Problem Solver
Mari Lewis
Areas Mari Lewis is Knowledgeable in:
1.British wildlife and ecology including birds, trees, egeneration vs graxing issues, plants and soil regeneration.
2. Rewilding.
3. UK 'Sustainability of Waste' issues - Deposit return, recycling, consumer behaviour, legislation, overseas data.
4.Plastic pollution problem
5.Littering problems
6. Reuse schemes (eg reusable coffee cup scheme as inGermany- potentials and problems
7. Communication methods
2. Rewilding.
3. UK 'Sustainability of Waste' issues - Deposit return, recycling, consumer behaviour, legislation, overseas data.
4.Plastic pollution problem
5.Littering problems
6. Reuse schemes (eg reusable coffee cup scheme as inGermany- potentials and problems
7. Communication methods
Mari Lewis's Problem Solving Skills:
- UK Postgrad Diploma Interpretation [communication design, not languages] (University of the Highlands&Islands)
- Writing ability (English) - A band 1 in school English Literature qualifications - top 5% in whole country.
- Report Writing (won highest mark in 17 yr history of my course - 90%-because of report quality).
- Creative, Lateral and yet also Logical thinking - consistent feedback from employers as to this ability.
- Ecology understanding- leading local rewilding project in Scotland
- In depth knowledge of recycling legislation and industry in Uk (3 years with Changeworks in Edinburgh, UK)
- Techniques to influence Behaviour Change - part of my UHI Postgrad course, used in Changeworks post and prev management role.
- Ability to draw most animals from memory- thought I'd just add this!
Mari Lewis's Problem Solving Experience:
- I am working with a local park to improve biodiversity. I am organising before and after species surveys, arranging a wildflower planting/sowing day, applying for funding, soliciting participation from people in vulnerable groups locally, preparing suitable interpretation.
- I designed visitor interpretation for Deep Sea World - a commercial aquarium in Scotland- to answer specific brief to slow visitor travel through site therefore improve perception of site size and quality - designed games for visitors to ask "What is it doing?" rather than "Which species (on tick-list) is it?"= requires pause and study. Very positive feedback from Site manager and curator.
- I designed a new poster for Edinburgh Council (Scotland) to inform residents who have to use communal street-sited bins, which items should go in which bins.
I also designed a bag (based on poster design) to be given to locals to carry their recycling. Positively received by residents in district. - In my previous job working as a shop manager for a national art gallery, I was seconded for 3 months in order to design a new procedure, and then write the instructions, for a new 'Procedure for Cash Handling' for Retail department including ticket desks, in advance of a special Audit.
Audit passed 100%
Also asked to produce a 'Product Information File' - to assist shop assistants in achieving sales targets- file designed around sales assistants' surveyed needs regarding satisfying customers. - I wrote the crowdfunding text for Heart of Newhaven (a locally-formed grassroots charity bidding to buy a disused school and turn it into a community centre). Crowdfunding target achieved, and subsequently the building has been 'Asset-transferred' to the local community.