Vocational History

Vocational History


Aug 2013 – May 2024 Progressive Plastics – (Dunedin) Recently made redundant.
Plastic fabrication, sheet and pipe work.
Oct 2003 – Aug 2013 Penplus (2003) New Zealand – (Dunedin)
Graphic design, type setting, customer liaison, dispatch, warehouse duties, webmaster.
Nov 2001 – Oct 2003 Nighthawk Enterprise / Quantum Illusions
Graphic design, desktop publishing, website design, multimedia and webmaster, video production, post production.
Casual work for various companies.
Feb 2001 – Nov 2001 Real Training International Ltd – (Dunedin)
Graphic design, desktop publishing. Upgrading of product manuals & booklets. Producing newsletters, customer liaison.
Nov 1998 – Oct 2003 Nighthawk Enterprise / Quantum Illusions – (Dunedin)
Graphic design, desktop publishing, website design, Multimedia and webmaster, video production, post production.
Casual work for various companies.
Nov 1998 – Jul 2000 Inside Otago Community Newspaper – (Dunedin)
Graphic design, Desktop Publishing, webmaster. Inside Otago was the first newspaper in the region to go fully digital.
Jul 1996 – Mar 1998 Robert Read Builder – (Ashburton)
Builder/Carpenter.
Nighthawk Enterprise / Quantum Illusions
Graphic designer, desktop publishing, website design, multimedia and webmaster, video production, post production.
Casual work for various companies.
Jan 1996 – Jul 1996 Video East – (Napier)
Work based training scheme. Video production and post production. Audio and multi media and graphic design.
Oct 1993 – Jan 1996 Eagle Express Couriers – (Napier)
Distribution Manager/Rider.
Feb 1993 – Sep 1993 Seasonal Work – (Napier)
Aug 1992 – Nov 1992 Hawkes Bay Polytechnic – (Napier)
First Assessment Carpentry.
Anderson Builder Contractor – (Napier)
Builder/Carpenter. (Part of Polytechnic training)
Feb 1992 – Jun 1992 Seasonal Work – (Napier)
Sep 1985 – Dec 1991 Royal New Zealand Navy – (Auckland)
Able Seaman, Radar Plotter/Operator.