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Christopher John Ralph Strevens

Address and telephone number.
E_mail: nimbo@(no-Spam)ukonline.co.uk

Date of Birth:

24 October 1942

Type of Work required:

Anything relevant considered

Employment

Retired

Look after my 91-year old Mum

Learning Support Assistant

Part Time Learning Support assistant at Morden Library 4 Jan 2002 – 5 March 2003.
Help Children from 5 to 16 with their homework for 7.5 hours a week.

Dismissed after allegations made about me

Self-Employment

Aug 1999 – current: part time business at home.

Experiment to measure force on shorted loop of wire inside solenoid carrying alternating current.

Starting a home based business based on selling images and software on the World Wide Net and locally this has not been successful and I’m reducing the time and money spent on this project. Now give PC help to a local man.

Kingston University

Senior PC Support Technician, 2 Jan 1991 – 15 May 1999

Maintain PC's Hardware and Software in PC network with over 60 PC's.
Assist Students
Assist in maintenance of Local Area Network
Recommended the purchase of new equipment.
Retired because of ill health –heart attack (MI) and angina
PC algorithm for annealing of perceptron as Hebbian

Willows High School

Senior Technician, 1 Jan 1987 - 31 Aug 1990

Chemical Preparation work,
Physics Preparation Work,
Supervised two Technicians.
Recommended Purchases of new Equipment.
Made Redundant by School Closure

London Borough of Merton

Senior Technician (Peripatetic), 1 Sept 1983 - 31 Dec 1987
Chemical Preparation work,
Physics Preparation Work,

Pelham High School

Senior Technician, 1 Sept 1975 - 31 Aug 1983

Chemical Preparation work,
Supervised three Technicians.
Recommended Purchases of new Equipment.
Made Redundant by School Closure

Whitelands College

Senior Technician

Chemical preparation work.
Magnesium-Pyridine (Photosynthesis) Experiment.
Lithium Cell Experiment.

Psychiatric Treatment

1962 - 1975 Brief Information - dates uncertain. Temporary work not included

The Medical College of St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Electronics Technician, Mar 1971 - Oct 1973 (Dates Uncertain)

Electronic Maintenance and construction, X-RAY Tomograph, NMR Scanning.

Psychiatric treatment

The Radio and Space Research Laboratory

Assistant Experimental Officer, Aug 1969 - Sept 1970 (Dates Uncertain)

Electrical Testing, Satellites, Moon Landing, Viking
Cold Fusion experiment with hydrogen and palladium
Hot plasma containment experiment.

College

Psychiatric treatment

Agency Work

Computer programming work
Have recollection of building a working thermonuclear fusion reactor and was about to offer units for sale.

College

Mullard Radio Valve Company

Laboratory Technician, Sept 1964 - Aug 1965 (Dates Uncertain)

Chemical Preparation work,
Designed and built oven for semiconductor manufacture.
Suggested the FET.

Moor Reed

Laboratory Technician, Sept 1963 - Aug 1964   (Dates Uncertain)

Printed Circuit Manufacture.
Moor-Reed scan digitiser

 Treated in psychiatric hospital

The end and a new beginning.

Wrote thesis on origin of life "Chemical Evolution"

National Physical Laboratory

At about this time I did vacation work and designed and built a very simple single layer perceptron with one cell.
I also did some mathematical theoretical particle studies.

I have a recollection of marrying and passing a special degree in physics and doing a post graduate project on the velocity of light and the lorenz contraction (I tried to measure it).  Both experiments involved a turntable, sodium light and mirrors.

National Service

Private Strevens, 1962 for 6 months (dates uncertain)

Called up 1960. Deferred until 1962. Served in Far East – sent into battle then to Antarctica.

Private study

Some recollection of taking and passing a special degree in physics at London University

As a child

Made a transistor (1949)

Education

NESCOT

1999- 2000

National Diploma Photography Year 1
Photoshop 5
Dropped out due to health.

Kingston University

1991 - 1996

In - House Training
Visual Basic 5
Novell Service and Support
Novell NetWare v2.2 System Manager
AutoDesk Foundation Level 1 (AutoCAD)
Document Transfer and E-mail
Beginners Word Perfect
Further Paradox
Barefoot Engineer
Beginners Paradox
Rapid Data ACSL Short Course

Sutton Library Computer Centre

1999

Microsoft Access

Input - Output Centre

1996 - 1997

Microsoft Word 6.0
Excel 5.0
Adobe PhotoShop 3.0.

Sutton College of Liberal Arts

1995 - 1996

A level GCE Photography
Royal Society of Arts - Adobe Illustrator 4.0

Open University

1983 - 1996 by Correspondence

Mathematics and Computing BSc. II2

Open University

1972 - 1981 by Correspondence

General Science based subjects BA II1

London University (External)

1965 - 1969

Physics and Chemistry BSc II2

Merton Technical College

1963 - 1965

ONC Engineering

Skills

Novell 4.1 Administrator (6 Months) + Novell 2 & 3: 9 years
Word Processing Skills
Photoshop 5.01 operator 3 Years Home experience
Illustrator 8.0 operator 3 years Home experience
Desktop Publishing - 5 years Home Experience
PC Technician 10 years working experience
Chemist 15 years Technical experience
 

Computer programming 3 years Experience (C, BASIC) (mostly at home). 3 Months FORTRAN (at work), 3 Months Visual Basic 3 (at work), Beginner VB 5.0. HTML with notepad, FrontPage, I enjoy the hobby of Photography and use Photoshop 6 to edit my Images, awarded an LRPS as a result of my A level Photography. Also produced (using MS publisher) a club newsletter. Set up web pages for web based trading for home-based business selling photographs and software (http://www.chrisspages.co.uk).

 

Objectives

To make a contribution.

Referees

Available on Request