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Customer Service Agent en H&M
International House, Barcelona
Barcelona,
Barcelona
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Experiencia
Customer Service Agent
H&M
abr 2018 - feb 2020
Customer Service Agent (part time), based in Barcelona for the UK market. Responsible for providing first line customer service via phone or e-mail to resolve any user issues while shopping online.
English teacher - part time
Freelance
ene 2017 - Actualmente
Teaching English to individual students in person or online.
Focusing on upper intermediate – advanced: conversation, prep for interviews, giving presentations, writing masters’ thesis etc. 
https://talkingenglishonline.com/
Founder and practicioner
Soundscape Films
ago 2014 - may 2018
Founder, Film-maker, DOP, editor, sound designer, editor y mixer for own and other film projects:
•	Sound designer, mixer & composer for the short film, 'MEDEMON', by Ricardo Dutra Alvarez, May 2018.
•	Sound designer & mixer for the feature film ‘Requiem of a Place’ (imbd) by Mikhail Chernikov, filmed in Barcelona.  Sep.- Dec 2017.
•	Sound editor & mixer for the
•	feature film, 'I Love Her' (imbd)by Darya Perelay filmed in Barcelona, March – June 2017.
•	Sound editor & mixer for the music documentary, 'Paralelo' by Yann-Marig Brézac, 15th - 24th February 2017.
•	DOP, editor for the web trailer
•	‘Mercadante, Rehder, Battaglia Trio at El Foro, Barcelona’, 14/10/2016.
•	DOP, editor for the web series ‘Beatification’. Experimental electronic music series, 2015
Demonstrator & Sales Audio Visual
John Lewis PLC
mar 2012 - jun 2015
Responsible for demonstrating & selling products and maintaining the Audio-Visual department: Audio, TV & Technology.
Instructor of Music Technology - Part time
Trinity College, Newbury, UK
may 2007 - jul 2011
Trinity School & Performing Arts College, Newbury, UK. Instructor of Music Technology - a pre degree course (A level).
Responsible for preparing of materials to syllabus guidelines and instructing 4-5 students (16-18yrs) for 6 hours per week in the complete music recording/production process, from arrangement to recording, mixing and mastering, based around Pro-Tools, analogue/digital mixers, Cubase & Logic Pro X.
Guitar & bass teacher
Freelance
ene 1990 - jul 2010
Guitar & bass teacher, Basingstoke & Reading, UK.
Taught classical, electric and bass guitar privately and in schools to individuals and small groups, ages 6-60.
Guitar teacher
Freelance
Teaching guitar & bass to individual students in person or online from beginner to advanced  – freelance, part time
https://guitarlessonsbcn.com/
Formación
CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults)
International House, Barcelona
jul 2015 - ago 2015
1 month intensive teacher training course. Grade obtained: Pass.
GCSE French
Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke, UK
sep 2002 - jul 2003
1 year GCSE French course  - Grade A.
Music for the Media Diploma
Bournemouth University, UK
sep 1998 - jun 2000
Music composition course for film & media using real world examples from previous projects.
Bachelor of music: BMus Hons (2:1)
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
sep 1994 - jun 1997
Music degree (licenciatura):
Title: ‘Practical & Academic Applications of Music’.
Including sound & recording modules.
Specialisation: composition.
Thesis: the Japanese & Western influences on the music of Toru Takemitsu.
A level music exams
Nicholas Woods - private tutor
sep 1992 - jul 1994
•	A level music - Theoretical  	B
•	A level music - Practical       	C
Associated Board of the Royal School of Music Exams
Various private tutors
sep 1992 - jul 1993
Exam                                          level          grade attained
•	ABRSM Classical Guitar	           Grade 8    merit
•	ABRSM Music Theory	           Grade 8    pass
•	ABRSM Piano	                           Grade 6    pass
•	ABRSM Viola	                           Grade 5    pass
•	ABRSM General Musicianship    Grade 5   distinction
O levels
Farnborough Sixth Form College, Farnborough, UK
sep 1978 - jul 1980
•	O level English Language 	Grade B
•	O level Maths	                        Grade C
•	O level Art	                        Grade C
Idiomas
English - Native
Spanish - Intermediate: B1-B2
Otros datos
Computer proficiency
Advanced level: Logic Pro X, Final Cut Pro X, Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel. Inkscape.
Proficient level: SAP, GSuite, Google docs/drive, Pro Tools, Cubase, Reason, Sibelius, Sony Sound Forge, Photoshop.
Other experience
Producer & Sound Mixer – Andy Raven Band ‘Live at South Street’10/2011 – 3/2012.
Recorded, mixed & produced a live record of the concert at South Street Arts Centre, Reading, UK.

Music Composer: 1997 – 2004:
•	Contemporary Dance Commissions performed internationally for:
Misnomer Dance Company and Mew Chang Tsing.
•	Compositions for string quartet, percussion, wind band, orchestra, electronics etc.

Guitarist with the Andy Raven Band – 2008-11.
Played acoustic guitars for recordings and concerts in the UK, including supporting Julie Fowlis at South Hill Arts, Bracknell, UK, 2008 & Bunkfest, festival UK, 2011.

Founder of Broadhurst Recording Studio, Basingstoke UK, 1990 -2005.
Recorded bands & artists, based around tape/Logic Pro & analogue/digital mixers.

Sound Engineer: 2008 – 2010. 
Engineered live events for: Greenpeace, Jubilee Debt Campaign & Friends of the Earth.
Voluntary work
RISC (Reading International Solidarity Centre) Developmente education: Volunteer 2004 - 2011.

Berkshire Greenpeace: Volunteer 2005 - 2011.

Jubilee Debt Campaign: Volunteer 2006 - 2011
References
Richard James
Team leader – UK market: 
H&M - Barcelona
C. Pau de Claris 194-196, 2° Planta
08037 Barcelona 
Contact:
richard.james@hm.com

Emma Meade – Flynn
CELTA course trainer
International House, Barcelona
c/Trafalgar 14
08010 Barcelona
Contact:
emmameadeflynn@yahoo.ie

Suzanne James (no relation to Richard James)
Head of Performing Arts
Trinity School & Performing Arts College
Love Lane
Shaw
Newbury
RG14 2DU
Contact:
sjames@trinity.newburyacademytrust.org