Daniel Clark

Business Manager | Software Developer

Harpenden, City and District of St. Albans, Hertfordshire

About Daniel Clark:

Over the course of the last few years, I have been aspiring to become a robotic engineer, designing and creating my own innovative solutions to real-world problems. I also have experience with various programming languages such as Python and C. I used C for the majority of y hardware applications as well as using python to integrate smarter decision-making into my applications. Furthermore, I want to spearhead the industry by creating my own company that specializes in human cybernetics. To help me achieve this goal, I took my A-Level Physics last year as well as applied to the University of York. I instead started an apprenticeship in manufacturing engineering to get some real-world experience in the engineering industry. This apprenticeship also gives me the chance to create and design solutions to real-world problems and implement them. I consider this to be a very useful experience as finding solutions to problems is a big part of being an engineer.

In addition to my sufficiency in engineering, I am also skilling in business management. I have qualifications for business studies and am currently running operations for a small start-up company. I am looking to invest more time into this skill as well and enhance my abilities within this career path. I am able to draft contracts for employees, NDA, and copyright agreements for companies and contractors. I enjoy spearheading business operations as well as admin duties such as invoicing and liaising with clients.

I Essentially got into the business management business to eventually start my own company designing the robotics I have a passion for. I decided that I needed some real-world experience in running and creating a working, profitable business. The company I currently manage has been very successful and I have definitely made some very clear improvements that have helped the company turn a profit. These changes involve many skills listed above and have helped create a clientele that benefits the company. We are currently running operations all over Hertfordshire with me at the forefront of this development managing both our staff and our clients.

About me... I am a 20-year-old guitarist, musician, and engineer. I love working hard and hate sitting around doing nothing. I am exceptionally driven as well as extremely organized and punctual. I have played guitar for over 10 years and have written and performed many of my own songs. I am also an engineer and have worked on many personal projects such as creating networks between microcontrollers. I enjoy playing video games and playing sports such as basketball and football. I'm open to trying anything and love adding things to my skill set. I'm currently learning Russian and German in the hopes of being able to speak them fluently.

Experience

Business Manager

RKO Entertainment - Welwyn Garden City May 2023 to Present

Dealing with client requests. Handing the company budget and creating business plans to promote and grow the business.

Sales Assistant

GAME - Stevenage May 2022 to June 2023

Working at the till, putting out the stock, and organizing and tidying the store. Recently due to lack of managers, i have had to step up and take in more responsibilities in leading our staff within the store

Apprentice Engineer

BRE - Watford
October 2022 to May 2023

Testing fire alarm systems, including alarms, smoke detectors, etc. Using knowledge of engineering to design and fabricate calibration equipment for the testing equipment. This included creating a CAD 3D design of my own proposed piece of equipment and then figuring out a way to fabricate it. I was also often tasked with finding problems with existing equipment of the reasons behind why a piece of equipment would fail calibration.

Sales Assistant

The Works Stores Ltd - Hatfield November 2021 to June 2022

Working at the till, putting out the stock, and organizing and tidying the store.

Bar Staff

Two Willows - Welwyn Garden City April 2021 to May 2021

Worked here as a bar team member, making people's drinks and cocktails, as well as bringing them out food and drinks.

Personal Shopper

Ocado Group - Hatfield February 2021 to March 2021

Worked here for a few weeks, packing people's shopping into bags to be delivered to their house. We would pack 100+ orders an hour and be working in either chilled or frozen enviroments.

Waiter/Bar Staff

The Peking - Chinese Cuisine Takeaway - Front of House - Harpenden November 2020 to December 2020

Did a few weeks of work here before it got shut down due to covid, this included serving customers at their tables and making their drinks to be taken out at the bar. Additionally seeing to it that customers got the correct take-away orders.

Team Member

McDonald's - St Albans
September 2020 to November 2020

Was a team member at McDonald's which included making all the food, running the drive-through, and serving customers at their tables.

Lab Technician

Ocado Technology - Hatfield August 2018 to September 2018

Helped design and improve robotics for a unpatented technological system to improve the performance of the system currently inplace.

Mechanical Technician

Redbourn Auto Solutions - Redbourn April 2018 to May 2018

Did 5 days of unpaid work experience here. Fitted cars with things such as air filters, replacing brake calipers, shock absorbers, brake disks, wheels, tired, changed the oil, reset air conditioning, and much more.

Education

A-Level or equivalent in Physics

National Extension College - Cambridge

September 2021 to August 2022

Foundation degree in Software Engineering

University of Hertfordshire - Hatfield

September 2021 to May 2022

Diploma of Higher Education in Music Performance and Production

Oaklands College - Welwyn Garden City

September 2019 to June 2020

GCSE or equivalent in English Language