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STEPHEN BERNARD PRYKE
13 James Brine House, Ravenscroft Street, London E2 7QQ
Email: steviepryke@hotmail.com URL: www.oocities.org/torpster2000
Date of Birth: 26/08/74 Status: Single Nationality: British
As an avid reader and reviewer, I possess excellent creative, design and editorial skills, and have honed these through my experiences of writing, commissioning and editing articles and reviews. I am used to working for both online and hard copy publications, and working to tight production deadlines.
Through working abroad as an EFL teacher I have developed proven social skills including managing diverse groups of people, often communicating in both English and foreign languages. I'm also experienced in office and administrative tasks, and well versed in various computer packages including Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Word, Excel, Corel Draw, Quark Xpress and HTML.
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EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS |
1998
Leeds Metropolitan University
RSA/UCLES CELTA - Grade: Pass
1993-96
University of Sunderland
B.A. (Hons) in Fine Art - Grade: 2:2
1992-93
Bradford & Ilkley Community College
BTEC in General Art & Design - Grade: Merit
1987-92
St. Bede’s Grammar School, Bradford
8 GCSEs including English and Maths
4 ‘A’ levels: General Studies, Art, Mathematics, Physics
May 2002 to present
EFL Teacher
St George International (Language School)
London
DUTIES
Teaching multilingual groups of adults and teenagers; working with other teachers (both native and non-native speakers) to produce a syllabus; conducting individual assessment, both verbal and written; test and report writing.
April 2001 to March 2001
Editor
www.oilzine.com
Olive Internet Limited
London
SKILLS GAINED WHILST IN THE ABOVE JOB
Writing reviews and features; interviewing; commissioning, proof-reading and editing reviews and articles; composing press releases and dealing with media enquiries; Search Engine positioning and optimisation; website design and maintenance; updating sites via backend databases and through FTP; packages: HTML, Javascript, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, WYSIWYG editing software, FTP software
Nov 2000 to Jan 2001
Voluntary Teacher
Bradford Resource Centre
July to Sept 2000 (and 1999)
EFL Teacher
Harrogate Tutorial College
Oct 1999 to June 2000
EFL Teacher
International House Tallinn, Estonia
Jan to June 1999
EFL Teacher
European Education Centre, Athens, Greece
SKILLS GAINED WHILST IN THE ABOVE JOBS
Experience of ‘real’ teaching situations; dealing with the problems inherent in teaching both monolingual and multilingual groups of adults and teenagers; working with other teachers (both native and non-native speakers) to produce a syllabus; conducting individual assessment, both verbal and written; test and report writing; (school) magazine writing and production; proof-reading.
June to Oct 1997
Freelance Journalist
The Leeds Innscene
Oct 1996 to Aug 1998
Library Assistant
Development & Project Planning Centre, University of Bradford
SKILLS GAINED WHILST IN THE ABOVE JOBS
Experience of all aspects of office work; working as part of a small team, problem solving including lateral and creative thinking, organising, decision making, and administration; dealing with the public and students, through enquiry work, introductory sessions, supervising use of computer facilities (library); interviewing and recording notes for articles, networking and developing contacts (magazine); researching (library / magazine), writing, proof-reading and editing for publication; managing a small budget; computer skills.
I take great pleasure from both playing and watching most sports, especially football and cricket (both of which I play regularly). I enjoy painting, and making sculpture and furniture, reading (mainly factual, history, archaeology, art), doing logic problems and puzzles, and playing the guitar. Obviously, as demonstrated by my time abroad, I love travel and am also interested in outdoor pursuits, such as hiking and camping.
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