Hamish Gavin Email & Phone Number

Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Within the Strategic Solutions area of Converge International, coordinating consultants (psychologists, social workers & clinically appropriate counsellors) for urgent Critical Incident support

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Bookings for critical incidents, focus on customer relations, coordination between consultants and clientsClient services representative for one of Australia's largest Employment Assistance programs.

Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Administration tasks in support of the carer support payment system Processing claims, escalating issues, communicating with formal providersAdhering to Ministry of Health administration processes

Luneburg, Germany

Assistant and contributor/coordinator of aspects of the communityTaught Music and English to the various international volunteers and the special needs children housed in the communityCreated cultural projects, concerts, film projects to advertise and enrich the communityA wide variety of responsibilities including farm and animal upkeep, construction laboring, social media content creation, teaching and care for the special needs children that live in the farm and communityAssisted in construction, leading carpentry and painting teams, building several bespoke houses using sustainable techniques

London, United Kingdom

A mix of office administration, coordination of a design creative team, delivery and coordination of navigation elements and content creation for promos and social media teams within BBC CreativeManaging the asset library for BBC Creative in-house designers, including file management systems Backing up, logging and coordinating Designers workResearch, admin, creation and delivery of all Navigation imagery across BBC channels ONE, TWO and FOURDesigning Navigation slides using PhotoshopAdobe Photoshop, After Effects, InDesign & Cinema4D usedDelivery and project management of trails, idents and blips Directing of voice over and audio sessions, overseeing of EditsCreative work:Camera operation and editing for social media contentBehind the Scenes featurettes filmed & edited for brands such as Eastenders and Sounds of the 80sCo-ordination of shoots and assisting on set

London, United Kingdom

Managing content delivery of Assets for Video On Demand platformsClients include UKTV, BT, Sky and also Brightcove, Youview and VirginMonitoring of Automated transcodes and deliveriesOperation of transcode software - Vantage, Rhozet and Elemental Training of new operators and freelancers in client specific workflows

Auckland, New Zealand

Planning and scheduling promotional content for New Zealand channels TV3 and FOURAdministration of Creative departmentQuality checking and delivery of promotions for on-arProducing of brand themed promosAvid editingVoice over directingCreative writing of Promo and menu contentCo-ordination and allocation of promos throughout departmentProduction assisting on promos shootsDetailed Description:Involving administrative tasks centered around the day to day running of the promotions team. Scheduling of promotions for the daily log a high priority as is the management of instructional paperwork for creative producers' work loads.I branched out in this position to the creation of promotions for on air using AVID. Creative skills were highly valuable in this position, in making the most effective selling points for on-air content, with quick turnover schedules. Working closely with other departments such as marketing was important, to make sure high priority promotions were distributed amongst platforms, online in particular. The job included production assisting on set with promo shoots and one of the exciting things about this position was the various of tasks. I worked alongside many other departments including graphics, transmission, programming, news and sales.

Auckland, New Zealand

Focus on quality control, technical operation and monitoring of content. Working closely with Transmission, Tape Library, News Media Exchange and Traffic. Moved into preparing content for on-air using Avid. This including adding break titles, transitions and credit squeeze effects. Ingest of material for broadcastOperation of broadcast software; IBMS, Topaz Mass Store, Media ClientMonitoring and recording of live feedsEditing of material for Broadcast using Avid Media Composer

Auckland

Camera operation for eventsSetting up of equipmentOperation of HD camera equipmentEvents include political speeches, conferences & lecturesVideographyEditing

Dunedin

A volunteer position at local Dunedin television station Channel 9 that I undertook at the same time as studying towards my undergrad. Experience gained in multiple areas of television, including producing, VT operation, transmission, editing and live on air-directing. Started camera operation and moved into producing entire episodes of local student TV show COW TV.Producing of segmentsEditing (Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas)Studio camera operationFloor managingOrganizing guests and content

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Media, Film And Communication Studies, Honours

Completed postgraduate Honours dissertation (2011) Minor in Music - Session Drumming Including papers in Philosophy, Religious Studies.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Cultural Ambassador 2007 NCEA Level 3 (University entrance) Prizes in Classics and English