About Andrew

About Me

I am a very effective and experienced clerical and administrative worker and a very skilled and experienced IT user. I am also a qualified adult tutor with a PTLLS qualification.

Honest & conscientious, with qualifications in the top 5% of my school year, I went to work, rather than college, despite being the first in my year to be accepted into one. I now possess vast experience of office/administrative work as well as some other types of work experience & skills.

I have been a civil servant, have also worked for utility companies, local authorities & in the private sector, including for multi-nationals. I have also done voluntary work as an IT Tutor, which led to me obtaining the PTLLS qualification, so that I can tutor adults. I have also been a volunteer in the Co-operative movement, in housing and worker co-ops, and most recently have been managing an online radio station, with my own weekly show and other occasional broadcasts.

Key Skills

Substantial administrative and IT user experience;

I possess excellent organisational skills and communication skills;

I am methodical, numerate and very literate, with very strong and accurate writing skills;

I excel at being a conduit or hub of information and have had newsletter/ information co-ordinator duties within some roles;

I pride myself on accuracy and getting things right, whilst also being very quick and therefore very efficient;

Qualified to tutor to adults with a PTLLS level 3 qualification;

I hold the full ECDL and Advanced ECDL in Word-processing and in Spreadsheets, Test Centre Staff (Marker) certified;

Data entry: 45-60 wpm with high accuracy. I audio type and copy type.

Web Developer using both WYSIWYG programs as well as being able to code (html).

Experience

Eleven years as a front-line civil servant plus plenty of subsequent experience in a variety of office roles;

Communicating with the general public, companies and their representatives by letter, phone, fax, email, in person;

Shop work/Reception/First Point of Contact, Online sales, including administration and logistics;

As well as MS Office products (Word, Excel, etc.), I have used Sage Accounts and Payroll and a lot of other programs;

Experience of working in teams and on my own, supervision of new/inexperienced staff and IT beginners;

Updating and maintaining computerised/manual records. Archiving and document control;

Researching, writing, editing, scanning, document formatting, proofreading;

Production of ledgers and reports, purchase control and administration, till work, turnstile operation, cash handling;

Managing meeting/conference rooms, appointments, meetings, from running/presenting them to taking minutes;

Managing an online radio station and broadcasting.

Additional Experience

Communicating Assertively course;

Security/Event Stewarding;

Parcel sorting.

List of Computer Programs/Apps I am familiar with using

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook;

Windows from 3.1 to Windows 11, some experience of Mac OS;

MS Publisher, Adobe Photoshop; Apache Open Office, Sales Force, Sage Accounts and Payroll;

Numerous web browsers;

Experience of (customised) Oracle and other database applications;

I have web authoring skills from using various WYSIWYG programs over many years, and have also qualified as an html web developer.

Skype, Slack, Zoom, Teams;

Photoshop (to CS6), Gimp, Xara3D and some other image manipulation programs, as well as creating images using AI software.

Social Media: X (Twitter), Facebook (including as Administrator/Editor), Instagram, mastodon, Bluesky and some cross-platform scheduling programs.

eBay and Ebid (also as a seller at both).

Hobbies/Interests

Music, including concert going. An interest in using computers & their applications, which has led to my managing web sites, forums, manipulating & animating images & occasional video editing, which then led to IT tutoring and then to radio station management and hosting.

The name Moran is Irish and hails from the Connacht province of Ireland, particularly County Mayo. The Moran coat of arms has three shining hexagram stars on a black shield (hence the web site colour scheme). The motto Lucent in tenebris translates as 'The light in the darkness' or 'They shine in darkness'.