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Born: |
Andrew Philip Keeling |
| Date of Birth |
17/04/64 |
| Place of Birth |
16 Cedar Drive, Streetly, Sutton Coldfield, Staffordshire,
England |
| Schools |
Streetly Infants & Juniors, Codsall St. Nicholas, Codsall
High |
| Further Education |
Bilston College |
| Qualifications |
'O' Level - 'A' Level -
HNC Building Studies |
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Maths, Art, Chemistry, English Language, General Studies,
Technical Drawing, Physics & Human Biology |
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Other Qualifications |
RYA Coastal
Skipper - First Aid - PADI Open Water Scuba |
Employment |
The Mason Richards Partnership 1981 -1985 |
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Wolverhampton's Premier Architectural Practice |
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A multi-disciplinary practice providing a personal and comprehensive Architectural
Design service fully integrated with Landscape Architecture, Planning, Engineering and
Project Management expertise in the practice, and available throughout the UK from offices
in the West Midlands and Bristol. Whilst learning the basics of architecture, I also
attended Bilston College to study Building Studies. Working on a wide and varied range of
commercial buildings, my last two years were spent surveying public houses for Bass and
Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries and designing pub extensions and new licensed
premises for both companies. |
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Building Design Practice 1985 - 1989 |
| Wolverhampton Architects |
| Architects who designed The Merry Hill Shopping
Centre in Brierley Hill in the Midlands. I joined Building Design virtually at the
start of construction of the Merry Hill shopping centre, overseeing some of the building
works and preparing working drawings. I was promoted to being in charge of Phase III of
the centre and on completion was part of the team designing the massive Phase V of the
complex. |
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Prestoplan Homes 1989 - 1990 |
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Timber Framed Housing Company |
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Specialist Timber Frame company based in Preston in Lancashire. I joined as an Area
Manager covering the South Midlands and South Wales and was involved in the overseeing of
construction of a variety of commercial buildings. |
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Ministry of Agriculture
(ADAS) 1990 - 1992 |
| Government Agency |
| I joined the ADAS team on a contract basis to help the architectural department
working on a wide variety of projects from barns to golf courses. |
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Black Bear Public House 1990 - 1993 - part time |
| Lower Gornal Pub |
| Small pub but very busy during the early nineties when the Black Country Bus Tours
used to visit and take over the 'Bear Pit' function room. I learnt many aspects of
running a pub and eventually became bar manager |
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Castlemore
Securities Limited 1992 - 1999 |
| Property Development Company |
| Castlemore, founded in 1970, is one of Britain's leading Development Companies and has
an ambitious development and investment programme. Based in Halesowen in the Midland, it
specialises in retail and leisure developments throughout the UK, particularly over the
last ten years, and now has a portfolio of schemes under construction or with consent of
over 250 million pounds sterling. Its investment arm has a rental income of over 2 million
pounds sterling a year. I rejoined a former boss to help with the design of a range of
commercial projects including a number of retail parks. I designed the new Castlemore head
office and also spent time searching for new sites to develop. I was also responsible for
the computer network and learned HTML language and created the Castlemore web site. I also
created my own Rotaski web site and started a guide to good pubs in the UK. |
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Rotaski
1999 - |
| Wed Site Design |
| Web Site Design Company based in Lower Gornal, South Staffordshire. I set up a new
business designing web sites and expanding the pub website - The Fat Badgers Guide to Quality Inns |
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APK
Design 2001 -
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In 2001 I visited Prime Oak
Buildings in Wombourne, Staffordshire to discuss their plans for a
website. My proposals were accepted and I started work on the site. I
learned that Prime Oak were having difficulties finding a company that
could produce a brochure that they were happy with and mentioned that I
had produced brochures for Castlemore. I then designed the Prime Oak
Brochure, business cards and 'Barney' - the flying Barn Owl logo.  With
the website well underway, Prime Oak learned of my Architectural
background and I then started producing the working drawings in AutoCad
later learning to also produce 3D drawings.
With the workload expanding, Prime Oak employed further AutoCad
specialists and I set about writing a number of databases to log brochure
enquiries, suppliers, stock handling, material ordering, clients and most
importantly a quoting database. Since the end of 2002 I have been
responsible for quoting all of the website enquiries and most of the other
buildings designed by Prime Oak's team of countrywide designers. Along
with doing much of the ordering of materials, I also maintain the computer
network, organise photographs of completed projects and look after Prime Oak's advertising. I
remain self employed and continue to maintain the
Fat Badgers Guide to Good Pubs in my 'spare' ?! time and also create
websites for other companies.
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