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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

AirTime Media is a production company specialising in creating content for the motorsport and automotive industries. As the Supervising Producer I lead the production and technical teams on a range of projects including live shows for streaming, documentaries and branded content for commercial clients.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

NEP produced the Australian Swimming Trials for Amazon Prime Video. I was involved in pre-producing segments for the live broadcast and managing the facilities for the project including the innovations, graphics and analysis.

Artarmon, New South Wales, Australia

Reporting to the Executive Director, Fox Sports responsible for overseeing all the motorsport properties on Fox Sports. Led a team of 6 direct reports and managed the relationships with multiple internal stakeholders - programming, marketing, PR, sales and acquisitions - plus all the external partners - Supercars, Formula 1, Dorna (MotoGP), IndyCar, World Rally Championship and numerous other categories. Achievements- The Fox Sports Executive Producer on the world class Supercars coverage directing talent and producers at outside broadcasts and studio hostings. This requires traveling to up to 16 events around Australia and New Zealand and overseeing all production elements including infrastructure build, managing on-air talent and staff and developing rundowns. The ratings for Supercars had double digit growth YOY from 2015-2019 - highlighted by the 502K audience for Bathurst – the biggest audience for a Supercars race on Fox Sports and in the Top 20 shows ever on STV.- Produced an Australian sporting first – Bathurst 2018 live in 4K. This involved consulting with Supercars, FOXTEL and Gravity Media to develop new systems and workflows for an end2end production in 4K. This was all achieved in under 6 weeks and was executed flawlessly to a record Bathurst audience. - Responsible for the structure and implementation of budgets across the motorsport codes. Over the past year a number of costs savings have been identified to reduce the overall budget.- Worked with the Acquisitions and Programming Teams negotiating deals for content from Sporting Bodies and Content Distributors. The highlight being the recent 5 year renewal for Supercars. - Led the Commercial relationships both internally and externally for Motorsport. Worked closely with the Sales Team to ensure that targets were achieved. Identified key automotive brands that would be looking for opportunities on Fox Sports. Developed concepts for integration that met the briefs from clients.

Artarmon, New South Wales, Australia

Led the newly formed motorsport production team for Fox Sports integrating the major acquisitions of V8 Supercars, Formula 1 and MotoGP. Achievements- Developed and managed relationships with key motorsport categories.- Launched Supercars on Fox Sports providing live exclusive feed for 8 rounds and covering the other 6 rounds live in simulcast with Channel 10.- Successful production of the Supercars events & selection of the initial production team to create the events and broadcast them in a new and exciting format designed to enhance the viewing experience. This has led to increased ratings YOY for every year of the deal.- Developed the graphics and visual look of the product working on bringing innovation to the broadcast.- Led the relationship interface between Fox Sports and Supercars coordinating the management of the broadcasting live feed which is controlled by the Supercars Media arm.- Built a Bathurst Pop Up Channel for the biggest motorsport event of the year including programming, production of exclusive documentaries and a specific graphics package. As well as expanding the digital platform led by a Bathurst App (Fox Vision). The app included world first 360 and VR content. This led to a 36% increase in TV ratings for the race.

Pyrmont

SPEED was a dedicated motorsport channel which was launched on Foxtel in November 2010. Reporting to the Director of Fox Sports Channels and led a team of 7 direct reports in all operations of motorsport on Fox Sports.Achievements- Managed the channel design which involved selection of the graphic and musical elements for the channel- Created the program schedule & managed acquisitions for the channel including securing available content and working these additions within the allocated budget.- Managed channels production, scheduling, and graphics as well as marketing/PR, digital and promosImplemented and administered all operations to budget.- Recruitment and selection of the entire SPEED team- Travelled to the US to ensure that the US and Australian SPEED brands were aligned with a pure focus on racing and negotiated content which could be integrated into the Australian market.- Negotiated deals and maintained relationships with major sporting bodies including NASCAR,Formula 1, ESPN, WRC, V8 Supercars, Dorna and IMG which culminated in securing exclusive access to content for the channel. - Worked closely with the sales team on sponsorship and integration opportunities which resulted in achieving the objective of bringing the client brief to life and designed the development of methods to integrate the advertisers brand into the broadcasts to leverage their sponsorship.

Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia

HOW TO Channel was a home renovation channel on Foxtel. In 2011 it was re-branded Lifestyle Home. Led the team of 5 direct reports for programming, promos, sales and digital.Achievements- Managed all channel acquisitions, programming and scheduling which involved negotiations to secure programming against competition from the Lifestyle Channel with a minimal acquisitions budget available. The successful program formats continue on some shows today and some aspects of the Channel were - picked up by digital free to air channels- Producer and EP on all commissioned projects.- Managed deals and relationships with distributors including BBC Worldwide, Scripps, Discovery and Fremantle Media for content and sponsorship of the show.- Partnered with the sales team on sponsorship and integration opportunities to secure major sponsors. - Led the following Key Productions;Producer on Great Australian Sandcastles Series 2-4 which has sold be sold internationallyDigital Snap Series 1 & 2 with Landmark TV highlighting the variety of uses and options for using Digital cameras.Digital Home Movie with Landmark TVYour Place Series 1 & 2 with Landmark TVLuke’s Workshop with Landmark TVAustralian Renovations with Star Jump Production with sponsor integration from St George and LaminexGreat Australian Homes with Freehand Productions

• Involved in all aspects of building and designing a new channel for launch including programming, scheduling, graphics, website, EPG and promos.• Meeting the challenge of developing what the channel was going to be and filling it with content for 24/7 broadcasting • Responsible for a number of channel operations – Building monthly schedules, program guides, marketing highlights and sales proposals. • Producer of channel commissioned productions including;- Great Australian Sandcastles Series 1- From Seed to Sold- Commonwealth Bank integrated Interstitials (Sales segments running for 3-4 moniutes selling CBA products ie home renovation loan product) which sponsored sections of the home renovations TIPs area.

Pyrmont

• Partnered with the producers on Fox Sports OBs and Magazine programs developing formats. creating rundowns, overseeing edits, writing scripts, co-coordinating talent and producing features stories.• Key Productions include;- Fox Sports Central (Live Magazine Show)- Tooheys New Shapshots (Integrated Interstitials)- Inside Basketball (Magazine Show)- Kick Boxing (Outside Broadcast)- FIM Speedway Grand Prix – Stadium Australia (Live Outside Broadcast)- Super 12 Awards (Live Outside Broadcast)- Pilot – Main Game (Magazine Show)• With pilot of Main Game integration of the masthead sports headlines from Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun bringing the sports pages into television medium which ran for 5 years.

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