Resumé:

I have worked continuously in Further Education since 1987, teaching mostly IT and Computing across a range of ages and abilities.  Whilst not ruling out more of the same in the future, I have chosen to create an opening to try out other income-generating opportunities which I am good at and enjoy.  I am happy to consider both employed and self-employed prospects, so please get in touch if you think we can work together. 

My Objectives:

• Work where I'll be challenged to continue learning
• Give value and be valued

What I Have to Offer:

• Integrity, reliability, trustworthiness, self-motivation, flexibility, hard work
• Management and leadership skills
• Confident interpersonal skills for all occasions
• I understand working with unpaid volunteers
• Years of teaching, training, coaching, counselling and advocacy skills
• Loads of patience, tolerance and adaptability
• Fast learner, used to finding out and teaching myself
• Project planner, able to set and meet deadlines
• Flexible and adaptable in new situations
• Slow and steady DIY-er

My IT Background:

• Heaps of transferrable skills
• Confident and competent user of Windows and Microsoft applications
• Some web development using Dreamweaver, Fireworks
• Awareness and some use of specific applications and bespoke , vertical market software
• Happy to fault-find and maintain common peripherals and systems, install new software, connect peripherals

My Writing Skills:

• Non-fiction articles, freelancing
• Poetry
• Short-story fiction
• Passionate about words

Unpaid Activities and Interests:

• Beekeeper, swarm collector, bumblebee re-homer
• Developing food and non-food using hive products
• Allotmenteer
• Hill-walker
• Wide range of craft skills
• Secretary, Nuneaton and Atherstone Beekeepers Association
• Previous spells in community service roles such as university senate member, school governor, national student and graduate officer posts