I'm led to believe that I'm a good communicator with people, keeping an eye on the objective of any collaboration.  The empathy required for this level of communication is the very thing that makes it an uncomfortable assertion to be immodest about.

I have planned, produced and managed multiple seasons of full podcast series - integrating the necessary talents of already established company roles to help make this happen and be owned by the client.

I've lived and worked 'in the field' for a charity installing solar-powered lighting into remote schools resulting in changing entire communities and directly improving mortality rates.  I have led meetings with government officials from local and national ministries [eg. Zambia's Luapula Province Education Ministry in Mansa, Zambia and Zimbabwe's Education Minister, David Coltart, in 2010]. I have led talks about the impact on teaching retention in these schools with the Southern African Development Community in Lesotho's London Embassy and a 2011 project debriefing at Zimbabwe's London Embassy.

I interviewed the mayor [Evelio "Bing" Leonardia] of Bacolod City in the Philippines in 2007 regarding the need for solar-powered lighting and its benefits to the local community.

I was involved in a dotcom startup during the dotcom tech bubble [and its subsequent bursting of 2001] having helped develop a web application for the Exhibition Industry that utilised 3 different technologies to replicate a 3D experience of attending and moving around an Exhibition Hall, meeting and interacting with other exhibition attenders' avatars in real-time.  It was very 'Wow' at the time.

I lived and worked just outside of New York over a period of 6 months.

I was also the custodian of the product database of an online stationer [OfficeShopper.com] and became proficient in handling large amounts of data using SQL, MSAccess and end-user spreadsheet software.  My position was entitled "The Datamaster".  I loved introducing myself to people in that job.

I've trained dentists in the use of their dental practice management and clinical software the length and breadth of the UK.

I train users in the main Google products including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Keep Notes, Calendar, Sites etc.  I run several Google Gsuite domains.

I teach Mathematics.

Brunel University [Marketing], Linkedin [Benefits of], LightsForLearning [NGO Charity], IPConfig [Business Consultancy], Earl Okin [Performer], Loopy [Pop Band], Software of Excellence [as trainer of dentists], Q-Files [Education Website as a Maths Consultant]

LittleSmasher.com

Owner, Podcast Producer.  A personal pastime pursued into a poorly-paying profession.

Q-Files.com

Maths Educational Consultant, https://www.q-files.com/our-consultants

Lights For Learning

Online content, Charity Committee Chairman, Field Worker.  Some of my proudest ever work.

Software of Excellence

Software Trainer of Dentists in the use of a suite of software that managed the entire Dental Practice, from appointment administration through to surgery administration.  There was this one dentist in Salisbury who... 

Southampton University

Timetabling Officer, leading the roll-out of university-wide centralised timetabling to a disobliging diaspora of demandingly dissentient departments.  Dreadful.

Expocentric.com

Development Team Lead and Senior Developer, Developer/User/Board Liaison, Delivery Management, Software Trainer. Presented products and led the training for the US office.  It was dotcom madness.  Ahead of its time.  Hard work and bloody good fun.

OfficeShopper.com

DataMaster, leading the procurement, maintenance, manipulation, and presentation of product data.

Oxford Brookes University | BA in Maths & History

Oxford Brookes University | PGCE in Maths

Bradon Forest School | 128 GCE 'O' Levels all at grade 'A'.  

That last sentence is, obviously, an exaggeration.

(My grade for Physics was a 'B')

Music

I play in a pop band, called 'Loopy', since 1995, recorded albums, been a session bassist [Nero's Acolytes, "Albatrocity"], gigged around the UK including venues like the Cavern Club, supported artists like Catatonia, Space, John Otway and Wreckless Eric.  I play bass and ukulele.

Using my studio equipment and recording experience I have produced a number of projects for my band [e.g. Let's Get Out Of Here by Loopy], for friends and for the grown-up children of friends.  Enormous fun and never to be taken too seriously.  

Maths

Tutor maths to young people of concerned parents taking them, mainly, up to GCSE.  I love the beauty one can find in Maths.  Call me pretentious but I quite enjoy showing off the proof that 0.9 recurring is, actually, 1 and explaining to disbelievers that it's about our inability to perceive infinity.  So there.

History

I consider myself to be a reader of history and am currently enjoying post-Edward Gibbon studies of the Roman Empire and Byzantium and the split between the two empires leading to the very recently expired Holy Roman Empire.  I'm really no expert but it's bloody fascinating stuff.  I also like to marvel, using fairly low-brow literature, at the bigger anthropological picture, including geological and geographical influences of the early development of man.  I promise you, it's less boring than I've made it out to be.

Football

I like football, not the off-field peccadilloes of the over-paid participants who play it professionally.  I like the drama of its spectacle.

Family

Stay-At-Home Dad to a neurotypical girl and an autistic, learning-disabled boy.  I've been a regular participant of the local 'Toddler Group Circuit' and contributor to the informal Mum's network. I have to manage the needs of both children and the running of the home in happy collaboration with my wife, Alison.  She works in publishing and has a much more interesting Every Day than I.  She doesn't have to get up as early as I do.  I DO NOT resent that (breathe).

I drive a car, ride a motorbike, paddle a kayak, row a dinghy and pedal an e-powered bicycle.  I don't look after my skin as well as I could and my fitness levels consistently embarrass my children.