I strongly believe that training and development are the key to ongoing success for both myself and the people I work with.
I actively pursue continuous personal development on an almost daily basis, mostly by learning from others, reading articles on the Internet, in magazines and reading books.
I have also attended the following events as a company representative due to my excellent communication skills, my ability to retain technical knowledge and train other company members.
I continually investigate relevant practises and technologies outside of the obvious games industry elements and incorporate them into my work. These include Marketing, Psychology, PR, Business Development, Software Engineering and Business Management.
I also have experience from many smaller courses including internal training courses, Develop Brighton, Game Developer Conferences, IGDA Leadership Forum and gaining the UK government Investors In People accreditation.
Business
Building The Creative Business – London Business School
This multi-faceted course was focused on Leadership (and people), Strategy and Financial planning for creative businesses including business plan production. It was aimed at Business leaders.
Media Communications
I attended a short course on how to deal with interviews on Telephone, TV and Radio ensuring that the most is made of the time and that your message gets across effectively.
A 3-day international conference originally set in San Jose, California. This is an extremely large conference with over 200 possible training sessions to attend to over the duration of the conference. I learned a tremendous amount from this conference and it improved my skill set in all areas.
Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance
This short course taught me everything I needed to know about formal Scrum project management, which I then used in the real world on real projects.
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This was a 2-day course set up specifically for Krisalis Software in order to prepare its managers for installing, managing and running a staff appraisal system.
Motivational Leadership – TACK Training
This was an external 3-day course that taught me how to better motivate members of staff and how to get the best from teams that were my responsibility.
Managing Projects Successfully – TACK Training
This 2 day external course taught me how to plan, schedule and manage a project from start to finish in an efficient manner.
Platform
Motorola Mobile, UK
This 2 day event was to train and inform a select group of developers about creating software for the next generation of mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.
PlayStation2 Developer Conference, UK
These separate 2-day events (4 in total) were set up by SONY in order to train developers on using the PlayStation2 to it’s potential.
The first conference in 1999 was only open to a very small number of developers that SONY themselves saw as ‘the cream of the development community’.
PlayStation Developer Conference, UK
I was chosen to attend both of these separate 2 day conferences that were set up by SONY to improve the development communities knowledge of the PlayStation.
SEGA Saturn Developer Conference, US
These separate 3 day developer conferences were sponsored by SEGA in San Jose, California to improve the development communities knowledge of its Saturn games platform.
