Senior video news desk editor with more than three decades of experience in agency, broadcast and online newsrooms.Daily responsibility for the Reuters Video News file. Team leader and mentor.Key decision-maker for deployments, editorial direction, impartiality, health and safety, taste and decency, budgets and UGC verification.Producer, shooter, editor, writer and storyteller.

As Intake and Night Editor, responsible for bringing in scores of stories a shift, using a variety of IP and traditional delivery paths. Daily liaison with bureaux across the world.

• In 2001, I helped launch the award-winning TVNewsweb online video and broadcast industry news service.• In 2002, I developed and produced Islington Local, a groundbreaking digital video news service for the London Borough of Islington.• In recent years, I have developed, researched and written hundreds of articles for the UKTV History, UKTV Style, UKTV Documentary and UKTV Gardens websites.• Other clients include The History Channel, ITV Digital, UKTV's eText interactive television service, various Flextech websites, TVZ.tv, BBC World and Sky News.• I'm an experienced corporate writer, video producer and scriptwriter. Clients include ILO, HMRC, UniCredit, Halcrow, DuPont UK, Citrix, Infosys, Docklands Light Railway, Transport for London, the DfES, Unilever, Heinz, London Borough of Islington and Harrow Council.• Print clients include St James's House, Cornwall Today, Junior magazine, Runner's World magazine and BBC History magazine.

• Assignments included spells in Iraq, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Istanbul and various European cities. In the field, I ran newsgathering operations of more than a dozen staff.• In the newsroom, I led the Intake Desk, delivering top news stories, on time and in budget. I also worked as Night Editor, Output Editor, Eurovision Editor and Producer.• I also covered management roles, including Regional Editor.

• I undertook general subbing duties for the Sunday paper, including foreign news, general news, op-ed, leader, business, lifestyle, culture and sports sections.

General newsroom duties, including responsibility for compiling the daily news syndication service.

Clients included the Royal Shakespeare Company, Tyne Tees Television and Newcastle Playhouse.