Reece Witters Email & Phone Number

Gisborne, NZ

New Zealand / Worldwide

• CREATIVE SERVICES ✏️Comms Strategy, Storytelling & Copywriting, Public Relations & Media Outreach, Content Creation & Campaign Management, Brand Messaging & Positioning, Product ManagementCURRENT ASSIGNMENTS 🦺
• Creative Consultant & Marcomms for Experience Golf, a golf tourism operator specialising in US inbound, domestic and outbound NZ categories. Marketing outreach, partner materials, and copywriting.
• Creative Consultant & Creator for golf's New Zealand Open… Show more CREATIVE SERVICES ✏️Comms Strategy, Storytelling & Copywriting, Public Relations & Media Outreach, Content Creation & Campaign Management, Brand.
• Creative Consultant & Creator for golf's New Zealand Open, crafting narratives that capture the tournament's unique spirit and cultural significance by blending subcultures with enduring tradition.
• Communications Strategy at East Coast Exchange: I lead communications and media strategy at ECX, building audience engagement and expanding reach for our mission in regenerative land use.
• Content Strategy & Creation for Love Taupō: Across key audiences in golf, also contributing to mountain biking, and fishing categories, I have delivered services in both freelance and contract roles, spanning.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Production Director for a start-up golf tech project, shaping and executing a feature-rich web and app-based platform.
• Led the coordination of a fully remote team of 3D animators, Unity developers, software engineers, and designers.
• Acted as primary client interface, ensuring alignment with internal and external brand and business objectives.
• Handled brand strategy, marketing, and creative communications to enhance visibility and growth.
• Supported business… Show more
• Supported business development efforts, actively pursuing new business and commercial opportunities.

North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand

• As Product Manager at DotGolf, and a member of the Senior Leadership Team, I sat between the dev team, and the expanding clientele portfolio. At the core, DotGolf build software to grow the game of golf. With roots in.
• Taking leadership role with ideation, validation and implementation of new products, features, enhancements, discovery and competitor analysis.
• Launching discovergolfnz.com - Golf New Zealand's international tourism-focused website. My role was to project manage the site creation and delivery with the key stakeholders.
• Owning processes to support project and account management - defining functional requirements, scoping and planning.
• Leading sprint planning - resource management, client services, identifying and managing blockages, peer support (scrum methodology).
• Prioritising product roadmap with developers, aligning the product vision with the market needs and business strategy. Show less

Havelock North, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

• Led the integration of a new product into Fingermark's existing offerings, with a focus on the QSR [Quick Service Restaurant] sector.
• Served as the Subject Matter Expert in Digital Signage CMS, guiding internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Defined and validated key milestones for Fingermark’s first purely SaaS-based product, shaping its roadmap for future development.
• Collaborated with both internal teams at Fingermark’s Havelock North HQ and specialised… Show more Led the integration of a new product into Fingermark's existing offerings, with a focus on the QSR [Quick Service.
• Collaborated with both internal teams at Fingermark’s Havelock North HQ and specialised external teams in Wellington to ensure seamless product development.
• Provided technical pre-sales support and ensured customer success by engaging with both prospective and current clients.

Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

• PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
• Coordination, creation and delivery of high-fidelity virtual models, and bespoke broadcast products for use in live productions and digital applications. Overseeing robust QA of multi-client weekly deployments. Proven.
• Coordination, creation and delivery of high-fidelity virtual models, and bespoke broadcast products for use in live productions and digital applications. Overseeing robust QA of multi-client weekly deployments. Proven.
• Sitting above the Broadcast Manager, and Asset Manager, plus a team of 10+ operators. The post of ‘Head of Golf’ required razor-sharp organisational and time management skills to maintain client satisfaction and.
• Worked in 40+ countries across six continents, delivering tailored services for global clients and productions. An acute appreciation of the time zone challenges and opportunities; a reliable, authentic and available.
• With a global audience in the multi millions, live broadcasts offer uncompromising deadlines (Formula 1, Volvo Ocean Race, International Cricket, European & PGA Tours, Golf Major Championships, Ryder Cups, + more).

Dunedin / Worldwide

• Leading a permanently travelling team to deliver live, on site TV graphics for live international golf productions (European Tour Productions, Fox Sports 30+ tournaments in the season across six continents, including.
• "Best Sports Production" (The Open - where Virtual Eye performed a central role in technology offering)EMMY Television Award 2020
• Our work delivering live graphics on site at the 2019 Masters was a strong element of the CBS Sports Emmy award-winning production Show less

Worldwide

• FORMULA 1
• Providing 3D analysis animations on the F1 World Championship circuit for BSKYB’s award-winning on-site broadcast (across 20+ countries worldwide with an audience in the multi-millions), and studio-based software.
• Operating Decision Review System ball-tracking TV Animation software on multiple tours for Channel 9 (Australia - Ashes, and more) and Sky Sports TV productions (NZ); software… Show more FORMULA 1
• Operating Decision Review System ball-tracking TV Animation software on multiple tours for Channel 9 (Australia - Ashes, and more) and Sky Sports TV productions (NZ); software operation-based role with data integrity.
• Swiftly learning a new system to operate on a large scale international production. Show less

Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some like-minded friends and I worked on a project to create an eco-friendly, bamboo tee. Under the brand of 'Honest' - 'Take only divots, leave only tees', the project was widely and warmly received - mostly notably because we planted a tree with every purchase made. While the project had a short life-span, it was seemingly.

Arrowtown (The Hills / Millbrook Golf Course)

- Digital campaign ideation and execution - Social Media community management / Copywriting for various mediums - Working with key stakeholders to drive comms targets in the lead up to the event - Live tournament updates via all digital channels - Managing a small, specialised digital team

Auckland, New Zealand

COPYWRITING for brands and campaigns across various genres and digital channels such as eDM, large global websites, BTL and online advertising; Tui “Yeah Rights”, blogging, radio scripts, brochures, social media and countless other mediums including the Tui Bottle Cap QuestionsIDEATION of campaign concepts and wider comms strategies; creation and execution.

Auckland / Arrowtown (The Hills Golf Course)

- Digital campaign ideation and execution- Social Media community management- Copywriting for various mediums- Working with key stakeholders to drive comms targets in the lead up to the event- Executing digital comms strategies in the tournament lead-up- Live tournament updates via all digital channels- Managing a small, specialised digital team

Auckland, New Zealand

Sports reporting for RadioLIVE / BSport on the MediaWorks network. The network has 10 unique formats on 190 frequencies throughout New Zealand. - Compiling news bulletins for airplay on MediaWorks’ nationwide radio stations- Swift story turnaround to meet regular short deadlines- Covering International events such as: All Blacks; Australian Golf Masters.

New Zealand / Europe

Producer for the weekly award-winning BYC (Beige Brigade Podcast) podcast, recorded in radio studios in Wellington.Tour Guide for large group Beige Brigade Tours. Tours included:- All Blacks, Dublin- La Tomatina, Valencia- Octoberfest, Munich

Soho, London, United Kingdom

Golf and front-of-house assistant. Coordinating golf simulator usage for small to large groups of guests. Trouble shooting technical issues, along with general hospitality service.

Auckland, New Zealand / Australia

Evening producer on New Zealand's number one total sport station, Radio Sport. The roles and responsibilities covered the following areas:- Operating the studio desk for live talk-back broadcasts and outside broadcasts (such as All Black games, netball world championships, international cricket games, etc)- Editing and archiving audio- Programming content.

Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

If you had a hankering for fresh sweetcorn or watermelon over the hot Gizzy Summer, you'd be making a routine stops to our fresh produce roadside truck. Working alongside my local entrepreneurial cousin Andrew Witters (who went on to create R&V), we'd wrap 'em, pack 'em and dispatch 'em all over town daily. Fruit and vege was our game during the NZ Summer.

Gisborne & Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

- Collecting range golf balls using company machinery- Company machinery featured a four-wheel motorbike with a chicken mesh cage and a camping headlight

Front Lawn, Back Lawn And The Little Area By The Street

- Weekly lawn trim at my Nana's award-winning townhouse garden- Providing finishing touches such as edging and sweeping- Removal of all debris and garden waste- Client liaison, often accompanied with a Soda Stream

Diploma Of Broadcasting, Production, Journalism, Creative Writing, Announcing

Proxime Accessit (Runner Up Dux)

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