Sam Clare
Technologist · AI, Automation & Cyber Security · London · Contact me
Profile
Smartworking, methodical and logical individual who works quickly and accurately under pressure and is an effective problem solver. Great communication and interpersonal skills and can work well in a team or individually in any environment including high pressure and relaxed atmospheres. An enthusiastic person with a positive attitude and a passion for technology. Looking to pursue a career in AI, automation, cyber security or robotics.
Key skills
- Extensive customer relations experience in various environments
- Highly IT literate including support, training and emerging technologies
- Rapid and accurate problem solving
- Logical and methodical in approach
- Learn new applications and programs extremely fast
- Self managed and effective time management
- Advocate for diversity and inclusion
- Proven resilience: returned to full-time work during a global pandemic while recovering from open-heart surgery
- Calm and accurate under pressure; thrives in fast-moving, high-stakes environments
Technical skills
- Linux, Windows, MacOS
- Web Development, Management and Administration (HTML, Wordpress, CSS)
- GSuite, Office, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Premier, After Effects), Affinity Suite, Davinci, Audacity
- Blender, TinkerCAD, Luban, Cura, Chitubox
- AI (OpenClaw) and Automation (Later, Postly, IFTTT)
- Cloud Computing (AWS, Digital Ocean), Remote Access (GUI, Terminal) & Virtual Machines (local and server based), API’s (Twitter, Google, Brave, AI models etc)
- Blockchain Data Analysis & Forensics
- Robotics (Tracked, Unitree Go2) & Additive Manufacturing (Kossel, ANYCUBIC Resin, Snapmaker Artisan)
- Electronics and Engineering (Drones, RC, RPI, Arduino, ESP32)
Employment
In early 2022 started a top 50 NFT ($100m+ volume) project which helped me fund and explore some business ideas. I opened a digital art gallery in London for a year and ran a Crypto/Blockchain consultancy. I picked up some automation skills including an NFT sales twitter bot, complete social media automation across all major platforms and have built my own AI Agent that gives me daily schedules, a complete automated job search system saving 10+ hours a week along with application assistance.
London Borough of Hackney: ICT Support
- Often completed more support calls than anyone else in a team of 16 (sometimes more than everyone combined) in a week
- Trained staff in Google’s GSuite face to face and via video conferencing
- Gained confidence in public speaking to large audiences 100+ in person and online
- Introduced a number of ideas to improve productivity that were implemented
- Won the “Rising Star 2020” at the Apprenticeship Awards and a finalist for Apprentice of the Year at Hackney Star Awards 2020 (4 nominees out of 175+ apprentices)
- Gained my Level 3 IT Users qualification despite having heart surgery and working through the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Worked to help get 4000+ people working from home using various devices and operating systems and continued to support them through lockdown
Previous experience
- Maplin: Customer Service Advisor (Oct 2016: May 2018)
- Sainsbury’s: Customer Service Advisor (Nov 2015: Mar 2016)
- Cryptocurrency Trader, Investor & Project leader (Aug 2013: Present)
- Kuehne and Nagel: Field Store Operative (Feb 2013: Jul 2013)
- Travel: France (Aug 2012: Oct 2012)
- Freelance website and company start up: Various (Sep 2011: Aug 2012)
- St Mungos: Fundraising coach (Jan 2011: Sep 2011)
- Fundraiser & Team Leader: Various charities (Apr 2005: Jul 2008)
- ICAEW: Digital Communication’s Co-Coordinator (Sep 2001: Jul 2004)
Education
- City of London: NCFE Level 3 Certificate in Cyber Security Practices (May 2026: July 2026)
- Cisco: Introduction to Cyber Security, Packet Tracer, Networking Basics, Introduction to Modern AI
- AWS: Cloud Essentials (August 2026)
- Kingsway College: GNVQ Level 3 IT User Skills (Oct 2018: July 2020)
- Survival School: NFCE Level 3 Extreme Survival (June 2015)
- City University: Linux Networking and Systems Administration (Oct 2014: Apr 2015)
- University of East London: International Development (Sept 2009: Apr 2010)
- Hackney College: HE Diploma Humanities & Social Science (Sept 2008: Jun 2009)
- Computer Land, Moorgate: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (Apr 2004)
- City and Islington College: Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (Sep 2001) · Macromedia Flash 5 (Jun 2001) · Introduction to web authoring (May 2001)
- Islington ITEC, London: City & Guilds Level 2 in IT (May: Dec 95)
- Hackney Community College, London: BTEC 1 Performing Arts (Oct 94: Apr 95)
- Stoke Newington School, London: Studied GCSE’s (Sep 89: Jun 94)
Please note: Artificial Intelligence was not used in the production of this CV. I do, however, occasionally use it as a data set in conjunction with AI usage.