Lead teacher of Computing and ICT
BVC
Total years of experience :24 years, 3 Months
Communication and interpersonal skills: Teaching and motivating students Computer Science and ICT skills, including computational concepts, programming (Python, App Inventor), networking and databases.
•Management and coaching a team of seven teachers involving observations, appraisals, mentoring of new teachers and working in a coaching capacity with more experienced teachers.
•Introduction of new Computing curriculum to Bottisham Village College.
•Supporting clients with detailed progress reports including performance metrics communicated to a range of stakeholders including pupils, college leadership, parents and carers.
•Successfully mentoring Initial Teacher Trainee (ITT) and Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) through nationally recognized programs developing well-prepared and inspirational teachers.
•Creating and developing schemes of work, marking, assessment and pupil evaluations.
•Planned and developed schemes of work for pupils at Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 levels for 11 - 18 age group, including GCSE, OCR Nationals, BTEC, AS-Level and A-Level.
•Introduction of ICT BTEC qualification program to Ipswich Academy.
•During this time the ICT department has achieved over 74% (
Attained a Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) following the School Centered Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) course.
Producing business requirements, functional and technical documentation and supporting development projects from the initial analysis stages through the full project lifecycle including testing and delivery using a range of process modelling techniques.
•Involved in a number of system development projects including code release management from test to live environments. Successfully implementation of reporting and customer notice workflow systems, providing automated documentation to customers.
•Leading project initiation and walkthrough meetings, weekly progress reports and meetings to key stakeholders; ensuring sign-off to projects at each stage and level in organization.
•Use of Business Objects for business reports skills used to provide supporting analysis for the projects.
Client-side - Various, South East
•Phoebus Software Limited is a market leading provider of flexible financial systems to mortgage providers and retail banks.
•My role as a Business Analyst involved working on-site with clients in the residential mortgage industry and retail banks including GE Money Home Lending, Heritable Bank, Saffron Building Society and Money Partners.
•Projects included Consumer Credit Act (CCA) 2006 system reforms, data migration, data archiving and compliance.
•Skills developed include project walkthroughs, review meetings, projects sign-off agreements and the release of code from test to live environments.
•Relational database SQL coding in both MS SQL and Oracle environments.
LexisNexis is a world leader in on-line full text information services, providing comprehensive and regularly updated News, Business, Company and Legal information.
•Successfully leading the European Data Center team with implementation and completion of three global company projects including first ever XML data fabrication process in production across LexisNexis system.
•Team leader of eight developers and five maintenance staff ensuring a high standard of programming, on-line data content and documentation
•Liaising with European news publishers and company data providers about data content, format and transmission methods ensuring the integrity and timeliness of data feeds.
•Visual Basic 6 programming.
•Working on the migration of FT contents from FT Electronic Publishing systems.
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Angewandte Informatik, as part of Business Information Systems Degree