Alex Walker

Past

• Project Manager at Pera
• Teacher of ICT at Toot Hill School
• Assistant Head of Year at Toot Hill School

• Christian Student Worker at The Navigators
• Database Designer at Livis Limited

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Education

• Datrix Training
• Nottingham Trent University
• University of Nottingham

• The Judd School

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Alex Walker’s Summary

Studied ICT and business at university, studied and worked as an ICT teacher for 4 years then moved closer to the commercial world by becoming a Project Manager.
PRINCE2 certified.

Alex Walker’s Specialties:

Training
Project management & administration
Proposal writing & submission

Alex Walker’s Experience

• Project Manager

  Pera

  (Non-Profit; Management Consulting industry)

  September 2007 — October 2009 (2 years 2 months)

  Project Manager of EC FP7 nano-technology project "PROVAEN" with budget of 3M EUR.
  Delivery of training and support within rNet network.
  Business development

• Teacher of ICT

  Toot Hill School

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

  September 2004 — August 2007 (3 years )

  Teaching year groups ages 11-18 qualifications including A-level, AVCE, GCE, DiDA, GNVQ and GCSE
  Lead teacher for DiDA qualification including teaching of Flash and video & audio editing.
  Taught topics including database theory & practical, spreadsheets, VBA, Website creation.
  Piloting of Moodle Virtual Learning Environment & Online Testing

• Assistant Head of Year

  Toot Hill School

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

  September 2005 — August 2006 (1 year )

  Co-ordination of provision for pupils with emotional and behavioural issues
  Assisting in managing tutor team of 12
  Organisation of residential activity trip for 200 pupils

• Christian Student Worker

  The Navigators

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Religious Institutions industry)

  September 2002 — August 2003 (1 year )

  Leadership role, including development of a local organisation
  Organising meetings, group facilitation – working knowledge of group dynamics
  Developing time- and finance-management skills
  International networking experience

• Database Designer

  Livis Limited

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Civil Engineering industry)

  July 2001 — September 2001 (3 months)

  Database design & implementation of contract & purchase order management system and automatic quotation generation system, including document management

Alex Walker’s Education

• Datrix Training

  PRINCE2 Foundation , 2007 — 2007

• Nottingham Trent University

  PGCE , ICT , 2003 — 2004

• University of Nottingham

  BSc (Hons) , E-commerce and Digital Business , 1999 — 2002

  Unisys Award for Excellence for top grade in year group
  
  Topics: Entrepreneurship, Programming, Maths, Business Communications, Accounting, Markets & Marketing

  Activities and Societies:

  The Navigators, Southwell Hall JCR Committee

• The Judd School

  A-Levels , Maths, Physics, French & Religious Studies , 1991 — 1998