Broadcast relevant Work & Experience

• Broadcast Engineer for Mirada Plc (June 2008 » Present)

• Satellite Engineer for Arqiva Ltd (April 2007 » June 2008)

  Satellite Engineer at Arqiva’s London Media Centre. Responsible for maintaining redundancy in the digital compression systems for Turner, Channel 4, ITV and other Digital satellite (DVB-S) and digital terrestrial (DVB-T) services.

• Freelance Studio Technical Director for BSkyB Ltd (January » March 2007)

  Responsible for ensuring transmission feeds from the studios, vision control, Radamec camera x/y control, lighting, first line support for studios as well as interfacing between the production crew and site technical staff for the Sky Vegas live show based at Arqiva’s Feltham facility.

• Support Engineer for YooMedia Plc (August » December 2006)

  Brought in to assist with a studio move and associated facilities alteration as well as providing technical support for Studios and Transmission at the Wapping Studios facility. After my contract finished I have in the past been asked back to cover shifts on a freelance basis.

• Studio Upgrade Project Manager (Spring 2006)

  Project managed the upgrade of Studio A at Ravensbourne College, taking the composite infrastructure to SDI and refitting the production gallery to accomadate the new equipment. This included the replacement of all previous gallery furniture, monitor stack, vision mixer, character generator, still store and VTR’s in addition to the introduction of under monitor displays and router sourcing for device inputs. Produced all technical drawings for the build as well as dealing with supplier negotiations and purchases as well as scheduling the extensive works required within the two week window. Pictures of the finished project can be found by clicking the picture to the right.

• Various Student Projects (Autumn 2003 » Summer 2006)

  Both as part of my BSc course at Ravensbourne and in my own free time I took part in numerous projects based in the college, around London and abroad, including being head engineer for outside broadcasts from near Westminster and from Germany for the Profile Intermedia 7 conference in Bremen. These were done using available college equipment, some of it old and unreliable meaning a lot of problem solving in the field was required using available resources to accomplish the project goals. A more comprehensive list of production credits can be found here: Production Credits

• Ravensbourne Student Union Facilities Manager (April 2004 » December 2005)

  I managed payroll and budget for the team under me as well as equipment operation, repair and installation within the Students Union bar at Ravensbourne college. Projects undertaken in this role have included installation of a 20 channel stage multicore, bar refurbishment and 4 TFT advertising displays.
  Managed payroll, budget and facilities upkeep for the Students Union bar at Ravensbourne college.

• Various staff leave cover for Ravensbourne College Broadcast Maintenance department (2005 » 6)

• Work experience with BBC Outside Broadcast (July 2005)

  Worked with BBC OBs covering the ‘BetFred Masters’ table tennis tournament, included monitor and mini camera rigging as well as assisting the VTR and Vision Control operators during the transmission.

• Work experience with The London Studios (2004-5)

  3 weeks working in the VTR department, duties included tape dubs from/to DigiBeta, VHS, D2, BetaSP, DVCAM, DVCPro, 2 machine edits etc, followed by 4 weeks in the Technical Support area doing a wide range of repair work and gaining valuable equipment fault finding experience within the workshop and studios.

• Free time Engineering work at Ravensbourne College (Autumn 2003 » Summer 2006)

  Although not formal work, I spent large amounts of free time in the engineering workshop at Ravensbourne gaining first hand experience of repairs and installs within a broadcast environment ranging from camera line-up and equipment repair to studio installation.

• 2 weeks work experience with Avalon Television on The Sketch Show II. Orignally brought in as a production runner I acted as camera assistant for much of the location work (Sept 2002)

• 1/2 Years experience working in a school theatre as a technician. Areas covered included stage work, lighting rigging/operation and sound (Sept 1998 » Sept 2002)

• Much time spent in school audio/visual department, included rebuilding and maintaining cable RF based school television channel, my introduction to professional cameras (JVC D29 Digital S camera) and more (Sept 1998 » July 2003)

Industry Training

• Tandberg Director V5/nCompass Control System Training (April 2008)

• Thomson Multiplex training (Febuary 2008)

  3 day training course including background theory and practical excercises on all aspects of Thomson Vibe SD and HD encoders, Netprocessors and the XMU/XMS management system, familier with the platform for use both as a standard ASI output multiplex and for use as part of an IPTV system.

• Tandberg MEM System Training (November 2007)

• Tandberg nCompass Control System Training (June 2007)

• Roof Safety Training Course from the National Access and Rescue Centre (May 2007)

Education

• Ravensbourne Collage of Design and Communication
  • BSc (Hons) Broadcast Technology (2.1) (2006)
  • FDSc Broadcast Media Technology (2005)

• Bryanston School, Blandford Forum, Dorset
  • A Level: History, Physics, Design and Technology (2003)
  • AS Level: Information Technology (2002)
  • GCSE: Dual Science, Electronics, Design and Technology, English Literature, English Language, Math, History, French (2001)