Thomas Tovey

I am a professional, results-focused person who enjoys new challenges and solving problems. I am looking for a role that will stretch my knowledge and allow me to learn new skills whilst improving my understanding of the skills I already have.

Since leaving my role at Argos in March 2025, I have been focusing on upskilling and transitioning my skills from Excel-based coding to a primarily Python-based skillset with knowledge on SQL, HTML, CSS etc and the ability to integrate them all with each other.

Education

-Self taught Python, HTML, CSS & SQL via UDEMY, March 2025-Current-

-Staffordshire University [3D Games Design (MEng)], 2013 to Summer 2017-

-The Ridings’ Federation Winterbourne International Academy, 2009 to Summer 2012 -

-The Ridings High School, 2005 to Summer 2009-

Employment History

Team Manager
Argos Bristol LFC (May 2021-March 2025)

The Bristol LFC is a fulfilment centre covering Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Swindon and going as far south as Bridgwater, shipping out thousands of orders per day. As part of my role, I was responsible for the development of various tools used to assist with the running of the site. These included:

A system for the stores we delivered too to report back any discrepancies with their deliveries and get a live response on the actions to take, to enable the quickest resolution for their customers. The tool could also analyse the reports to identify trends such as if the same stores had the most errors, if the same items were going missing, and generate daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reports.

A tool that could take rotas and return information on the specific number of colleagues in at a certain time, the number of colleagues in for various roles, and the salary cost to the business of specific shifts, accounting for things such as breaks and premiums.

A tool to collate various reports available to us from the company and automatically generate monthly and yearly colleague performance reports from them.

Automating various processes in tools provided to us by the company where previously the data had to be input manually multiple times a day.

I was also responsible for auditing our weekly delivery paperwork and fuel receipts, and if I discover any discrepancies, reporting them and putting in processes to mitigate any future issues.

Retail Manager
Argos (September 2019-May 2021)

Argos
Colleague & Team Leader (October 2012-September 2019)

Skills

Problem-Solving
Team-work
Analytical

Creative
Quick-Learning
Logic-Focused

Problem-Solving
Team-work
Analytical

Volunteering

Scout Leader (2012-Present)

Since leaving scouts myself, I have been a leader for the 28th Kingwood District specialising in training young people to complete the Ten Tors' Challenge. The Challenge is run by the army and consist of teams of 6 hiking 35, 45 or 55 miles across Dartmoor over 2 days. In my role I am responsible for taking the young people in our group on practise hikes to build up their endurance, teaching them navigation, survival and camping skills as well as attending monthly meetings of our scout leadership team where we discuss finances, risks, training plans etc.