Toby Dussek
BEd
| Adobe Certified Instructor
Toby Dussek |
BEd
| Adobe Certified Instructor
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| With a solid background in education and technology, I deliver web development, programming and design training to advanced level, specialising in Flex, Flash Actionscript, Dreamweaver, Web Databases, Photoshop and other high-end courses. I train people to solve problems and to own the solution. My wealth of real-life experience makes for lively and responsive courses that genuinely meet people's needs. | |||
| Training in All Things Web-Shaped (Freelance) | Wide ranging advanced training in financial, pharmaceutical, business, scientific, media and military environments, on PCs Macs and Linux. |
to date
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| Inova Training Consultants | Senior Training Consultant delivering IT training and managing trainers and training projects |
to Dec 1998
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| South Bedfordshire District Council | Training and Computer Liaison Officer |
to 1995
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| British Aerospace Commercial Aircraft | Technical Computing Engineer supporting IT infrastructure and users across all disciplines. Implementing computing tools to solve project problems |
to 1993
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| Several Hertfordshire Secondary Schools | Physics and Computer Aided Engineering Teacher. Hugely successful pilot of computing in science and technology education |
to 1990
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| Flex 3, Adobe AIR, Flash and Actionscript 2 and 3 | Advanced Flex design and interactivity, plus advanced Actionscript development and Flash Remoting. Flex Builder and the Eclipse workbench, Flex Charting and Actionscript 3. |
| Dreamweaver, PHP/MySQL, Coldfusion and asp | Advanced, including web page design, database connectivity and web services |
| Flash Media Server 3.5 | Building streaming media server applciations including Flash video. |
| Macromedia Contribute and Captivate |
Design and publishing websites with. Macromedia Contribute for developers and for contributors. Plus Brilliant Captivate e-Learning creation. |
| Microsoft Visual Web Development tools | Advanced, plus site management and web database techniques. Also Sharepoint Server and Sharepoint Designer |
| Photoshop CS4 | Intermediate including web optimisation, retouching and photomontage, scanning/camera optimisation and specialist applications |
| Acrobat Professional and LiveCycle | Intermediate, with all the web development skills and experience in implementing real life solutions |
| XML, XSLT, Schema and RSS | Advanced, including intelligent transformations, Schema development, multiple publishing options and interoperability. |
| Adobe Illustrator and Freehand | Intermediate; plenty of experience training design tools in the Fashion Industry |
| AJAX and other Javascript solutions | Advanced including JSON, E4X and frameworks such as Adobe Spry |
| Search-Engine Optimisation | Excellent up-to-date SEO training from small business sites to major marketting companies. |
| Adobe Certified Instructor (Dreamweaver, Flash, Actionscript, Flex, Contribute, Captivate, Flash Media Server) |
Flex 3 with AIR exam gained Jan 2009. First qualified March 2002. Gained Certified Dreamweaver Developer Exam September 2002. Passed Advanced Applications with Actionscript assessment April 2003. Updated qualification to MX2004 December 2003. Flex Certified Instructor since April 2005. Flash 8 exam passed November 2006 |
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| University of Cambridge | BEd (Hons) Physics with Education - 1983 | |
| Cavendish School, Hemel Hempstead | A Levels in Maths, Further Maths and Physics, plus 11 O Levels - 1979 | |
| Address Mobile Home |
6 Charles Street, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, HP1 1JH |
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| I am married to Lisa and we have two girls. I'm an active Governor at the local school and I managed a local youth charity for four years. DIY, cars and computers keep me busy. Full clean UK driving license. See http://www.dussek.co.uk for latest skills update. | ||
| Freelance Training | Flexible and adaptable training delivered in a broad range of settings, including Flex training for broadcast media, pharmaceutical and financial institutions. Customizing courses to fit experience and requirements of clients. Several consulting projects implementing Flex and e-learning solutions with PHP, ASP or Coldfusion. Delivering Adobe Authorised training and developing bespoke course materials. Clients include the BBC, the Open University, Fidelity Investments, Egg, Merck, Glaxo, JP Morgan Stanley and the European Central Bank |
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| Inova Training Consultants |
Lead consultant for client projects. Technical and Training manager. Researching new software and training services. Training needs analysis.Advanced course development and flexible modular training. Delivering desktop, internet and design training programmes to advanced level. Project management of client training programmes. Providing responsive help-desk support to clients. Advising sales staff on technical and feasibility issues. |
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| South Bedfordshire District Council | Managing PC facilities for four divisions of the council. Providing responsive training and hot-line support. Specifying and implementing new equipment and software. Planning upgrades and training to suit identified business needs. Performing training needs analyses. Managing internal and external training courses. Designing and delivering regular training in Customer Care, Change Management and Team Working. | |
| British Aerospace Commercial Aircraft | Implementing Windows on PCs. Writing bespoke PC to mainframe connectivity utilities. BS 5750 quality initiatives, including process analysis for the BAe 125 jet, achieving 30% reduction in meetings. | |
| Teaching Career | Highly successful physics teaching up to Advanced Level introducing and developing a popular Computer Aided Engineering course based around computer aided engineering student projects, many of which won prizes and awards. | |