General Manager UK

• Apr 2022 - Present

Heading up the UK office. Sales Lead, Customer Support and Project Implementation of Inventory 2 products. Inventory2 is specialising in inventory optimization, automatic promo & commercial scheduling for TV and Radio broadcasters globally.

Project Consultant

• Nov 2016 - Apr 2022

Sales Lead, Customer Support and Project Implementation of Inventory2 products. Inventory2 is specialising in inventory optimization, automatic promo & commercial scheduling for TV and Radio broadcasters globally.

Owner

• Apr 2016 - Apr 2022

Providing operational support, consultancy services and project management expertise to broadcasters, service providers and suppliers in the media industry. Providing operational support, consultancy services and project management expertise to broadcasters, service providers and suppliers in the media industry.

Project Consultant

• Sep 2016 - Nov 2016

Upgrade of Whats'On for MTG and Viasat World. Upgrade of Whats'On for MTG and Viasat World.

Head of Project Management Office

• Jan 2014 - Mar 2016

RESPONSIBILITIES • Oversee and deliver cross-departmental projects for the London Play Out Centre. • Provide budgets and guidance for early stage project proposals from the local offices in the Nordics, Baltics and London.• Ensure the local offices in the Nordics and other parts of the business understand the opportunities afforded by the new London Play Out Centre in supporting and enhancing their business requirements and deliver any resulting projects.ACHIEVEMENTS• Led the project implementation of the Whats’On Rights Management and Long Term Planning system across Baltics, Nordic and UK. This required bridging priorities and cultural differences between linear TV and the VOD service, Viaplay, as well as scoping and supporting interfaces to the VOD and linear platform systems.• Led the project to extract rights and schedule information of 24 channels out of Whats’On following MTG’s sale of a number of Pay TV channels, creating a new Whats’On database environment to service the new channel owners.• Delivered multiple subprojects to the new play out centre including playlist translator and dynamic graphics workflows across 20 channels.• Worked with Free TV Sweden to create an on-screen social media strategy and technical implementation for advertising campaigns and programme interaction.• Worked with MTG’s VOD service, Viaplay, on a strategy for entity IDs using EIDR Show less

Head Of Operations

• Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

RESPONSIBILITIES• Support the Head of London Play Out Centre in running MTG's West Drayton Broadcast Centre with 200+ staff and transition to a new Play Out Centre. • Undertake project management tasks as assigned.• Support the Head of London Play Out Centre in commercial contract negotiations.ACHIEVEMENTS• Supported the go live of the Channel Management System (Broadcast Master v8) upgrade project and post-go live corrections in the project manager’s absence.• Developed the strategy to transform legacy media structure to deal with Media IDs as part of the move to the new London Play Out Centre.• Took over the Whats’On Rights Management project at the project Kick Off stage Show less

Head of On-Air Planning, Free TV

• Mar 2005 - Dec 2012

RESPONSIBILITIES• Oversee department consisting of up to 35 full-time staff• Responsible for the presentation scheduling and the commercial break structure planning of 9 Nordic and 2 Hungarian free-to-air channels, liaising with the local offices on Programme Planning, Marketing and Sales priorities and optimization.• Responsible for the break inventory management in the Sales System, Landmark.• Track promotional campaign delivery versus targets and ad hoc research analysis.• Manage department budget.ACHIEVEMENTS• Used efficiencies and technology changes to transfer and integrate Previewing, Commercial Compliance and Short Form Traffic handling into the department. • Championed the use of the I2 Promo Optimiser and project managed the operational implementation to allow effective Media Planning at MTG.• Managed Dynamic Branding project implementation and strategy for 10 channels.• Added sponsorship functionality and As Run tracking to Dynamic Branding• Project managed the implementation of betting adverts with live odds for Denmark • Created a 90% reduction in department errors despite increase in responsibilities.• Used departmental skill sets to provide knowledge support across the MTG group including Media Planning in Ghana and roll out of a Channel Management and Sales Systems in the Baltics. Show less

Broadcast Operations Manager

• Aug 2003 - Mar 2005

RESPONSIBILITIES • Responsible for Programme Planning, Presentation and EPG services for ITV2, ITV3 and ITV News Channel • Deal with Broadcast Operations issues across all ITV Channels • Out of Hours duty management • Manage team of 8 staff RESPONSIBILITIES • Responsible for Programme Planning, Presentation and EPG services for ITV2, ITV3 and ITV News Channel • Deal with Broadcast Operations issues across all ITV Channels • Out of Hours duty management • Manage team of 8 staff

Presentation Manager

• Nov 1998 - Jul 2003

RESPONSIBILITIES• Programme Planning, Presentation and EPG services for ITV News Channel• Presentation scheduling for London Weekend Television, Meridian and Anglia.• Out of Hours duty management• Joint manager for team of 8 staff

Broadcast Assistant

• Jun 1996 - Nov 1998

Broadcast Research Assistant

• Feb 1995 - May 1996