Kathryn Carr

Experience

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  Florist and shoe shop.

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Retail Associate

  Shoefayre in Stockport and Cottage Flowers in Hazel Grove.

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  Heilbronn Grünflächenamt

  Jul 2002 - Aug 2002

  Administrative Assistant

  Duties included collating statistics from death certificates in the local cemeteries, librarianship, general office work, attending site-visits and helping create a scrap book of the council’s work. Summer job.

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  (various)

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

  Food, drink and entertainment

  Kitchen porter, sign writer and general assistant at 3 Shires Wine Bar in Stockport, at which point we won pub of the month. Karoke Presenter with regular gigs at Superbfunctions.com

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  Katastrofic Art/ Rent-a-Goth

  Jul 2003 - Apr 2018

  Self Employed

  Guitarist for weddings and silk painter/ sketcher as a sideline.

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  Automobile Association uk

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Member Services Associate

  Inbound, making changes to policies. I won a prize for my sale of Breakdown Repair Cover at a time when it was a particularly tough product to sell.

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  Chameleon TelesalesLtd

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  Quality and Compliance Manager

  Listening to calls to check for errors in compliance with Ministry of Justice stipulations requiring confidentiality at a company dealing with insurance claims. Research and collation of statistics involving the use of MS Word, Excel and outlook. Hospitality duties. By providing feedback I helped the sales people develop very effective techniques which contributed to the expansion of the company by an estimated 40%

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  (various)

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

  Sales and Market Research

  French and English Inbound sales at Rentalcars.com, German Speaking Market research at Harris Interactive.

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  MODERN MANCHESTER ACADEMY MMA LTD

  Aug 2012 - Aug 2012

  Trainee TEFL

  Teaching adult foreign nationals written and spoken English.

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  Big Picture Marketing

  May 2018 - Sept 2018

  Marketing and Sales Representative

  Canon account at John Lewis Partners.

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  ITD Software Ltd

  Nov 2018 - Jun 2019

  1st Line Helpdesk Support

  Using remote control desktop sharing and Virtual Machine Ware to troubleshoot and personalise our bespoke SQL based products by telephone, email and text message. I did some development work on the WordPress site drafting a PayPal module for Woo Commerce along with a little web analysis/ optimisation.

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  Aimteq

  Nov 2019 - Dec 2019

  1st Line Support

  Remote desktop repairs to and programming of energy management systems, bug fixing.

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  Stockport Council

  Nov 2020 - Dec 2022

  Geographic Information Systems Analyst
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  The B2W Group

  Jan 2023 - Feb 2023

  Creative Industry Student

  Wicks for website design, JavaScript on Scratch for games, guide to employment in arts and culture.

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  Xuper

  Mar 2023 - May 2023

  Multilingual Remote Engineer

  Offering technical advice to librarians to resolve trouble with their workplace equipment and IT systems in French and German both by phone and email.

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  IN4 Group

  Oct 2023 - Apr 2024

  Marketing. A 12-week course.

  • Alumni Ambassador

    Mar 2024 - Apr 2024

  • Cloud Security Intern

    Oct 2023 - Mar 2024
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  Code Nation

  Aug 2024 - Sept 2024

  Cyber Security Course Level 2

  Definitions of threats, mechanisms, some basic pen testing, a group project in which we built a LAMP stack and hardened the server describing all steps taken. I received a distinction.

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  PeoplePerHour

  Nov 2024 - Feb 2025

  Freelance

  Multilingual translation of European languages, Data, UX design, Web development/Coding, Administration.