Stacey McWilliams
Wokingham,Berkshire
Summary
Am a highly adaptable and creative professional with a strong background presence in teamwork, leadership, and customer service. Possess extensive knowledge in various fields including arcade video games, alcohol, coffee, cars and motor vehicles, and the travel industry. Skilled in media production with expertise in camera work, photo editing software, sound mixing using Adobe Audition, and content creation. Often demonstrate innovative thinking skills and proficiency with various equipment such as cameras, computers, mobile devices, and tablets. Committed to fostering connections with customers and clients through broad general knowledge and excellent communication abilities. Career goals include leveraging media research insights with constructive feedback skills to drive impactful content creation within a dynamic solo and team-based environment.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work history
Media support operator
The Story Museum, DLI - Durham Light Infrantry
Durham, County Durham
2024.11 - 2025.06
Involved in tasks that engaged visitors in digital proactive ways, supporting online engagement through social media. Shared amazing stories within museum's archives and collections that marked engagement with various online interactions through social media platforms such as X (Twitter), Facebook and Hootsuite.
Created digital content and actively promoted what has happened and what is available at DLI museum, in appropriate and sensitive manners towards different visitors. Information was shared with visitors about museum's exhibition content via learning about museum's collections and archives.
Highlights include:
- Mother's Day social media post, using museum's collection of images that reached 3,117 in views and had 175 engagements.
- Various Photographs were taken to capture and share DLI museum's latest temporary exhibition that reached 1,573 in views and 136 engagements.
Education
GCSEs - Combined Science - Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Maths, English, French and History
St Leonards Catholic School
Durham, England 09/2019 - 07/2024
Pearson BTEC Level 2 Diploma - Creative Media Skills
New College Durham
Durham 09/2024 - 06/2025
Skills
- Great with collaborating with other people (teamwork), leadership, adapt to learning new skills and ideas Have great creativity with coming up with team ideas including pitching them at team meetings or work conferences Have good broad general knowledge of many things including various arcade video games, alcohol, coffee, cars and motor vehicles, travel industry - cruise lines, airlines, reputable travel companies, country cultures Due to my broad knowledge, it becomes easier for me to interact with others helping foster connections to customers and clients This factor grants great experiences with customers acting as key benefactors for customer service At work, Can act as helpful query source for customer information
- I also can work with various equipment including cameras, computers and laptops, mobile devices and tablets I learned my camera work skills through my Media course I studied through Sept 2024 to June 2025 During my Creative Digital Media skills course I learned many key skills that includes:
- Constructive feedback
- Media research insight
- How to use printing devices
- Expanded general media knowledge
- Light, Sound (Audio), special effects including foley sounds, VFX and SFX equipment operation
- Usage of radio/podcast idents and copyright-free template sources ie Pixabay
- Script Writing software familiarity
- Photo editing software mastery
- Optimised internet search engines
- Sound mixing using Adobe Audition
- Content creation using Adobe Audition, Photoshop, Lightroom Classic
- Microphone setup
- Time efficiency and consistency
- Safety consciousness and consistent awareness
- Innovative thinking skills
Languages
English
Native
French
Fluent
German
Beginner (A1)
Spanish
Beginner
Japanese
Beginner
Portuguese
Beginner
Timeline
Media support operator
The Story Museum, DLI - Durham Light Infrantry
2024.11 - 2025.06
GCSEs - Combined Science - Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Maths, English, French and History
St Leonards Catholic School
09/2019 - 07/2024
Pearson BTEC Level 2 Diploma - Creative Media Skills
New College Durham
09/2024 - 06/2025