Experience

Ravens Wood School
• United Kingdom
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Data Manager

  • May 2023 - Present


Charles Darwin Secondary School

• Assessment Secretary

  • Jul 2015 - May 2023

  Assessment & Exams Secretary • Extracting and reporting on data from multiple platforms. SIMS, (School Information Management System) 4Matrix (Management of School Performance Data System) and a variety of school based websites. • Providing support to parents with data related issues. Satchel One, Office 365. • Running complex functions over data in Excel to report to the senior leadership team. • Managing my time effectively to ensure the work is completed to a high standard on time. • Working alongside the Exams Officer in setting up and running the GCSE and A ‘Level exams. Show less



Self-Employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Childminder

  • Mar 2012 - Jul 2015

  Self Employed ‘Good’ Ofsted Registered Childminder 2010 - 2014 • Build from scratch a successful compliant business to Government Ofsted standards • Advertising and interviewing clients. • Forecast and managed budgets for the business • Maintaining the documentation for each child in my care to monitor their progress in line with Ofsted rules. • Documentation of records for clients, taxation and regulation purposes. Self Employed ‘Good’ Ofsted Registered Childminder 2010 - 2014 • Build from scratch a successful compliant business to Government Ofsted standards • Advertising and interviewing clients. • Forecast and managed budgets for the business • Maintaining the documentation for each child in my care to monitor their progress in line with Ofsted rules. • Documentation of records for clients, taxation and regulation purposes.



Diamond Trading Company /pty/ Ltd

• Belgium
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Analyst Programmer / Senior Tester

  • Jul 1989 - Mar 2009

  Diamond Trading Company, part of the DeBeers group of companies 1991 - 2009 Senior Tester 2004 - 2009 • Part of a team supporting eight developers, external partners and outsource companies.  Produced relevant documentation for any system enhancements or amendments.  Supervised the upgrade and user transition to Mercury Quality Centre from Test Director.  Setting up automated tests within Testbench on the AS400.  Provided User Acceptance Testing support for the Business. Where relevant utilizing Dashboard for project managers.  Volunteered to join the company “Values Team” representing IT at regular meetings. Analyst Programmer 1999 - 2004  Supporting c1,000 users in both London and Southern African offices. Priorities based on strict SLA’s.  Lead Analyst within a specialized area of the business, personally dealing with 90% of calls.  Documenting, training users and developing system enhancements in response to requests from designated business areas. Information Analyst 1991 - 1999  Maintained all sales related systems, extracting data and producing regular reports for Sales Director.  Ensured data capture from relevant business departments was timely and accurate in order to meet own deadlines.  Personally produced two major monthly reports to be distributed to the Board of Directors. Show less