Karl Wait - 161731

Karl Wait

9 PETH HEAD

Wooler

Northumberland

NE71 6NE

07734566588

D.O.B 12/07/1971

PROFILE

I am confident, conscientious, enthusiastic, assertive and highly motivated to succeed. I have a flexible attitude and am a quick learner, taking enjoyment out of meeting new people, and taking on new and varied challenges. I spend a lot of my spare time involved in the outdoors either helping to organise events or taking part.

PERSONAL SKILLS

My main attributes are my ability to work to deadlines and I am quite comfortable working on my own or as part of a team. My interpersonal skills are excellent with great understanding of language and communication. I am a lateral thinker with good problem solving abilities and can work under my own initiative. I have excellent organisational skills and thrive on working under pressure. I am computer literate and have proven myself proficient with several software applications.

Self-Employed History

September 2008 – Present

As well as being employed, I am also self-employed, starting my own part-time successful Graphic and web design business, I have built up a good list of clients who come back to me each time they need any type of advertising media.

As a Graphic Designer I have been involved in multiple media platforms, from Complete Business branding, to being involved in promotional design for internationally based Companies.

In 2009 I was approved for the North England Service Provider Register, and have been used several times by Business link.

From November 2011 to December 2013, I was employed (On a part-time basis) as Web and social Media Consultant for a large UK Based Travel Company called Black Tomato. This is a high end tailor-made travel company that specializes in putting together truly exceptional experiences around the world. Winning Online Tour Operator of the year in 2011.

Below is a quote from my own Linkedin page.

“Karl organised and launched me a redesigned website and was a pleasure to work with”August 11, 2010

Top qualities: Personable, Good Value, On Time

Paul Kenny (Artist)

Certificates and Competences

CRB Certificate

Certified in Outdoor First Aid (ITC)

Tekla and Autocad

Adobe Photoshop proficient (CS-CS5)

Adobe Dreamweaver ( MX2004-CS5)

NOCN Level 3 Web page design

HTML coding

Photography

Producing Print media from initial thoughts to uploading to outside printer.

Wordpress.org publishing platform and other similar applications.

I am also a very keen Blogger, and have my own personal blog, which I like to write after most adventures and events of which I take part in.

www.outdooradventuresuk.weebly.com

Employment History

Glendale Engineering February 2008 – Present

I was initially brought in as a fabricator, welding and fabricating structural steel on various building projects and also performing steel erecting and steel correction tasks out on site. I progressed through the company to become a CNC operator, again producing structural steel for fabrication, gaining experience on several CNC machines including in-line drill and saw set-ups, and flat bed plasma and profile burners. I gained invaluable knowledge and experience of both Fanuc and Siemens Sinumerik operating and programming controls. I also have training to use CNC folding and press machines.

In 2014 I was promoted to trainee Draughtsman, and underwent training in Tekla, Autocad and other software applications.

I work with my colleagues as a team delivering structural steel packages to the industrial and Agricultural sectors, working with clients with their needs.

I also work closely with local Councils and rural estates to secure planning applications for various different types of projects and buildings.

Duties

• Providing drawing office support all stages (estimating, design, fabrication and erection) of projects

• Generating 3D TEKLA models at tender stage in partnership with estimating team

• Generating 3D TEKLA models at design stage to customer specifications (from scratch and/or from client’s BIM models)

• Working closely with the Production team to ensure that drawings are compatible with CNC capabilities

• Importing contracts from various design departments sorting them into part programs and distributing for production at workstations.

• Overseeing all parts and processes up to the point of assembly.

• Designing parts for fabrication from architectural plans, and one off parts to customer specification.

• Using precision grinder to keep all tools sharp

• Operating and programming all CNC machines.

• Various general engineering tasks such as welding and fabrication.

Other Employment

In November 2013 I became involved as a director with a social enterprise company called Journey 2 Self as a director. http://journey2self.co.uk/.

The company's ethos is to make a difference to people’s lives through education, learning and training, removing barriers to learning and enabling equality of opportunity to businesses, schools and individuals.

Education

Berwick upon Tweed County High School Sept 1985 – July 1988

Interests and Hobbies

I enjoy hill and fell running. I am a member of Wooler Running Club. I also enjoy hill walking and mountaineering and have competed in a number of races, both as a fell runner and a walker, the most difficult of them so far being a 53 mile ultra marathon in the Highlands of Scotland, a mountain marathon and a half in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco, and also a three discipline sponsored event called Summit2sea which I helped to organise to raise money for the local School.

In June 2013 I attended the Scottish National Outdoor Training Centre, Glenmore Lodge in the Cairngorms to receive training to become a Mountain Leader (Summer) My aim is to continue gaining experience and to go on to become both Summer and Winter leader qualified and possibly International Mountain leader qualified.

Since 2011 I have been involved with the BP Scouting Association and am now a fully trained Cub leader of Whittingham 1st Scouts.

As from July 2014 as a scout group we have been fundraising £50,000 to take the 15 Scouts to Uganda to take part in project work in the rural communities in July 2015.

I am fully CRB certified.

In September 2013 I became a Duke Of Edinburgh leader and have in that time supervised children during the planning, practicing and qualifying expeditions.

I am also a Scottish Sub-Aqua Club Master Diver, trained with Kelso Dive Club.

Myself and my family are regular kayakers in and around the Glendale area and further a field.

I enjoy overseas travel and spent time living and working in various roles in the south of France, and Greece.

I also have a keen interest in the local history of the North Northumberland and Scottish Border area, and help to front a group who are looking to celebrate the Battle of Humbleton through on-going events and celebrations over the next few years.

In December of 2008 I was voted on to the Wooler Parish Council as a Councillor, and was also elected as Vice Chairman of the Council, and regularly sat on various committees and steering groups. But unfortunately because of time pressures this is something I had to give up in 2012.

I also sit on a committee of local people and activity providers who are putting together an outdoor and mountain festival in the local area. www.wooleroutoorweek.com .list of duties from funding applications to marketing and logistics.

References available on request