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Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

London, Germany, United States

London, England, United Kingdom

Delivering on the roadmap for Growth across the Global OTT landscape for Sky. Working with external partners to deliver integrated, simplified purchase journeys, building new features internally to improve the user experience within the customer purchase journeys, rolling out new companion device driven Sign Up/Sign In capabilities with In-App purchase channels, all to deliver a smoother experience for our customers and improve conversion. Driving out more detailed metrics from our journeys for… Show more Delivering on the roadmap for Growth across the Global OTT landscape for Sky. Working with external partners to deliver integrated, simplified purchase journeys, building new features internally to improve the user experience within the customer purchase journeys, rolling out new companion device driven Sign Up/Sign In capabilities with In-App purchase channels, all to deliver a smoother experience for our customers and improve conversion. Driving out more detailed metrics from our journeys for insights to drive data led changes to our roadmap. Managing the Growth product backlog, refining product requirements, Non-Functional requirements (NFRs) and working to the wider business Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to deliver on the vision for Sky’s OTT platforms. I work close with the Commercial, eComm and Sales teams, wider OTT product teams across Europe and our delivery scrum teams to help manage work through the wider Global OTT and central Sky roadmaps. Show less

London

Defining and delivering the vision for Content Prominence and Partner Billing workstreams with our platform partners, such as Apple and Amazon, to supply VOD and Linear metadata to enable features such as search and deep linking, driving the Global OTT vision for content and image use, platform attribution, voice control integration, customer journeys around partner billing and entitlement. Delivering on the future of NOWs content discovery goals and the principles of getting content to the… Show more Defining and delivering the vision for Content Prominence and Partner Billing workstreams with our platform partners, such as Apple and Amazon, to supply VOD and Linear metadata to enable features such as search and deep linking, driving the Global OTT vision for content and image use, platform attribution, voice control integration, customer journeys around partner billing and entitlement. Delivering on the future of NOWs content discovery goals and the principles of getting content to the customer quickly. Managing a product backlog, refining product requirements, NFRs and OKRs to deliver on the vision for Distribution and Partnerships. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Supporting the Global product teams with initiatives from idea concept to delivery. I primarily manage the relationship between the German Sky Ticket product and the OTT Group technology teams, overseeing the definition of project scope, requirements, stakeholder management, concept, testing and delivery. Given my strong technical background, I advise and support on all technical related idea changes, covering DRM, Security, Encoding, Player Frameworks, Client Devices, Content CMS and Metadata… Show more Supporting the Global product teams with initiatives from idea concept to delivery. I primarily manage the relationship between the German Sky Ticket product and the OTT Group technology teams, overseeing the definition of project scope, requirements, stakeholder management, concept, testing and delivery. Given my strong technical background, I advise and support on all technical related idea changes, covering DRM, Security, Encoding, Player Frameworks, Client Devices, Content CMS and Metadata workflows. I work with stakeholders at all levels across the business and externally, being able to translate the business ask into the technical requirements and then tracking and results back to the business. Show less

London, United Kingdom

I reviewed business as usual processes to define the impact of product initiatives. Providing subject matter expertise throughout the broadcast systems. Managing the UAT activities with the business, quality assure vendor supplied specifications and code, in support of both projects and application support. The role required me to have a strong customer focus, engaging regularly with end users and vendors. I produced high end clear documentation on all changes, making sure old documents where… Show more I reviewed business as usual processes to define the impact of product initiatives. Providing subject matter expertise throughout the broadcast systems. Managing the UAT activities with the business, quality assure vendor supplied specifications and code, in support of both projects and application support. The role required me to have a strong customer focus, engaging regularly with end users and vendors. I produced high end clear documentation on all changes, making sure old documents where updated. Detailing Business Process workflows in UML. I utilised and improved on my knowledge base working with XML and XSLT, Visio and SQL. For the Non-Linear aspect of the scheduling platform, I acted as the Product Owner, leading sprints, testing and development in this area. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the managing of all projects, relating to workflow changes and development, affiliate requirements, affiliate onboarding and content delivery paths, for all non-linear content and partners across EMEA and Emerging Markets. I was the central liaison to all external affiliates and our internal departments, working closely with all levels of stakeholders to support growth of the non-linear distribution for Discovery. I lead analysis projects, using agile methodologies to identify… Show more Responsible for the managing of all projects, relating to workflow changes and development, affiliate requirements, affiliate onboarding and content delivery paths, for all non-linear content and partners across EMEA and Emerging Markets. I was the central liaison to all external affiliates and our internal departments, working closely with all levels of stakeholders to support growth of the non-linear distribution for Discovery. I lead analysis projects, using agile methodologies to identify areas for streamlining, potential issues, micro gains and complex problem solving within my department. Generating reports to showcase my work, and build the profile of the non-linear aspect of Discovery across all markets. Show less

Chiswick, London

Handling data from multiple sources to produce cost estimates for new Channel and Platform launches. Creating reports to streamline current workflows and offer a better overview to Content teams. I redesigned reports to be engaging with teams at varied tiers of the business. I managed strategic projects for service delivery across EMEA and many emerging markets while working closely with the US to provide detailed knowledge and reporting across the global teams.

Chiswick London

Managing VOD services for multiple clients across EMEA and the US. Developing workflows, producing and utilising analytical data, researching industry news and developments relating to VOD, DLTO & OTT services. Overseeing contracted deliverables, such as Codec Spec, metadata, marketing and branding.

London

Coordinating the sound requirements for Sky's productions, inc. OBs, Studio and PSC.Liaising with multiple production teams, studio managers, location managers and a mix of Sky and Freelance Sound recordists to insure full coverage for all of Sky’s Live and Recorded productions. Tracking and managing recordists skill sets, to implement training schedules to keep them up to date with new technologies and across the many show types of Sky.

Handling projects within Broadcast Operations for Client services at Sky. Working with teams from 'Make-up' to 'Editors', within studios, OB trucks, location shoots. Looking at projects that support the teams with managing their workloads, call sheets, travel and admin.

Media Asset management for transmission and VOD environments. (VMTV and iPlayer)Covering DR recovery, content ingest, metadata enrichment, QA, VOD encoding and Lines Record.

Ba (Hons), Photomedia

Hnd, Television And Film Production