University of Nottingham graduate with an excellent academic, working and sporting record. Studied Geography with Business with a strong focus upon written communication, planning and negotiation skills.
Wide range of work experience demonstrating communication and organisational skills, with voluntary work demonstrating energy, motivation and flexibility.
Currently studying for Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management MSc at LJMU, which has been a long term ambition and is being self funded.
Ongoing work experience placement, obtained to gain first hand experience of working in the industry.
Responsibilities include assisting with tender and contract documents including bills of quantities, undertaking cost analysis, assisting in establishing client requirements and undertaking feasibility studies.
Work carried out two days a week alongside my full time masters degree.
Contributing to multi-channel consumer marketing campaigns to drive customer engagement and loyalty among existing customers, working towards specific KPI's.
Creating and maintaining relationships by identifying joint ventures, prospective clients and affiliate partnerships.
Conducting extensive market research, using information to provide insight and structure to marketing campaigns, including analysing market trends, monitoring competitors and investigating new markets.
Employed at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia over a four-month period. Situated on campus answering student queries, enrolling students onto the university database and writing concise course structures and schedules for particular departments.
Gained valuable experience of work in a foreign workplace, a period which significantly improved my IT, communication and interpersonal skills.
Worked in busy and challenging working environment collecting taxes, paying credits and assisting with customer inquiries in the UK Civil Service.
Duties included the use of various software systems to update/maintain and create new customer records, involving solving complex mathematical problems and daily use of MS Word and Excel. Also gained comprehensive experience of outbound telephone queries.
Helped to improve productivity, quality of service and support the implementation of continuous improvement.
Two years of active, consistent work enabled me to develop management skills as well as helping me develop a strict working routine. The enthusiasm I showed enabled me to gain more responsibility when I was offered the chance to be promoted to a higher level of refereeing.
Responsibilities included time-keeping, developing communicational and interpersonal skills as well as taking charge of several groups of young sportsmen. The experience significantly improved my knowledge of the game.
Costs management of construction processes is vital throughout the life cycle. This requires a good understanding of the commercial aspects of development and construction, and the environment in which these operate.
On this course I address projects from the perspectives of both demand and supply, and focus on the procurement and financial control of construction projects.
In addition to RICS accreditation and a Masters qualification, I will also gain many lifelong managerial and professional career skills.
Studied a wide range of modules including Business Strategy, Contemporary Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, Geography of Money and Finance and Economic Geography all of which required detailed written and data analysis.
Achieved a score of 75 for 3rd year dissertation on Disease in Manchester, resulting in the dissertation being submitted for the Undergraduate Dissertation Prize from the International Journal of Health and Place.
I am an extremely active person, using most of my spare time on exercise and sporting activities, including previously working as a football referee and coach for the Cheshire Football Association. I currently play football three times a week, I was captain of my work football team at HMRC, and won the local business league during my time there. I am also a senior member at Claremont Tennis Club and Altrincham Golf Course, each of which I attended on a fortnightly basis.
I have travelled widely in North America and Europe and more recently in Australia, South America and Asia. It is this passion for travel which motivated me to visit Australia and experience working life in a foreign environment. I enjoy experiencing new cultures, developing basic language skills and testing my own personal resourcefulness.
