Andrea Berkoff

Experience

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  Uniplex

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1988

  Documentation Manager

  I managed the development of range of technical documentation for the Uniplex suite of products. Uniplex was an office automation system available on Unix. The material I managed and co-wrote included user guides, system management and installation guides. This was a hugely popular and successful software system.

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  Digital Equipment Corporation Ltd

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1995

  Pre-sales Support Specialist

  Proposals, presentations, demonstrations of software systems.

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  Freelance

  Jan 1995 - Jan 2000

  Trainer and Writer

  Information Mapping trainer and writer

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  Volcano

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  Account Manager

  Liaison with clients to deliver a range of communication products

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  City of London Police

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  Partnerships Officer

  I provided project support for a range initiatives in the Community Safety Branch with a team of police officers and support staff. This included projects around missing and vulnerable people.

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  City of London

  Nov 2002 - Feb 2012

  Community Safety Manager

  I managed the Community Safety Partnership in the City of London, with a team including police officers and data analysts, delivering a range of crime prevention projects and supporting business continuity and emergency planning arrangements in the City.I focused on priority areas such as the night time economy, devising innovative schemes including Safety Thirst - an award scheme for licensed premises and the taxi marshalling scheme at Liverpool Street Station. I worked in partnership to support initiatives in all key areas including domestic abuse, counter terrorism and anti-social behaviour. I provided support for business continuity and emergency planning in the City of London and was part of the team that set up the control centre for the July 7, 2005 London Bombing. Show less

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  Local Government Improvement and Development

  Jun 2010 - Apr 2011

  Community Safety Assistant Adviser

  A secondment to the Local Government Improvement and Development organisation to provide national support for community safety partnerships around the country. I devised a number of innovative programmes including a desk top exercise to promote better partnership working with adult social Services, police, antisocial behaviour and community safety teams.

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  City Security Magazine

  Feb 2012 - now

  Editor and Web Content Manager

  I devise magazine content strategy including day-to-day liaison with article authors, PRs and journalists to find exceptional features. I particularly enjoy Interviewing high profile individuals and sharing their story and expertise.I content manage the City Security Wordpress website and in the last year increased visitors by 150% with intriguing, well-structured, beautifully presented content and other SEO techniques. I post regular social media updates and have increased followers by 20% in the last year. Additionally, I prepare weekly crime prevention advice and news using ConstantContact which receives high Open and Click rates. Show less