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EMAIL: nick@spiderswebz.com | nick@innovaweb.co.uk FAX: +1 (209) 254 8669
Nick O'Connor is a versatile, creative and intelligent person
who excels in the fields of music, computers (Web developer, graphics, IT) and
teaching.
He has a long history of involvement in all aspects of the music industry, and
in recent years has become an accomplished web developer and teacher, teaching
both music and computing to national standards.
More recently he has turned his hand to writing tutorials about various aspects
of dynamic web development and sharing his own innovations in the field of web
design.
Nick shines best when he is solving problems and producing original designs.
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7/2008 ~ 5/2009 |
Self - employed / freelance Web security advisor, technician, tutor, developer Specialist subjects now include: web security, geospatial pages, AJAX and JavaScript. Currently upgrading PHP skills to version 5.X.X |
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7/2007 ~ 7/2008 |
Freelance Web Developer / composer Self employed on various ongoing projects |
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4/2007 ~ 6/2007 |
Sema4Net Ltd Web Developer Development of various websites, smart forms, large-scale site reworking using Dreamweaver templates |
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8/2005 ~ 4/2007 |
Freelance Web Developer / composer Self employed on various ongoing projects |
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3/2005 ~ 7/2005 |
Outsail Ltd Web Developer / IT manager Development of new website, newsletters and tracking scripts for a telemarketing and ebusiness company |
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2/2005 ~ 3/2005 |
Virgin Mobile Web Designer Working on contract for Virgin Mobile |
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4/2004 ~ 2/2005 |
Self/unemployed Web Developer / in hospital Hospitalised due to very serious injury - once released work continued as self-employed web developer/designer from home |
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3/2003 ~ 12/2003 |
North Birmingham College Locum IT tutor Delivery of nationally accredited computer courses |
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1/2003 ~ 7/2003 |
Medium profile website ( >50,000 hits per month) Webmaster Upating and maintaining the main and e-commerce sites, producing graphics, custom coding |
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10/2002 ~ 4/2004 |
Employment Resource Centre, Tyseley, B11 2JP. Outreach Employment Worker Finding work and/or training for residents of high unemployment areas of Birmingham |
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2/2001 ~ 7/2001 |
Tyseley and Greet Employment Resource Centre (registered charity) IT tutor Began voluntary teaching of web design, including HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java applets, GIF animations and current page layout trends to the unemployed |
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10/1998 ~ 2/1999 |
TNT Logistics, Land Rover Parts Distribution Centre, Solihull. Booking Clerk / Empty Stillage Management Booking ‘goods inwards.’ Booking ‘goods outwards’. Maintaining computerized systems, stock records |
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1994 ~ 1997 |
Agency & self-employed Musician/composer Various temporary positions in Holland. Own audio production company, making jingles and commercials for local radio stations |
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1987 |
Reality (Reggae Band), Nijmegen, SE Holland. Keyboard Player Tours of the Netherlands |
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1986 ~ 1987 |
Self-employed Audio engineer/producer Occasional sound engineering and production work. Use of 8-24 track recording studio |
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8/1984 ~ 12/1985 |
Various musical bands (including Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Dennis Bovell) Self employed Session Musician Tour of U.K. Keyboard player. Sound engineering |
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5/1981 ~ 7/1984 |
Au Pairs (Musical Group) Semi-Professional Musician Tour of European countries. On stage with musical group. Bass and Keyboard player. Radio 1 sessions. Live European television |
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4/1980 ~ 4/1981 |
Scrivens Opticians Ltd, Bristol Street, Birmingham. Internal Optical Auditor Auditing Scrivens internal accounts. Nationwide (30 branches) |
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2002 ~ 2003 |
Became a member of the HTML Writers' Guild & the International Webmasters Association Continuing to receive more certification. |
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2001 ~ 2002 |
Instrumental music facilitator course at ATM studios, Academy of Music, Birmingham. Part-time course for music teachers. Equivalent to degree entry level (3 x 'A' levels) |
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2001 ~ 2002 |
New Horizons, Birmingham (Corporate training centre). Advanced Dreamweaver, Advanced Flash, Powerpoint. |
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5/2001 ~ 8/2001 |
North Birmingham College, c/o Tyseley and Greet Employment Resource Centre, 541A Warwick Road, Birmingham. RSA Computer Literacy & Information Technology RSA Integrated Business Technology Level 2 |
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5/2001 ~ 8/2001 |
University of Central England, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. C & G 7307 Further and Adult Education Teachers’ Certificate (Stage 1) |
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2/2001 ~ 5/2001 |
Fircroft College, Selly Oak, Birmingham. Training Undertaken: Web site design and construction (residential and distance learning). Began Web design course for further Insight into HTML editors and to obtain certificates. |
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4/2000 ~ 1/2001 |
Home Study. During this last period began an intensive study of HTML, Java, JavaScript and other web-related subjects where study took priority over work.15-16 sites designed and others enhanced through recent developments in web design, plus own original concepts. |
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1997 (2 Days) |
Chemico Ltd, Highlands Road, Shirley, Birmingham. Training Undertaken: Fork Lift Truck Licence |
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1974 ~ 1979 |
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Vicarage Road , Kings Heath, Birmingham. Subjects Studied: Mathematics ‘O’ Level B, French ‘O’ Level C and Music ‘O’ Level A. |
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Year |
Body | Course/subject |
Level |
2002 |
Open College Network SEM | Instrumental Music Facilitator programme (1 credit) | 1 |
2002 |
Open College Network SEM | Instrumental Music Facilitator programme (2 credits) | 2 |
2002 |
Open College Network SEM | Instrumental Music Facilitator programme (7 credits) | 3 |
2002 |
Brainbench.com (online certification) | HTML 3.2 (view results) | Top 7% |
2002 |
New Horizons (Corporate training centre) | Advanced Dreamweaver | Certificate |
2001 |
New Horizons (Corporate training centre) | Advanced Flash | Certificate |
2001 |
Open College Network WM | Web Design (1 credit) | 2 |
2001 |
Open College Network WM | Web Design (2 credits) | 3 |
2001 |
New Horizons (Corporate training centre) | Powerpoint course | Certificate |
2001 |
OCR | IBT II | Pass |
2001 |
OCR | CLAIT | Pass |
1979 |
GCE 'O' Level | Music | A* |
1979 |
GCE 'O' Level | Mathematics | B |
1979 |
GCE 'O' Level | French | C |
1979 |
GCE 'O' Level | English | D |
1979 |
GCE 'O' Level | Geography | E |
1979 |
GCE 'O' Level | Physics | E |