Curriculum Vitae
Christopher Haddow
Personal Details

Address:	14 Jacinth Drive 
Sittingbourne 
Kent 
ME10 5JA	
Telephone:	01795 599481	
Nationality:	British	
Marital Status:	Married	
Date of Birth:	16th August 1963	
		
Employment Record

July 2001 - 	British Broadcasting Corporation - Interactive Factual and Learning	
Current Salary	£28000 	
Job Description	Webmaster (promotion) 
§	Involved throughout the development cycle of large-scale Informational/Educational web projects.
§	Server side administration and development.
§	Producing and maintaining generic scripts and tools for content providers.
§	Providing technical support to Web Producers.
§	Providing internal documentation on systems, networks and applications 
o	Editor of the Webmasters section of our Intranet.
§	Testing, validating and publishing BBCi Factual and learning content.
o	http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning		
		
July 2000 - July 2001	British Broadcasting Corporation – Education	
Job Description	Assistant Webmaster
§	Assisting Webmasters in above	
		
July 99 -  July 2000	City University, London	
Job Description	Web Assistant 
§	Maintenance of core University pages http://www.city.ac.uk
§	Supporting the design and implementation of a new visual identity. 
§	Support and training of FrontPage 98 users.
§	Producing and formatting statistics for the web site.
§	Dealing with e-mail and telephone enquiries to the web service	
		
May 99 - July 99:	British National Space Centre, London	
Job Description:
	Information Manager (Temporary Contract)
§	Management of BNSC's Web Site http://www.bnsc.gov.uk . 
§	Supervising 2 members of staff.
§	Operating a current awareness service
§	Managing the Library Collection and maintenance of the catalogue
§	Answering a range of enquiries from the public, academia, business and the media
§	Training staff in the use of the internet and encouraging the use of electronic resources	

1st Feb 96
- 27th  Jan 99:	Higher Colleges of Technology, Ras Al Khaimah Men's College, UAE 	
Job Title:	Faculty Librarian	
Job Description:	Job Description:	
	·	Set up and maintained the site Web Pages. 
·	Set up and maintained a site intranet. 
·	Site Representative on College wide Web Editorial Board sat on Communications Committee and Newsletter Editorial Team.
·	Managing a Learning Resources Center  - Stock Selection and administration of a budget approximately equivalent to £26,316. 
·	Supervising a full time Library Technician, part time assistant and student assistants. 
·	Teaching Foundations Students Information Skills 
·	Developing on-line materials for the information skills course 
·	Teaching introductory Computer Courses (Microsoft Office Applications)	

April 93-Jan 96:	Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen 	
Job Description:	Job Description:	
	·	Subject responsibilities for social and health sciences.	
Job Title:	Librarian	

April 92-March 93:	Hackney College Library,  London  	
Job Title:	Site Librarian (Promotion)	
		
April 90-April 92:	Hackney College Library, London	
Job Title:	Assistant Librarian	
		
Aug 89-April 90:	Mackie Academy, Stonehaven, 	
Job Title:	School Librarian (Temporary - Covering Maternity Leave)	

Academic

1988-89:	Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, Aberdeen	
Qualification:	Post Graduate Diploma in Librarianship and Information Studies	
		
1982-1986:	Aberdeen University, Aberdeen	
Qualification:	MA. Hons in Sociology (2:1)	
		
1999-2002:	City University, London	
Qualifications:	Windows NT (10 week, evening class) 10 CATS1 Credits
UNIX Tools and Administration (10 week, evening class) 10 CATS Credits
Advanced Windows NT  (10 week, evening class) 10 CATS Credits
Oracle and SQL (10 week, evening class) 10 CATS Credits	
		
2000-2002	Short Courses (Various)	
Netskills:
Well House Consultants:
	Web Site Development with Active Server Pages (2 Day Course)
Perl Programming (4 Day Course)
Perl for Larger Projects (3 Day Course)	

Skills

Information and Communication Skills:	·	I have excellent information retrieval skills.  Including advanced Boolean searching with the major on-line sources such as Proquest and Lexis-Nexis.
·	I can present information effectively in summary, report or presentation format.	
 		
IT Skills:	HTML/DHTML/CSS, Javascript, Perl, SQL, UNIX Admin, Apache Web Server Admin, XML/XSL, ASP, VB Script, IIS Admin, Visual Basic, Windows NT/2000 Admin, Macromedia Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Frontpage, Dreamweaver,  Asymetrix ToolBook, WebCT, Microsoft Office Suite.	
		
Management:	I have supervised staff and managed budgets.	
		
Team Work /Customer Care:	§	I am used to setting my own priorities and deadlines, but I also work well as part of a team. 
§	I like to be able to take a pride in the quality of the services I provide and It has always been important to me to develop a close working relationship with both colleagues and users of the service I provide.	

References

Available on request.