Aby Spanton

Experience

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  Graphic Express Signs & Displays

  Feb 1994 - Mar 1998

  Head of Design Dept

  Initial designing, production, fitting and continuing customer service.

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  ANZ Funds Management, Australia

  Mar 1999 - Jun 1999

  Underwriting Assistant

  Main Duties: Data entry; customer liaison via telephone; dictating and admin

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  Reef Dive, Airlie Beach, Australia

  Oct 1999 - Jan 2000

  Divemaster / Deckhand / Hostess

  Main Duties: Making decisions with menus and ordering stock. Effective customer liaison atall times; responsible for customer safety while at sea, deck watching, pulling sails, generalseamanship and divemaster duties.

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  TJ's Sign Company

  Apr 2000 - Mar 2001

  Sign Designer

  Main Duties: Initial designing, production, customer liaison and customer service.

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  DAMOVO

  Jun 2001 - Mar 2002

  Managed Services Orders Officer

  Managing the telephony systems of various clients, mainly Crown Prosecution Service; order management; logging faults; Customer service, co-coordinating 3rd parties; archiving emails & orders; assisting in the development of new business processes to improve efficiency and productivity in the company.;

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  Close Brothers Invoice Finance

  Aug 2004 - Feb 2007

  Regional Development Manager – Setting up and maintaining an events calendar for all Regional Sales Directors, breakfast meetings, golf days, dinners and conferences. Assisting with campaigns and maintaining the Goldmine database.Sales – Promoting and explaining key benefits of facilities to potential new clients. Deal owner, seeing prospects through take on phase to becoming new clients. Dealing with legal documentation, credit checks and anti money laundering processes.

  • Regional Development Manager

    Aug 2006 - Feb 2007

  • New Business Co-ordinator

    Aug 2004 - Aug 2006
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  Close Brothers Invoice Finance

  Dec 2009 - Jun 2010

  Client manager - Project

  Secondment for project work - Integration of GMAC Clients and Staff(1) Lead effort to understand the set up of GMAC Clients on the CHOICE Financing application(2) Develop CIF I-Factor Client Account Structure(3) Completed the creation of I-Factor Client Accounts(4) User Testing of CHOICE to I-Factor migration programmes(5) Key “Migration Weekend” involvement – Direct Account reconciliation, Reconciliation / Support forcomplex cases, Data ReconciliationClient Management Liaison / Training(1) Principal point of contact for x3 CM’s, x 1 Portfolio Head and x1 CE(2) Lead CM system training(3) Focal point for CM’s through post migration period. Show less

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  Bushwise Field Guides

  Jan 2012 - Jun 2012

  Trainee Safari Field Guide

  Bushwise specialises in running FGASA's (Field Guides Association of Southern Africa) accredited professional field guide course that trains students to a high standard of theoretical knowledge and practical experience.

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  Karongwe Private Game Reserve

  Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Game Ranger

  Taking guests out on game drives, showing and educating guests about the Big five, plains game and the eco systems of the reserve.

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  Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre

  Aug 2012 - Dec 2013

  Volunteer

  Responsible for day to day running and maintaining of the rehab; looking after, cleaning feeding the animals. Dealing with injuries and also assisting with autopsies. Assisting keepers in the predator park. Daily games drives in the main reserve and predator park.

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  Daktrai BushSchool & Wildlife Orphange

  Apr 2013 - Apr 2014

  Volunteer Cordinator/Camp Manager

  In charge of the team of paying volunteers (up to max 15) to guide them through their experience. Train volunteers effectively to allow them to perform their duties. Responsible for the daily running of the camp (animals, children & volunteers). Evaluations and reporting on the teaching program, volunteers and animals. Maintenance and repair on camp facilities. Responsible for the care of all animals on site.

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  The Global White Lion Protection Trust

  Apr 2014 - Mar 2016

  Volunteer Progam Manager

  Responsible for up to 8 volunteers at a time, that stay for 2 to 12 weeks as part of the conservation volunteering team. The volunteers are actively involved in assisting with lion monitoring / tracking, habitat management, other aspects of conservation management, and eco-education of local Tsonga community, as part of the WLT’s work to introduce and conserve free-roaming White Lion within its natural endemic habitat in the Greater Timbavati region of South Africa.

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  UmPhafa Private Nature Reserve

  Mar 2017 - Jun 2021

  Reserve Manger

  The UmPhafa Private Nature Reserve, situated in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, is a 6,000 hectare reserve comprised of a number of farms previously managed for cattle and encompasses a wide range of habitats from acacia savannah and bushveld to mountainous terrain. Due to previous agricultural practices many of the natural inhabiting species had been lost. UmPhafa was established entirely as a site for conservation, education and research and as such its management is not defined by other influences. Without the reliance upon general tourism, wildlife can be maintained at natural equilibrium for the environment rather than artificial rates of ‘popular’ species. Infrastructure in the form of lodges and roads is unnecessary allowing the development of ‘wilderness areas’, and disturbance from human activity is minimal! UmPhafa’s strategy is less to do with the management of the wildlife, but more the rehabilitation of the habitat itself to facilitate the restoration of a natural balance.Research is vital for conservation purposes; it enables scientists to learn about species both biologically and behaviorally, additionally it provides an insight into the status of the species. From this research, suitable projects to manage and conserve species can be implemented. There are many areas of research required for the UmPhafa Private Nature Reserve. As it was previously managed as cattle farms, there is little knowledge of the area. Due to this, studies into both the habitat and the species that reside there need to be undertaken. Conservation placement interns and dissertation students are essential in conducting much of the research on the reserve. Show less

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  Condair UK

  Aug 2023 - now

  Core Services