Lee Smith

Experience

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  English Braids

  May 2009 - Aug 2010

  Production Operative - yarn dyeing specialist

  Dyeing yarn to exact colour coding specifications - computerising documents for reference - re-categorising and sorting tools and filing - utilising 2x yarn dyeing machines, and a 200ft long rope heat stretching tool chain process - occasionally helped in other departments.

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  F.O.O.D. Project

  Apr 2010 - Jul 2013

  Permacultural trainee assistant / consultant / labourer

  Assisting landowner and pioneering aspiring permaculturalist Seonaid Barber, We ran a one hectare field project and study focussing on growth and regrowth of vegetation and microclimatology, inclusive of geology, fauna and flora, local wildlife, acceptable structures for supporting life and work in a farmable environment, exploring methods compliant with the local council and the AONB organistaion; networked heavily with community projects, other local farms and businesses, and assisted with local homesteads, negotiated the re-routing of on-grid power supplies to local homes, and created new inroads and methods to local growing associations and campaigners such as Malvern Transition. Show less

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  EcoHandy Permaculture

  Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

  Self Employed (Cat. 0)

  A self employed test trading exercise under the guidance of BES via Serco on behalf of NEA - a Jobcentre Plus scheme. It unfortunately did not succeed due to jobsearch restriction regulations as laid out by the Conservative government.

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  Seeking New Position

  Jan 2015 - now

  CEO

  Networking, Jobseeking, Updating reports, procuring and securing resources, managing a very limited budget, opening routes of conversation otherwise unavailable to me, and social climbing using the databases and friendship networks both personal and professional in order to create new inroads, and link my professions in symbiosis.