Following years of unknowingly passing each other at their local swimming pool, as teenagers Kevin and Emma’s eyes met over a spare slice of rich chocolate cake at a friend’s birthday party. Over 12 years later their loving bond continued to grow and is now stronger than ever.

After owning several properties together in the Berkshire area they gave notice at their workplaces and began a new adventure in Northern England. This exciting journey would teach them about life and business. They launched their own IT solutions company that provided knowledge and technology solutions to local businesses. By providing high quality services to start-up companies they helped clients expand their own businesses, encouraging repeat custom.

The core of the business was built through web-hosting and server storage. With great regret Emma and Kevin felt it best to close the company after only 3 years of trading. It was no longer possible to compete in this existing saturated market where blue-chip companies accommodated more customers on over subscribed servers with a larger advertising budget.

Having sold their northern home, Emma and Kevin moved back down south. Little did they know the UK was to be hit hard within weeks with a recession.

Please browse through the website to find out more about Emma and Kevin

Born and raised in Berkshire in the south of the UK. I was the middle son of three. Music was a passion of mine which is why I learnt to play the viola, piano, electric keyboard and drums. I enjoyed playing classical music on my viola and played in several orchestras. This lead me to play concerts in 3 countries.

I enjoyed playing chess as a teenager and won the Berkshire chess championship. I no longer play chess other than the odd game once a year with Emma for fun.

I also owned my own tennis racket and liked to play on a local clay court in my own time. Its unfortunate that there are no tennis courts in or around the small village I recently moved to. I’ve always enjoyed mountain biking and there are plenty of country lanes and off road biking opportunities.

I loved my job as a projectionist and floor supervisor for a large Cinema complex. I started here as part time staff while in sixth form and then moved to full time for a short while after I completed my education. This involved moving films between projectors, setting the projectors up , building advert reels and breaking films down for shipping. As floor supervisor I managed the ushers, concessions stand staff and cashiers. I regularly cashed up tills and performed stock takes.

At an early age I began to study computers and my very first was the BBC Micro with a cassette tape drive. It was here that I taught myself my first language “Basic”. My interest in computers and technology continued to adulthood where I used to be a server and forum administrator on a website with 17,000 members.

Project management has been a passion of mine for some years now. I started in the Civil Service where I worked with managers in the financial teams. The logical way of project planning suited me and I wished to transfer those skills towards my future so I started learning PRINCE2 and wish to further my skills in this area.

I lived and worked for a short time in the Midlands with my partner Emma. This opened new challenges including the running of our business. I became a co-founder of a company offering IT solutions to small local businesses after finding a hole in the market for that region.

I would love to settle in a quiet location and secure my career in a permanent role.

Project Skills

• Strong project planning capabilities for the public sector and commercial industries.
• I am qualified in the prince 2 foundation and have a great interest in studying for the practitioners exam, working towards a career and further qualifications.
• I am a logical thinker, a natural planner and organiser.
• I have worked on multi-million pound projects on contact for the UK government.

Management skills

• Responsible for a team of 5 writing technical documentation in the catering industry.
• Demonstrated clear leadership skills and team motivation while supervising a team of 15 floor staff including cashing up several thousand pounds an hour.
• Developed, maintained and worked towards KPI’s monitoring staff and sales performance.
• I have trained staff on company processes and software.

General Skills

• Experience with budget management and analytical financial reporting.
• Natural methodical problem solver.
• Strong time management and self-motivator.
• Management Report writing.
• Call Centre experience and front line customer support.

General Technical Skills

• Well versed in IT and technology with 8 years experience.
• Microsoft Project.
• Microsoft Office.
• Microsoft Visio.
• Microsoft Server and Desktop Operating Systems.
• Linux Server : Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo.

Oracle Qualifications

• Discoverer for Implementers
• Financial Reporting
• Discoverer R2 End User
• System Administer
• E-business for Implementers

Networking

• DNS
• IP addressing via DHCP and static assignments.
• Microsoft Windows and Linux (Samba) file shares.
• http proxy (squid) restricted access and logging.
• Rsync
• SSH
• Snort Intrusion detection
• NTP
• VPN

Email

• Exim 4
• Greylisting
• Spamassassin
• Clamav
• Custom block lists and scripts
• Custom statistics scripts from log files

Web

• Apache 2
• Lighttpd
• Virtual hosts
• MySQL

I have a Passion for food, Yoga and exercise. I like to experiment with all kinds of recipes; savory or sweet. My lucky partner Kevin gets to try them first. He really is the best person for the job because he used to be a taste tester.

I like my music and have been known to have a little dance whilst stirring the cake mix or preparing the pork to create a soft, yet crispy crackling. Very fatty but defiantly worth the calories. All my recipes are on this website. My favourite is the technique for the pork crackling. Did loads of experiments and finally found the perfect technique.

After passing my GCSE’s I had such a zest for life that I wanted to go right into full time work and experience the real world for what it was. I lived and worked in the South East and Midlands but my heart has always stayed in Berkshire where I was brought up.

I cycled or walked to the gym as a teenager. A habit that continued into adulthood where I discovered the spa and relaxation rooms. These days I find using a mix of Yoga, Thai-Chi and Pilate's is a great way for me to relax.

With the recession beginning in 2008, stable work has been hard to come by. This is why I’ve been temping and felt it necessary to move where the work is, which brought me to a quiet little village in Buckinghamshire. I like it here so much that I even started designing my own house that I would love to build one day.

Analytical Overview

• Margin improvement reporting for FMCG Retail.
• Business analysis for FMCG Wholesale Catering, IT solutions and Retail industries.
• Supply Chain analysis for Medical, IT and Catering.
• Pricing analysis for FMCG Retail.
• Sales analysis for FMCG Retail.
• Financial analysis for Retail, Medical and Wholesale Catering.
• Revenue analysis for FMCG Retail and Catering.
• Variance analysis for FMCG Retail, Medical, Catering.
• Project Analysis for Recruitment, Medical and Civil Service.

Analytical Skills

• Analytical reporting using advanced Excel features to include Pivot-Tables and Charts, Macros, V-lookups, spreadsheet linking and complex formulas.
• Developing KPI’s for target monitoring, revenue and staff performance; reporting throughout businesses.
• Forecasting of sales targets and revenue for retail and stock requirements for supply chain.
• Budget management
• Project coordination and team leading skills.
• Process Mapping within Procurement, the Civil Service and Supply Chain.

Supply Chain Skills

• Coordinating the bid and tender processes through to contract implementation for 2nd tier support suppliers.
• Well versed with procurement strategies and contracts within the private and public sector.
• Confident UK supplier negotiations for products, services and T&C’s.
• Successful in buying for a variety of commodities to include medical, IT, facilities, catering and stationary.
• Logistics experience planning UK driver delivery schedules and stock movements.
• Inventory knowledge gained by coordinating bin locations and stock control for Retail and Medical.
• Forecasting of stock requirements as well as revenue and sales volume targets.
• Exposure to SLA’s, T&C’s, ISO’s, Data Protection Act, Consortium's and Service Contracts.
• Positive interaction with cross-functional teams and great customer interfacing skills.

Technical Skills

• Advanced Excel
• Microsoft Access, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer and Outlook.
• Microsoft Office; 2000/2003/2007.
• Oracle Financials and Cognoss
• Ad-hoc systems and web-scraping tools.

Please review the documents below to view either Kevin or Emma's CV. You can choose between a Word format or PDF. Please be advised that our address and phone numbers have been removed from the online versions.

Emma's work experiences are varied ranging from Supply Chain to Analysis, Project and team lead roles that she has included 2 versions of her CV. One focuses more on her analysis experience whilst the other reviews her Supply Chain and Procurement history.

Both of our objectives are to secure permanent positions so that we can settle in one area and build our future. Although our professions differ slightly we both aim to make a valued contribution through continued development of our skills.

Kevin would love to hear from any recruiters looking to fill any of the following vacancies;

• IT Manager
• IT Administration
• Project Administrator
• Project Coordinator

Emma would love to hear from any recruiters looking to fill any of the following vacancies;

• Supply Chain Analyst
• Procurement Analyst
• Supply Chain Manager/Assistant Manager
• Supply Chain Coordinator
• Information's Analyst
• Business Analyst
• Pricing Analyst
• Buyer or Assistant Buyer
• Contracts Coordinator / Administrator

Kevin

Emma
Analysis

Supply Chain