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Qualifications HND Information Technology Kirkcaldy College of Technology National Certificate ♦ Computing in Engineering 1 ♦ Introduction to Computer Programming – Basic ♦ E.C.D.L : European Computer Driving Licence ♦ TV Origination: Programme Origination ♦ TV Origination: Non Linear Editing 1 ♦ STEPS to Excellence ♦ Part Time Web Designer ♦ Introduction to Creating Music on Computer ♦ BBC Health and Safety: Safety Training Certificate
I have had many working incarnations in my single life line. I have been a labourer digging the roads, a factory hand/charge hand and a miner right back at the start of my working life. I retrained and became a TOPS Carpenter and Joiner a government sponsored re-training course. I was a Carpenter and Joiner over a fifteen years until I became a foreman/chargehand and came off a roof forcing yet another re-training. In the breaks as a joiner I became a department head in charge of producing print room masters for a theatre company, making print room masters for tickets, flyers, promotions as well as producing the theatre program booklets for each production for the Buckhaven Parish Church Agency theatre. I couldn't get a job in computers even though I taught myself DTP, word-processing, databases and spreadsheets. I didn't have a very good typing speed, hmm some things never improve even with typing tutors. I was already working with computers (self taught) but couldn't get work because I didn't have the necessary papers for a company to employ me so, I went to college at the late in life and got an HND in Information Technology (IT) I felt that I needed the qualifications to work with computers, I graduated after two years. I couldn't get work straight away so I did clerical work for the first year, even with my slow twelve words a minute typing speed. It was agency work. Then my old college took me back on as a lab technician and I was there for a further eight months, at ten pounds a week plus dole money. I taught myself programming in visual basic right after I taught myself Pascal that's programming in dos, even did some Delphi that's Pascal for windows. After the college work and teaching myself to program I looked for work in agencies they wouldn't take me until I had worked for two years in the industry. I became a software developer and designer, programmer from ninety one to ninety nine re-education does work if you have the right aptitude. I gave up the industry when I could no longer take the rat race, or the pressures of the industry. Since that time I have spent a year learning to write for screen, how to use broadcast quality cameras. Made a series of animations one with live interaction, animation and a real person. My time with media alowed me to write, direct, act in and film a half hour comedy show, learning to make music on midi and computer (evening classes) and getting a certificate for Part Time Introduction to Web Programming and now having made this site and my others, and having maintained them for over two years, I still have relevant and pertinent IT skills that I update by teaching myself what I need to know. I have worked for a charity called Spirit Aid repairing and upgrading donated PC's for distribution or fundraising as they saw fit. I then stayed with them for two and a half years answering phones and helping with events. I went on a multimedia course at Cardonald College, during my period there I undertook the European Computer Driving Licence or E.C.D.L. just to prove that I am willing to train and wasn't to high and mighty to work at the nut and bolt level of the IT industry. I have over the last two and a half years paid for these sites for myself, built the web pages myself and managed them. My multimedia involvement has seen me develop animation and editing skills, my series allowed me to incorporate all my own original material from content to sound track, it also brought in only one unpaid commission Goldcrest Engineering. At the moment as you can tell from this web site I have a promotional idea for my software using the clover I have collected and I will introduce my Art as limited editions and distribute them as gifts for the sale of software, as this nation loves lotteries. Each work of art will come complete with an owners registration certificate of authentication and each object in each collection will be limited to a set ammount, this will be decided by the sales figures. The next development of the site is to use it as an educational tool for the New Books of the Kabbalah and this will only be available to veted inquirers, and a static yearly subscription will be charges, the registered user site will have atricles on the following subjects. Numerology Kabbalah Spirituality Zodiac (The poster product will stem from this series of articles) Natural Order Magical Treaties and Lore Holy Geometry (A DVD will be available showing how to construct a crafted version of these, for edutainment purposes) The Runes The Tarot Healing The Main section of the Emag will have a running series of how to use various packages to produce photo realistic art, animationa and how to make music and produce your own promos. A Poster product will also be availabale in the new year for the Birthday market. The magazine will also platform through competitions an outlet for my crafted art series as prizes and gifts. This whole site is an advertisment of my skills and a showcase of some of my portfolio, a web based CV for the modern age. _________________________________________________________________________________________ |
