Introduction

For many years I've worked with challenged individuals, impeded either medically or mentally, while pursuing personal interests dedicated to communication. I have realised recently that communication, and facilitating communication, is where my passion lies. To this end I've been studying the theories of 'Semantic XHTML' to better enable understanding and parsing of content on the web.

As a passionate designer I seek to facilitate communication and interaction with data, to make that information usable to all, therein lies my devotion to standards-based, accessible design. With this in mind I seek to:

Work, as part of a team, to:
improve the accessibility of data.
facilitate the interaction with data.

I have recently completed a two-year course of study as an Operating Department Practitioner, which has further developed my skills to function as part of a team and, where appropriate, to take the lead of a situation to the best interests of the clients and service-users.

I am fully educated in the principles of data-protection, confidentiality of information and the necessity of personal integrity and honesty with regards to my clients', and employer's, best interests.

Skills

  • Fluent:
    • XHTML / HTML
    • CSS
  • Proficient:
    • PHP
    • MySQL
    • JavaScript/jQuery
  • Learning:
    • XML
    • Python

Social

I interact with these groups on-line:

Previous Employment

Aispire Consulting, Ltd.

Web Design Consultant September, 2007 → November, 2007

  • Responsible for ensuring coherent design.
  • Responsible for creating standards-aware design to increase accessibility.
  • Responsible for implementing semantic XHTML.

North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust

District Nurses' Referrals AssistantOctober, 2006 → February, 2008

  • Responsible for ensuring referals were taken in a timely, supportive, manner.
  • Responsible for ensuring accurate recording of caller's, and/or patient's, data.
  • Responsible for triaging calls, ensuring that urgent calls were responded to quickly and that the district nurses were not tied-up with non-urgent issues.

Selby and York Primary Care Trust

Interim Bank Nurse CoordinatorJune, 2006 → August, 2006

  • Responsible for supplying staff to wards, or units, to cover staffing short-falls.
  • Responsible for liaising with staff to cover the wards.
  • Responsible for accurately recording the short-falls of the various wards and units.
  • Responsible for recording staff-availability.
  • Responsible for taking enquiries from prospective employees.
  • Responsible for actioning any complaints, whether from staff I supplied or the wards/units to whom they were supplied.
  • Responsible for verifying staff time-sheets, ensuring correlation between my records and ward records.

Selby and York Primary Care Trust

Health-Care Assistant August, 2001 → October, 2006

  • Responsible for patient well-being and safety.
  • Responsible for ensuring the recording of patients' illness and symptoms.
  • Responsible for performing medical observations.
  • Responsible for accurate reporting of patients' conditions to staff nurses, charge nurses, junior doctors and consultants.
  • Resposible for encouraging patients to care for themselves, despite psychiatric impediments.
  • Resposible for assisting patients' communications with others, despite psychiatric impediments.

Education

  1. Lady Lumley's School

    Subject
    Level
    Date
    Gade
    English Language
    GCSE
    1995
    A
    English Literature
    GCSE
    1995
    A
    Business Studies
    GCSE
    1995
    A
    History
    GCSE
    1995
    A
    Mathematics
    GCSE
    1995
    B
    Science (Dual Award)
    GCSE
    1995
    B
    German Language
    GCSE
    1995
    C
    Design Technology
    GCSE
    1995
    C

  2. Lady Lumley's School

    Subject
    Level
    Date
    Grade
    English Language
    A-level
    1997
    B
    Human Biology
    A-level
    1997
    C
    General Studies
    A-level
    1997
    C
    Mathematics
    A-level
    1997
    D

  3. University of Teesside

    Subject
    Level
    Date
    Grade
    English Literature
    BA
    2001
    2:1

    Sheffield Hallam University

    Subject
    Level
    Date
    Grade
    Operating Department Practice
    DipHE
    2010
    Pending

How to contact me

David Rhys Thomas
Sheffield South Yorkshire United Kingdom
(07980) 023714