Riva Nicholls Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Current role as a Playout Director for Red Bee Media across BBC channels. - Exporting and preparing schedules for transmission on BBC channels including BBC One North, BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, Cbeebies, Red Button and APTV News. Using attention to detail to ensure schedules are delivered as intended, making necessary changes if required. - Operating broadcast equipment, ensuring output is accurate and reacting quickly and appropriately to on-air incidents, for both live and pre-recorded materials. This can include making on-air changes, deploying disaster recovery plans and ensuring standbys are available.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Previously worked as a Live Simulcast & VOD Operator for Prime Focus Technologies, supporting the delivery of Channel 4 content across VOD platforms.- Ensuring programmes are delivered to VOD platforms by deadline, being proactive in spotting and escalating any issues to the dedicated support team. Liasing with Channel 4 via email and during regular meetings to ensure their requirements are being met, especially during "Golden Events" in which live programmes have a short VOD turn-around. - Monitoring live transmission across Simulcast for all of the main channels across the network, ensuring the output is as expected and switching to a back-up feed if neccesary.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Temporary role as a Traffic Assistant for Channel 4.- Managing advertising products and commodities, checking breaks and sequencing commercials with due care to ensure they are compliant with broadcast regulation for transmission for Channel 4's channels and partners, including UKTV and Discovery. - Viewing contentious programming ahead of transmission to assess appropriate commercial content and distributing detailed notes to the immediate and broader sales team.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Previous role as a Media Management Operator for Red Bee Media across BBC channels.- Liaising with Playout Director's and Duty Editor to ensure critical BBC content is delivered safely in time for transmission on all of the main channels including BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, World News, CBBC, Cbeebies & Red Button. - Completing lines records for close to transmission content, whereby the content is played down the line from the source and recorded directly onto our servers. Then inserting the timecodes and QC the content before informing the PD's it is ready for transmission. - Prioritising tasks based upon their importance and ensuring any issues with file deliveries and workflows are resolved in a timely manner. This ensures that Red Bee Media meets it's requirements set by the BBC.- Monitoring and escalating issues with VOD workflows for Channel 5, to ensure content is delivered to each platform by the deadline.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Completed a full-time internship for Sheffield Hallam Students' Union working as a Learning and Development Assistant (within Diversity, Equality & Inclusion). - Helping to develop dynamic learning and development content focused on equality, diversity and inclusion.- Working with the Skills & Development Team to curate existing materials and create new learning content and transform this into digital learning using the iSpring 9 authoring tool.- Managed projects including developing an appropriate training plan for continuous F.R.E.D.I.E (Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Engagement) learning as well as planning and conducting an interactive training session to educate new staff members.

London, United Kingdom

Worked as a Digital Producer for the Disney websites across EMEA, during a one-year internship for The Walt Disney Company.- Primarily focused on movie webpages, regularly completing important updates using Disney's bespoke CMS (Content Management System) software ensuring integrity and quality of all material published.- Took a lead role in several projects involving third party retailers, including a Cars 3 Mattel deal and implementing Powster throughout the website.- Used gained CMS skills to build the Official Solo: A Star Wars showcase page across 23 markets. This page featured paid promotion which brought in revenue for Disney Interactive.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Worked during studies as a Customer Service Advisor for Regus in three of their Sheffield offices. - Responsible for the front desk, regularly using software such as MS Office and Regus’ bespoke CMS to complete day-to-day tasks.- Being organised in ensuring the individual needs of each company were met since Regus accommodates office space to multiple companies.- This role allowed the implementation of existing customer service skills whilst improving IT knowledge and experience.

Bachelor'S Degree, Media, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Steel Students (Treasurer), Go KartingStudying Media at Sheffield Hallam University provided the opportunity.

A-Level Business, Media & It, Bbb

Gcse, 7 A-C Grades Including Maths, English And Science