Simon Brett Email & Phone Number

Great Kingshill, Gb

London, United Kingdom

• Ensured live edits continued during the COVID 19 crisis with minimal notice and time to complete the transition to remote working. Evolved the initial solution into a slick and reliable set of offerings• Providing Technical support and services for large facility with a group total of over 60 cutting rooms, 6 on line suites, 5 pro tools suites along with busy MCR environments. • Lead in house Post Production support team to ensure systems remain current, efficient and downtime is kept… Show more • Ensured live edits continued during the COVID 19 crisis with minimal notice and time to complete the transition to remote working. Evolved the initial solution into a slick and reliable set of offerings• Providing Technical support and services for large facility with a group total of over 60 cutting rooms, 6 on line suites, 5 pro tools suites along with busy MCR environments. • Lead in house Post Production support team to ensure systems remain current, efficient and downtime is kept to a minimum• Offering advice to productions regarding camera and workflow choices• Working closely with Operations team to ensure workflows are correctly designed, tested and implemented in a timely fashion• Researching and implementing solutions to move Post environment to fully tapeless workflows ensuring relevant compliance is adhered to at each stage• Supporting Post team with ongoing DPP deliveries and ensuring resources are available and approved• Front line engineering support as well as suggesting additional resources that will help grow the business through efficiencies both in terms of cost and time saving• Responsible for key business relationships with primary vendors and support partners to ensure we are correctly covered yet are also seeing value for money• Management of EditShare, Isis and Nexis storage systems• Working closely with other business units in the group to leverage purchasing deals, MSA’s, SLA’s and to generally lead the way in researching and sharing new technologies Show less

• Oversaw technical and personnel management of a large and busy internal facility• Worked closely with territory production managers and coordinators to ensure resources were available, staffed and that downtime was minimal• Assisted with transition to full file based workflows both in post and through to TX • Developed media management best practice for Avid Interplay environment across 17 off line, 5 on line suites with 3 pro tool studios.

Shepherds Bush, London, United Kingdom

• Oversaw daily operations for Nat Geo and Fox channels across UK and Africa via four different TX platforms. Covering both in- house post production environment as well as transmission and distribution via multiple playout and VOD platforms.• Managed relationships with suppliers, platforms and playout centres ensuring contractual obligations are met and SLA’s are correct and adhered to.• Managed in house technical team offering support at both a front line and an advisory… Show more • Oversaw daily operations for Nat Geo and Fox channels across UK and Africa via four different TX platforms. Covering both in- house post production environment as well as transmission and distribution via multiple playout and VOD platforms.• Managed relationships with suppliers, platforms and playout centres ensuring contractual obligations are met and SLA’s are correct and adhered to.• Managed in house technical team offering support at both a front line and an advisory level.• Directly managed team of 13 across 4 different specialist areas such as Media Traffic and Library, Compliance and QC, Digital Media Operators and Data Wranglers – working with junior, senior supervisor, section managers and department heads. • Developed work order system from being post it notes stuck on tapes, to a trackable, clear and easy to use MS InfoPath solution. • Instilled a client facing mentality to our internal operators. Worked with solution providers on delivery mechanisms such as Signiant and Aspera. • Indirectly supporting teams from other business areas such as Programme editing, On Air Promos and Marketing teams– offering support and guidance on technical issues as well as providing or enabling training in key areas to 45+ heads. • Responsibility for Op’s maintenance, stock and hardware budgets and CapEx as well as oversight of playout costs from BSkyB. Show less

Shepherds Bush, London, Uk

• Managed a busy internal facility covering support for 7 non linear edit suites, 3 graphics stations, 2 audio suites and VTR. • Responsible for research into and acquisition of new equipment to help the channel grow and stay up to date with industry developments. • Daily duties ranged from storage management through to developing workflows to encoding content to an ever increasing variety of file formats. • Provided technical support and advice to busy promos and programming… Show more • Managed a busy internal facility covering support for 7 non linear edit suites, 3 graphics stations, 2 audio suites and VTR. • Responsible for research into and acquisition of new equipment to help the channel grow and stay up to date with industry developments. • Daily duties ranged from storage management through to developing workflows to encoding content to an ever increasing variety of file formats. • Provided technical support and advice to busy promos and programming departments and meeting the needs of 3 channels, both for internal solutions and researching and costing external work. • Pivotal role in the launch of the both National Geographic and FX UK HD Channels including equipment purchase and staff training, which has been on going, particularly involved in HDCAMSR and Dolby E encoding to meet the strict standards of BSkyB. • Researched, designed and implemented tapeless workflows including internal operations and deliverable material. Show less

Denham/Perviale

VT OPERATOR (2 yrs.) MCR SHIFT SUPERVISOR (3 yrs.) • Responsible for the day-to-day operations of a busy machine room. Communicating with other departments with regard to machine availability and allocation. • An understanding of all the machinery in the room as well as offering assistance and training to all departments when needed. Produced both broadcast and duplication masters across a variety of formats to different client specifications. • Use of D1, D2, Digi Beta, Beta SP… Show more VT OPERATOR (2 yrs.) MCR SHIFT SUPERVISOR (3 yrs.) • Responsible for the day-to-day operations of a busy machine room. Communicating with other departments with regard to machine availability and allocation. • An understanding of all the machinery in the room as well as offering assistance and training to all departments when needed. Produced both broadcast and duplication masters across a variety of formats to different client specifications. • Use of D1, D2, Digi Beta, Beta SP, 1'', MPEG IMX, DVCAM, HDCAMSR, DVD, VOD and VHS. Both standard and aspect ratio conversions. Use of GVG matrix, encdoders/decoders, legalisers, limiters, synchronizers and delays. • Use of linear edit suite, closed caption insertion/decoding and subtitling. Giving feedback to manager on a regular basis with regard to machinery status as well as scheduling of jobs. Responsible for 2-3 staff within VT. Show less

Eyot Gardens, Hammersmith

VT operator in busy machine room covering duplication, standards conversion as well as slow mo replays and down the line recording, often 5 or more matches at once for Premier League. Duties ranging from tape duplication, using all the main broadcast formats and standards conversion using an Alchemist converter, to tape op' in the gallery on live events like Premier League Football as well as on location such as Rolland Garros and Wimbledon. Also responsible for Satellite and Line recordings… Show more VT operator in busy machine room covering duplication, standards conversion as well as slow mo replays and down the line recording, often 5 or more matches at once for Premier League. Duties ranging from tape duplication, using all the main broadcast formats and standards conversion using an Alchemist converter, to tape op' in the gallery on live events like Premier League Football as well as on location such as Rolland Garros and Wimbledon. Also responsible for Satellite and Line recordings and assisting in the smooth running of MCR operations. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Looking after clients who have come to use the edit suites and studio. Striping tapes, cleaning the VT machines, being the tape op. on major edits and generally helping with the Post Production process. Working closely with MCR and the VT Library, assisting with the rigging and operation of the studio and being on hand to help with the smooth running of the facilities.

Theatre And Media Studies

Theatre and Communication Studies

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