About Me

Photography, Fresh Air and Music

With a fascination of music, I play my trumpet and cornet at any opportunity but am truly 'in my element' when exploring the World — from home ground to the most remote foreign wildernesses, on foot or by bike and always with a camera.

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Education

• 2.1 Honours in BSc Product Design with 'Professional Development' from Brunel University, 2007.
• MERIT for Mathematics Advanced Extension Award, 2003.
• AAAA for Physics, Maths, Further Maths and Product Design A-Levels, 2003.
• A*AAAAAABB for GCSEs, taken at The Chase Technology College, Malvern, 2001.
• A* for GCSE Maths, taken one year earlier, in June 2000.

Employment

• Web Designer, Pepperneck Limited. (2008—Present)
• Freelance Web/Graphic Design (ongoing).
• Printroom Supervisor, Pershore Print Limited. 2 weeks holiday cover, controlling the production-side of this busy local company (June 2008).
• Product Designer, Croydex Limited (bathroom fittings and accessories). 12 month full-time placement during third year of degree (2005—2006).
• Supermarket Assistant, John Lewis PLC. Five months part-time 'shelf stacking' at my local Waitrose (2001).

Computer Skills

• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Dreamweaver and Flash.
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
• SolidWorks (with PDMWorks), Pro/ENGINEER and AutoCAD.
• Microsoft Office and NeoOffice (for Mac).
• XHTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL.

Awards

• Gold (2003), Silver and Bronze Duke of Edinburgh's Awards.
• Garth Prizes for Design and Best A-Level Results (2003).
• Trumpet and Cornet up to ABRSM Grade 6 (1999), including self-taught Grade 5 Music Theory.

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(Last updated July 2008).