Information Technology

28 years in the Printing Industry working in typesetting and plate making, City and Guilds Level 2 Information Technology, interest in web publishing, Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office.



Walter



Current status Training as a Stahl Folder Operator


Date of birth 6 March 1960





Driving license Full (clean)

Ford Fiesta Zetec







Marital status Divorced

2 Children



Albert Gait Printers
Victoria Street South
Grimsby
N E. Lincolnshire






19 February 1998 ? 1st January 2001



Customers
Zetweka (Ford), The Stationery Office, Connex railway timetables,
South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, Railtrack and The Benefit Agency

Job description
Planning and plate making of lithographic (positive and negative) plates

Printing Machines
1 Miller, 2 Roland, 1 MO and 1 GTO

Studio Equipment
Autokon mono scanner linked to a P.C., reprographic camera,
step and repeat plate maker also a 4-colour scanner
in the typesetting department using Adobe Photoshop 5
CorelDraw 8 and Microsoft Office




Graphic Press (Grimsby) Ltd
Upper Spring Street
Grimsby
N E Lincolnshire





July 1992 ? 4 February 1998



Job status
Production Manager

Customers
Rotherham, Scunthorpe, Doncaster, Grimsby
and Hull Chamber of Commerce,
The Samaritans, Mind in Humberside,
N. E. Lincolnshire Council

Job description
4 colour business journals, yearbooks,
maps and town guides

Staff
My duties included training 5 P.C. operators, 1 studio film planner,
also overseaing 1 machine minder
1 reader, 2 bindery staff
and liasing with 18 - 25 tele sales staff

Software
Corel Draw 5, Adobe Photoshop 5, Pagemaker 5 and Microsoft Word 6







M&R Typesetting
Michael & Richard Gait
Estate Road 4
Pyewipe Industrial Estate
Grimsby
S Humberside



May 1983 ? July 1992


Customers
British Rail, HMSO, Thomas Cook, MAFF,
North West Bus and J H Fenner

Job description
Computerized typesetting, paste up, studio
and plate making.

2 week touch typing course at Grimsby College
of Technology in February 1986
achieving 25 w.p.m.

Computers and software
Linotype System 6, 3B2 by Advent and Corel Draw.



Albert Gait Printers
Victoria Street South
Grimsby
S Humberside




March 1981 ? March 1983



Job description
Time served Letterpress Compositor

Customers
Thomas Cook Railway timetables, British Rail, HMSO,
Royal Air force and Open University



Bartles Graphic Services
Station Road
Scunthorpe
S Humberside




July 1976 ? October 1980



Job description
Letterpress Compositor

Training
4 year indentured apprentice
1 day per week at Lincoln College
of Art and Design

Customers and work undertaken
Scunthorpe United posters, Church Magazines,
School Registers (gold blocked and bound),
HMSO gummed labels and general stationery



Interests

Classical Guitar, Computers,
Ballroom Dancing, Drawing, Swimming,
Photography and Ice Skating.

Previous interests

Skiing, Snowboarding, Windsurfing
Hang Gliding, Gliding, 1 Parachute Jump,
Roller Skating and Scooters (rebuilding Lambrettas and rallies),
Drumming (support band to Tenpole Tudor).

Travel

Austria
Mayrhofen
Söll
Bad Klienkirchim

Italy
Sause D?Oulx
Piza
Rome

Andorra
Soldeu

Gibraltar
RAF Gibraltar

Majorcca
Alcudia

United States of America
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Las Vegas

Egypt
Cairo
Luxor

France
Les Deux Alps


Qualifications


City and Guilds in Printing
City and Guilds in Print Science
City and Guilds Certificate Level 1 Information Technology
City and Guilds Diploma Level 2 Information Technology
Touch typing 40 wpm

Level 3 Windsurfing
Sight reading classical guitar

GCSE Art
GCSE Woodwork
CSE Chemistry
CSE English