My Work Experience


What have I been up to?!?!
Date Project
2005 Web Designer: Star-fleet.com - Fleet 4
This was just a revamp of the Fleet 4 homepage, since I'm currently the Fleet Commander there!
2004 - 2005 Domestic Engineer: BBC Radio Humberside
I get to hang out with the Radio and Look North presenters whilst helping to clean the building!
2003 - 2007 Web Designer: Beverley-Lemgo Twinning Association
This involved the rewriting of the old website, a change over of webhosting, and the acquisition of a domain name.
2003 Web Designer: Coldstream Guards
This involved the creation of a website for the 4 Company - 3rd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards. The website went live in May.
2002 Web Designer: Comenius Project - Sydney Smith School
This consisted of a total rewrite of the old Comenius project website, and involved a new style as well as an update of the information contained within it.
2002 Web Designer: Sydney Smith School
This consisted of a total rewrite of the old school website, with the intention of making the site easier to navigate and locate key information.
2002 Web Designer: Sydney Smith School - Web Academy
The Web Academy needed a website and intranet site, that would publicise the establishment.
2002 Web Designer: Hull university - European Resource Centre
This was another placement that lasted roughly about 2 months, between May and July. The Comenius Freshwater network, a project run by the European Resource Centre needed a website that was simple and relatively small in size for ease of viewing for some of their European partners.
2002 Web Designer: SKills4IT (Slingshot)
This was a project whilst I was at KCL Training Ltd. I helped to construct the HTML version of their website, that mirrored to the best of our ability, the Flash version.
2001 Web Designer: Sydney Smith School / Appleton Primary School
Both of these were placements undertaken whilst at KCL Training Ltd. They involved working as part of a group to update, create and maintain the school websites. In the case of Appleton Primary School, we created one from scratch. For Sydney Smith, we built upon the original one that was already in place.
2001 - 2002 Web Designer: KCL Training LTD.
Here I studied for a city and Guilds Level 2 Qualification in Web Page Design. This helped me to build a HTML protfolio, and gave me experience on a range of HTML related projects. It also helped to hone my HTML skills, including tables, CSS, Flash, Photoshop and later XHTML.
1999 - 2000 Bartender: Bradford University Student Union Bars.
This was normal day to day barkeeping skills, including keeping a clean tidy workplace; glass collection and cleaning and some customer service skills. Also included a managing difficult situation two day course..
1997 - 2000 Front of House Staff: Bradford Student Cinema - Bradford University.
Supervising front of house staff which included maintaining an up to date roster; customer service skills; general front of house duties, including dealing with tickets and supervising cleaning of auditorium.td>