Robert Howells Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for project management and delivery of BBC internal mobile apps.• Scrum manager for internal development of iOS apps, Windows Mobile apps, RESTful APIs and webapps for desktop users.• Management of external development agencies, including drafting and negotiating contracts (side-by-side with BBC legal team) and agreeing budgets.• Creation of specification documents for internal and external developers, bringing together and advising on the project specification requirements from the rest of the Mobile Delivery Team, including user stories and technical requirements.• Meeting with and managing stakeholders, both internal and external, for the BBC's suite of internal apps.• Gathering user requirements for mobile apps and related web admin interfaces.• Managing exploratory testing framework and resulting feedback for mobile apps and related web admin interfaces.• Developing and implementing a product roadmap for mobile applications and middleware.

London, United Kingdom

• Creating and overseeing implementation of a digital strategy for BBC Radio Drama London including working to increase the social media presence of radio drama and readings• Working with external partners, including major book publishers and charities, on complex projects such as the National Short Story Award• Trialling and feeding back new ways of working on behalf of the department, such as Box, Huddle, Highlander, iPads, including meetings with external companies• Training team members in groups and one-to-one sessions and being a point of contact for technical issues. Includes software training, studio recording and editing advice, photography and picture manipulation training, and video recording and editing• Shooting, editing and uploading video for BBC programme pages• Recording (as studio manager) and technical post-production of radio programmes for broadcast and online• Directing actors and writers in studio as they read stories and books and act in plays• Working with contracted writers to develop programme ideas and scripts for BBC Radio networks.

London, United Kingdom

• Taking responsibility for and coordinating the finances and logistics of radio readings and dramas, including the contracting and payment of contributors, all to tight, fixed schedules and for a range of stakeholders

London, United Kingdom

• Working with programme suppliers, the Head of Planning and Scheduling and Radio 4's Commissioning Editors to place programmes in the network's schedule

London, United Kingdom

• Overseeing delivery of programme audio and paperwork for Radio 4• Managing a complex operational schedule to make sure the network ran to time and that programmes were of the required high quality