Mike Ruddell Email & Phone Number

Acrefair, Gb

Crewe, England, United Kingdom

> Working with the pre-sales and solutions architecture teams to understand customer requirements and present best of breed solutions to meet business needs today and in future whilst remaining cost effective.> Supporting key accounts team broadening and deepening relationships with Blue Chip customers.> Realising opportunities for cross selling SI services to customers of other ES divisions.> Building strategy to address new market verticals such as eSports, live events, sports clubs and corporate clients.> Prospecting, pitching and developing relationships in new verticals.

Worldwide

Driving forward the rollout of the game-changing Ncam Reality Mk 2 product line to existing and new customers globally. Working across all market verticals; Film & VFX, Sport & Broadcast and Live Events & Special Projects.> From April 2020 secured repeat business with 270+ existing customers and secured new business with 240+ more.> Expanded global dealer network to 50+ across 30 countries.> Increased annual unit sales x4 over past 3 years.> Streamlined internal sales process to speed delivery and produce accurate CRM data giving actionable insights to inform strategy.> Developed revised sales and GTM strategy focussed on customer and product.

United Kingdom

Supporting NCam with Business development expertise.

London, United Kingdom

Consulting on a number of projects. Covering all aspects of traditional and digital media content production.* Business Development.* Strategy.* Operations.* Production.* Product.

Global

Acting as central point of contact between Formula E TV and international Rights Holding Broadcasters during the planning and Broadcast of the 2019/20 season.

United Kingdom

Providing technology consultancy services to Zwift to help grow their Esports offering.

International

Assisting. SSIMWAVE develop their client base in UK market.

Responsible for Sky Sports Technology Strategy & Innovation Portfolio in the Live Production field. Managing a small high performing team tasked with delivering technology solutions to bring business and customer benefits both on screen and behind the scenes.Representing Sky Sports Internally and on the industry stage and recognised as a Strategic thought leader in cutting edge TV production technologies and techniques.

• Remodeled the approach to developing, delivering and supporting technology within Sky Sports. Running a department budget in excess of £600k and delivering capital projects of circa £3M p.a.• Architected and managed the delivery of all technical aspects of Sky Sports studio and Outside Broadcast sets including display, touchscreen and augmented reality as well as traditional technologies.• Driver behind project to migrate Sky Sports F1 production infrastructure to a fully remote operation leading to seven figure efficiencies.• Driving the ongoing long term project to converge traditional broadcast and IT infrastructure.

Responsible for the technical delivery of projects with responsibilities ranging from technical consultation to overall project manager.• HD Refresh of Sky Sports News Satellite News Gathering fleet including contract negotiation. Delivering increased capability and capacity at no cost increase.• Roll out of P2 ENG equipment and workflows including training, technical specification, commercial negotiations and camera crew contracts.• Sky Sports News HD facilities upgrade delivering improved output quality against tight budget and timescale. • Harlequin 1 Program Technical Fit out. Managing the requirements and expectations of Sky Sports stakeholders as part of project to deliver State of the art production facilities.• Managed technical requirements of users during migration to a fully file-based production workflow.• Sky Sports Formula 1 production system launch and set build projects to support new channel launch.

Acting as the senior member of Operations crew within the Live Studio Production Environment. Taking overall responsibility for the technical quality of programming and proactive ownership of all issues arising. Key Liaison between creative and editorial teams to ensure requirements met by technical teams.

Taking overall responsibility for the technical quality of programming and proactive ownership of all issues arising. Key Liaison between creative and editorial teams to ensure requirements met by technical teams.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Broadcast Engineering

11 Gcses 4 A Levels, Maths, Physics, Russian