My **contact with purchasing, procurement, and marketing** helped me understand the challenges of supply chain management in a factory that was rebuilt from the ground up. My **experience in** development has allowed me to develop a database of technical terms for use in current and future projects. Producing detailed management reports gave me vital insights into the process of producing accounts. Programming teaches the value of detail but most of all it requires just a little extra patience. I have managed and transcreated SEO-compliant text for multiple websites using industry-standard SEO analysis tools. Eighteen years living in France has proved useful when it comes to understanding a text. ![[technical-experience.png]] ## Experience as an Independent As an independent, you must fulfil all the business functions: management, accounting, production, and sales, which provides valuable insight into the overall process of management. ![[organising-everyday-tasks.png]] ## Advanced Translation Words are my work. I have spoken French since the age of thirteen, and came to work in languages after technical studies. ![[translation-qualities.png]] I offered a range of translation-related services ([[The Technical Translation Process|technical translation]], [[Video Transcription and Subtitling]], document proofing).  I participated in artistic and subtitling projects that intersect with multimedia, and hope to build on my technical experience. ![[developing-translation.png]] I lived and worked in France for 18 years until 2018 and in the UK for 14 years in all. ## Video Technician I ran a small business providing [[Digitization and Media Services]] of analogue video and audio formats, including Super 8. We duplicated digital media such as CDs, DVDs, SD cards, floppy disks, and Iomega ZIP discs, and recovered lost data from storage media. The experience has been invaluable for subtitling, video editing, and transcription. I edited video with digitized film, which sometimes required colour and exposure correction, reduction editing, or compiling photo slideshows. ![[media-memory-logo.jpg]] The following are the data services we provided building on data management. ![[data-services.png]] [[Digitization and Media Services]] of analogue media, duplication and conversion of digital content. ![[Video data services.png]] The following describes the customer profiles for duplication, data restoration, data conversion and backup services. ![[duplication-and-conversion.png]] ## Database Technician Much of my experience has been in information systems development. One of my major projects was the [[Purchasing Price and Forecast Database]], coordinating price, forecast and production data between buyers, procurement and marketing. ![[translation-experience.png]] ## Business Analyst I was responsible for determining the compatibility of PC applications for year 2000 and whether to scrap, retain or redevelop them. ![[Management business.png]] As a business analyst I learned the value of documentation on the business side and in development teams. ![[sorting-y2000-applications.png]] Business analysis includes [[Issue Management and Problem Solving Database#Problem Solving|Problem-solving]] in operational software systems, analysing the way things operate for efficiency, ergonomics, process requirements. ![[Informatique and other.png]] ## Database Manager It was a great sense of achievement to develop the [[Purchasing Price and Forecast Database]] for a large computer manufacturer, with a complex data process, integrating forecast and production data from multiple sources including marketing, production, and purchasing. My role was to develop and maintain the import process and produce the necessary KPIs. I collated product road maps for significant components and identified purchasing requirements for the corporate PeopleSoft implementation. ![[purchasing-database-interfaces.png]] ## Project Manager I spent three months organising project development in Access for an insurance company, and four years managing data flows into a large corporate pricing database. ![[project-coordination.png]] ## Requirements Analyst We use UML techniques for functional requirements analysis with [[Systems Case Studies of Societal Networks|case-studies]], use cases, class diagrams and relational data structures. Our involvement can take different forms, either in modelling requirements with business actors, in modelling data processes. ![[data-processing-services.png]] ## Training workshops We ran [[Mind Mapping Workshops at Woodfield Pavilion]]. - What is mind mapping - A mind map in Simplemind - Identify action nodes. - Create a task board in Trello This is the plan for the Workshop which was to discuss mind mapping and to establish some paper mind maps, transfer them to Simplemind to identify potential actions and then into a Trello task board to structure a project. ![[woodfield-workshop.png]] - Project analysis, definition - Project management - Organization skills ![[Website and workshops.png]] ## Overall experience Our experience spans thirty years of experience from database developer, data manager, project and business analyst through to IT and training services.