This is my CV
A list of some of the work that I have done and am proud of. You could say it’s a mixed bag, an eclectic mix, a box of chocolates.
Marketing Consultant at Refill
March 2018 — June 2019 (3 days a week)
🖥️ refill.org.uk
📸 RefillHQ
Refill is City to Sea’s national tap water campaign, launched in the UK in 2015. Working with a network of retailers, businesses, and local communities, Refill displays thousands of ‘Refill Stations’ on their iOS and Android App, helping people easily find a place to refill their water bottle free. Focused on reducing single-use plastic water bottles, Refill has been City to Sea’s most successful campaign.
Responsibilities
- Manage social media channels and related content.
- Maintain and improve the Refill website.
- Generate content for the Refill Community.
- Offer marketing related to support to the Refill and City to Sea team.
- Generate useful resources and guides to help enable volunteers across the country.
Community Host at WikiHouse
February 2015 through until July 2017
🖥️ wikihouse.cc
📸 @WikiHouseproject
📖 WikiHouse Foundation
Reshaping the production of housing in the 21st Century. WikiHouse combines open source technology with a community of contributors ranging from architecture, design, engineering, project management, software developers and more. All with the goal to lower barriers and cost for self build to scale and grow the citizen sector.
Responsibilities
- Managing incoming email traffic and responding to a variety of enquiries from providers, contributors, homeowners, and press.
- Engage and build relationships with the WikiHouse Contributors in the Slack group by crafting the monthly Contributor Newsletter.
- Regularly posting and communicating with people across our social channels (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook).
- Acting as the in house journalist, writing and publishing stories for the WikiHouse News publication on Medium.
- Grow the contributor network by executing inventive and creative ideas. Produce useful resources that can be shared easily with contributors from across the globe.
Marketing Contributor at SalesSeek
Currently doing a day a week
🖥️ salesseek.com
🐦@SalesSeek
SalesSeek is a Customer Relationship Management System that provides complete clarity of your sales leads and deals through every stage of the Sales Funnel. It makes it easier to understand the progress of your business through powerful visualisations.
Responsibilities
- Writing copy for the SalesSeek website, testing variations and continually refining the language and wording to best communicate the value and benefit of using SalesSeek.
- Creating and scheduling content for their social channels such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Medium. This involved directing the tone and personifying the brand together with the Marketing Manager.
- Writing relevant content for the SalesSeek Blog that would help users gain deeper insight about the tool as well as attract new users.
- Video content creation. Often the best medium for certain content was video. This would involve producing, scripting, shooting and editing marketing or support videos and would also include animated videos.
Exchange Operator at Exchange Christchurch
August 2014 through until February 2015
🖥️ xchc.co.nz
📸 @_xchc
Exchange Christchurch (XCHC) was set up to provide affordable studio, office, and event space for the creative industries. It’s the first of it’s kind to be set up in Christchurch and is a physical home for the eccentric nomad.
Responsibilities
- Managing tenants. Short term, long term, and one-off events.
- Organising unique events for creative industries and facilitating other events.
- Day to day operations and upkeep of building maintenance.
- Communications through social media, newsletters and events.
- Monthly reports, financial and operational summary of each month.
Captain and Arranger at Chambers Sessions
March 2013 kind of until October 2016.
🖥️ fb.com/chamberssessions
📸 Chambers_Sessions
Chambers Sessions is a monthly concert series that took place at Chambers241 Gallery before moving to a Sawtooth Studios in Central Christchurch. These sessions offer a unique and intimate environment for artists to showcase their work.
This event is also my ‘baby’ something that I initiated and ran with a small team of friends and colleagues after the Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.
Responsibilities
- Ensure every decision made is effectively adding to, and developing the musical arts community. Artists come first.
- Budgeting and fundraising the amount needed to deliver a high-quality event. Manage invoices from performers and production team.
- Manage artists at each event and create the music programme.
- Liaise with marketing and communications team to ensure key messages are being communicated to the public.
- Manage event on the day, including ticket sales.
Visitor Host at Scape Public Art
27th September — 9th November 2013 (fixed contract)
Scape Public Art installs public art in Christchurch’s city centre. The scape 7 biennial hosted a number of various artists from around the world, the country and local Cantabrians. It was a six-week festival and had two legacy works. Some work only showed the duration of the festival while others stay put for a number of months after.
Responsibilities
- Having a deep understanding of each artwork and confidently communicating this to (and with) the public.
- Some hands-on maintenance of the headquarters event space and artworks
- Communicating daily to the public what Scape Public Art is.
Future Christchurch Host at ZNO Digital Architecture/Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority
February 2014 up until November 2014
Future Christchurch is a Christchurch City Council brand that was taken over by Christchurch Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. In collaboration with ZNO Digital Architecture, CERA funded a Future Christchurch mobile container that was fitted out with 3D mapping technology and an interactive video display unit. The purpose of the container and brand is to communicate up to date information about the rebuild of Christchurch’s central city.
Responsibilities
- Hosting the container and talking to the public about specifics of the rebuild. This would usually involve resolving some sort of conflict from the distressed public in the post-quake environment.
- Staying up to date with news articles/press releases to inform the public.
- Communicating with the public about the purpose of the brand.
- Operating various technology simultaneously (photo booths, 3D mouse and mapping software, iPad and interactive projections).
- Appropriately communicating and discussing the rebuild to groups varying from architecture firms to primary school groups.
Street Fashion Columnist at Fairfax Media, The Press, Zest.
June 2012 up until January 2015
What you were Wearing was the most popular weekly column in Zest, The Press. It serves as a documentation of the street style that local Cantabrians and visitors adopt.
Responsibilities
- Approaching members of the public to speak to them about their style.
- Photograph each person
- Write profiles on four individuals about their sense of style each week.
- Liaise with the Editor of Zest to refine the column over time.
Other Roles
Music Promoter at Pallet Pavilion — Responsible for booking a summer program of music at Gap Filler’s, Pallet Pavilion
Non-Fiction Producer on I’m An Actor Documentary — I’m An Actor is documentary that follows the lives of 5 jobbing actors, looking at what they have to overcome to follow their dreams.
Director at Knight Life — A company I began while studying to manage my music business which later turned into a range of creative projects and collaborations.
Event Manager at Skope Classic — Organising on the daily activities and logistics for the Scope Classic race day.
Event Organiser at Rent Party Club — A monthly concert series in peoples living rooms. Working with artists, hosts and public to promote and run the events.
Video Content for Neat Places — Creating engaging video content for sharing across social platforms for the New Zealand lifestyle company Neat Places.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Musical Arts (Performance)
Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (February 2010 — November 2012)
Gallup Certified StrengthsFinder Coach
Gallup Inc, (November 2016)
Group Analyst (currently training)
Group Analysis South West (October 2018 — Current)
I hope you enjoyed my CV, please feel free to request more information about any other work I’ve done (there is more). I haven’t included everything because I’m narrowing my focus of what I want to do and the above experience shows jobs that I’ve done that align with where I want to be. Below is further information about my view on Skills and Strengths.
My details
Harrison Louie Knight
+447721425612
harry@knightlife.co.nz
Full License // non-smoking // dog and cat lover 🐶🐱
Strengths and Skills
Strengths
These are the combination of my talents — or my most natural thoughts, feelings, and behaviours — and the time I’ve invested in honing these talents to be effectively applied. In short [talent x invested time = strengths].
Skills
Skills are acquired and practiced knowledge and experience. For me, skills are things pretty much anyone can learn, with some exceptions. For example, it’s the ability to learn and use software, or to learn the features of your companies product etc.
My Strengths
My most dominant strengths based on the Gallup assessment are as follows:
- Futuristic
- Maximizer
- Self-Assurance
- Connectedness
- Arranger
- Includer
- Ideation
- Positivity
- Relator
- Empathy
I will explain my top 5 in normal english. For me Futuristic helps me think strategically, I will vividly imagine visions of what could be. For example, coming up with multiple versions of what a project or feature could look like helps me think about the best way forward. I’m also inspired by visions of the future. This is why most of my work focuses on projects that believe in a better world (most recently WikiHouse).
Maximizer for me, is the ability to naturally want to take something that is good or even great and improve on it. This could be from an on boarding process for a new user, or improving individuals in a team but helping them identify and see their best strengths (hence why I studied StrengthsFinder).
Self-Assurance is having an inner compass. I don’t try to be outwardly confident and am generally sure within myself without making a point of it in my CV (wait a minute…). This particular strength is useful when I need to influence peers or even customers and can help me with a sale or getting people on board with a project I really believe will work.
Connectedness draws me to projects that have a social mission, or a mission that places a core need of many individuals at the centre. For WikiHouse this was about the belief that there is a solution to the housing crisis and we have the knowledge, skills, and tools we need to achieve it. For Chambers Sessions it’s about the belief that artists have something to say and the best place they can say it is in an intimate environment where they can be heard, not ignored or drowned in loud, drunken, banter (not that there isn’t a time for that type of music).
And finally my innate ability to juggle multiple balls, or spin many plates. Arranger for me is the ability to focus on multiple projects at once, or a single project that has many different moving parts. I can’t stand working on only one task, in one platform for the entire day. Of course sometimes you need to make sacrifices but generally speaking, this is when I do my best work. A win for you and your company, and a win for me, my energy, and mental and emotional health.
Includer is the natural ability to be accepting of others. I show awareness of those who feel left out, and make an effort to include them.
Ideation is all about a fascination of ideas. I’m able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
Positivity gives me an enthusiasm that many say is contagious. I’m more often than not, upbeat and can get others excited about what they are going to do.
Relator speaks to my passion for building close relationships with others. I get deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal.
Empathy lets me sense the feelings of other people by imagining myself in others’ lives or others’ situations.
Skills
These are more straight forward. I can manage and use all the standard ‘21st century’ tools from Slack, Trello, MailChimp to social tools like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and various third party tools like Perfect Audience and Buffer. My strengths lend me towards having very strong inter-relational skills but I also am experienced with finance tools like Xero and CRM systems.
For more about my background and experience relating to the Christchurch Earthquakes, see my Pecha Kucha talk.
