Experience

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  Cisco

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2006

  Linksys marketing agent

  Working right out of school, I was employed and corporately trained by Cisco to work at weekends within the local community to instruct and support people who were purchasing Linksys home networking equipment. Through the bespoke support and guidance I was able to give, my colleague and I managed to raise sales of Linksys products by 40% over the 11 week period.

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  Peerless consulting

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2007

  Junior consultant

  As consultant for Peerless, I was dispatched out around east London to consult and engineer change within a number of organisations that outsourced their IT to the company. My biggest client was Vector Special Projects who were the company that built and managed the Eden project at the time of my employment.

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  Spark it (groundwork uk)

  Aug 2007 - Sept 2010

  Instructor

  My first role within education was up-skilling adults in my local area of Swanscombe in IT User qualifications. The Spark IT centre, where I was based, managed to become the highest accrediting centre in the country for the IC3 qualification, an entry level qualification offered to provide a robust foundation for adults to work with ICT in their professional roles.

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  The leigh academy

  Aug 2011 - Aug 2014

  Teacher of computer science

  Within this role, I have progressed from an instructor of Computing, brought in from industry to train young people with the skills and experience I had gained, to a fully qualified teacher of ICT and Computing. Since qualifying through the GTP route of teacher training, I have gone on to lead the subject area of computer science where I was initially responsible for selecting the specification, and then developing the curriculum to meet the needs of students. Within this role, I have also lead a number of extra curricular projects with industry partners and other schools to raise the profile of computer science for all those involved. In addition, I sat on a committee that has steered overall direction of computer science across the the Leigh Academies Trust of schools that includes Primary, Secondary and Specialist phase schools. Show less

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  The leigh utc

  Aug 2014 - Aug 2017

  Director of learning for computer sciences

  Leading ICT and Computer Science curriculums at key stage 4 and 5, and integrating Computer Science curricular into other subject areas through project based learning. Working with local, national and international businesses to link learning to the workplace and vice versa.

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  Stationers'​ crown woods academy

  Aug 2017 - Aug 2023

  Leading ICT and Computing across key stages 3, 4 and 5 with strong externally assessed results over a number of years at IB MYP, GCSE and A Level.Leading whole academy priority of launching T Levels in 2023 on both the Digital and Finance routes.Providing ongoing indirect leadership support to the Business department after a successful transformation of the department under my direct leadership. Leading ICT and Computing across key stages 3, 4 and 5 with strong externally assessed results over a number of years at IB MYP, GCSE and A Level. Leading Business from September 2021 with strategic charge of GCSE and A Level Business, BTEC National, A Level Economics and A Level Accounting. Working on T Level introduction in September 2023.

  • Head of Computing and T Levels

    Oct 2022 - Aug 2023

  • Head of Computing and Business

    Aug 2017 - Oct 2022
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  Harris garrard academy

  Sept 2023 - now

  Assistant principal

  Responsible for managing data, assessment, and outcomes for Key Stages 3 and 4, as well as vocational education for Key Stages 4 and 5.