Jim Paterson

Current

Managing Director at Music Files Ltd
Composer (Self-employed)

Past

Project Manager at RBS
Owner at mfiles
Maths Teacher at Buckhaven High School

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Education

Moray House College of Education (now part of Edinburgh University)
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
The University of Edinburgh

St Andrews High School, Kirkcaldy

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Connections

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Industry

Music

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Jim Paterson’s Summary

Composer and arranger with specific experience creating music and sound effects for websites, audio-visual presentations and mobile games. Extensive knowledge and experience of classical and film music, and writing of articles and reviews in this area of expertise.

Jim Paterson’s Specialties:

Composer: themes, background music, sound effects, audio, midi, wide range of styles - classical, soundtrack, ambient, electronic, techno, etc.
Arranger: piano, guitar, woodwind, all orchestral, rock groups
Pianist and Accompanist: all styles

Jim Paterson’s Experience

Managing Director

Music Files Ltd

(Privately Held; Music industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)

Creative and Strategic Management.
Composer

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Music industry)

1995 — Present (14 years )

Composer for Computer Games
Project Manager

RBS

(Public Company; rbs; Banking industry)

August 1981 — October 2009 (28 years 3 months)

Developing computer systems for this global financial services company. A wealth of experience providing systems for and advising IT expenditure across many different businesses within RBS. Various IT roles have included Systems Architect, Consultant, Project Manager, Systems Designer, etc.
Owner

mfiles

(Privately Held; Music industry)

2000 — February 2009 (9 years )

This website started from small beginnings and, together with the music publishing business, has now been transfered to the company Music Files Ltd.
Maths Teacher

Buckhaven High School

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)

1979 — 1981 (2 years )

With extra-curricular activities including go club, chess club, hillwalking club.

Jim Paterson’s Education

Moray House College of Education (now part of Edinburgh University)

Secondary Teaching Qualification , Maths, Physics, General Science , 1978 — 1979
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

Grade 8 Piano (with Distinction) , Piano performance & Music theory , 1962 — 1979
The University of Edinburgh

BSc , Maths, Physics, Computer Science , 1973 — 1977

Activities and Societies:

Go club (Japanese board game)
St Andrews High School, Kirkcaldy

1967 — 1973

Additional Information

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Jim Paterson’s Interests:

Classical music, Film scores / soundtracks, piano / keyboards, music analysis & study, music composition. Mathematics, Geometric puzzles, Science in general, Go Game (was 1st kyu but out of practice). Hillwalking, Munro-bagging (this means climbing hills over 3000 feet in Scotland - there are 284 such hills and I have climbed more than 200).