Role: Visiting Lecturer/Instructor
Period: 2006 – Current

Responsibilities

• Designing and delivering the practical elements for the first year of a journalism degree.
  
• Teaching practical media skills including film editing, photography and web design.
  
• Running 3rd year seminars on reporting and marking resulting work.
  
• Building and deploying a content management system for the display of student writing.
  
• Creating a wikimedia server for collating research on a large scale student investigative reporting project.
  
• Devising presentations on subjects including pre-digital image manipulation, health and safety and hardware use.

Link: Course portal (under construction for 2008/9)

Role: Freelance News Editor/Writer
Period: 2002 – Current

Responsibilities

• Researching and writing monthly news for Linux Format.
  
• Writing monthly new users' tutorial for Linux Format.
  
• Writing reviews, features and tutorials for magazines including 3D World and Mac Format.
  
• Occasional production work for 3D World.

Document: What on Earth is Quantum Computing

Role: New Media Consultant/Information Architect
Period: 2007 – Current

Responsibilities

• Identifying appropriate technology for website, email marketing and intranet.
  
• Researching and recommending hosting solutions.
  
• Deploying enterprise scale webserver complete with user-friendly backend and extensive display/media distribution options.
  
• Delivering presentations on the use and potential of new technology.
  
• Troubleshooting issues resulting from large scale host/DNS transition.
  
• Writing/subbing copy suitable for web use.
  
• Working with designers and marketing team to ensure consistent branding across sections of the site.

Link: http://www.spikeisland.org.uk

Role: Writer/Designer
Period: 2006 – Current

Responsibilities

• Writing and designing two monthly safety newsletters for print and email delivery.
  
• Designing marketing and promotional material.
  
• Updating company website with latest news.
  

Role: Designer
Period: 2007 – Current

Responsibilities

• Designing the interactive elements of a series of educational DVDs.
  
• Designing and maintaining the company website.
  
• Creating order forms.

Link: www.pumpkintv.co.uk

MA New Media – Merit
University of the West of England, Bristol. 2006

MA funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The focus of this degree was new media and journalism and looked at how internet and communications technology were changing the business of newswork.
Dissertation: My thesis proposed a new model of news amplification that relied upon social rather than institutional forces and looked at how traditional news outlets were changing as a result of this changing climate.

BA (hons) Cultural and Media Studies – First Class
University of the West of England, Bristol. 2005.

Dissertation: The representation of relationships between pupils and teachers in the tabloid press and its impact on recruitment and retention of male teachers.
Other areas of study included online identities and communities; the modern holiday park's relationship with Persian paradise gardens; global trade, IT and coffee farming; personal user interfaces for information display; and the role of technology in memory and memorials.
Link: Center Parcs research paper

A Level English Language – A
Soundwell College, Bristol. 1999.

A Level Media Studies – C
Soundwell College, Bristol. 1997.

Lead Instructor (Journalism)/Web Systems Cooridinator (2009 – present)
University of the West of England, Faculty of Creative Arts

Production Editor, Linux Format (2000 – 2002)
Future Publishing, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath. BA1 2BW

• Managing the production of the best-selling Linux magazine in the UK.
  
• Commissioning writers, artists and photographers.
  
• Editing and rewriting copy and proofing final pages.
  
• Researching and writing news copy.
  
• Writing reviews and features.

Deputy Production Editor, Syndicated Features (1998 – 2000)
Bristol Evening Post and Press, Old Market, Bristol.

• Managing a team of 30 staff and freelancers in the absence of the Production Editor.
  
• Writing TV and film reviews.
  
• Subbing pages to weekly and daily deadline.
  
• Writing automation scripts to improve the efficiency of the production process.

Editor (1995 – 1998)
Community Publishing Ltd.

• Researching and writing features for two charity news magazines.
  
• Layout out magazines, newsletters and other printed material.

Print – InDesign, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, CorelDraw.
Web design – Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash (some).
Web development – HTML, CSS, Drupal, Wordpress, MediaWiki.
Productivity – MS Office, OpenOffice.org, iWork 08.
Others – Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Logic Express, Audacity, SoundStudio, iLife, Bento