My Curriculum Vitae

I have put my curriculum vitae / resume into six separate sections, which hopefully will make the information a little bit more manageable. Clicking on each heading will take you automatically to the relevant section. They are as follows:

	Facts and Figures Education / Qualifications Work History Abroad Work History In The UK Computer Skills Other Interests

Essential Facts and Figures

•	Full Name	Charles Henry Marshall
•	Nationality	British
•	Date of Birth	20th August 1962
•	Gender	Male
•	Marital Status	Single
•	Available For Work	At two month's notice

Education and Qualifications

2002 - 2003	The Language Project: Trinity Diploma in TESOL This ten week training course involved both teaching practice and a huge amount of reading. Topics covered included "Phonology", "Language Analysis", "The Four Skills", "Syllabus Design", "World English" and "Discourse".
2002	UK-IT Training: CIW Course Attaining this certification involved both practical training on site and home-based study for the CIW series of three computer assessed exams in "Internet Foundations", "Site Design" and "E-commerce".
2001	UK-IT Training: ECDL Course Successfully passed this internationally recognized series of 7 exams including Windows OS, Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, E-mail and Internet.
2001	VST Webmaster Course. Successfully completed this nationally recognized home-study course. Assessment was based on a mock website I constructed for a fictional company. Grade awarded: Distinction.
1991	Bell School Cambridge: RSA English teaching certificate. Course involved both theory and practice of teaching English as a foreign language to adults. Attained a Grade B pass.
1990	Tunbridge Wells Red Cross Centre: First Aid Course Learned both theory and practice of providing First Aid.
1980 - 1983	University of Sussex: BSc Honours in Physics Course involved a large practical element and a brief introduction to computing using the "Apple 2".
1978 - 1980	Hurstpierpoint College Sussex: A-levels Obtained A-level passes in three subjects: Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.
1976 - 1978	Hurstpierpoint College Sussex: O-levels Obtained O-Level passes in 10 subjects including English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Geography and French.

Work History In Greece and Japan

1999 - 2001	NK Management Center, Fukuyama, Japan I worked as an English instructor responsible for in-house language and business training of employees of NKK, a large steel manufacturer. Duties also included some proofreading of technical documents and the planning and teaching of tailor-made intensive training courses.
1997 - 1999	Britannica English Village, Matsuyama, Japan I worked as an English teacher and was responsible for preparing and teaching conversation classes to adult groups. Work also included producing supplementary written teaching materials and introducing students to the use of e-mail and the World Wide Web.
1996 - 1997	Kensington English School, Gifu-City, Japan I worked as an English instructor, teaching both children's and adult classes. I was expected to produce my own written and recorded materials to supplement material from textbooks.
1995 - 1996	Z and G Zacharopoulos ELT Publications, Athens, Greece Co-wrote, recorded and mixed original listening practice test cassettes for Cambridge First Certificate exam. Over 10,000 copies have been sold of the book itself (Are You Listening?).
1992 - 1996	The Margaritis Institute, Volos, Greece I shared responsibility for teaching and testing intermediate and advanced classes of teenagers in intensive training for the Cambridge "First Certificate" and "Proficiency" exams.
1991 - 1992	Helen Apostolou School Of English, Domokos, Greece My first teaching job, in a relatively remote part of Greece, where I was the first native English teacher to hold the post. Work required a lot of improvization and writing of supplementary teaching material.

Work History In The United Kingdom

1989 - 1991	Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells, UK I worked as a "night porter", which as well as "carrying things", also involved some room service, bar work, cleaning, preparing of light meals, reception duties, conference and banquet preparations and more besides.
1988 - 1989	Street Musician; various locations I played accordion (and sometimes sang and danced) in high streets all over Britain and Europe, earning enough to sustain myself for almost a year.

Computer Applications That I Know

Office Tools	Word 95/97/2000/XP	I used the Japanese version of Word 95 while working in Fukuyama. I have used English versions of others.
	Excel 2000 / XP	I learned this as part of the ECDL course
	Powerpoint 2000 / XP	Studied on ECDL course
	Access 2000 / XP	Studied on ECDL course

Web Authoring	Dreamweaver 4	Studied and became conversant during CIW Site Designer course.
	Front Page 2000	Studied during CIW course
	Allaire Home Site	Studied during CIW course and later used on my own sites
	Notepad	My preferred HTML editing tool

Image Editing	Photoshop 5/6	Over 4 years experience. For examples, see my photo retouching page
	JASC Paint Shop Pro	Studied during CIW course
	Adobe Photo Delux	Over 3 years experience

Other Achievements and Interests

Languages	Japanese I attended weekly classes for two years and learned enough to handle basic general conversation and write and read simple text. French I studied for seven years at school and can still cope with basic conversation.
Cycling	Toured various areas of Greece including Pelion, Evioa and Crete. While in Japan I cycled (and walked) to the top of Mt. Fuji and explored the smaller mountains around Matsuyama and Fukuyama where I was living.
Painting	While in Greece, I painted and sold signs (and did some other design work) for restaurants, bars and hotels. I also painted scenery for (and appeared in) English-teaching theatrical productions. To see photos of some of them, click here.