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West London

Keeping the portfolio managed to all UK Broadcast platforms, mobile apps and Apple TV, monitor services and swapping live gallery studio feeds. Managing media, recording live feeds for uses on multi-channel services, ensuring all obligations are kept to this e-commerce business and sole responsibility for monitoring their European services out of hours. Being a non-traditional MCR role the job also includes dealing with website queries regarding ordering and product. Activating the companies daily 24 hour special event offer. Test ordering products, dealing with VRU problems on the automated ordering line and keeping up basic copy adjustment to their website

Ensure broadcast services are maintained and remain on air to Virgin Media’s TV customer 24/7, resolving issues in line with SLA, maintaining logs and continually checking all services.

Re-cut prepared Scandinavian subtitles to fit into Ofcom re-purposed content pre 9pm watershed. Send subtitles on to online service for streaming of content. Preview media for Credit and Promotional timecode opt in/outs and for total programme duration and basic BSS data entry

London

NOC (MCR) Shift Supervisor ensuring the Playboy TV network is broadcasting at all times. Monitoring of outgoing and return feeds. Schedule checks and correction. Media retrieval and location to & from broadcast servers. Creating file formats for clients. Producing VOD content to Digibeta. Adhering to Playboy UK broadcast procedures and keeping content 7 days clear of broadcast. Assisting staff in internal and external departments.

NOC (MCR) Operator ensuring the Playboy TV network is broadcasting at all times. Monitoring of outgoing and return feeds. Schedule checks and correction. Media retrieval and location to & from broadcast servers. Creating file formats for clients. Producing VOD content to Digibeta. Adhering to Playboy UK broadcast procedures and keeping content 7 days clear of broadcast. Assist shift supervisor in any tasks required.

Complying programmes for UK transmission adhering to OFCOM rules. Strapping US promotions for use in Scandinavia. Using FCP for day to day compliance editing. Moving programmes in and out of the TX server. Informing the Programme Department of editing issues and advising of solutions. Create and use QT MOV, AIFF and WAV file types. Create Livetype projects in order to add titles on re-versioned content while keeping them as near as possible to original format and reporting library music when used. Understand basic broadcast specifications and levels.Key Achievements• Self-taught FCP while only coming to editing in 2002• Relied upon to offer information on most effective edit techniques• Producing content for PBUK’s most valued external clients.• Accurately adhering to transmission schedule to produce interstitial that run to time & contained the correct spots • Punctual delivery of material for broadcast to a range of internal/external clients.• Creating feature length masters from single episodes using creative judgement to remove shots where necessary and to edit notes, top and tailing as appropriate.• Re-versioning content by adding languages and recoding VO in-house to make it client specific. • Compliance editing from cut sheets, using IBMS (Integrated Broadcast Management System)• Organised all material used for Playboy’s Scandinavian service which was tape based interstitial to enable single item media to facilitate the move to clients in house TX and server playout.

Direct report to London West Headend Network Operations Manager. Managed team of 4. Responsibilities included fault finding and fixing; monitoring; checking baseband video and audio levels and ensuring network stability. Key AchievementsProvided hands on training, developed documentation to enable team to work unsupervised by Nov 2001. All 4 team members retained

Fault co-ordination, basic maintenance, dispatching engineers to faults, RF & IF level measurements, video and audio checks, use of Cable Network Manager & Barco software to monitor other company sites remotely and liaising with all incoming customer queries.Key AchievementsIntroduced and created monthly broadcasting newsletter (April 1999) using MS Word & Visio, This provided industry updates on broadcasting issues. This was circulated to Senior Management, operational technicians and other line managers within Telewest Communication.Introduced and created the headend information manual using MS Word. This was used as a training manual for headend operators and engineers.Introduced and created a monthly service amendments sheets using MS Excel to aid national headends to alter channel times in the event of unexpected overrun to normal hours.Successfully promoted to Senior CATV Headend Operator

Noting time codes and logging event in shoots so editing could be made easy in post production.

Played great music suitable for patients. Producer/Presenter

Btec National Diploma, Media

Diploma, Vocational Education