31 Moorfield Road
ORPINGTON
Kent
BR6 0HG
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1689 602882
+44 (0)7865 256130
E-mail: david@linguascan.co.uk
Date of Birth: 17 November 1972
Nationality: British (English)
David A. Ring BSc (Hons) MSc
Personal Profile An enthusiastic, self-motivated freelance proofreader, copy editor and
translator, working from a fully equipped home office. Takes pride in taking
a professional and conscientious approach to every job, thereby delivering
the best possible results and achieving the utmost customer satisfaction.
Proficient in both fiction and non-fiction, hardcopy and online documents.
Particular subjects of expertise include geology, geography, environment,
chemistry, languages, travel, cookery and computing.
Education
1994 – 1995
University of Leeds
MSc Geochemistry
1991 - 1994
University College London (UCL)
BSc (Hons) Geology
1984 – 1991
Bexley/Erith Technical High School
3 ‘A’-Levels, 1 ‘AS’-Level and 9 GCSE passes
Professional
experience
March – December 2004
Whereonearth.com Ltd
Leeds, UK
London, UK
Kent, UK
London, UK
Geographical Data Researcher
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Research of geographical and mapping data for the development of the
company’s digital mapping applications
 Translation and editing of data, documents and correspondence between
various languages
 Maintenance and quality control of the company’s existing databases using
MapInfo, SQL, Excel and Access
Sept 2003 – Feb 2004 DPTS Ltd
Kent, UK
Well Data Administrator (temporary)
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Digitisation of geological and geophysical well logs for external clients
June to August 2003
Venture Information Management Ltd
London, UK
Geotechnical Specialist (temporary)
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Responsible for co-ordinating the installation, upgrade and maintenance of
geoscience and engineering applications on-site at Petro-Canada, dealing with
licensing issues, and subsequent report writing.
September 2002 to March 2003 Schlumberger GeoQuest
Aberdeen / Surrey
Geoscience Data Manager
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Administration and loading of geoscience data into corporate databases.
Unix and SQL scripting
Basic Unix support to the geoscience community
2002 (Feb – Aug) Mobil North Sea Ltd
Aberdeen, UK
Geoscience Data Technician (6 months temp)
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Large-scale geoscience database clean-up project
Database maintenance of OpenWorks, Recall, UDB and Geoframe
Basic Unix administration
2002 (Jan – Feb) Imperial Cancer Research Fund
London, UK
Web Designer (6 weeks temp)
Part of a team designing new Internet and Intranet sites for the merger with the
Cancer Research Fund. Designing pages in Dreamweaver Ultradev, web graphics
in Photoshop and populating the site using Mediasurface content management
system.
Jan 2001 – Dec 2001
Period of illness followed by various short-term temporary positions including a
3-week temporary web design position in Marbella, Spain.
2000 (Feb – Dec) PGS Data Management UK Ltd
Aberdeen, UK
Geoscience Data Administrator (at the offices of Kerr-McGee Ltd)
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Daily administration of geoscientific data, both digital and hardcopy
Maintenance of geoscience databases including OpenWorks and Terrastation
Web design and development for the company intranet
1998 - 1999
SEMA Group UK Ltd
Aberdeen, UK
Geodata Specialist (at the offices of Conoco UK Ltd)
Performing a key role providing user application support and database
administration within the geoscience community
 Well and seismic data cataloguing.
 Landmark and Geoquest applications support, including OpenWorks,
SeisWorks, Zmap+ and Finder.
 Reformatting and loading of seismic and well data
 Training end users in the use of applications
 Configuration of geoscience applications within the UNIX environment
 UNIX workstation support and disk space management (Sun / Solaris)
 Basic UNIX scripting (including ‘sed’ and ‘awk’)
 database administration using SQL
 Writing procedures for data management tasks.
1998 (March – June) Golder Associates (UK) Ltd
Maidenhead, UK
Environmental Engineer
 Responsible for writing geological reports and borehole logs on project
areas, and developing and maintaining the company’s own borehole database.
 Borehole logging and soil sampling in the field.
 Responsible for translating reports and acting as an interpreter for two
projects in France and Spain.
1997 – 1998
Voelcker Science Ltd
London, UK
Environmental Geochemist
 Geochemical analysis of soils, rocks, water and other environmental
samples by a variety of instrumental and wet chemical techniques.
 Soil sampling and gas monitoring in the field.
 Responsible for writing methods for analytical and quality control procedures
within the laboratory.
Skills
Languages
Interests and
activities
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Good IT skills with experience in OfficeXP (Word, Excel, Access,
PowerPoint) and the Oracle database system.
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A good working knowledge of UNIX and SQL
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Good working knowledge of MapInfo v7 together with a thorough
knowledge of world geography
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Experience in geoscience applications including OpenWorks, Finder,
Geolog, Geoframe, Recall, UDB, Compass, Petroview, LogAxxses,
OpenRSO, Autolib, Terrastation, along with a thorough understanding of
the life-cycle of well and seismic data
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Web design skills, including HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Dreamweaver,
Frontpage, Fireworks, Flash (including Actionscript), Photoshop, and
basic CGI scripting (in Perl), ASP, PHP4 and XML.
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Good communication skills with good experience in giving presentations.
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Good spoken Spanish, French and German and Dutch
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Good knowledge of Welsh, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Catalan,
Russian, Portuguese and Romanian. Basic Korean and Malay.
Cookery, reading, music, gardening, cycling, running, hillwalking, languages,
travel and computers.