Editor at London Theatre Breaks
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Editor at London Theatre Breaks
- Owner at DARnet internet research (Self-employed)
- Blogger at Distributed Research
- Past
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- UK Country Manager at PajamaNation.com
- Enterprise WIki Consultant at Pfizer
- ICT Tutor at London Borough of Lewisham
- Systems Manager at Eastway Offset
- Systems Analyst / Programmer at University of Kent at Canterbury
- Analyst Programmer at P & O Ferries, Dover
- Applications Programmer at Cornwall County Council
- Education
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- Anglia Ruskin University
- Truro School
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Andy Roberts’s Summary
A graduate IT professional experienced in the facilitation of online communities since 1997, and using Action Research methodologies to innovate and progress with web2.0 technology.
A multimedia communicator, tutoring all ages in the use of IT tools and creativity, both in classroom situations and using remote asynchronous methods.
Andy Roberts’s Specialties:
Mailing lists, Usenet, Wordpress, blogs, Mediawiki, Movable Type, Drupal, RSS, folksonomy and social bookmarking, aggregation
Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver, Photoshop, VoodooPad, Videoblogging, Screencast and podcasts.
Andy Roberts’s Experience
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Editor
London Theatre Breaks
(Publishing industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Publishing London Theatre Breaks Blog with information, editorials, reviews, news and user content.
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Owner
DARnet internet research (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Innovation in the application of Action Research methodology to the online environment, particularly with distributed CoPs ( Communities of Practice)
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Blogger
Distributed Research
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 2003 — Present (5 years 10 months)
Writing, research, technical support and networking for various blogs principally http://distributedresearch.net/blog since 2006 and others before that.
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UK Country Manager
PajamaNation.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
February 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Building the global marketplace for 'microjobs' performed by home workers.
Pajamanation.com is the first global, auction-based electronic market place of microjobs (small jobs outsourced to homeworkers) for homeworkers.
Pajamanation.com is FREE for the first three months so both micropreneurs and job-providers can try out the service. You are welcome to post projects and homework jobs free of charge. Freelancers can find work-at-home projects in many areas such as: design, writing, graphics, translation, marketing, legal, administration, sales, web development, proofreading, programming, testing, and much more. -
Enterprise WIki Consultant
Pfizer
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PFE; Pharmaceuticals industry)
2007 — December 2008 (1 year)
Developing wider use and adoption of wiki practices as part of an Enterprise 2.0 strategy, using mediawiki software behind, intranet blogs and drupal.
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ICT Tutor
London Borough of Lewisham
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2002 — July 2007 (4 years 11 months)
Technical support and subject expertise provider to schoolteachers responsible for the provision of ICT curriculum teaching in primary scools.
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Systems Manager
Eastway Offset
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
October 1989 — March 2002 (12 years 6 months)
Analysis, development and maintenance of systems for community organisation, newspaper production and accounting using fourth generation applications programming languages under command line Unix.
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Systems Analyst / Programmer
University of Kent at Canterbury
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
1984 — 1989 (5 years)
Applications development for University administration using DEC Vax/VMS and COBOL.
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Analyst Programmer
P & O Ferries, Dover
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Maritime industry)
August 1980 — August 1984 (4 years 1 month)
Design, write and test COBOL programs related to the online reservations system, overnight batch processing and the introduction of microcomputers for executive productivity.
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Applications Programmer
Cornwall County Council
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)
August 1976 — August 1980 (4 years 1 month)
Write and test mainframe applications data processing programs using COBOL and FILETAB
Andy Roberts’s Education
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Anglia Ruskin University
FIRST CLASS BA (HONS) , Learning, Technology, Research Information Technology (IT) , 2003 — 2006
A workplace oriented, research based undergraduate full honours degree
- Activities and Societies:
- Convenor of ultrastudents community. Student representative year 1 and 2.
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Truro School
1968 — 1973
Secondary School
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Andy Roberts’s Interests:
Web2.0, collaboration, Communities of Practice, digital creativity, London, Travel, London Theatre Breaks,Wiki
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