Ruaraidh P.

Experience

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  FMC Catering

  Jun 2006 - Jul 2006

  Team Support Staff in Barclays Suite

  Working in the kitchen assisting in food preparation and cleaning for the time during and around the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament

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  Lea and Sandeman London Fine Wines

  Nov 2006 - Jan 2007

  Shop Foreman

  Took down stock requirements as well as keeping stores organised and local deliveries on foot

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  Wildwind Sailing Holidays

  Apr 2007 - Oct 2012

  Senior Instructor

  Teaching sailing to a wide variety of people at all levels of ability. A strong teamwork environment with a very positive attitude towards giving clients the best experience possible.Also catering and bar work involved on a weekly basis be it food preparation or cocktail making for clients and others.

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  Sail Yacht Aegir 82

  Aug 2010 - Jan 2011

  Deck Hand

  Assisted in the readying of the boat in it's last months of construction and then delivering it on its Maiden voyage from Newport Rhode Island to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.

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  S/Y Asahi

  Jan 2013 - Apr 2013

  Deckhand

  Crew onboard a 56m privately owned luxury sailing yacht.

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  Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing

  May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Shore Crew | Race Crew | Chase boat driver

  Took a major role in the overseeing and assisting in re commissioning of Azzam for the summer races as she hadn't been in the water for well over a year.Then took part in crew training as well as helping maintain when not otherwise engaged in driving the chase boat. Delivered Azzam back from Plymouth to Gosport after the fastnet

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  British Offshore Sailing School (BOSS)

  Mar 2014 - Mar 2015

  RYA Instructor/ Skipper

  - managing the standards and maintenance of yacht fleet- instruction of practical and theoretical courses- maintaining training standards and a customer experiences

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  Self-Employed

  Aug 2014 - now

  Freelance Yacht Skipper & Instructor
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  The London School of Sailing

  Mar 2016 - now

  The LSoS strives to provide high end, easy access sailing trips to the London community. Wether you want:- RYA courses & qualifications,- First time experience,- Own boat tuition,- Corporate days out,- Family & Friends weekends away,- Brushing up on your skills before that charter holiday.We can provide it on a range of immaculate yachts of varying sizes as well as provide a skipper/ instructor who suits you and will go above and beyond to ensure you get what you came for! Show less

  • Director

    Apr 2016 - now

  • Founding Director

    Mar 2016 - Nov 2022
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  Equinox - the London School of Sailing

  Dec 2017 - Nov 2022

  Director

  Chief Instructor

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  Code Nation - Creating Employable Talent

  Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

  Master Coding Bootcamp

  An intense and immersive 12 months coding Bootcamp with CN, building the foundation skills to becoming a full-stack developer.What was learned:- JavaScript,- HTML, - CSS, - React, - Node, - Express with Handlebars, - Mongo DB, - Python & DjangoOther skills: communication skills, working in a team, version control with GitHub and GitKraken, project management using GitKraken Boards, problem-solving, Agile software developmentMy projects included:Cyberpet (Solo project)A browser-based game built with JavaScript, HTML & CSS.Weather App (Solo project)A web application built using Express with Handlebars templating, fetching data with an API key.Game Review Site (Group project)The task was to pull game review data from an API to allow the user to search through and sort the games by many parameters, and all in 3 days.Quiz App (Group project)Our task was to create a full-stack application using the MERN Stack in just 8 days. Show less