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Matthew Walker
1a Hillside Road, Heswall, United Kingdom CH60 OBJ
Tel: 07738-102115
Email: matt@matthew-walker.net

Career Profile

Final year BSc Business and ICT Sheffield Hallam University student; predicted grade: a 1st. Now seeking full-time degree-related employment. Strong self-sufficiency and time-management skills shown by maintaining part-time work throughout studies. Acquired high level of transferrable skills via variety of business and IT related employment. Hard-working self starter who is sociable and consistently shown ability to work both as part of a team and to lead a group. Healthy, ambitious, enthusiastic and reliable - as identified by 100% attendance records.

I.T. Related Employment and Skills

Ran own successful business for 3 years from the age of 15, before going to University. This was a web-hosting company in which I had to manage servers remotely, troubleshoot problems, and adapt to changing environments in terms of user expectation and quality of service.
Familiar and competent using web development concepts such as CSS, HTML and PHP.
Basic programming knowledge and proficiency with SQL databases.
Proficient and experienced Microsoft Office user across all packages including Access, Excel, Publisher and Word.

Education & Qualifications

2007 - Present Sheffield Hallam University BSc (Hons) Business & ICT
Predicted grade: a high 2.1 or 1st class Honours degree.
Relevant modules: ICT Infrastructure, Information Analysis, Information Systems, ICT , Strategic Communications, Strategy and Change Management, Dissertation (Assessment of Cruise Line security), IICT, Database Systems, Managing Performance.

2005 - 2007 Pensby Sports College Sixth Form, Merseyside
3 'A' levels :ICT (A), Business Studies (B), Spanish (C)

2000 – 2005 Pensby Sports College, Merseyside
10 GCSEs (grades A-C) including I.T., Maths, English and Science plus 1 GNVQ Intermediate in Business Studies

Extra-Curricular

2005-2007 Qualifications in leadership and coaching including; CSLA, JFO, and SAQ awards.

2006 BTEC Qualification: Peer mentoring.

Positions of Responsibility

University soccer captain (2008-2010)
Student Course Rep during the first year of my University course. (2008)
Managed and led a Dreams and Teams scheme (reported positively by local press) in which I led teaching of teenagers from Madrid and Wirral to lead a Sports Festival to young children from local primary schools (2007)
Coached a variety of sport teams in soccer and rugby (2005-2007)
Secondary school Prefect, Form Captain, member of the sports council, year representative and the sports colleges first ever senior sports captain. (2003-2007)

Achievements

Awarded the Ronald Turner Prize for outstanding merit in Information Technology. (2007)
Special Prize for attainment in Spanish studies.(2007)
Received special awards during school for outstanding merit in Drama and Spanish, as well as outstanding service to the school. (2006)
First pupil to achieve a platinum award for the amount of merits obtained. (2005)
Attained 100% attendance for an entire year. (2005)
Aim Higher Greater Merseyside Achiever. (2004)

Additional Employment History

2008-2009 Receptionist - Greens Health & Fitness (Sheffield)
Key duties and skills demonstrated:

Responsibility for cash handling.
Administering class bookings. Regularly and accurately using the IT guest system.
Supporting the duty manager e.g. leading safe evacuations.
Responding in an effective manner to requests of customers and varying levels of personnel. Handling customer complaints.

2005-2008 Sports Attendant - Pensby Sports Complex (Merseyside)
Key, relevant duties included:

Dealing with customer enquiries which further enhanced my communication skills.
Designing IT solutions to improve the efficiency of the organization.
Checking facilities regularly for health and safety hazards.
Using IT system to handle bookings and correspondence.

2004-2007 Manager - Synitex (Merseyside) - my own business
Key duties and responsibilities included:

Troubleshooting hardware and software remotely
Security - implementing firewalls, user access privileges.
Decision-making - in terms of hardware and software upgrades.
Building and maintaining customer support, troubleshooting user problems.
Monitoring server loads and status reports.

Interests

Keen interest in playing, coaching and watching sports such as football, rugby, squash and badminton and captain my local team.
Enthusiasm for travelling. Continue to have an interest in Hispanic studies and posses a good degree of fluency in Spanish.
Passion for new technology.

References

Available on request or via my website: www.matthew-walker.net/recommendation.html