Alexander Charles Mann

PROFILE

I am a 30 year old, married, British national male with managing, sales and marketing experience, and an excellent education in biology and biochemistry. Possessing extremely good interpersonal skills, I have an imaginative yet analytical mind capable of both creative thought and the structured approach to put it into practice. Although I am determined and hard-working, I am also able to depersonalise work-related issues and relax in order to keep my performance at an optimum. I have a desire to learn and am very adaptable, being able to work in a team or on my own for extended periods. I also hold a full, clean UK driving license.

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

I am the Sales Manager for the UK and Europe, reporting directly to the Managing Director. In this role I am responsible for sales staff in the UK office, our distributors in Europe and maintaining the levels of our product sales throughout Europe. This involves all levels of sales management, including financial analysis, budgeting advertising costs, forecasting and focusing our sales team. I am also intimately involved in marketing strategies for this area of the business, preparing advertisements, targeting groups and companies for various products, and preparing written information of a technical nature for seminars and short courses. In addition to these duties, I also cover the Eastern sales territory of the business, maintaining key accounts in the Cambridge/Harlow area North of London.

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

My thesis, "Serum Protein Glycosylation in Alcoholic Liver Disease", focussed on analysing the glycoforms and N-linked glycan structures of human serum proteins, in order to find suitable diagnostic markers for alcoholic liver injury. Techniques that were extensively used were; HPLC (of proteins, carbohydrates and nucleic acids), affinity chromatography, SDS-PAGE, rocket electrophoresis, RID, ELISA, Western Blotting and lectin extraction.

After a foundation year, I specialised in microbiology and analytical biochemistry for two years. My final year project "Investigation of the Zinc Tolerance of Bacteria Isolated from Zinc-Polluted Rivers in the North Pennines", involved isolating and identifying prokaryotes from zinc-polluted waters and investigating the genetic basis of their tolerance.

2 "A" Levels    (General Studies, Biology)

6 "O" Levels    (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English Literature, English Language, Mathematics)

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