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United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

Leading and overseeing the strategy and teams focused on cultivating technology-centric innovation ecosystems, designing and delivering national and regional scaling programmes to propel the adoption of advanced digital technologies and overcome systemic innovation challenges.

London, United Kingdom

Overseeing the delivery of all strategic R&D projects and activities within the Future Networks innovation portfolio, with the goal of accelerating the industry adoption of advanced digital technologies.

Research and writing of features articles about British life and culture for monthly English learning magazine 'Speak Up' published in Italy, Spain and Brazil.Each feature is complemented by a recorded audio interview with a spokesperson.

London, United Kingdom

Leading all innovation partnerships for Springwise, a B2B, digital innovation hub, inspiring a broad range of businesses, Governments, Universities and entrepreneurs to drive positive and sustainable change. In this role, I managed all activities related to clients, projects and delivery overseeing budget, content, creativity and output.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the overall editorial, innovation scouting and digital strategy, from the ideation to the creation of SEO optimised content including daily articles, features, newsletters, and tailored social media campaigns to drive sales growth and profitability via commerce subscriptions, enterprise services and sponsorship.Working closely with Springwise's MD, I project manage the delivery of services to clients including the production of thought-leadership and applied innovation reports.I also project manage media partnerships to support the growth of the global startup ecosystem and help business leaders in their mission to drive product development and digital transformation. In this role, I have the opportunity to identify emerging industry trends, new technologies and connect with a global network of universities, incubators and innovation centres including UK's Digital Catapult to deliver engagement activities and drive the adoption of advanced digital technologies.Springwise Intelligence is a UK based business launched in 2002 with a mission to creative positive impact through disruptive innovation.

London, United Kingdom

Working on the EU’s FP7 project PERICLES (“Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving Semantics”), co-ordinating and delivering a variety of communication and engagement activities in relation to the project's research outcomes. These included engagement with online communities, implementation of social media strategies, sharing best practices and promoting the take-up of specific technologies developed by the project. The role was based within the Digital Humanities department.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Presto4U was a two-year project supported by a core group of 14 PrestoCentre member organisations. The aim of the project was to identify useful results of research into digital audiovisual preservation and to raise awareness and improve the adoption of these both by technology and service providers as well as media owners. The project received ‘Excellent’ rating at the final EU review.Achievements:- Coordinated the launch of a Community of Practice (CoP) for Learning and Teaching Repositories, which comprised a number of higher education institutions from across Europe producing and managing audiovisual content to support education. - Planned and moderated online and offline discussions with the steering group, capturing their needs and best practices, writing reports and assessing current solutions provided by key technology suppliers. - Delivered content across social media and other agreed communications tools (e.g. project website, newsletter).- Presented CoP outcomes at Consortium meetings and project workshops. - Prepared surveys and analysed of data on digital preservation needs of CoP members.- Facilitated knowledge transfer between partners involved in other work packages.- Contributed to the completion of project deliverables under work package 2.- Organised workshop (Venice, 6-7 Nov 2014) covering the main issues and challenges surrounding the digital preservation of audiovisual content in the academic domain (https://www.prestocentre.org/calendar/future-proof-av-content-education-and-research).

London, United Kingdom

Audio recording of poetry readings and interviews with foreign language poets for the British Library Sound Archive project 'Between Two Worlds: Poetry and Translation'.

London, United Kingdom

Work within the Sound & Vision department to update metadata for the British Library’s audiovisual collection using the MARC-based catalogue. Also responsible for accessioning new acquisitions of commercially released sound recordings that arrived in various formats, and updating earlier catalogue entries which fell below the required standard.

Norfolk, Uk

Responsible for researching and producing radio documentaries for BBC Introducing, as well as assisting the presenters in the running of the news and entertainment programmes. The role included monitoring news sources, conducting interviews, writing scripts and radio cues, audio editing, logging music outputs.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the communication, events, marketing and customer service of all magazines, DVD covermounts and digital licenses across the BBC Magazines International licensing business (Top Gear, BBC History, Lonely Planet, CBeebies etc.).Achievements:- Managed the accounts of over 60 licenced editions across 33 territories providing all the editorial content and marketing material for local production in compliance with all relevant BBC editorial and advertising guidelines. - Managed the contractual requirements across the licensee base including royalty reports and performance updates.Worked with foreign partners to deliver multi-media campaigns and maximise the brand presence in each country. - Devised the annual marketing plan, managing the budget to maximise the international licensing opportunity.- Prepared PowerPoint presentations and other tools for the sales team.- Liaised with editors and contributors to ensure rights clearance and maintain brand consistency across all localised editions.- Coordinated the adaptation of Digi Beta masters for use of Top Gear TV promos in foreign editions. - Worked with the Creative and Production teams to supervise the approval process of childrens magazine covermounts distributed in licensed editions.- Managed the communication and implementation of magazine redesigns.- Helped licensees emulate best practice across news trade, consumer and subscription marketing.- Shared Ethical Policy guidelines with partners and coordinated SMETA audits. - Worked with the Digital Asset Management team to ensure copyright clearances and prompt delivery of magazine content.- Identified and coordinated brand promotion opportunities with BBC Channels.- Managed BBC Magazines’ presence at international events including FIPP World Magazine Congress and Worldwide Magazine Marketplace (WMM). - Coordinated internal and external communication and PR on new licensing business acquisitions.