Jeff Booth Email & Phone Number

That's it. Had enough. 2 Oscars (one of which I have held). Been there. Done that.I'll probably never get round to writing my memoirs; I'll just save the memories for the care home.Telly has been my life. Enjoyed almost every minute. Technical quality seems to be going down the pan but c'est la vie.Toodle Pip to all my friends and colleagues. Might be open to any short term work, though. Give me a call!Byee!

London, United Kingdom

Managing the relocation of the business to new premises; analysing and refining workflows and processes; specifying and selecting a replacement ERP computer system to manage an annual turnover of almost £10M.

Home Based

While caring for my disabled wife, following a serious accident, I have been doing some voluntary work locally and am now working temporarily at a local school as an advanced DBS certified examination invigilator (GCSE and A/AS level) with a view to becoming a governor.As my wife is now almost fully recovered, I am available once again for full time or contract employment opportunities.

Broadcast Centre / Nbh

Managing and leading a group of PMs working on the logistics around the occupation of the New Broadcasting House building in Portland Place. This includes staff relocation and the building, commissioning and handover of technical areas.

As a member of the Project Management team, I oversaw and managed the rollout of Phase 1 of the BBC ONE HD project in November 2010 and my team launched Phase 2 in September 2011. In addition, I managed the deployment of an ITIL compliant incident logging system and more recently, delivered a VoD archive and Catch-up solution for Channel 5 plus improvements to the Access Services solutions provided by Red Bee to the BBC.

Channel 4 Television

Responsible for the on time delivery of all programme material to the channel in accordance with Channel 4’s Technical Delivery Standards (for which I was also responsible for keeping up to date). To this end, production companies were in regular contact with me to ensure their programme deliveries are in accordance with this document.I was also responsible for ensuring that all programmes are ingested in good time to the TX servers both at Horseferry Road and at the Disaster Recovery site and for delivery (via transcoders) to the various VoD platforms in accordance with agreed SLAs.With a staff of 45, ranging from junior Technicians to experienced Shift Supervisors, my brief was to provide an accountable and cost effective service whilst maintaining the highest standards both in quality and throughput.Additionally, for live and other external contributions, my staff arranged, booked and recharged Facility Line and satellite circuits into and out of the channel while in close liaison with the production companies involved.My staff also dealt with shift rostering (using ScheduALL – with which I was heavily involved in both setting up and configuration), leave management and the booking of freelance staff during busy periods, ensuring they are adequately trained and experienced in the areas into which they have been rostered.In December 2007, my team launched a simulcast HD channel. Achieved in only ten weeks. I was closely involved with the specification of the operational areas and I implemented and arranged training on the various systems.Soon after joining Channel 4, It was clear there were huge staff savings that could be realised by revising the way the department was organised. I put this proposal to the rest of the Management Team - a salary saving in the region of £250,000 – to be achieved purely by natural wastage.

Headhunted for position of Operations Manager, reporting to the Managing Director. Supervision of 22 staff, responsibility for the smooth running of three telecine suites, five audio areas, an on-line Avid Symphony suite and a busy VTR/MCR area. Close liaison with Sales, Bookings and Engineering departments. Ensuring clients Technical Specifications are correctly written and adhered to, updating and training staff as necessary. Operational excellence being the ultimate goal for all of my staff, whilst conforming to budgetary and financial targets.Proudest moments:Working on the Oscar winning films ‘One Day in September’, directed by Kevin Macdonald and Stephen Frears’ ‘The Queen’, starring Dame Helen Mirren.

I was the Videotape Operations Manager in this busy studio complex. My duties included the day to day running of two operational areas, supervision of freelance VTR operators and overall responsibility for the Technical Quality of the recordings and edited packages

Beginning at the BBC as a clerk, I moved into Television in 1977. As part of my career progression I was sent to the BBC Engineering Training Department in Evesham for a three year block release course, while continuing my Operational and Engineering experience at Television Centre.I moved to the Videotape department in 1980 and quickly progressed to Recording Operations Supervisor, working on such live events as the marriage of Prince Charles; the marriage of Prince Andrew; the Olympics (Seoul and Los Angeles); Live Aid (for which I was responsible for the planning, supervision and facilitation of the whole London based recording team).My proudest achievements were working with Paul Hamann, grading the seven part series 'The Duty Men' which subsequently won several BAFTA TV awards, and with Gillian Lynne, choreographer of 'A Simple Man' which won the 'Huw Wheldon' award in the same year (1988).At the beginning of 1991 I was asked to rejoin ETD for three months as a seconded lecturer. This was to supervise two concurrent courses; one for new joiners and the other for staff in their final year and about to formally qualify. At the end of the secondment, I was promoted to Senior Assistant, Operations, responsible for both the Technical delivery of programmes to the BBC and the guidance of producers through the post production process. This made me the main point of contact for all programme and transmission related issues. It was also at this time that I decided to completely rewrite the BBC's Technical Delivery Document, as it was by this time, somewhat out of date.In 1995, following an invitation to tender by BBC WorldWide, I was asked to plan and implement a format conversion and dubbing project for a 3year/£6M contract to bring all programme dubbing for BBC WorldWide 'in house'. This project was completed ahead of schedule and within the allocated budget.