my cv

Teaching

Sept ‘06 – currently | Teacher of History & Politics – History Department
In my three years at my current school I have been fully involved with the academic and extra-curricular life of the school. My lessons are popular and use a variety of teaching techniques targeted at encouraging all students to participate, including drama, re-enactment, debates and traditional lectures and my results have been consistently strong.

Achievements:

No GCSE History Grade less than A (9A*s, 7As)

22 of 23 A2 Politics students achieving A grades

Consistent success in lesson observation leading to my lessons being chosen by the Principal to be observed by all new humanities teachers, during inspection and by a journalist from The Observer.

Consultancy work with Nelson Thornes on e-resources to accompany new AQA GCSE and AS History publications

Produced over 100 e-resources for three of the new AQA AS History specifications and new GCSE

Sixth Form tutor for the past two yearsResponsibilities:

Member of IT Strategy team, and VLE subcommittee, Marketing website team

Run several clubs and societies including Eton Fives, Politics Society, Question Time, PPE Society

Examiner for Edexcel GCSE History and AS Politics and AQA AS History

Sept ‘05 – Jul ‘06 Oxford University Department of Education
PGCE Intern – History Department
Placements at Henry Box School, Witney and Didcot Girls School, Dissertation on “The Implementation of EasyLink™ within Henry Box”

Aug ‘96 – Jul ‘98 JET Programme Nagasaki
Assistant Language Teacher
Responsibilities:

Taught English language and culture to Japanese adults and students from 13 upwards, teaching primarily at Senior High School level but also at Junior and special schools

Responsibility for lesson planning, club activities in addition to usual teaching duties

I also ran an international football team playing at schools throughout the Nagasaki area which continues to this day. I was Treasurer of Nagasaki AJET and organised the Nagasaki division of the British Festival in Japan 1998.

Career to date – Other

Jul ‘99 – Jul ’05 Pharmiweb Solutions Bracknell
Senior New Media Consultant
Responsibilities:

Editor of www.pharmiweb.com, managed, promoted and edited a site with a monthly readership of over 85,000 worldwide. I also administered a database of 6000 jobs from both the client and candidate sides

I managed the production studio of three developers, a designer and a secretary, allocating and appraising work and project managing work that came into the studio.

Training Consultant for major clients such as GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Roche, Lilly and others dealing with all levels of personnel from interns to board members

In addition to the flagship product I was instrumental in a variety of additional software/consulting ventures including ones for e-procurement, e-sales & marketing and several small scale e-commerce sites.

Pharmiweb won awards for ‘Best Pharmaceutical / Life Sciences Portal’, ‘Best Electronic Pharmaceutical Recruitment Service’ and ‘Best Pharmaceutical Internet News Provider’ at the Pharmaceutical IT awards during my tenure as editor

Aug ‘98 – Jul ‘99 Financial Times London
Marketing Executive
Responsibilities:

Responsible for the marketing of Financial Times magazines, newsletters and management reports

Managed an annual marketing budget of £500,000 using a variety of media including Direct Mail, Conferences and Exhibitions, online marketing and offline marketing in a variety of specialised publications in addition to liaising with colleagues in the newspaper where specialised information was required

Education
Oct ‘05 – Jul ‘06 | University of Oxford | PGCE – History
Oct ‘05 – Jul ‘06 | Fasttrack Programme
Oct ‘93 – Jul ‘96 | University of Leeds | BA (Hons) – International History & Politics 2:1
Sept ‘86 – Jun ‘93 | Wolverhampton Grammar School |
Cambridge S-Level – English Literature (Dist.)
A Level – English Literature (A), Modern History (A), General Studies (A), Maths /Stats (B)
GCSE – Chemistry (A), Biology (A), Maths (A), English Literature (A), English Language (A), History (A), Geography (A), French (A), German (A), PE (A), AO Level – Maths (B)