Nik Makepeace BA(Hons)

Penthouse Apartment, 333 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 7QB
+44 20 73 72 16 68
0973 800436
nik@nik_SPAM_makepeace_TRAP_.com
http://www.nikmakepeace.com
Born: 29.12.1976 · Nationality: British · Marital Status: Single

Education

1996 – 1999 BA (Hons) Psychology and Philosophy (2:1) University of Warwick

This degree required me to develop many different skills:

• teamwork
• managing multiple priorities
• critical argument formation and analysis
• statistical data analysis
• self-directed, unsupervised research
• report writing
• data gathering and interpretation
• qualitative and quantitative research skills
• logico-mathematical deduction

This links to my final year research.

Work Experience

Part of a team that supplied critical management information to all parts of the university concerning the current state of the admissions process. Dealt with clients from all levels: directorate, management, students, colleagues, marketing, UCAS. Constantly refined the existing IT systems to produce more accessible reports, use less paper and to allow faster, more accurate decisions. Formally documented the changes and instructed permanent staff on how to use the adapted system.

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Principal point of contact between materials suppliers and the engineering and manufacturing sections. I maintained and developed ongoing relationships with several key vendors and improved supply to HP through these relationships. In addition to the daily use of the IT systems to track purchasing targets and evaluate suppliers, I also designed and wrote by hand an HTML new-user guide for the complex purchasing information systems in use.

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Other Experience

Planned, organised and executed two large real ale festivals each with a turnover of £25000. This involved my designing and printing publicity, acquiring a sponsor, liaising with many parts of the Students’ Union, managing the accounts, sourcing, purchasing and pricing the beers, writing a festival guide and sourcing a printer for it. Each festival exactly matched their target profits

Taught English to young Israeli Arabs in Community Centre Summer Schools. Designed lesson plans, created materials, took classes, was responsible for their well-being on outings and helped at every level of the Summer Schools’ running.

Professional Training

This two-day course worked on comprehension at speed, resulting in an increase in reading speed from a population average of 250wpm to 500-800wpm with no loss in comprehension.

The training took place over three days and was run by Hewlett-Packard corporate trainers. It covered aspects of TQM including generic systems analysis and the principles of TQM.

This NEBSM programme (run by the Year In Industry) took place over 3 separate residential weeks during which we received training and engaged in exercises covering many areas of management, including supervision, basic accountancy, health and safety practice, team-building, report-writing, presentation and many others.

In addition to these IT skills and 6 years technical experience, I have the communication skills required to convey this technical understanding to the lay person. I am strongly customer orientated, whether the customer is a colleague or a client, and will change my processes to match those of my customers. I have very strong organisational skills, and show an urgency to solve potential problems in a timely and proactive manner.

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