Gideon Goldberg

16 Churchfield Ave, 1Gideon Goldberg London, N12 0NT Email: [email protected] Mobile: 07906 611998

 Experience working both on websites and client-side software

 Excellent communication skills explaining issues to developers and users 1Education

2September 2004- University College Falmouth June 2007 BA (Hons) Broadcasting 1st Class Degree Studying broadcast theory and practice. My final documentary on the Jewish community in Cornwall was serialised for broadcast on BBC Radio Cornwall. Presented with a Sorrell Award for an outstanding contribution to Media at Falmouth. 3February – June Universidad Europea de Madrid 2006 Comunicación Audiovisual Audio-Visual Course taught in Spanish on Erasmus Programme, gaining particular knowledge of academic and technical vocabulary. 42002-2004 Woodhouse College AS/A Levels Computing (AS) B, English Literature, A, History A, Music Technology B 51997-2002 Compton School GCSEs 9 GCSEs A-C, Including English and Maths 1IT Work

6May 2008 BBC Ouch! Web Assistant Maintaining disability magazine site using hand-coded HTML. QA testing on new CMS. Editorial contributions to site blog, messageboard and writing article promos. Shooting, editing and encoding video for YouTube and BBC EMP. Updating site presence across social media sites Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. 7July 2007 – Xara Group Ltd May 2008 Customer Support Assistant Providing technical support via phone and email to customers, supporting the company’s range of graphics software. Verifying and reporting customers’ technical problems to developers, created testcases for bugs. Carried out and documented comprehensive regression tests, which were carried out prior to each release. 8October 2006 – IT Support June 2007 University College Falmouth Providing part-time support to users of the university IT Suite, leasing with university staff regarding current problems, logging students' IT issues. May 2005 – Documentation and Testing February 2007 Mozilla Foundation Contributed documentation to the Mozilla Firefox software. Involved filing bug reports, following a coding and language style, creating patches against CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) and responding to peer review before the documentation was included with the product. 9June 2003 - IT Support/consultancy present Berrys Garden Company Trouble-shooting technical problems on client's PCs, set up Local Area Network, implemented automated backup system to NAS device. 1Community Work

10March 2005 – Student Ambassador March 2007 Aimhigher Peninsular Programme Attending schools working with young people to improve their aspirations in education. Gave a speech to a Connexions Conference about barriers to higher education for people with disabilities. 11July – August Youth Leader 2004 & 2005 RSY Netzer Planned, assisted with and lead programs for teenagers on a two week Summer Camp, working as part of a large team. In 2005 taught leadership skills to new volunteers working on the camp. 1Awards & Achievements

122006 Completed AVE Cervantes Spanish Course. After studying in Spain I have maintained a keen interest in Hispanic Culture and music (see my last.fm profile!) 132006 Developed BBC Radio 'on air' Microsummaries for Firefox 2, as featured on backstage.bbc.co.uk. 142004 Millennium Volunteer award for more than 100 hours volunteer work. 1References

Damon Rose Bhavesh Bhavan, Senior Producer, Technical Support Manager BBC Ouch, Xara Group Ltd BBC Media Centre Gaddesden Place 201 Wood Lane, White City Hemel Hempstead W12 7TQ HP2 6EX Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]