Curriculum Vitae

Jon Stephen Kay
16 Dickens Walk
Greenham
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 7UQ
Telephone: +44(0)1635 45478
Mobile: +44(0)778 776 7880
E-mail: jonkay@vtmail.com
Date of Birth: 1st October 1966
Status: Single

EDUCATION
Ecole Active Bilangue, Paris 1977 – 1981
Gorleston Grammer School, Norfolk 1981 – 1983
East Norfolk Sixth Form College, Norfolk 1983 – 1985

QUALIFICATIONS
8 ‘O’ levels
4 ‘A’ levels
City & Guilds: Design Draughting
                         Precision Engineering
                         AutoCAD R14
Training in Autodesk Inventor (5.3)
Microsoft Word & Excel
Construction skills certification scheme

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

September 2004 – Present: Advance Fabrications Ltd, Headley, Berkshire
Workshop Foreman
Team leading a workshop of 12 steel fabricators
Metalwork and structural steel fabricating

Dec 2000 – August 2004: Boundary Metal Ltd, Newbury, Berkshire.
Design Draughtsman
Involved in the design of high quality architectural metalwork.
Using the latest Autodesk Inventor 3D parametric modelling software.
Client presentations, site surveys, supervising installations.

June 1997 – Dec 2000: JSK Engineering Services, Newbury, Berkshire
Self employed
Offering draughting and estimating services to numerous clients across the South of England.
Site installations and surveying.

April 1991 – May 1997: Advance Fabrications Ltd, Headley, Berkshire
Drawing Office Manager
Running a small design team, implementing AutoCAD.
Design & detailing steel frames, staircases, balustrades
Steel erecting, site surveying, estimating and buying.

June 1987 – April 1991: RTW Ltd, Newbury, Berkshire
Draughtsman
Preparing layout & detail drawings of large steel structures for manufacture and installation.
Client meetings, Bill of Quantity preparations.

Sept 1985 – May 1987: Global Enterprises Ltd, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Apprentice draughtsman / machinist.
Detailing of wireline tools for manufacture in the North Sea oil exploration industry.
Stock control, apprentice learning precision milling and turning.
Chauffeur.

INTERESTS
Travelling, in particular Eastern Europe.
Architecture, photography.
Rugby and cycling.