Ben Jones

Experience

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  British Red Cross

  May 2005 - Jan 2010

  First Aider

  Providing First Aid support and skills at public eventsResponsibilities include travelling to festivals, concerts and football events toadminister first aid to the public. Required report skills.Achievements• Working under pressure- making fast decisions and dealing with theconsequences, prioritising patients• Successfully managing back-logs of people and dealing with complaintsaccordingly, ensuring good communication with both the public andcolleagues, and maintaining equipment where necessary Show less

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  British Exploring Society

  Jan 2007 - Sept 2012

  Marketer and Salesman

  Organising pitches for BES and ensuring the uptake of new members forexpeditions whilst spreading knowledge of the organisation through potentialcustomer basesResponsibilities include delivering 20-60 minute sales presentations to a variety ofschool audiences with a view to recruit youth members and leaders. This involvedone-on-one conversations to follow up.Achievements• Produced notable revenue by producing customers over consecutivesummers.• Using communication and presentation skills to engage the audience andpromote the BES expeditions• Enabling students to partake and paying parents to fund these expeditions. Show less

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  British Army

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

  Army Officer Cadet

  Liverpool University Officer Training CorpsTraining as a member of the Territorial Army to become a strong leaderSafety Awareness (eg. when on Artillery Range), considerate of public relationsAchievements• Successfully developed leadership and teamwork skills through various teamexercises such as balancing first aid against the need to respond to animminent threat• Managing degree studies around regular commitments to the army, includingevery other weekend away, which developed my time management andorganisation skills• Coaching on PR, Leadership roles, Teamwork, and multiple practical skills Show less

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  SIFE Liverpool

  Sept 2010 - Apr 2012

  Project Director of "Business without Borders"

  • Delivering talks at schools as part of Business Boss seminar program• Liaising with council and action group committees• Sharing knowledge from the university with the people that can act on it, helping to create more sustainable, independent businesses focussing on People, Planet and Profit.• Acting as respectable ambassador with public and professional groups• Event management with academic staff and industry professionals• Creating sustainable links with Egypt and China to improve international awareness Show less

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  SIFE

  Sept 2010 - Sept 2012

  Vice-President

  Enactus (formerly Students in Free Enterprise)• Managing a 100+ strong network to achieve commercialand social impacts, with a focus on sustainability for thefuture success of the organisationTook responsibility for a project called Business withoutBorders, building on previous success by expanding oureducational program to new schools in the UK, and forgingnew projects with stable connections in China and Egypt.Achievements• Carefully applying accounting knowledge to keep budgets on track across allprojects• Running commercial activities to fund our social projects, from reformingfarming industries in Nagaland to inspiring entrepreneurship in Egypt,ensuring that these projects were sustainable yet profitable• Successfully hit recruitment targets: team grew from ≈10 members to 70+• Took our team to the UK; Liaison with large companies such as KPMG, HSBC and Centrica• Very confident and fluent with presentation skills, eg:o Meetings with important partners such as Sir Paul Barry-Walsho Presentations to audiences regularly in the 100'so Attending Global Entrepreneurship Congress with Sir Richard Branson in attendance•Personnel management to ensure ongoing commitment of members Show less

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  University of Liverpool

  Apr 2011 - Jul 2011

  Research / Administrator

  Providing administrative support for the Centre of EnterpriseData Entry and Database Management which involved the inputting, interpretingand presenting of large and complex data sets.Achievements• Report Writing to synthesise the collected data for European fundingauthorities• Running workshops and advertising e-zines and conference stands topromote entrepreneurship for students with business concepts. Includingfinancial support and mentoring• Completing and finalising reference lists on pending publications• Organising catered events, which required completion of purchase requisitions Show less

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  ICare Technologies

  Oct 2011 - Aug 2012

  Assistant

  - Research- Sales

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  Western Australia

  Oct 2013 - Oct 2013

  Mining Labour

  Hard labour in intense heat, with 12 hour days. Sampling and remediation of exploration site.Remediating 8000 ac/rc drilling bags. Selecting samples.Understanding of conditions in regional Australia.Meticulous work, with accuracy and professionalism required at all times.

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  Arcadis

  Oct 2015 - Jun 2017

  Graduate Ground Investigation Engineer

  • Ground Investigation projects (of a range of sizes) • Actively progressing towards chartership of GeolSoc (and ICE Grad member). Varied and numerous CPD hours.• Various Tickets acquired: PTS / ICI / CSCS / Soil and Rock Logging (Equipe) / Cat & Genny etc / Advanced Holebase• Final role working in geotechnical supervisory role on M4 Smart Motorway Upgrade highways project with large data set• Previous experience includes: Site supervision, Soil, Rock and Chalk logging (Rotary, WS, CP, GeoboreS), AGS data and Holebase software user, Installation/backfill design, Factual Reporting (report, monitoring data and logs). • Monitoring experience: inclinometer probe surveying and reporting, rising/falling head tests, gas and water monitoring with low-flow apparatus, installation-reporting of vibrating wire piezometers, design of standpipes. Understanding of monitoring method design. Show less

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  Pell Frischmann

  Jul 2017 - Oct 2018

  Assistant Geotechnical Engineer

  Work on a variety of projects in a geotechnical design capacity. Experience ranges sustained committed responsibility on SOI, PSSR, Site Supervision and Invoicing, Modelling and GIR (Interpretive Report) through the lifecycle of a large junction upgrade project in the northeast, to shorter term project involvement including experience of Gabion wall design SOI to GDR and Series 600 plan/section production for an airport logistics route, and desk study for an A road widening scheme near Hull. Show less

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  Freelance

  Nov 2018 - May 2019

  Professional Development - Working with Python

  Following a relocation to the south, I am pursuing personal development goals and seeking further experience in Geotechnical Design. During this period I was studying a suite of additional skillsets, particuarly Python 3 and Pandas / Matplotlib / Seaborn for visualisation.

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  Jubb

  Jun 2019 - Oct 2019

  Geotechnical Engineer

  A selection of smaller geotechnical and geo environmental residential projects within the southwest and a chalk cliff risk register project for a private client in retail.

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  Coefficient

  Sept 2019 - Sept 2020

  Data Analyst

  Working directly with clients and team to ETL a wide range of data formats, create data pipelines and warehousing of political data. Assisting with data analysis, including reporting on political trends and topic analysis.Developing a data catalogue using Python and Django.

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  Mott MacDonald

  Sept 2020 - now

  Engineering Geologist

  Variety of technical responsibilities including:• Use of Power BI, GIS (leveraging FME) and Python on a large linear ground investigation. Helping to disseminate GI∩Design programme and incoming data changes to a wider team through the use of dashboards. • Design and deployment of desktop or web (Streamlit) apps to automate bottlenecks in data cleaning and analytical reporting. • Geotechnical design (slope stability checks for flood defence)• Ground interpretation and modelling• Ground investigation supervision for buried power cable project, including thermal and electrical conductivity testing, soakaways. Considerations including environmental sensitivity and constraints of horizontal directional drilling for pilot/micro-jacking.PRIDE Values (Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence) Show less