Wayne Barsby

I worked for Royal Mail in the early part of my working life, with a brief stint covering the busy Christmas period at Argos in between. During my time at Royal Mail I have worked as a PHG, which is one step below the manager meaning I had to take charge when the manager wasn't there. Other duties included working in the office and dealing with customer complaints and serving customers coming to collect their parcels.

I ran my own Martial Arts School for many years where I trained lots of champions. I was also a coach with the British Team. I started in Martial Arts at the age of 10, and started teaching at 12 under my Instructor. I became British Champion at the age of 16 in the adult section. I went on to win 30 British Titles. I became European Champion at 18 and World Champion at 19 years old. I am also in the Martial Arts Hall of Fame, which enables me to use the initials H.O.F. after my name.

I spent 4 years researching and went backpacking around the World. I arranged everything myself and have now travelled round Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada and South America.

When I returned from my travels I put myself through a course in Private Investigation and a course in Stock Trading which I passed both with distinction as I enjoy learning new skills.

Then after a short spell of working for William Hill I managed to get a job working for STA Travel and then 2 years later moved into business travel with Gray Dawes.

From there I became my own boss with Travel Counsellors running my own business. I had to book all types of travel for my customers and manage my customer database and go out to find new customers. I was in charge of my own marketing strategy and would attend business networking where I was a group leader running the events and have my own stand at trade shows and wedding fayres to generate new leads. From working as a Travel counsellor I have worked with both leisure and business travel as well as booked up weddings abroad and organised events for companies.

My current position is working for ROL Cruise where I started as a cruise specialist and then moved on to the administration department where I was the second in charge to the Manager and trained all the new members of staff and I then moved departments to be a concierge support assistant looking after our V.I.P customers and this was a job I was handpicked for due to my attention to detail and problem solving skills. After a successful experience I was made a Senior Administrative Assistant where I am the second in charge to the Head of Admin.

My current role is with Inntel as a Business Travel Administrator and with my previous experience of overseeing a team of 12 I feel I am ready to progress to the next level.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

All of these are for Martial Arts.

W.U.M.A. World Champion, W.U.M.A. European Champion, 5 times W.U.M.A. British Champion, 4 times M.A.I. British Champion, 6 times E.K.A. British Champion, 5 times E.M.A. British Champion, 3 times B.A.C.K. British Champion, 2 times U.M.A. British Champion, 2 times W.K.C. British Champion, 2 times W.U.M.A. 6ft series Grand Champion, Ricochet Grand Champion, Premier Grand Slam Champion, Kick Drugs Out Of America Champion, 2 times E.D.K.F. Champion, Southern Area Champion, British Open Champion, U.K. Open Champion, South West Champion, Cheltenham Open Champion, Nottingham Open Champion, Preston Open Champion, British W.A.K.O. Silver Medal, Euro Classic 2nd Place, E.K.A. Student Member of the Year, Castle Point District Council Junior Sports Personality of the year, Castle Point District Council Senior Sports Personality of the Year, 2 times Essex Sports Achiever of the Year, Mayors Award Scheme for Services to Charity and Sport, A member of the Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

INTERESTS:

Travel, Reading, History, Animals, Nature, Sport, Learning new skills