"A GOOD PORTFOLIO OF SKILLS, HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ... FLEXIBLE APPROACH ... A GOOD COMMUNICATOR"
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Roland John Graeme CLEAVER |
Born 2 Feb 1960 |
Divorced |
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98 Salem Road, ABERTAWE, SA6 8NN, UK |
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Mobile Tel: 07926 195161 |
E-mail: r c l e a v e r [at] g m a i l [dot] c o m |
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User Support & Training with tact and empathy. |
Client & quality focus |
Application Development & Repackaging |
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Out front communication and presentation skills |
Creates resourceful and inventive solutions |
Manufacturing & commercial experience |
Lead responsibility for Education Faculty network: RM CC3 Win XP, 2k/2k3 Server Active Directory. MSI Repackaging with Wise; IDS. Team rôle for campus network: XP Client, NetWare, GroupWise, Identity Manager. Zen. IOS, security, H323, MPEG, VMware Virtual Infrastructure virtualization
Trained staff and students in TV and audio production: Beta & S linear, Avid, Optima, SADiE; Mixtreme; Cubase; Logic. Edited award-winning MA film. Recorded and edited internal productions. H/W & S/W maintenance. Renewal of 96-98 contract.
Brought in by group MD to rationalise motor division legacy stock control; schedule production; review purchasing and logistics; train local staff.
See above.
Looking after seriously ill son
P/T PAYE at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Ystalyfera alongside self-employment. Recruited by personal recommendation. Sorted out problems with AUN network; Administered Netware 3.12 / Win 3.11 network, installing new hardware, diagnosing OS add-in and driver problems to achieve stability; instructed and coached pupils. Continued ad-hoc for County of Neath & Port Talbot until '97.
Clients including Techniquest; BBC Cymru/Wales; Agenda TV, mainly gained by word of mouth. Have operated on many live studio & outside broadcasts: Paintbox; Matador; Aston, (incl. Motif); Chyron; Slide/Artfile; Manuscript; rostrum etc. Some 3D and model making. Designed and implemented interactive graphic applications using structured BASIC; C; ARM assembler; multimedia scripting; HTML; hardware. This includes a number of computer-based learning exhibits to be found at Techniquest, London Science Museum, Oakwood etc. Desktop and LAN support of RISC OS; MacOS. Mail admin. Internet strategy. Pre-press illustration and process to final film. Trading largely suspended APR 96 due to son's illness
Recruited by existing client to continue weather visualisation operation and programming, plus presentation graphics on Quantel Paintbox. Contract extended until Nov 1992.
Recruited by personal recommendation to design, programme, install and operate graphic systems for quiz shows, live OBs, weather forecasts, post-production. Led weather team. My clients included Ffilmiau Elidir, S4C, BBC Wales, HTV West, BBC West, Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting on-site in Tripoli. Trained clients, students in operation of Paintbox; Encore; Aston; A72. Compositing with Harry+HUD. Supported 3D and admin. staff computing on MSDOS;RISC OS; Symbolics Genera. Acorn registered software developer. Stylus closed by Trilion Group parent March 1992. Transferred to S4C to complete contracts.
Installed & maintained PCs, minis, servers, workstations on site and at base; Syst. support; XNS Net. mgt.. As support programmer and tech author, compiled manual for automated news agency 'copy' filing system. Front-end R&D for one of the first modern freetext search engines. Langs.: C, Mesa, BASIC. Environments incl. MSDOS, D/OS, UNIX V3, MINIX, XDE/Viewpoint. UNISYS, Xerox VAR. USSP closed insolvent Nov 1988.
Alongside degree course. Frequently "held the fort", cashed-up & banked takings. Ran cellar, stock; trained staff; supervised house maintenance. Left for skills development with Centaur.
Public address hire with a number of residencies and close relationship with client acts, largely on hold once I went to college 1983
Designed, built custom equipment; organised technical stores; cabled-up the equipment to central jackfield; performed commissioning, routine and "fire-brigade" tech. operations and maintenance, including OBs, programme switching, playout and logging. Trained and supervised programme staff. Redundant at end of startup, May 1980.
Successfully completed A & B courses at Woodnorton Hall; various on-station courses and attachments. Experience ranged from stripline UHF base & field maint. to MV power generation and switching. Responsible for monitoring transmission quality, coordinating maintenance. Left for more creative role with CBC.
10 'O' Levels; 'A' level Physics (D).
'Distinction' in Certificate of Oral English.
B.A. in Communication Studies, a multidisciplinary course encompassing media theory and practical assignments; Semiotics and other cultural theory; socio-linguistics; and social-psychology.
WLPAN intensive Welsh language course
RM Connect Network Management Pt1 & Pt2; Moving Forward with RM CC3
Several Network Security Courses; MS2279 Win2k3 AD Infrastructure.
VMware Virtual Infrastructure administration.
· I participated in food; book and housing cooperatives for a number of years, becoming development officer of the housing association, managing the renovation of derelict properties to provide low cost accommodation for young people.
· I have been a leading member of several hospital broadcasting stations, presenting shows and in some cases constructing studios.
· I have played in a several bands, including Living Legends (UK); Some Weird Sin; The Megaton Men; NC4, produced and organised the manufacture and marketing of LPs and singles.
· I can work reasonably competently through the medium of the Welsh language, and am actively seeking to brush up my French and German and acquire some basic Japanese.
· I used to participate in photographic and radio clubs (as GW8KSL), but haven't got the time or space at present.
· I have held a full driving licence since 1981, and had my own transport last time I looked. Unpaid taxi driver and goat heard to a generation of Swansea kids.
· I enjoy sub-aqua as and when other commitments permit, currently never
· I do a bit of DIY as and when wife; kids and life insurance permit.
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Program Title |
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Y Tywydd |
weather |
S4C pres. dept. |
visualisation (Paintbox) |
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Sgwario |
game show |
Ffilmiau Elidir |
game visuals (Prisma) |
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Star Quality |
game show |
Phi TV / HTV West |
game visuals (Prisma) |
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Y Sioe Fawr |
live O.B. |
BBC Cymru/Wales |
caps; stings (Prisma) |
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Llangollen Eisteddfod |
live O.B. |
BBC Cymru/Wales |
caps; stings (Prisma) |
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Nat. Eisteddfodau |
live O.B. |
BBC Cymru/Wales |
Prisma; Motif; Aston |
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The Marathon Birds |
nat. hist. |
BBC Bristol |
Visualisation (Prisma) |
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Children in Need |
telethon |
BBC Cymru/Wales |
caps; stings (Prisma) |
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Rasus |
racing |
MAP / Now Motion |
pre-press; Paintbox |
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Dim Ond Celf |
live O.B. |
BBC Cymru/Wales |
captioning (Motif) |
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Jacpot |
game show |
Adloniant Agenda |
game visuals (Amiga) |
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Heno |
live mag. |
Teledu Agenda |
Matador; Chyron; Artfile |
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Heno |
live mag. |
Teledu Agenda |
Quiz segment producer |
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Gwyl Cerdd Dant |
live O.B. |
Adloniant Agenda |
caption (Manuscript) |
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May Day |
Short Film. |
Nigel Orrilard |
Offline & sync |
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