Experience

Nanoflam Limited

• United Kingdom
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chemist

  • Nov 2020 - Present

  Formulation and development of textile back coatings. Synthetic polymer formulations with various additives for flame retardance, water resistance, handle modification, and blackout for a variety of applications including drapes, blinds, upholstery and technical textiles. Testing of products to British and European standards. Project management: responsibility for all incoming work into the lab including new product development, routine testing, sampling, and customer issues. Liasing with suppliers, production team and customers. Oversee and assist product development from laboratory scale to trial and large scale production manufacture where required. Assist and monitor quality of production. Customer visits to assist with trial production. Show less



Capita Employee Benefits

• United Kingdom
• Real Estate

• Senior Pension Administrator

  • Dec 2017 - Nov 2020

  Mentoring new Pension Administrators, checking of work in relation to DC and DB pensions. Dealing with member and client queries and knowledge of back office administration needed for occupational DC and DB pension schemes.

• Pensions Administrator

  • Jul 2016 - Dec 2017

  Dealing with customer enquiries, maintenance and administration of occupational pensions schemes, both DB and DC.



Close Brothers Motor Finance

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Training Administrator

  • Feb 2016 - Jul 2016

  Running Inductions for new starters. Associated administration tasks including liaising with managers to form induction schedules, setting up external training courses and monitoring training records. Running Inductions for new starters. Associated administration tasks including liaising with managers to form induction schedules, setting up external training courses and monitoring training records.



Royds School

• Primary and Secondary Education

• KS4 Coordinator - Maths

  • Sep 2014 - Jan 2016

  I undertook all the standard responsibilities of a teacher including teaching, marking, assessments, behaviour management and tutor group responsibilities. I was responsible for developing and implementing the scheme of work for KS4 (GCSE) due to the new specification issued by Government. I attended several courses to enable me to complete this task and disseminated my findings and resources to the rest of the department. I undertook all the standard responsibilities of a teacher including teaching, marking, assessments, behaviour management and tutor group responsibilities. I was responsible for developing and implementing the scheme of work for KS4 (GCSE) due to the new specification issued by Government. I attended several courses to enable me to complete this task and disseminated my findings and resources to the rest of the department.



Randstad Education

• United Kingdom
• Human Resources

• Teacher of Maths - supply

  • May 2014 - Jul 2014

  • Standard responsibilities performed such as planning, marking, teaching of KS3 (and some KS4), tutor for a year 8 pastoral group, and break/detention duties as required. • Standard responsibilities performed such as planning, marking, teaching of KS3 (and some KS4), tutor for a year 8 pastoral group, and break/detention duties as required.



Rossington All Saints academy

• Teacher of Mathematics

  • Sep 2011 - May 2014

  • My general duties involved pastoral care of my tutor group; managing any issues and monitoring their successes and feeding back to parents and head of house. • Teaching a wide range of students, both in age and ability, identifying students who require extra support to help them with their studies, monitoring progress of students, communicating with a variety of people within the school setting. • Additional responsibilities: department visit coordinator, testing coordinator and management/development of the department ICT systems. Show less



Ryman Limited

• United Kingdom
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Retail Assistant

  • Oct 2008 - Oct 2010

  • Serving customers, actively offering help to customers with their purchases, suggesting up-selling where appropriate, handling monies, cleaning duties, stock management. • Serving customers, actively offering help to customers with their purchases, suggesting up-selling where appropriate, handling monies, cleaning duties, stock management.



The Lubrizol Corporation

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Laboratory Technician

  • Dec 2005 - Aug 2009

  • Textile back-coating formulation, based on polymer chemistry, including the preparation of compounds meeting specific customer needs e.g. fire retardant, blackout, water repellence, light fastness etc. • Testing of finished articles to British standards and other European standards for flame retardance, water resistance, light fastness etc. Following formulation of new products, testing stability over time was also standard practice. • Producing reports on results obtained, for internal and external customers. • Product development and problem solving of plant or customer issues with formulations; this also includes liaising with other plants in the company to enable efficient use of company resources in product development. • Began to develop skills as technical support for plant trials towards the end the employment, this involved attending trials with a member of the sales team and providing support as necessary. • As part of product development/ troubleshooting I also was trained in rheology testing and decomposition analysis by thermogravimetry. • Laboratory Health and Safety Representative and one of the site first aiders. Show less



Cadbury Trebor Bassett

• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Laboratory Analyst

  • May 2005 - Nov 2005

  • Routine analysis of final products (using techniques such as Karl Fischer, pH end point for total acidity, texture analysis, mint oil content analysis by distillation and chemical oxygen demand on plant effluents). • Quality control of finished products and raw material testing. • Producing reports using excel and word. Also some use of SAP. • Routine analysis of final products (using techniques such as Karl Fischer, pH end point for total acidity, texture analysis, mint oil content analysis by distillation and chemical oxygen demand on plant effluents). • Quality control of finished products and raw material testing. • Producing reports using excel and word. Also some use of SAP.