Author of 'Short Films: Writing the Screenplay' published by Kamera Books of London as part of their Creative Essentials series (launched with panel event at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in Jan 2012. Available on Kindle and launched in USA in June 2012). Author of Crime Fiction Novel 'Murder in the Lakelands' (adapted with Arts Council NI support from my 2010 BBC Tony Doyle Awards feature screenplay of same name. The screenplay was a finalist in that competition as well as a semi-finalist in the Scriptalooza International Screenplay competiion in the USA). I've written three feature screenplays and twenty short screenplays from 8 to 35 pages (8 to 35 minutes). Six of these were half hour dramas. I've also written two one-hour dramas for television. I've directed, produced and edited short films, a music video and other productions. Grand Prize Winner 2013 Shoreline Scripts Screenwriting Competition, Award Winner 2010 Page Awards in Hollywood; Award Winner 2012 Colorado Film Awards; Winner of a City & Guilds Lion Award presented at a red carpet event at The Roundhouse, London in March 2012. Winner of two Arts Council NI Awards in 2010 and 2013; Winner of a Medal of Excellence for my Diploma in Film & Media with the Nerve Centre, Derry in 2010-11. I've been a Finalist in 13 international screenplay competitions in USA, UK and Ireland in last four years with over 20 semi-finalist and quarter finalist results as well and an Honourable Mention at the Amsterdam Film Festival's feature screenplay competition. I'm a member of the Oscar accredited Foyle Film Festival's short film competitions selection panel and jury, a member of the Derry Writers Group; Filmbase, Dublin and Shooting People.Org. I've mentored writers and filmmakers at Kultburo Film Lab in Moscow, April 2013. Literary Agent: Julian Friedmann of Blake Friedman Literary, Film & TV Agency, First Floor, Selous House, 5 Mandela Street, London NW1 0DU. Contact: julian@blakefriedmann.co.uk

I was a production manager in charge of various manufacturing production units in the plant throughout my 15 years there including Photolithography Dept, Vacuum Deposition Dept, Plating, Test, New Photo and New Vacuum. This involved managing day to day operations and teams of production operators. I also worked with the R&D Dept, Production Yield Team, Training Dept and was involved with Six Sigma project teams on cost reduction and production efficiency projects. I was the Incident Team Leader and Safety Rep for my shift and was awarded the Seagate 'Presidents Award for Excellence' in 2006 for my work as Incident Team leader. I also worked with the plant's Environmental Health & Safety Dept. I sometimes had responsibility for an entire shift (4 shifts in plant) of 300 plus operators and technicians when covering for the shift managers. Basically a wide range of complex tasks in an intense High technology environment. The company manufactures hard disc drives for the world's computer industry and the American owned company is one of world's largest disc drive manufacturers. The plant in Springtown, Derry where I worked was a billion dollar state of the art hi-tech plant with 1,400 employees. It specifically manufactured read write heads for the hard drives and data storage devices used by the worldwide computer industry. This was in a NASA like 'state of the art' clean room facility using nano-technology. 20% of the world's read write heads were manufactured in this one plant. I enventually left because I wanted to follow my writing ambitions.