Nick Siepmann

Experience

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  Harris Federation

  Jun 2010 - Jul 2010

  Typist/General Assistant

  Typing up of formal short-term plans and literary extracts for two groups of teachersCreating worksheetsMinuting the progress meetings at the end of each dayMy work during this week led to an offer of further employment with the Federation (as detailed above)

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  Harris Academy South Norwood

  Sept 2010 - Nov 2011

  Music and Media Technician

  – Planned and produced material for the upcoming school radio station– Set up and occasionally presented lessons– Created multimedia teaching materials– Gave technical support to teaching of Music Technology and related activities– Worked with the ICT office in maintaining the Music department computers– Maintained, repaired and booked out music and media equipment– Assisted the Media Technician where required with digitizing footage and setting up cameras for lessons– Oversaw the technical aspects of school assemblies and INSET days– Acted as sound technician for major school performances, including creating live video and sound recordings (often with a rig comprising at least 16 mics for musical events); after leaving the Academy, I was invited to return repeatedly to assist with Music Technology coursework, and to run the sound for their production of High School Musical Show less

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  Credit Suisse

  Nov 2011 - Mar 2014

  Presentations Operator

  – Created and adapted clear, attractive and professional documents in PowerPoint, Word and Excel according to bankers’ instructions or handwritten markups– Worked reliably and independently as part of the small weekend team– Performed quickly and efficiently across long shifts, often to tight deadlines

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  Hamilton-Brown Business Graphics

  Apr 2014 - Dec 2018

  Presentations Operator

  – Brought MS Office documents into client style accurately and efficiently within tight timescales, including reports in excess of 200 slides– Designed bespoke IM templates for a wide range of Grant Thornton’s clients combining strong brand identity and an easy user experience for non-specialists– Team specialist in Word and Excel– Co-ordinated workflow as part of a small team spread across multiple sites– Provided presentations and technical support over the phone and in person

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  Ninety One

  Jan 2019 - Sept 2022

  Creative Services team designer

  – Updating live dynamic presentations with latest data from complex Excel and webcall data feeds– Adapting documents to fully utilise Seismic CMS, and testing systems as the company made the transition to using it– Developing VBA toolbars and complex bespoke macros both for specific teams and for use across the whole firm, notably:–– batch reformatting tool in PowerPoint enabling the fast and easy conversion of a large library of documents during the demerger–– overhauling the company Excel and PowerPoint toolbars, adding a slide library browser, the ability to switch between multiple new brand palettes, and formatting and positioning tools across multiple document sizes–– Word toolbar including Smart Paste function allowing automatic reformatting of old-style content –– created the Flex system of dynamic navigation bars facilitating a shift to interactive presentations in response to the pandemic–– data automation tools for various teams allowing for easy and reliable monthly data updates and automated Word reports Show less

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  Hamilton-Brown

  Feb 2019 - Oct 2023

  Technical/studio team designer

  – Building flexible and user-friendly client templates in MS Office– Toolbar development, including:–– preparing and reformatting large content libraries for deployment in bespoke VSTO toolbars –– developing from scratch a system for batch creating and tagging hundreds of deal tombstones –– testing and troubleshooting toolbars in collaboration with the Development team–– Developing VBA macros to facilitate large-scale projects such as client rebranding and data entry –– Providing technical support to toolbar clients and to other members of the Hamilton-Brown team Show less

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  Stickerbook (By Obliquity)

  Oct 2023 - now

  Head of Content

  - Managing video creation process- Editing user-submitted video- Building content library