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Odyssey Business Park

• Project management of large scale file creation project to internal BBC viewing platform and digital archive• Project management of film restoration work, for external clients• Ensuring successful delivery of projects• Managing all aspects of client’s project, from scheduling to final invoice• Advising clients and peers on technical workflow solutions• Building and developing client relationships• Demonstrating and implementing efficient and cost-effective use of… Show more • Project management of large scale file creation project to internal BBC viewing platform and digital archive• Project management of film restoration work, for external clients• Ensuring successful delivery of projects• Managing all aspects of client’s project, from scheduling to final invoice• Advising clients and peers on technical workflow solutions• Building and developing client relationships• Demonstrating and implementing efficient and cost-effective use of resources• Negotiation of fees and booking of agency staff• Risk management and strategies, to prevent potential issues• Scheduling and cost tracking• Working to budgets• Project forecasting• Project tracking using bespoke database and excel• Analysis of project data to react and amend project as required• Trouble shooting any issue as they arise, in a prompt manor preventing least impact to the project• Reporting to project steering committee (using Excel charts and PowerPoint presentation)• Frequent communications to all relevant parties, to ensure all project milestones are identified, and reach on budget and schedule• Liaising in all aspects of project with, from high level stakeholder (including external partners/clients), engineering, freelance effort, operational staff etc.• Managing leave and sickness for team, as well as IT access for freelancers Show less

Television Centre

Working with internal BBC and external clients, I am responsible for delivering completed projects in the television, film archive and restoration field (frequently being long form with complex work flows), starting at the planning stage and overseeing the schedule through to delivery and invoice. I have good communication and customer service skills which I use to form a good relationship with clients. I am used to working in a highly pressurised environment with tight deadlines, and am able… Show more Working with internal BBC and external clients, I am responsible for delivering completed projects in the television, film archive and restoration field (frequently being long form with complex work flows), starting at the planning stage and overseeing the schedule through to delivery and invoice. I have good communication and customer service skills which I use to form a good relationship with clients. I am used to working in a highly pressurised environment with tight deadlines, and am able to advise on technical workflows as production demands change, & book and manage resources and staff in the most cost efficient way for the business and client. In a fast evolving industry, I am comfortable working on projects involving old archive materials, right through to the most current digital workflows. Show less

Television Centre

As a bookings manager I have worked in the format transfer services, factual and learning, Entertainment and Archive & Restoration areas.Within these areas, I have been responsible for the booking of craft staff ( in accordance to working time directives) and facilities, which meet with the clients demands and utilise our facilities to the optimum usage and most cost effective level, billing the client via the SAP system, engaging freelance staff where appropriate, and raising the… Show more As a bookings manager I have worked in the format transfer services, factual and learning, Entertainment and Archive & Restoration areas.Within these areas, I have been responsible for the booking of craft staff ( in accordance to working time directives) and facilities, which meet with the clients demands and utilise our facilities to the optimum usage and most cost effective level, billing the client via the SAP system, engaging freelance staff where appropriate, and raising the accompanying purchase requisition.These bookings have often been part of large project/contracts, which means being responsible for scheduling large complicated workflows, monitoring and amending billing, and schedules as required. Show less

Television Centre

As a section assistant in stage V film despatch and with current operations, I was responsible for material movement (including tape and film), dealing with customers enquiries regarding delivery and despatch, and resolving service recovery problems.Issuing, returning and cataloguing on INFAX and SPS systems.Meeting urgent delivery deadlines - such as edits and broadcast delivery.

Advanced Gnvq In Media Studies And Communication

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