Andrew Hyam

Location:Mitcham, Surrey, U.K.

Mobile: 07833 797590

E-mail:

KEY SKILLS:

  • Managing orders & deliveries and ensuring that they are delivered to the appropriate storage locations
  • Assigning in-house batch numbers for use in record keeping and quality assurance
  • Liaising with suppliers if there are any discrepancies, or other enquiries such as obtaining certificates of conformity
  • Maintenance of storage areas (especially cold storage units i.e. refrigerators and freezers) and ensuring they were kept in optimal working condition
  • Ensured that an appropriate stock rotation was followed in storage areas and when used by manufacturing departments
  • Ensured that any batches that needed in-house testing were tested according to required standards

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT / WORK EXPERIENCE:

April 2014 – March 2017

Game Level Designer and Texture Artist/Designer

  • Part time (evenings and weekends) unpaid work for an as-yet-unnamed “Indie” RPG computer game
  • Creation and editing of terrain heightmaps using software such as GROME, VUE 7 and/or World Machine
  • Sourcing photographic images from copyright-free sourcesto be used as textures
  • Creation and editing of texture assets using Photoshop and software such as Bitmap2Material
  • Creation of procedural textures/materials using Substance Designer
  • Importing and testing textures/materials in Unity 3d

October 2009

  • Studying towards TIGA Diploma in Games Design (for more information go to theTrain2Game andTIGAwebsites)
  • Completed 3 years of the course and stopped study when they changed the course and demanded more money.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

September 2015 – April 2016 (Relate, Morden, Surrey)

General Volunteer

  • Checking donated items to ensure that they are suitable for resale – example, DVD boxsets had all their original content, and that it was undamaged and correct
  • Setting up shop displays
  • Dealing with customer sales
  • Online research – checking the value of old Vinyl LPs to see if any donated are rarities and could be sold at a higher price
  • Assisted in item collections and deliveries to donators/customers
  • Upgraded office computer OS to Windows 10

March 2014 – April 2014 (The Vine Project, Mitcham, Surrey)

General Administration

  • Dealt with customer phone calls who wished to donate items or purchase items
  • Created and updated Excel spreadsheets containing the details of volunteers, donators, and sales & deliveries
  • Updated paper records and ensured they were in correct filing order (e.g. alphabetically or date order) as required

June 2004 – June 2013 (Various)

Web Design, Web Editing/Admin, Graphic Design, Games Beta Testing contract roles

(See portfolio at for more details.)

September 1988 – May 2004 (St. George’s NHS Trust - Pharmacy Q.A. department, Tooting, London)

Medical Technical Officer - Grade 4

Managerial skills:

  • Supervision, of two full time and four student technicians, in the Chemistry and Microbiology departments
  • Training and validation of personnel in analytical and manufacturing techniques
  • Creation and maintenance of process documentation to required standards using Microsoft Office suite
  • Maintenance of computer records e.g. created a monthly computer back-up system

Basic skills:

  • Chemical analysis of pharmaceutical products and raw materials using “wet” and modern instrumental techniques to British Pharmacopoeia standards
  • Microbiological monitoring and testing of pharmaceutical products and raw materials
  • Microbiological monitoring and validation of the manufacturing environments (e.g. Clean Rooms) and personnel to GMP standards

September 1986 - July 1988 (Inner London Education Authority, Putney, London)

Science Technician

March 1984 – August 1986

Part-time Session Musician

October 1980 – February 1984 (The Hoyt Metal Company, Putney, London)

Laboratory Chemist

EDUCATION:

September 2001 to July 2002 (School of Continuing Education at Leeds University)

  • First Year Certificate in “Pharmacy Technology and Quality Assurance” (PTQA)

September 1980 to June 1982 (Croydon College of Technology)

  • HTEC certificate in Physical Science (Chemistry)

September 1973 to July 1980

  • GCE "A" Levels passes in Chemistry and Biology

GCE "O" Levels passes in eight subjects – including English Language, Mathematics

I.T. EDUCATION:

February 2005 to February 2006 (U.K. I.T. Training, Tolworth, Surrey)

Master CIW Designer – date awarded 21/02/06

CIW Professional – date awarded 11/10/05

CIW Associate - date awarded 20/05/05

February 2005 (U.K. I.T. Training, Tolworth, Surrey)

European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)

September 2004 – January 2005 (LearnDirect)

Courses completed:

Level 1 - Microsoft Access 2000, Microsoft Excel 2000, Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, Microsoft Word 2000, and Basic HTML

Level 2 - Microsoft FrontPage 2000

INTERESTS:

  • Playing computer games (especially multiplayer online games such as “Elite: Dangerous”,“Elder Scrolls Online” and “The Lord of the Rings Online”)
  • Music performance (Bass guitar, 6 and 12-string acoustic guitars, Bass pedals) in a semi-professional capacity from 1984 to 2006–example, I played guitar and bass in successful early Genesis Tribute band for 12 years (from 1994 to 2006)
  • Composing and recording of music using Cubase.

REFERENCES:

Available on request at interview stage only

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