2147a Ninoy Aquino Avenue Clark Field Pampanga Luzon Philippines +63 921 716 2318	UK Mailing address 24 Clarkes Spring Tring Herts HP23 5Ql England 07973 633381	Spainish mail address 18 calle Roma Largo Mar 29660 Nuevo Andalucia Malaga Espana

simon@funky.co.uk
http://www.simongurney.co.uk/

Skills overview

Expert knowledge of creative tools and techniques
Expert knowledge of web design and Internet technologies
Expert knowledge of printing and graphic design technologies
Expert knowledge of Macs, PCs and all peripherals
Over ten years experience delivering professional training courses
Expert use teaching and support of Dreamweaver, Freehand , Fireworks, Flash, QuarkXpress, Acrobat, Distiller, Illustrator, CorelDraw, Photoshop, Photopaint, Scanning, Page layout and design, Typography, Frontpage, , HTML, Search Engine optimization, Navigator and Internet Explorer
Expert use of Word, Powerpoint and Access
High quality course and courseware preparation
Intermediate spanish

Graphic Designer/Divemaster
Jul 2005 to now
Adventure Diving Philippines
Clark airbase, Angeles, Pampanga
Luzon, Philippines

Layout and design of brochures, posters, t-shirtsand photography. Combining role as Graphic Designer with that of Divemaster, working for resort and diveshop. Guiding groups of divers and assiting with education and courses.
main software used : photoshop , dreamweaver, acrobat, illustrator.

Graphic Designer/Divemaster
Mar 2005 to Jul 2005
Mermaid Resort
Sabang, Puerto Galera
Mindoro, Philippines

Layout and design of brochures, posters, and photography. Combining role as Graphic Designer with that of Divemaster, working for resort and diveshop. After passing PADI rescue diver and divemaster, guiding groups of divers and assiting with education and courses.
main software used : photoshop , coreldraw, acrobat, illustrator.

Graphic Designer
2004 to 2005
Imageplus
Marbella
Spain

Layout and design of brochures, billboards, stationery, as well as various mixed media and advertising for a variety of clients in the costa del sol, spain and england.
main software used : freehand , distiller, acrobat, photoshop, fireworks, illustrator, coreldraw

Graphic Designer, Trainer, Author, Technical Editor
September 1996 to now
Fastrain Europe Ltd
8a Hyde Park Mansions
cabbell street
London
Nw1 5BQ
0207 7240576

Sole director of company formed to provide expert design and training solutions to the creative and IT industries

New Media Design

Clients including Konami Europe, BBC, Hyatt Hotels and World Class Tests.

Graphic Design
Freelance design work for Union Press/Cadogen International assisting in production of four monthly magazines, work includes photography, scanning, design and layout. examples

Reference

Freelance Graphic & Web Design training
Providing professional level graphic design and web design training courses, for both authorized training centers and direct to the client.
Typically delivering a one, two or three day intensive hands-on tutor led class for between one and twelve students.
Adobe, Macromedia and Quark training centers.
Current training course offered are Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXpress all to advanced level. All course are taught on both Mac and PC and thus must provide a high degree of trouble shooting skills and platform experience to maintain smooth running of courses.
Training courses have also included FrontPage, CorelDraw, Acrobat, Freehand, HTML and Access. support has been provided to students via telephone email and websites.

References skills list

BBC New Media Consultant trainer
Developing and delivering PC based training courses to BBC specifications. Specifically Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Flash, at introductory and advanced level as well as tailored training.
Author of BBC New Media Training Image Production using Photoshop and Web Authoring using Dreamweaver.

Reference

Technical Editor
Working extensively with Friends of Ed and New Riders technical editing a wide range of new media and graphic design titles. As a consequence of editing cutting edge titles have been involved in the Beta testing of Macromedia software. Working on original author proposals editing for technical accuracy and analysis of demand and competition. Providing and editing book concepts.

Foundation Photoshop 6
New Masters of Photoshop
Foundation UltraDev4
Rich Media Studio
Flash ActionScript Studio
Flash 5 Studio
New Masters of Flash
New Masters of Flash the 2002 Annual
Flash Games Studio

Design Trainer/ Technical Support
Feb. 1996 to Oct 1996
Appropriate Learning
27-28 abbeville mews
88 clapham park road
london
sw4 7bx

Main role to design and deliver three day classroom based training courses.
Authorised training of QuarkXpress, Adobe, Corel and Macromedia professional design software.
training concentrated on CorelDRAW, Illustrator, Quark, PageMaker, Photoshop and Photopaint.
Secondary role maintaining and supporting two Macintosh (system 7+) based classrooms and one pc( win 3.11, win 95) based classroom and networks as well as all related hardware and software.
Training courses attended in support of all courses taught.

Senior Training Supervisor
Pitman College
154 Southampton Row
London
1992 to 1996

Teaching a wide variety of business software in 10 to 20 student training centres.
responsibility for training centre students and staff. Design and development of training exercises. Training staff. In house technical support both hardware and software (mainly office 4.3).
Applications development mainly using Access, Word and Powerpoint notably Franchise database and open evening presentations.
Training course and seminar design testing and evaluation.
Franchise support including staff training and sales advice.
On site training and applications development .
Layout of Classified Ads using QuarkXpress for trade press.

Interests hobbies sidelines & current activities.

Scuba diving
currently holding PADI divemaster and PADI enriched air diver, with the intention to soon complete PADI Instructor. (always interested to hear from any dive shops based in the philippines, indonesia, malaysia or thailand interested in any design work or divemaster work...)

Photography
Urban Image portfolio professional high quality photography music and travel (film)
Istockphoto portfolio stock photography
stockexpert photography stock photography
dreamstime portfolio stock photography
fotolia stock photography stock photography
Modern Art
Travel - currently travelling in the phillipines, have travelled widely through north, central and south america, europe and south east asia (see photography)
Diploma for english teaching (thailand)

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