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Adam Lubin

Cloud Practioner, Multimedia Developer, IT Professional

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About

A dynamic and motivated professional with the educational background and proven work ethic to guide and support multimedia and web development, content creation, cloud architecture, and more across multiple sectors. Known for delivering excellent service in fast-paced environments, with the skillset to analyze complex information, manage key projects, deliver high quality results, and lead diverse individuals. Out-of-the-box thinker who is comfortable working in teams or independently to ensure solutions consistently meet or exceed business goals.

Core Competencies
  • Information Technology
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Team Leadership
  • Web Development
  • Cloud Technologies
  • IT Infrastructure
  • Content Creation
  • Multimedia Design
  • Cloud Migrations
Work Experience

October 2019 to Present

Walsall Academy
SENIOR MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPER (FULL TIME)
  • Spearhead the development, execution, and ongoing management of all multimedia related content.
  • Oversee creation and maintenance of the Academy’s website, in addition to designing and monitoring eLearning modules and online training based applications hosted on AWS on premises.
  • Handle the operation of the exiting intranet such as managing file/directory permissions and placements, while migrating some of its elements SharePoint and AWS. The intranet consists of separate drive shares for staff and students mainly containing subject and course related data.
  • Provide regular support and guidance to both staff and students regarding any IT related matters or issues including troubleshooting, updates, online training, and hardware roll-outs.
  • Outline, write, record, and edit the Academy’s Weekly Broadcast, facilitating streaming using tools such as OBS, Vimeo, and SharePoint, while managing all AV equipment needs.
  • Direct sound and lighting functions for all of the Academy’s productions and events. There are usually 5 events per year each requiring different AV setups.
  • Supervise the Junior Content Developer by assigning tasks and contributing feedback and guidance.
  • Leverage training as a Fire Marshall in order to ensure that evacuation routes are clear and check that the designated area is clear of students and staff during drills or emergency situations.

June 2020 to Present

St. Mary’s Church
LEAD LIVE STREAM OPERATOR (PART TIME)
  • Head the management, updating, and maintenance of all A/V equipment at St Mary's Church. This equipment includes a live video switcher, macro stream deck controller, radio microphones, PA amplifier and high spec laptop to manage encoding.
  • Guide and motivate small but high-performing team of six streaming technicians to facilitate church events.
  • Generate highly engaging graphics in order to prepare for and market all streamed services and events.
  • Bridge communications and align objectives with church leadership on all relevant IT related matters
  • Coordinate regular equipment maintenance needs including troubleshooting the church’s Photocopier.
  • Lead trainings on equipment and effectively convey complex concepts to non-technical audiences.

February 2015 to Present

FREELANCE WEB/VIDEO BUSINESS OWNER
BUSINESS LEAD
  • Build strong, lasting professional relationships with a portfolio of clients by actively communicating with them in order to effectively advertise their skill, business, or service using video or web content.
  • Fulfil a wide range of requests for corporate explainers, as well as music videos for up and coming artists, executing all planning, storyboarding, filming, editing, and final production of all projects.
  • Generate websites for small- and medium-sized business (SMEs) by wireframing and guiding clients throughout the full development process to increase customer satisfaction and decrease revisions.
  • Leverage skills in search engine optimization (SEO) and graphic design to create highly engaging websites, increase search traffic, and drive overall engagement to meet client objectives.

June 2014 to Present

NEC Group (OCS Security)
SECURITY RESPONSE OFFICER/SECURITY TEAM LEADER (PART TIME)
  • Serve as a security team leader or as a security response officer for high risk events including ones for the Department of Trade, Political Party Conferences, and the Commonwealth Games.
  • Contribute support and security for over 100 events per year with tens of thousands of participants.
  • Guide and direct a security response team to respond to incidents such as physical altercations, criminal damage, trespassing, medical emergencies, suspicious behaviour, and hostile reconnaissance.
  • Verify strict compliance at all times with established health and safety regulations varying by venue.
  • Head thorough security checks of people, bags, and in rare cases vehicles, in addition to managing customer concerns, questions, or complaints while providing superior service.

October 2018 to October 2019

Auramier
WEB/ELEARNING DEVELOPER/IT LEAD
  • Composed business tenders for potential website and web applications, in addition to spearheading the development of modern and engaging websites using frameworks such as WordPress, Laravel, and Vue.
  • Orchestrated the IT infrastructure and services of the business including staging and live web environments, account creation, staff support, and the PBX phone system
  • Designed interactive eLearning content using tools such as Adobe Captivate, After Effects and Premiere Pro, and generated Web based eLearning content using Learn Dash and LearnPress.
  • Take ownership of production of all video and audio content for websites and eLearning platforms.
Education

2015 - 2018

Bachelors Degree
BSc (Hons) Multimedia Computing

Coventry University

  • Understand software techniques and technologies.
  • Master the principles of technical art, exploring animation, VFX, modelling, and motion graphics.
  • Become a professional full-stack web developer, able to generate a user-focused front-end and a technologically sound back-end, to any online project.

2013 - 2015

Further Education
A Levles

Q3 Academy

  • Photography: A
  • ICT: B
  • Sociology: B

2013 - 2015

Compulsory Education
GCSE

Q3 Academy

  • 14 GCSE’s A* - C
  • English: A
  • Maths: B
Certifications

Valid From 2022 - 2025

COMPTIA
A+ Certified

IT Technician

This certification covers a broad range of topics suitable first and second line IT support. These include, hardware connectivity, operating systems, mobile device configuration, virtualisation and cloud, system security, and troubleshooting.

Lifetime Validity

LPI
Linux Essentials

Linux Administration

This certification served as a high level entry to Linux administration. It covered the BASH shell in great depth, by highlighting areas such as; extracting data from files, scripting, managing the operating system using commands, network configuration, user access and security, file structure and Linux distributions.

Valid From 2022 - 2025

AWS
AWS Cloud Practioner

Certfied Practioner

This certification validates the understanding of value added by the cloud as well as the AWS shared responsibility model. More technical areas are also covered such as security groups and best practices, compute methods, networking, databases and storage. It also serves to provide an understanding of economics, cloud costs and billing practices.

Valid From 2020 - 2023

Adobe
Adobe Certificate in Visual Communication Using Adobe Photoshop

Associate

This certificate aimed to validate skills in Adobe Photoshop for professional image design. These skills are, layer building, working non-destructively, identifying supported image formats, typography, smart objects, brushes, and exporting.

Valid From 2020 - 2023

Adobe
Adobe Certificate in Video Communication Using Adobe Premiere

Associate

This certificate aimed to validate my skills in Adobe Premiere for professional video production. These skills are, workflow management, working with metadata, identifying supported native formats, plugins, editing, encoding, handling assets and composition.

Non-Technical
Additional Licences & Certifications

Full UK driving Licence

SIA Door Supervision Licence

First Aid At Work

Level 2 Spector Safety Qualification

Projects
Cloud Resume Challenge: Led a multi-step resume project which helped build and demonstrate skills which are fundamental to pursuing a career as a cloud engineer using tools incluiding AWS SAM, Lamda, Dynamo DB, S3, Cloudformation, API’s, Github, Cloudfront and Route 53. (Click Here)

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: Leveraged knowledge of Microsoft Azure with Terraform to deploy infrastructure as code. (Click Here)

Python Mini Games: Exhibited understanding of Python through the use of functions, variables, imports and conditions. (Click Here)

WordPress on an Azure VM: Garnered thorough knowledge of Azure VMs, and how to deploy web frameworks within the CLI. (Click Here)

Creating Multi-container Applications Using Docker: This project demonstrates an understanding of Docker and its use for creating and deploying multi-container applications. This also significantly expanded my knowledge of Node.js and containerisation. (Click Here)

RAID 5 Configuration: Oversaw a home lab project used to build on knowledge gained from the Comptia A+ Certification. (Click Here)

Deploying Proxmox within a Home Lab: Developed a lab project to build on knowledge of virtualisation and create virtual machines and containers using hypervisor Proxmox. (Click Here)

Deploying Plex on Ubuntu Server: Built a media streaming service deploying a self-hosted server to store content using a Linux virtual machine created within the Proxmox environment, allowing users to stream to another device. (Click Here)
Technical Proficiencies
AWS: IAM, S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, Dynamo DB, AWS SAM, CloudFormation, API Gateway, Route 53, CloudFront, ACM, Lightsail, Trusted Advisor & VPC.

Microsoft Azure: Azure Instance & Azure Functions.

Coding/Scripting and Mark-up: Python, Node.js, PHP, YAML & BASH.

Cloud Specific: Terraform, Docker, Serverless, GitHub/GitHub Actions/Workflows, IaaS, PaaS, Hybrid Systems & CI/CD.

Other: WordPress, Adobe Creative Cloud, CPanel, Auto Desk, Net Support, 3CX, SharePoint/Office 365, Laravel & React.

Learning: Kubernetes & PowerShell
Awards & Honours

Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award, 2015

National Citizenship Award as part of the NCS programme, 2012

Bivouac SAS survival Training Award