Digifest Event and at ConnectMore, London.

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  ClickView

  • United Kingdom

  • Educational Consultant

    • Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
    • United Kingdom

    Consultant on a series of 4 x library skills video tutorials for students. Reviewing scripts and video content.https://www.clickview.co.uk/consultants/

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  The Blue School, Wells

  • Wells, Somerset

  • Library Manager

    • 2005 - 2009
    • Wells, Somerset

    Managed the day to day running of the Learning Resource Centre (LRC / library). Staff & student management. Budget holder. Successfully bid for funding to upgrade LMS software. Teaching students library lessons inc research skills and digital literacy. Preparation of service reports for management and Ofsted. Managed school archive (school dates back to 1641)

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  THE KINGS OF WESSEX ACADEMY TRUST

  • Cheddar, Somerset

  • Librarian Assistant

    • 2004 - 2005
    • Cheddar, Somerset

    Part time role whilst raising family to keep my hand in the profession. General library duties / front desk activities / circulation services / student & staff reference requests / cataloguing / library displays. Worked with students via the Paired Reading programme. Assisted with Library Inductions and lessons.

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  Audit Commission

  • London / Bristol

  • Document Manager

    • 2003 - 2004
    • London / Bristol

    Member of project team to deliver internal Knowledge Management System to manage Audit Commission reports and documents. Captured and contributed staff input into the project deliverables. Thesaurus construction, Meta-data control. Delivered phase one staff training. MS Project & Prince2 MethodologyBased in London and Bristol offices.Maternity Contract

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  Grosvenor Group

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Document Manager

    • 2001 - 2003
    • London, United Kingdom

    Managed the Document Services Department incl strategic planning, staffing & budget.Content management of the Estates Document Management System (DMS) in order to provide company wide access to the leases, licences & plans; ensuring the preservation of original archive resource. Systems Administration of the document software (FileNet Panagon), Staff training.Project Management: rolling out technology solution (daily scanning and workflow of correspondence) to other construction projects including the Basingstoke Shopping Centre redevelopment.Fulfilling tenant requests for information/documentation relating to their property; -Travel to Chester archive.

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  Lendlease

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Contract Librarian

    • 1999 - 2001
    • London, United Kingdom

    Contracted to internally locate and catalogue all resources: documents, plans, reports, surveys etc produced & procured by the organisation pertaining to the construction of the Bluewater Shopping Centre, Dartford in order to capture best practice & lessons learned that could be implemented into new ventures. Member of Knowledge Management Project to capture corporate know-how; working remotely with the development team at Lendlease Australia recommending developments and beta testing software prior to release to staff.Streamlined companies serials subscriptions.

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  Buddle Findlay

  • Wellington, New Zealand

  • Law Librarian

    • 1995 - 1999
    • Wellington, New Zealand

    Research and reference queries for legal staff using physical & online resources - preparation of findings as packs of information for the legal teams (to include opinions, precedents, case law legislation and findings summary). Production of the current awareness services for teams including daily news monitoring, client activity, case law, Bills before Parliament, Acts & Regs passed.Acquisition & cataloguing (Moys) / Inter-library loans / Staff training Team member of Knowledge Management Project to capture in-house expertise / precedents & opinions. Beta testing site for early elaw products for Brookers NZ. Responsible for service to the Christchurch Office (included occasional travel)

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  Simpson Grierson

  • Wellington, New Zealand

  • Assistant Law Librarian

    • 1990 - 1995
    • Wellington, New Zealand

    - Fulfilling research requests for legal staff using print, digital and external sources (incl Parliamentary Library, Wellington HC Library & VUW).- Provision of current awareness service ; general library duties including loose-leaf filing