Tony Dalton

I am currently a self employed Photographer based in Belfast and who specialises in creative framed wall art.

My main portfolio of work includes landscape, wildlife and specialist event photography. I have built a sizeable catalogue of work that I supply directly to customers or retailers as themed wall art, mainly as framed prints, prints and also other substrates such as aluminium, acrylic and diabond.

All framed and printed work is produced directly from my studio that includes my own fully functional framing shop.

Initially this was a part time small business beginning in 2005 and aside to my normal full time employment.

After taking voluntary redundancy from my previous employment during the covid lockdown period of 2020 my part time photography role became a full time business.

My role as Training Operations Manager included managing a team of CAD engineers (6), plus a number of training administration roles.

The role also included the daily management of a busy public training centre where specialist AutoCAD and Solidworks officially accredited training is delivered to customers.

Responsibilities included:

Training, development and accreditation of technical instructors

Creation and management of a monthly public training delivery schedule

Overseeing the delegate booking and scheduling system

Managing training administration staff, technical support, helpdesk and receptionists etc..

Managing the daily running of the training centre

Training staff recruitment and appraisal

Managing the company official Training Centre credentials and Instructors Accreditation from AutoCAD and Solidworks

Managing general training staff compliance

My role as training project manager at BT included the following responsibilities:

Developing customer specific training solutions and project plans inline with the BT Sales Team

Managing training delivery roll outs to major BT customers

Managing a team of instructors and training administrators to deliver rollout

Some of the major projects included:

AccountNI NI Assembly Government Financial Procurement training rollout to 20k civil servants over a 5 year period.

City Bank staff training and development centre scheduling and delivery

Land Property Services, planing and approval scheduling and training delivery

NI Housing Executive, staff bespoke training and development

CAL - Centre for Applied Learning (NI Civil Service) primary delivery of all staff internal IT Application Training

My role as Technical Training Instructor included:

Delivery of accredited technical training to BIC, BT customers from a public schedule

Developing and maintaining relative credentials for delivering official training

Creation and development of bespoke training solutions for specific customers, this include curriculum and training materials

• Microsoft Certified Engineer Program (MSCE)
• Macromedia Certified Web Development (CIW)
• Hardware and Software Support Technician Training (Comptia A+)
• Microsoft Application Certified Training Instructor (MCT)
• Microsoft Certified Engineer (MCE)
• Adobe Certified Expert (ACE)
• Project Management Certification (PRINCE 2)

My role as Training Coordinator at Advanced Learning Systems included:

• Managing a team of IT Instructors across a range of Open Learning Training Centres throughout NI.

• Developing the skills of the team to deliver accredited City & Guilds, RSA, OCR and NVQ training to the public

• Acting as official Internal Verifier for all vocational training courses

• Delivering specialists train the trainer programs to the internal instructors (D32, D33 training Assessors award)