Experienced lighting cameraman available for location or studio work. 20 years with Sony / Canon / Panasonic kit. Own kit includes new Sony camera / HD monitor / set of red heads and spots / 3 radio tag mics and boom / large green screen / camera track / portable sound booth.Often available at short notice and happy to travel abroad. Very reasonable rates. Examples of work here:

CMS Video has now produced hundreds of videos for clients ranging from the BBC to local charities. They cover promotion, training and events with the aim of providing professional productions at affordable prices. There are lots of examples on the CMS Video website www.cmsvideo.co.uk and on the Vimeo pages linked to below.

Teaching students Understanding Video Technology and Video Production Techniques to BTEC National Diploma level. The role included face to face teaching with upto 50 students (in 2 cohorts) to develop their knowledge of video equipment and give them hands on experience of story telling using video. This part time role (1 day per work) ran in tandem with CMS Video and was useful in finding new clients.

Senior editor for corporate video production company. Initially using Umatic tape equipment through a vision mixer and an Amiga title generator (remember them?) for offline and Betacam for online. Progressed to Adobe Premiere on the first available commercial system. Now with 20 years experience with Adobe suite (including After Effects) creating edits and graphics for a huge range of programs.Post also included sound recording and editing, studio and location camerawork and some script writing.

Completely responsible for developing the market for a state of the art MIDI to tape SMPTE synchroniser in the UK and Europe. This literally meant demonstrating the equipment in every music shop in the UK until sales peaked at 30 units per month. This was a small start up company and the 1U rack synchroniser was developed and built in house with all the components locally sourced. Sadly after 3 years XRI System's products were superceded by computer sampling technology.

Designing systems incorporating telecommunication and data networking equipment at the quotation stage. Ensuring that the equipment proposed met all the client's requirements as well as international and BT regualtions.