Experience

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  Box To Box Films

  • United Kingdom
  • Entertainment Providers
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Producer Director : 'Tour De France, Unchained' [Season 2]

    • Apr 2023 - Aug 2023

  • Producer Director : 'Tour De France, Unchained' [Season 1]

    • Apr 2022 - Aug 2023

  • Producer Director: 'Six Nations, Full Contact'

    • Nov 2022 - Apr 2023

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  BRITESPARK FILMS LIMITED

  • London and locations worldwide

  • DV Director/ Shooting AP

    • Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
    • London and locations worldwide

    Combining specialist factual and ob doc, this prime time six part series sets out to take viewers on an idealised trip on the world's most beautiful railways.Co- produced as Shooting AP on feature length episodes: Sicily, Germany and Cumbria. DV Directed on Cornwall's Most Scenic Railway Journeys.Responsible for Cross shooting, stylised glossy GV'S, single camera and actuality sequences.

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  Outline Productions

  • Chepstow, Wales, United Kingdom

  • Locations Manager/ Producer

    • Jan 2020 - May 2020
    • Chepstow, Wales, United Kingdom

    • Responsible for producing editorial running orders and creative content for highly in Rome and Puglia, Italy with high-profile, on-screen talent. • Utilising highly conversant Italian on locations and demonstrating highly proficient location management skills to supervise large technical crews whilst supporting high profile talent.

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  Back2back Productions Ltd.

  • Brighton, England, United Kingdom

  • Self-Shooting AP / DV Director

    • Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
    • Brighton, England, United Kingdom

    • Secured strong A and B stories using for large scale logistical move stories in the shipping and global freight distribution industries across port site locations in the USA, UK, Spain, Germany and Denmark. • Gathered run-and-gun Ob Doc actuality to a high broadcast standard on Canon XF305 and XF705 and range of Go pros as both A and B cam shooter under very challenging and time sensitive conditions during loading operations.• Delivered high quality audio and contributor sync whilst sweeping up highly engaging depth of frame covering/ b-roll shots.

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  Twofour Group

  • Plymouth, United Kingdom

  • Shooting Assistant Producer

    • Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
    • Plymouth, United Kingdom

    • Succeeded in sourcing and working up highly detailed pre-production factual research whilst gaining difficult access to institutions, companies, private collectors and specialists. • Created demo experiments and creatively coming up with VT ideas in order to simplify complicated engineering content. • Highly skilled at operating non-sync glide track and GV’s on Canon 5D and Sony a7SII DSLRs for featured engineering main mega structure segments and VT shoots both nationally and internationally during production.• Filmed extensively as part of a close-knit two man crew across the United States, collaborating with high profile aeronautical corporations including Lockheed Martin, as well as the US Navy for privileged coverage of the F-35 Jet striker programme and embedded access to the US military Stryker ICV battalions live fire training exercises in Germany.

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  Wag Tv Limited

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Assistant Producer

    • Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
    • London, United Kingdom

    Responsible for specialist pop-science and engineering story sourcing and contributor profiling across worldwide territories, including the USA, Spain, Italy and Benelux countries. Setting up filming schedules, writing shooting scripts, edit-producing featured stories, including story on the manufacturing journey of the 'FENDER STRATOCASTER' whilst using fluent Italian and Spanish to liaise with press offices and filming councils, gaining access at manufacturing facilities and production sites on behalf of self-shooting Directors.

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  Curve Media Limited

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Locations Assistant Producer

    • Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
    • London, United Kingdom

    - Location clearance and scouting in Sicily and Belgium. - Confidently phone bashing and gaining access at stately palaces, making reccee casting tapes and seeking out antique dealers, salvage yards and individual sellers at flea markets whilst using Italian and French language skills to progress past difficult gatekeepers.

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  Flame Television Production Limited

  • Lambroke Grove, Notting Hill

  • Assistant Producer

    • Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
    • Lambroke Grove, Notting Hill

    - Story AP responsible for establishing neighbourhood dispute stories and collecting supporting evidence and rights of reply from contributors. - Currently working on locations with new contributor sets, filming master interviews and actuality reconstructions across the country. --------------------About Flame Television: Flame TV is one of the UK’s leading independent television production companies, specialising in devising popular formats and factual programming. The company was formed in 1999 and has established an enviable reputation for producing hundreds of hours of innovative and compelling television for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, FIVE, UKTV, Living and Discovery.To find out more about our output please visit our website: http://www.flame.tv.co.uk

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  Aquitude

  • Virtual

  • Events Manager and Virtual Assistant

    • Feb 2014 - Aug 2017
    • Virtual

    Aquitude is a strategic marketing and leadership development consultancy. At Aquitude, we help you engage and have meaningful dialogue with your key stakeholders – your employees and your customers.We have experience in:- customer engagement- community management across platforms (online, mobile, tablet),- using integrated social media campaigns to enhance your brand’s reputation and- engage in authentic 2 way dialogue with your stakeholders.My main responsibilities include: - Coordinating and managing Mrs Ioannidis's online conversation engine programme,'PowerBlitz', the world’s only “Conversation Engine” for Heads of Office at Sony Music Entertainment, amongst other multinational companies. -Continued performance of administrative duties, including transcription and coding services and customer engagement across an international context.

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  A Place in the Sun

  • Chorleywood, South West Hertfordshire

  • Spanish Speaking TV Researcher

    • Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
    • Chorleywood, South West Hertfordshire

    Research led role with Freeform Productions for Channel 4. My main duties include:-Calling contributors for upcoming programmes/ episodes for the show and producing a detailed written profile for the Director based on a deep understanding of their story/motivations-Sourcing properties based on the contributors wish-list, calling agents and booking them into a recce schedule prepared for the Programme Director-Securing general permission to film in towns/villages/beaches etc.-Researching and assessing the local property market and compiling information about the main area prior to filming on notable locations including Spain and Portugal

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  Weydon School

  • Farnham, Surrey

  • Spanish Foreign Language Assistant

    • Nov 2014 - Jun 2016
    • Farnham, Surrey

    My role as a Spanish foreign language teacher is to improve pupils' communication skills (in particular oral skills) and develop their knowledge of Spanish society, culture and language. My main duties include: - Conversation practice with pupils up to the ages of 16- Lead speaking oral activities independently with small groups of pupils -Exam preparation and intensive educational support

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  Tutor Doctor

  • Surrey, Countywide

  • Linguistics and History Tutor

    • Oct 2013 - Jun 2016
    • Surrey, Countywide

    I have taught History to GCSE level for the past two years, specialising in key topics of the GCSE curriculum, including: The American Civil War, The Boom and Bust of America in the 1920's, The Rise of Germany, c.1929-47 and Medicine Through Time. I can also provide thorough teaching on the 15th and 16th century conquests of the New World.Concurrently, I have been teaching Spanish to all levels and abilities for three years, but I specifically tutor language students to A-level and beyond. I am able to provide linguistic tuition for Italian to GCSE level.

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  Surrey County Council

  • Surrey, England

  • Surrey County Council Tutor (Alternative Learning Programme Referral)

    • Oct 2014 - May 2016
    • Surrey, England

    Worked as part of the countywide Surrey Alternative Learning Programme (SALP), providing educational services, including literacy and mathematics for permanently excluded pupils. The programme also aims to help vulnerable learners achieve more on accredited courses, reduce the number of young people 'not in education, employment or training' (NEET) and make young people more employable.Through a partnership approach involving local mainstream secondary schools, Surrey County Council, 11-19 networks and other alternative learning providers, SALP offers programmes at short stay schools (pupil referral units) and network projects.

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  SyBlue

  • Research and Resources Consultant

    • Apr 2013 - Aug 2015

    Here at SyBlue, we are seeking to build on our HR heritage and have expanded across several other functions. Our dedicated research team has a particular reputation for knowing what good looks like and attracting top talent to a range of organisations from start-ups to multinationals.Through working with a group of experts, SyBlue provides an insight into the change mechanisms for organisations who have innovation and people innovation at the top of their agenda.I have been responsible for the coordination of executive search entry input and mind and talent mapping projects at Syblue.My main duties have included:- Building employer brand awareness in a managed fashion and within specifically targeted candidate pools-Effective external succession planning- Proactively anticipating and investigating personnel requirements so that hires can be predicted accurately and made on a timely basis- Managing the risk of recruitment by reducing the potential for failed searches and optimising talent procurement.

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  Pioneer Productions

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Junior Researcher

    • Apr 2015 - May 2015
    • London, United Kingdom

    Pioneer Productions is prolific across a broad range of programme genres including lifestyle, factual entertainment, history, science and drama-docs. The company has made over 700 hours of programming, sold in over 60 countries worldwide. Pioneer's clients include Discovery Channel, PBS, National Geographic Channel, History, ABC, TLC, Discovery Canada, WGBH, WNET, Discovery Europe, Travel Channel, HGTV, and in the UK, Channel 4, Channel 5, the BBC, and ITV.Throughout a period of contractual agreement, I assisted Senior Producer, Annie Mackinder and Senior Director, Tom Stubberfield in preparation for filming of the third series of 'Strangest Weather on Earth'. My main responsibilities were composed of:- Researching and incorporating practical science demonstrations into story pitches, which were successfully signed off by the Series Producer and The Weather Channel Executives in the USA.- Preparing and coordinating itemised production prop lists in anticipation of demonstrations that were due to take place on location in the USA during filming.- Liaising with academics and potential demonstration experts in the USA and providing effective translation services.

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  PurpleBeach

  • Richmond

  • Event Coordinator and EA at PurpleBeach

    • Oct 2013 - Mar 2015
    • Richmond

    I offer Executive Support to Mrs Annemie Ress, global HR specialist for EBay, Skype and Sony Music and Pictures Home Entertainment as well as my current employer, Mark Gilbert of Syblue Ltd. My main responsibilities include:Organising Mr Gilbert and Mrs Ress's diaries, phoning clients and scheduling appointments on a daily basis. Overseeing event logistics and catering arrangements for clientele at consecutive conference events both organised and affiliated through Mrs Ress. Assisting in the coordination and management of Mrs Ress’s personal business and people innovation enterprise, ‘PurpleBeach’.

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  Forte Arts Professional Music Company

  • London, Hammersmith, Chiswick

  • Freelance Musician and Guitarist

    • Nov 2013 - Feb 2014
    • London, Hammersmith, Chiswick

    I held a series of private music lesson with pupils of mixed abilities and age groups, orchestrating the transfer of their musical knowledge to pursue music for grades, fun or otherwise.Whilst with Forte Arts, guitar tuition was bespoke and tailored to the needs and preferences of the tutee. I am a professional musician and have been teaching lead, rhythm and bass guitar on a part time basis for the last three years.I have been playing bass and lead guitar for over 12 years and have founded and co-founded several musical groups, including the hard rock outfit, 'Cultural Other', which has gone on to receive both local and national airplay on Eagle Extra, BBC Introducing, Skunk Radio Productions, Amazing Radio and article features in Kerrang!, A Music Blog, Yea? and Pray the Music magazine.

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  HIGHWOOD PRODUCTIONS LIMITED

  • 35A Broadhurst Gardens, London NW6 3QT

  • Freelance Transcriber and QA Assistant for Highwood Productions and That’s English!

    • Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
    • 35A Broadhurst Gardens, London NW6 3QT

    My main duties consisted of:-Transcribing post -production scripts for educational programmes for Spanish learners of English for the Spanish Ministry of Education during the Autumn of 2013.- Finalising and editing transcripts, including translations from English to Spanish and vice-versa and on-screen extra parts in last series of 'That's English', in episodes filmed in varying locations around London.

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  Torino Gelato Ice Cream Parlours

  • Castelfranco Veneto, Italy

  • Freelance Retail and Marketing Translator

    • Dec 2012 - Jul 2013
    • Castelfranco Veneto, Italy

    My main responsibilities included carrying out translations of promotional and advertising material for the company from Italian to English, on a weekly basis. Furthermore, I provided fully working translations for the Torino ice cream company's product ranges and marketing strategies for an Anglophone target clientele.

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  Oxford School of English

  • Castelfranco Veneto, Italy

  • English Teacher

    • Oct 2012 - Jul 2013
    • Castelfranco Veneto, Italy

    From the beginning of October 2012 till July 2013, I worked as a TEFL teacher for ten months in a specialist English Institute called ‘Oxford School’ in the North West of Italy in Castelfranco Veneto. Oxford School Institutes offer specialised English courses to all ability levels and ages. This experience taught me a great deal about being organised with class preparation and gave me an important insight into the practical elements of teaching pupils of all ages and abilities. I was responsible for teaching all classes to using the Oxford Oxset curriculum and helped students to prepare for FCE and CAE examinations.I also invigilated and supervised examinations for all students at the end of the scholastic year.

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  Runfold Plastics Ltd

  • Liphook, Hampshire

  • Quality Control Analyst

    • May 2007 - Sep 2009
    • Liphook, Hampshire

    - Provided and produced flow diagrams with visual aids for industrial dip moulding staff on the factory floor to product specification- Conducted tests and analysis to check viability of separate components for products intended for both medical and commercial use, including medical sleeves, cannulas and enema accessories for colonoscopy etc.