Alex Espir

Mobile: 07876365667
Email: alexespir@hotmail.com
www.twitter.com/alexespir
SKILLS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Leadership and Communication

• Experienced high level qualified surf coach - ability and confidence to deliver clearly and
concisely information and instructions for people in an interpersonal environment.
• Leadership, conservation, volunteer management and practical courses.
• Trained staff and operated in small business management.
• A contributing writer to a local newspaper, The Voice of Nosara, in Costa Rica.
• Active in social media. Contributing blogger and video production for websites.

• Management of volunteers in practical conservation projects.

Project Management

• Successfully run and maintained a national conservation volunteer program, with the British
Trust for Conservation Volunteers (B.T.C.V)

• Manager of Surf Simply luxury resort in Costa Rica.

• Organised and run private surf coaching project with professional junior surfers in Costa Rica
and New York and UK

• 1st class awarded Research project – Masters Dissertation, field work, lab work and
production of scientific paper.
I.T. skills

• Competent with all Microsoft office applications.

• Experience in use of mass data handling programs, SURFER and MATLAB.

• Experience in Mac OS and fundamentals of Adobe creative suite.

• Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, I-movie and Adobe After Effects video editing.
Qualifications and other skills

• Clean driving license, no points, held for over ten years

• Full first aid qualification (beach lifeguard RLSS)

• Confident in conversational Spanish

• Practical and adaptive individual. Experience in all outdoor environments. Quick to learn

• Well traveled.
EDUCATION
2007-2008 University of Plymouth. MSc Applied Marine Science
Dissertation: Climate change and Coastal Pollution. Relevant modules: Marine Eco-toxicology,
Marine Pollution, and Marine Policy. Coastal Environmental Management
2001-2004 University of Plymouth. BSc Surf Science and Technology
Relevant Modules. Coastal Processes, Oceanography, Environmental Science

RECENT WORK HISTORY

2008-2010 Surf Simply Surf Resort (Costa Rica) Senior Surf Coach. Video mentoring and
training, events coordinator, hospitality manager, media and marketing
2006-2007 British Trust of Conservation Volunteers B.T.C.V (Cornwall, England) Volunteer
Conservation Officer. Project planning and volunteer management.
2005-2006 Surfs Up! Surf School. (Cornwall) Senior Surf Coach. Local community project
coordinator.

VOLUNTARY WORK

• B.T.C.V, full-time volunteer officer.

• Local beach cleans and community work with Surfs up Boardriders surf club Cornwall.

• Innocent Surf and community project, Costa Rica, free surf sessions, beach cleans and
community work with local children and schools.

REFERENCES

Dr Graham Bradley Rupert Hill, (Owner)

School of Biological Sciences Surf Simply Resort
University of Plymouth Playa Guiones, Nosara
Drake Circus Costa Rica
Plymouth Tel: 506-2682-1396
PL4 8AA ru.hill@yahoo.com
Tel: 01752-584611
G.Bradley@plymouth.ac.uk