Experience

Cloudbass Graphics

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Broadcast Engineer

  • Jun 2015 - Present

  Senior Broadcast Maintenance Engineer - in charge of equipment maintenance. Manage various technical issues. These include resolution of malfunctions, and repair, of equipment used on CloudBass's fleet of Outside Broadcast trucks. Mostly work at base but also regularly on location. Apart from day-to-day equipment maintenance, I have resolved a number less trivial problems such as a persistent problem relating to camera triax camera channel compatibility issues. I also frequently Vision Engineer on location, sometimes large jobs such as ITV's BTCC Touring Cars, various other Sports O/B productions including adroad; smaller Audience based shows such as BBC's Question Time and Big Questions, as well as Premier League Football Unilateral Add-Ons (mini-feeds). This involves the usual camera racking, video equipment installation on site, and helping resolve the inevitable on-site niggles and issues that every O/B production (nearly always) involves...



Snell Advanced Media

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineer

  • 2006 - Jun 2015

  Customer Support Engineer: -mostly involved with repair of the higher end equipment (2011 - 15 and 2006 - 08)-based in Hong Kong as the main point-of-call for APAC customer service issues (2008 - 11)Gained an intricate knowledge of many aspects of Broadcast Equipment manufacturing; often, as the most "downstream" of the equipment manufacturing buisness, I was able to see problems that wern't apparent to others. Also, an invaluable insight to what customer's actually want... and what the difference between a happy and unhappy customer actually consists of.



Hyperactive Broadcast

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineer

  • 2004 - 2006

  Mostly installing AVID suites and networked systems (Eg Unity)plus various equipment maintenance at base (Eg. cameras, VTR's etc) Mostly installing AVID suites and networked systems (Eg Unity)plus various equipment maintenance at base (Eg. cameras, VTR's etc)



ITV Meridian (ITV regional news South-East)

• News Engineer and ENG crew

  • 2001 - 2004

  Front-line Maintenance Engineer and trouble-shooter for the ITV regional news studio which was then based at Maidstone. In addition to the usual duties of maintaining studio and ENG cameras and sound equipment, the IT infrastructure (around 70 PC's), I was also an AVID qualified front-line engineer for the AVID Avstar (A.K.A iNews) automation system. Also: News Gallery Vision Engineering (camera racking / lighting desk op / VTR package playouts) during the news bulletins. Crewed and Shot ENG news packages for them on an ad-hoc basis.



British Pathé

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineer / telecine operator

  • 1999 - 2001

  Worked on the Digital News Archive project, on-and-off, throughout the duration of the film digitisation project which involved telecine'ing their entire film archive. Worked on the Digital News Archive project, on-and-off, throughout the duration of the film digitisation project which involved telecine'ing their entire film archive.



Evolutions TV

• Engineer / operator

  • 1994 - 1998

  Worked as a VTR operator, Telecine operator, and other duties, as well as front-line maintenance and customer first-port-of-call for customers with technical issues. Worked as a VTR operator, Telecine operator, and other duties, as well as front-line maintenance and customer first-port-of-call for customers with technical issues.



Freetime Television Ltd

• Production Runner

  • 1990 - 1994

  Worked on and off on small independent regional production company that had family connection. Worked on and off on small independent regional production company that had family connection.