JOHN'S GLOBAL ASSIGNMENT - April 2007

Always on the look out for opportunities to mix business and pleasure, John - who works as a prt-time Validation Technician for Teradyne - writes: "...a colleague of mine sent me an email asking me if I could help produce a short 'demo' of one of Teradyne's products. It's to be used to help promote our products at conferences and suchlike - it's easier to a show a short video of one of our products rather than to take all the necessary equipment (we'd need an entire car, several laptops, and an array of bizarre electronic devices known to us 'gateways'!) to meeting rooms all over the globe.

I was very pleased to be asked to do this as it first of all allows me to put my newly acquired media skills into practice, and it also allows me to demonstrate to Teradyne that leaving them from full time work to part time work is perhaps as much worth their while as much as it is mine!

It was a very good experience as it was a taste of what 'real work' in the industry could and would be like - even though I'm a part-time employee of Teradyne, I still had to make sure I dealt with this work in a professional manner, as after all the finished product will be presented to some of the world's leading car manufacturers major bosses! Hopefully the finished edit will be a key item on my showreel, which could possibly land me more work like this in the future....

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