My senior producer role is the most enjoyable and rewarding of my career so far. I currently carry responsibility for delivering major new functionality on the Radio 1 site that will allow it to focus on key audience needs, simplify and grow reach. The projects I am working on include a new homepage, a new chart and a new mobile presence, which combined represent over 60% of the 2M users who visit Radio 1 online each week. Each project is drawn out of fundamental insights into the way the audience use and consume the stations and I have been responsible for every stage of the development process. This has involved creating the original proposals, commissioning, working closely with UX and technical staff from FM&T and external agencies to ensure the final product matches the vision; and demonstrating and evangelising about the product to senior stake holders. Though this work is incredibly involved and exciting, it is not the extent of my role. I directly line manage 5 staff members, helping and empowering them to fulfil objectives strategically aligned to my own. I frequently deputise for the editor on a number of matters and make it my duty to remain fully across all developments within the organisation and division. I am also jointly responsible for all content published by my team and frequently exercise my own editorial judgement when complying A/V content for publication and wider distribution.

As a producer at Radio 1 I felt incredibly privileged to work on a website with such a massive young audience. Unlike the traditional producer role, mine was focused on improving of the websites and producer workflow around content production. I worked closely with my colleagues at FM&T and the other producers in my team, to build some simple frameworks that would allow production to operate far more efficiently. For example I developed infrastructure that would allow video and photo content across the site to be aggregated automatically. I was also instrumental in several other major projects, such as the development of new homepages for both networks and integration with /programmes pages. Working very closely with external agencies we successfully delivered two stunning new websites on a relatively low budget. This not only demanded excellent communication with the indie, but detailed management of editorial tasks to ensure all content and workflow was correct for launch. Furthermore, throughout the year I produced content for various station events, such as Radio 1 in Ibiza, the Brit Awards and Creamfields, these experiences allowed me to widen my knowledge of radio production whilst, experimenting with new and innovative ways to excite the online audience.

I began my BBC career as a junior developer for Audio and Music and quickly secured a permanent role. As a client side developer I initially worked on the task team creating a variety of pages and concepts to help interactive teams deliver radio station priorities. Throughout this period I dedicated myself to working closely with interactive staff to understand their needs and to engineering high quality, flexible solutions that could be re-used across networks, thus achieving greater efficiencies. I was, and still am, very passionate about clean, valid, semantic mark-up; and was constantly striving to make limited content management systems exceed their original limitations. Following tasks, I worked on a number of major projects such as major festival sites and the program information tool. Here I seized opportunities to engineer powerful layout frameworks from scratch, creating re-usable code and detailed documentation. One of my proudest moments in this job came when I co-developed a podcast web-application for the (then brand new) iPhone, in my 10% time. This was highly innovative at the time and it fuelled my ambition to go on and shape many more BBC online offerings.

For many years I worked as part of the Arena's Operations team performing various duties. These include: DJ-ing, audio engineering and controlling lighting for sports presentations; assembling and installing power and lighting fixtures for major exhibitions; creating and developing IT systems within the building; assisting with the rigging and programming of lights for house events; assisting with the construction and wiring of internal construction projects. In the later years of my job I was responsible for coordinating all aspects of match night presentation for sporting events. My position has gave me a wealth of experience and knowledge in a variety of areas, whilst demanding I demonstrated initiative and innovation at all times.

Throughout the first term of my degree I held a part-time role in the Client Services team at TH_NK. My primary responsibilities were the maintenance and creation of websites. This involved generating markup in the form of CSS and XHTML, and updating databases. The role give me some digital agency experience whilst improving my technical skills.