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. II
2Open University
1972 - 1981 by Correspondence
General Science based subjects BA II
1London University (External)
1965 - 1969
Physics and Chemistry BSc II
2Merton 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