Technical manager advancing and overseeing events as part of the in-house venue team.

I provide freelance technical production services and management for the live event industry.

In these roles, I led on the delivery of diverse music, corporate, charity, public sector, sporting and other entertainment events ranging from One Direction to the Dalai Lama, the Sundance Film Festival to the Salvation Army, international boxing and basketball and for organisations such as Telefonica, BP, Mayor of London and the NHS for audiences up to 18,000.In doing so, I managed all technical aspects from initial planning to implementation in a highly pressurised environment to tight deadlines and budgets. I contributed, in particular, to the development and growth of the then fairly new indigO2 venue; building a strong team and improved set-up and technical capacity so that it was geared up to host over 200 events a year. Drawing on my industry contacts, I also helped recruit technical managers to key roles at the main Arena. My main responsibilities included:• Client liaison: Supporting and advising clients through pre-production, leading site visits and production meetings, specifying technical requirements as part of client brief. • Staff and technical management: Crew booking, co-ordination and supervision, overseeing stage and set building, seating, rigging, electrics, sound, lighting, video, live streaming and other production requirements. • Technical drawings: Using AutoCAD to develop event plans relating to venue configuration.• Health and Safety: Ensuring that regulations were met via Risk Assessments, Method Statements, CDM, PPE, Best Safe Practice, LOLER and PUWER. • Maintenance and inspection of technical assets (eg servicing sound and lighting equipment, PAT testing, rigging inspections) to ensure the safe and cost-effective use of resources. • Budgeting and resources: Assisting with staffing, purchase orders, monitoring technical consumables, ordering and organising technical kit and contributing to general budgeting and CAPEX research and costing.

Installing broadcast equipment, electrical and data cable with dB Broadcast on a freelance basis for the BBC.

Office-based and on-site event management, booking crew and equipment, liaising with clients, interviewing job applicants and organising quotes for events including the Eurostar Kings Cross launch and the PLASA show, Martin lighting stand, Earls Court.

Self-employed as a Site Manager, Crew Chief and Electrical Technician with experience in the installation and maintenance of temporary power supplies, lighting, sound and video, set and stageconstruction, climbing and ground rigging for event/clients including Live8, Mayor of London, Hyde Park Calling, Leeds Carling festival, Ford motor shows in Birmingham, Geneva, Frankfurt, Amsterdam.