2002 - Current    
º Musician /  promoter  / sound engineer     
Freelance
All aspects of live entertainment arrangement and promotion, sound engineering, various live and digital projects; Multiple live and recorded music, sound engineering, stage management projects.
2007- Present    ºITC tutor / consultant /client support    Freelance
All aspects of client focused ITC support.
2009 to 2011    ºYouth Project Officer - Field Officer    BTCV Worcestershire
Implementing, setting up and running the programme for training and managing youth volunteers in environmental volunteering activities and acting as mediator between volunteers, volunteer organisations and training providers and local youth provision.  Recruiting, supporting, training and retaining young volunteers.
2008 – 2009    ºERDF Contract Manager - Marketing and Interpretation; Events & Conference Manager    Small Woods Association - Green Wood Centre; Shropshire
Management & (successful) delivery of lucrative ERDF contract; concept, initiation, design and implementation of visitor centre improvement. P.R. Marketing, promotion and selling of events, event facilities and the centre itself, securing free media coverage in leading media, including double page features in Shropshire Life, live interviews on BBC Radio, a pictorial feature in Daily Telegraph. My application and entry won the tourism award for Shropshire.
2007- present    ºITC consultant (freelance)    J K J Business Consultants, Wolverhampton
2004 - 2005    ºEditor/Feature writer/Journalist    Virtual Barnsley/Barnsley Voice
2002 – 2006    ºCreative Director and Promoter of Jamplant    PRS Funded Community Music project

1998 – 2005    ºLecturer/Course developer with 100% student pass rate (Digital Sound)    University of Wolverhampton, School of Art and Design Digital Media Dept.
    ºCourse Developer/Lecturer/Teacher
(Europe’s first Electronic Commerce Applications Development Course)     Media Forge Group, Wolverhampton
    ºVisiting Lecturer    Stourbridge & Wolverhampton Colleges

    ºCourse developer/ Head Tutor/Teacher     Josiah Mason College, Birmingham
    ºSupply Teacher in English, Drama, Art,
Music, History    Select Education, Wolverhampton
1998 – 2005    ºWeb Designer/ Conceptualiser,
Web presence optimizer    Freelance
1988    ºPlacements and Training Officer; Head of IT    Temple Training Services, Wolverhampton

1989-95    ºSub-Editor, page designer, live news page composer for UK’s largest daily regional newspaper    Express and Star, Wolverhampton
 

 1995 - 1998
BA (Hons) Communication Design University of Wolverhampton
º All aspects of multi- media design and implementation º Languages  º Art & Design º Typography º Semantics
 º Communication Design º Project management, Design for Multimedia º Web Design º Digital Sound
º 3-Dimensional Design º Screen design º Programming  º Object Oriented Analysis. º Digital marketing

2005 - 2007
BA (Hons) Music (two years study – deferred)  University of Wolverhampton
º All aspects of Music BA; º Music Theory, Analysis and practice, º Music History, º Composition,
º Digital music creation, º Music Performance. º Ensemble and Choir performance and direction.