Alyson Wilson

Experience

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  Commercial First Mortgages Ltd

  Oct 2007 - May 2008

  Business Analyst

  Database management and developmentProduction of monthly MIR for Directors and non-exec Directors including data analysis

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  Tim & Ally Couture Portrait Photography / Red Memory Box

  Apr 2008 - Jan 2014

  Owner - Photographer and Digital Artist
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  ETK Group Ltd

  Jan 2013 - Nov 2017

  Head of Admin & Operations

  - All accounting and finance related duties except actual payment of bills- Flight and hotel booking for clients and staff, UK and international- Training of staff for soft skills and Microsoft Word and Excel- Reporting via Excel; optimisation and some designing of graphics and flyers as well as in-house photography- Invention and maintenance of a correspondence and online filing system to ensure consistency throughout

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  Red Rocket Studio

  Aug 2014 - now

  Partner / Training Manager

  Red Rocket Studio love all things graphics and are specialists in Adobe training as well as corporate photographers and videographers and graphic designers. So, if you need: your business headshot updating; a short video for your website; new images for your website; rebranding; flyers or posters designing; or you'd like to learn how to do your own logo / flyer / photos, then we are your people. For our courses we are specialists in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop & InDesign and also have courses especially for Marketing Departments, Fashion and Signage. We offer hands-on, instructor-led training for the corporate, creative, media, education and design industries. All of our courses are delivered by Adobe Certified Instructors at our training suite or on-site at your office, and can be tailored to your requirements. These can be delivered on Mac or PC.All our Adobe training courses come with 180 days of email and telephone support. Show less

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  University of Essex

  Apr 2016 - Jul 2017

  IT and Digital Skills Officer

  Creation and curation of online courses to be rolled out to staff and students.

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  THE CORPORATE COMMS SHOP LIMITED

  Jun 2016 - Oct 2017

  Administrator & Finance Manager

  Administration of invoices and expenses: raising, and payment of.Dealings with HMRC.Upkeep of cashbook.Maintenance of online and paper filing.Updating accounts with Xero.

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  Image Explorers

  Feb 2018 - now

  Partner

  One half of the duo who love to travel and share photography and Photoshop tips, tricks and tutorials as well as beautiful images.

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  Practic-Ally

  Jun 2018 - Jan 2020

  Owner

  Helping small business owners cope with those technical and practical things they find difficult - 1:1 Excel and Word help, setting up social media channels, raising invoices, emails.