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Product & Information management, Digital Asset ingest, archiving and delivery (B2B and B2C), migration of content to Akeneo PIM

Responsible for content delivery to BBC Worldwide’s rights & distribution solution MediaMaestro (part of the Futureworks project); Led the content data strategy, establishing the new logical data model, addressing legacy mappings/translations, managing data cleanse, augmentation and migration tasks, and ensuring that the content data requirements of the other project work streams were met.

Management of TV content/product data (covering TV, VOD, Formats, Extracts and NT/E&T sales) in BBC Worldwide systems, including brand and financial metadata to enable product profitability & key business analysis, and ensuring that Worldwide had acquired the rights to exploit before releasing into the marketplace; Development & implementation of a new platform for Video and long- and short-form Digital publishing, in order to support the end-to-end process from commissioning, through to… Show more Management of TV content/product data (covering TV, VOD, Formats, Extracts and NT/E&T sales) in BBC Worldwide systems, including brand and financial metadata to enable product profitability & key business analysis, and ensuring that Worldwide had acquired the rights to exploit before releasing into the marketplace; Development & implementation of a new platform for Video and long- and short-form Digital publishing, in order to support the end-to-end process from commissioning, through to licensing and payaways (OracVideo); Product management and process support for new business areas such as online services (BBC.com), games and apps; Strategic development for a data governance and a new content management system to enable future growth and improve rights accuracy and reporting - this ultimately fed into the Futureworks project; Management of BBC Worldwide’s Rights Archive licencing obligations under the Fair Trading Agreements, including First Option Offers. Show less

Management of TV catalogue/product data in BBC Worldwide systems, including brand and financial metadata to enable product profitability & key business analysis, and ensuring that Worldwide had acquired the rights to exploit before releasing into the marketplace; Design and launch of TV sales product database in September 2000 (OracTV); Management of BBC Worldwide’s Rights Archive licencing obligations under the Fair Trading Agreements, including First Option Offers; Management of the theatric… Show more Management of TV catalogue/product data in BBC Worldwide systems, including brand and financial metadata to enable product profitability & key business analysis, and ensuring that Worldwide had acquired the rights to exploit before releasing into the marketplace; Design and launch of TV sales product database in September 2000 (OracTV); Management of BBC Worldwide’s Rights Archive licencing obligations under the Fair Trading Agreements, including First Option Offers; Management of the theatric reversion process with BBC Films; Guidance to sales teams on rights and clearances; Development & maintenance of the original TV sales website (bbcworldwide.com); research and analysis for sales and management reports. Show less

Data cleanse and content maintenance on TV sales processing system (SPS); preparation of all discounted cashflows to support TV Sales investment cases for 3 years; completed a full review of the TV sales catalogue as part of the Rights Archive implementation; research and analysis for sales and management reports.

I established an end-to-end process to support the new business, and had a direct relationship with clients, responsible for catalogue research, rights checking and ordering of viewing & master materials. I was based in New York for 3 months.

Provided the full range of secretarial duties, with responsibility for the TV Sales Investment Committee minutes; data cleanse of existing TV sales catalogue on HARRIS mainframe; assisted with tv launch schedules for UKGold.