Andrew Hill CV
Introduction
A sort of potted history is featured here - a more traditional
document is available on request. Whilst I do very much enjoy
my present employment I am sure I can do better so interesting
offers welcome!.
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St Albans School
I left St Albans School for Boys in 1970 with
10 O levels and 3 A levels in Pure Maths, Applied Maths and
Physics. After a year at St Andrews University studying Pure
Mathematics and Statistics the urge to earn money was great
and I joined Scottish Equitable Mutual Life Assurance Society
as a clerk in their Accounts Computer department in St Andrews
Square, Edinburgh.
I had previously worked during summer vacations
in 1969 and 1970 at Sun Life Assurance Society in Cheapside,
London in their Group pensions department.
Stenhouse Fund Management
In March 1974 I joined Stenhouse Fund Management
in York Place, Edinburgh as a Pensions Administrator, getting
my first experience at dealing direct with clients and handling
a wide range of enquiries and calculations of benefits for
scheme members and providing actuarial advice to trustees.
British Waterways Board
Moving to Hertfordshire in June 1976, I was
appointed Personnel Officer (Pensions) at the British Waterways
Board and totally revised all their complicated pension arrangements,
working closely with both the unions and the Board and achieving,
against initial predictions, a massive majority vote by employees
in favour of the new changes. This had involved redesigning
the benefit structure, liaison with actuaries and investment
managers and intense negotiations with the Superannuation
Funds Office and the Occupational Pensions Board during a
period of constant change in regulations in the industry.
A highlight of this work was a Pensions Roadshow, lasting
several months, in which I toured practically every BWB site
across England and presented the new plans at venues large
and small.
Leslie & Godwin
Leslie & Godwin, international brokers
and one of the largest pensions consultancies in the UK, approached
British Waterways Board and I was transferred to their employment
as a Pensions Manager, where I completed the BWB transition
then moved on to take on similar tasks for a portfolio of
clients including The National Trust, The Royal Society of
Chemistry, The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and many
more, including a considerable amount of work for a substantial
company being taken over by Vickers. In 1978 a director of
Leslie & Godwin resigned when the firm was taken over
by an American outfit and asked me to join him as a director
of Estridge & Ropner. In October 1978 I accepted this
offer and set up a new pensions consultancy office in Newbury,
Berkshire and also ran their London operation.
Estridge & Ropner
In 1978 a director of Leslie & Godwin
resigned when the firm was taken over by an American outfit
and asked me to join him as a director of Estridge & Ropner.
In October 1978 I accepted this offer and set up a new pensions
consultancy office in Newbury, Berkshire and also ran their
London operation.
Osprey Associates
Several clients followed me from Leslie &
Godwin and supported me again when I set up a new consultancy,
Osprey Associates, with three colleagues. My Newbury staff
also joined Osprey at new offices in the town and we built
up a highly successful group of companies offering a range
of business consultancy services, specialising in pensions
consultancy and new business development. We developed a number
of innovative products and services in these fields and expanded
so that by the 1980s we had interests internationally.
Andrew Hill.International
Several crucial clients were badly affected
by the severe downturn in the economic climate in the UK and
the disastrous activities of an American broker appointed
to manage a substantial portion of our funds resulted in our
splitting the group and each of the initial founders of the
Osprey group pursued individual sections independently. I
chose to reduce my involvement to a few small selected clients
and to spend more time developing other interests, including
writing and design work.
In 1990 I was taken on by the Rosemary Bromley
Literary Agency with a view to publishing my first novel,
The American Broker, based on the events I had experienced.
Just as figures were being mentioned and a final edit was
taking shape Robert Maxwell fell off his boat and an already
tight market for new authors appeared not to have room for
my story which simply could not compete with the big news
at that time. I continued with consultancy and administrative
services for a Sri Lankan client and hoped the market for
new authors would pick up one day.
Dunstable College (now central Bedfordshire
College)
By 1994 I needed some more reliable income
and joined Dunstable College, initially on a part-time basis,
and began teaching in early 1995. Finding that I thoroughly
enjoyed this new activity and that I could put my knowledge
and experience to good effect, I soon had a very full timetable
of IT and Business Studies training.
Since 1996 I have delivered a wide range of
courses and in that year I began to run the Staff Development
programme for IT training too. In the absence of a good, modern
IT course being available I designed the IT2000 series of
units which covered all the aspects of IT training that I
believed businesses and home users needed, and which were
not being catered for by any existing courses offered. This
course was validated by the Open College Network at levels
1, 2 and 3 in 1998 and has run ever since. It was particularly
well-received at Vauxhall Motors where I delivered Staff IT
training until 2001.
I have been an elected member of the College's
Academic Board since 1996 and contribute actively to a wide
range of developments. Recent highlights include the introduction
of support for a better and more effective learning environment
in my role as ILT Co-ordinator, the drafting and validation
of a new Foundation Degree in Business for overseas students
and as a founding member of the Eastern Region E-learning
Forum.
LSN Associate
In November 2002 I was appointed as LSDA Regional
E-learning Co-ordinator on a part-time secondment basis and
I am now working to help other colleges in the region benefit
from access to and use of the wide range of resources and
materials becoming available to enhance the teaching and learning
environment for students.
My role at LSDA has expanded in September
2004. This included interpreting data from NLN surveys in
previous years to try and establish changes in individual
perceptions of e-learning development. More interesting was
the development of a Maturity Model and Self-assessment tool
by which institutions, departments or individuals could assess
where they stand in relation to the published e-learning standards.
Since September 2005 I have been contributing to the development
of a professional development framework, designed to provide
all staff with the means to develop a portfolio of evidence,
hopefully to be validated as a national qualification to support
their e-learning practice.
LSDA became LSN in 2006 and in a world of
an ever-diminishing number of expert advisors funded by this
type of organisation I was fortunate to be retained for a
further year, helping to plan and deliver at events concerning
e-learning and Continuing professional Development. These
included the very well-received e-tools events help across
the country. From 1 April 2007 LSN term me an Associate -
I await to see what that entails!
Education consultant
From November 2006 to April 2011 I worked
closely with Colin Tennant and Associates, initially to create
their new web sites and more recently to assist in the promotion
and design of their new Cambridge Institute of Dog Behaviour
& Training degree course, launched in March 2007. Accredited
by Middlesex University, this attracted several hundred enquiries
and led to the enrolment of over 200 students on their BA
and Foundation degree modules.
Middlesex University
I gained an MA at Middlesex University in
July 2011 and have been working as a Programme Advisor and
Associate Lecturer with their Work Based Learning department
since April 2010 and have created a forum on-line for colleagues
to share views and materials. I also assess students work
on a range of modules including Recognition of Aquired Learning,
Programme Planng and Project Management.
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