Experience 

 I have worked for and along side major industry leaders which include, BabyCow, Open Mike, BBC,  BBCWW, UKTV,  Redbee, TVT Ltd, Techincolor, Globecast, Disney, ESPN, Arqiva, Discovery & Ascent Media to name a few.

 Ingest & QC Operator  - Freelance at Discovery Channels Europe
 October 2011 - Present

 • Working within the Program Operations Department

 • My ingest responsibilities are to oversee the ingest of media using Avid Nitrus DS

 • Working with TX schedules


 • Working with HD and SD

 LSM-XT2 EVS Operator - Freelance at BBC Interactive
 October 2011 - Present 

 • Working within the BBC Interactive team on BBC Final Score

 • To ensure that key shots (teams in tunnel, end of match) are clipped up an ready to playout when requested

 • To ensure that clip's are archived to Xfile, allowing post-production to edit files together when needed

 • Working closely with AP's, Sweeper & Gallery


 Ingest & QC Operator - Freelance at GlobeCast
 December 2010 - Present 

 • Working within the Content Management team, working on Globecast Playout across multiple territories & channels

 • My QC responsibilities are to in ensure material is suitable for TX, meeting broadcast standards. Using various content  management systems, updating workflow related databases & spreadsheets

 • My ingest responsibilities are to oversee the ingest of all media from digibeta using pipeline software, either from a  flexi-cart or manually

 • My media management responsibilities are to deal with all file related issues, FTP file deliveries, drive transfers,  standards conversions, transcodes & workflow related questions thus ensuring all files are correctly stored & ready for  TX

 • Working with HD and SD output

 Project Manager - Freelance at TVT 
 October 2010 - June 2011 (9 months)

 • Managing the migration of BBC Worldwides Digibeta Archive to TVT

 • Managing a team of librarians as they deal with the day-to-day operation of the digibeta archive

 • Managing the Ingest & Erasing of the BBCWW digibeta archive


 Clipping Up - Freelance at Arqiva
 September 2010 - February 2011 (6 months)

 • Working on ESPN playout, assisting TX across all territories

 • Timecode Logging of recorded programming for repeats, marking in & out points of media using Mediaflex

 • QC of recorded feeds to Video Servers monitoring audio & video to broadcast standards

 • Working with HD and SD output


 Ingest & QC Operator - Freelance at WRN Broadcast
 August 2010 - December 2010 (5 months)

 • Ingest & QC Operator during channel launches

 • Manual ingest from digibeta to video servers using software Pipeline

 • Working with TX schedules

 • Working with SD


 Cameraman - Freelance at Red Church Productions
 September 2008 - September 2010 (2 years 1 month)

 • Cameraman filming sports events such as Thai Kick-Boxing, Mixed Marshall Arts (MMA), UK-pro Wrestling &  Motocross 

 • Working closely with Producer & Assistant Producer's

 • Shooting pre-event promos, after events interviews and live sporting action

 • Various sized projects from small (two camera shoots) to large projects (gallery & director) working with SD & HD

 • Included international travel

 • Sony DSR-PD150, Sony DSR-PD170, Sony HVR-A1E, Sony PDW-F800


 Edit Assistant / Archivist / Media Manager - Full Time at TVT
 July 2005 - September 2010 (5 years 3 months)

 • Edit Assistant/Media Manager/Archivist, I would support all departments digitising, exporting, tape layback/dubbing,  media management, archiving/restoring while updating databases and reports working to TX schedules

 • My Edit Assistant responsibilities where to ensure that all media was correct and ready to edit or audio dub. I would  also perform basic editing which included clocking, basic compliance edit’s

 • My Archivist responsibilities where to ensure the safe archiving/restoration/storage of files, using TSM backing up to    LTO4, working from a command line perspective

 • My Media Management responsibilities where to digitise media from various tape formats to a digital file, QC them &  transcode them to different file formats. Supporting various departments I would answer all file related questions,  covering frame-rate, bitrate, audio-compression, standards conversions, export’s, laybacks, file deliveries via FTP &  drive transfers

 • In 2007 I became Head Librarian, now a multi-location library based within BBC Television Centre, I would oversee  the day-to-day operations of the library, with the help of my team librarians dealing with all tape related queries

 • I started there in 2005 as their Librarian, working in a linear environment which dubbed tapes for TX


 Post Production Runner at The Farm
 May 2004 - May 2005 (1 year 1 month)

 Like so many, I started as a Post-Production runner in Soho. Working with producers, editors, sound engineers and  colourist at both Linear and non-linear facilities. While there, I gained a great understanding of the production process.  It was in CTA where I learnt to dub/ingest a tape to broadcasting standards.