Company Manager

R SUM

Personal Details

Name:

Alex Fisher

Residential Address:

* ***** ******, ******** *** 4305

Telephone:

Home ** **** ****

Mobile: 04 2936 9029

E-mail:

*****@*********.**.***

Website:

http://users.on.net/~settantta/

http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom (Maintainer via SSH2/CVS)

Licenses Held:

Senior First Aid Certificate (QAS)

Open Car & Motorcycle license,

Taxi Driver's Authority

Fork lift operator's ticket

Skid-steer loader (Bobcat) certificate

Chainsaw Level 1 Certificate (Forestry).

Workplace Health and Safety induction.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

September 2006 to Current.

Company: Paradise Food Industries Pty Ltd

Position: Cleaner.

Duties:

Cleaning the mixing room.

General cleaning as required.

Operation and maintenance of floor scrubber.

Operation of fork lift.

7 March 2006 to 15 August 2006

Company: The Pickwick Group

Position: Cleaner

Duties:

Cleaning of toilets and other rooms at the University of Queensland Medical School,

Herston.

Reason for leaving:

Dispute over the supply of incorrect and adulterated cleaning materials and lack of regard

for OH&S procedures and standards.

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July 2005 to 7 March 2006

Company: Co-ordinating Organization for the Disabled in Ipswich (C.O.D.I)

Company's Business: Community Transport

Position: Bus Driver

Duties:

Transportation of non-urgent medical patients on behalf of Home and Community Care

(HACC) and Queensland Ambulance Service.

March 16th 2005 to April 6th 2005

Company: Brisbane Transport (Brisbane City Council buses)

Position: Trainee Bus Operator

Duties:

Learn to drive bus.

Learn to operate ticketing equipment

Learn Workplace H&S procedures

Reason for leaving: Failed Queensland Transport MR license test, so unable to continue

training.

December 2000 to July 2005

Company: Yellow Cabs, Ipswich and Brisbane

Position:Casual Taxi Driver.

Duties:

Operating a taxi occasionally (very rarely in fact).

January 2000 to June 2000

Company: Yellow Cabs, Toowoomba.

Position:Casual Taxi Driver.

Duties:

Operating a regular taxi one night per week.

Operating a wheelchair accessible taxi other four days per week.

1995 to Sept. 1998

Company: Garden City Cabs, Toowoomba.

Position: Casual taxi driver

Duties:

Operating a wheelchair accessible taxi.

Feb. 96 to Aug. 96

Company: Gemcrest North Pty Ltd, 17 Mile Road Helidon. Phone (07) 4697 6033.

Position: Assistant Manager under New Work Opportunities programme.

Duties: Daily running of a sandstone quarry.

Supervision of staff.

Allocation of work and resources.

Liaison with Brisbane office.

Ordering materials.

Attending to clients.

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January 1983 to June 1989

Company: Sanitarium Health Food Company, Freeman's Drive Cooranbong

Position: various: Process Worker, Leading hand, Silo Assistant, Brew Maker, Cleaner, Grounds Staff.

Duties:

Manufacturing and packing Weet Bix .

Supervision of cartoning and despatch section.

Various duties in running and cleaning the silos.

Mixing the syrups for cooking the wheat, corn and rice for Sanitarium's breakfast cereal

lines.

General cleaning duties.

Special shut-down clean-up on Friday afternoon

SUMMARY OF ACQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Supervisory & Administrative Skills.

Negotiation and Conflict resolution skills.

Effective research and time management skills.

Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.

Instructional skills, gained through my duties in the NSW SES.

Extensive computer skills:

Operating systems from MS-DOS 3.3 to Windows 98, Linux/UNIX and some VMS.

Office software, including WordStar, WordPerfect and MS Office. I currently use OpenOffice.org

2.0.1.

Am able to build, install and troubleshoot computers and other electronic equipment.

Most of my skills have been acquired through experience, and consequently I have very few

certificates or other formal qualifications.

Also assisting the promotion and marketing of OpenOffice.org (the Application).

Currently co-leader of Open Source project to create a standard CD-ROM for OpenOffice.org

distribution. The project currently involves approximately 20 volunteers in at least 10 different

countries world-wide.

Computer-Specific Skills and knowledge.

Operating Systems:

DOS

Windows 3.1 to 98 advanced skills, Me and above, intermediate skills

Linux Expert.

Software:

Office Suites:

Microsoft Office Advanced Skills

WordPerfect Intermediate

StarOffice/OpenOffice.org expert. (currently involved with creating the CD-ROM for

distribution).

Internet.

Netscape/Mozilla

Various HTML editors and web design software.

CVS and SSH

Administration:

Currently operate and administer a small home LAN, primarily Linux-based, using a combination of

command-line, graphical and web-based tools.

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Lead and administer the OpenOffice.org CD-ROM sub-project. Duties include moderating a mailing list,

maintenance of a web page, use of CVS via SSH2 and design and maintenance of the standard ISO image

for the OpenOffice.org CD-ROM

Hardware.

I have only once purchased a complete, pre-built computer. Even then, there was no pre-installed

software supplied, I installed the operating systems and other software myself.

All other machines I own have been built from components by myself.

Other relevant skills

Extremely competent in all aspects of electronic assembly. Expert with soldering iron. Previous

employment includes several electronic assembly position.

PAST COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS

NSW State Emergency Services, 10 years to 1989.

Duties included induction and training members of the Communications team.

Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol, Sydney.

Duties involved standing watch on radio, and co-ordinating search and rescue operations.

Interests

Using computers.

Electronics.

Photography.

Sailing.

Psychology and counselling.

Playing musical instruments.

Working with disabled people.

EDUCATION

Tertiary.

1994 University of New England. B.A., External.

1990 University of Newcastle. B.A., Second Year.

1989 University of Newcastle. B.A., First Year.

Technical

North Sydney College of TAFE.

Certificate of Engineering, (Electronics) Stage 1 & 2.

Toowoomba College of TAFE.

Certificate III in Information Technology (PC Support). (10 modules).

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REFEREES.

George Rant

6 Tessman Street

Riverview.

Phone: 04 1254 3046

Relationship: Work Colleague.

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