INTRODUCTION

I was trained has a Technical Operator to be proficient in a range of television skills and given a thorough technical education in broadcast technology. After completing my courses in 1987 I freelanced mainly as a location sound recordist and an editor for local news. It was only after on joining TV-am in 1989 that I was given my first experience of working a studio pedestal camera on a live show.

With TV-am losing it's franchise I was made redundant and became freelance in 1992. Initially I continued working as a studio cameraman for GMTV, LWT and MTV Europe. Subsequently my original training as a Technical Operator helped me work in a variety of roles. Added to this was my ability to bring operational experience and combine it with the ability to learn new technology. This cumulated in my work on three Scandinavian Disney channels that successfully launched on schedule.

Since 2006 I have returned to predominately working on live shows and this year I will celebrate 20 years as a studio cameraman.

TELEVISION TECHNICAL SERVICES

Since being made redundant from TV-AM as a result of the company losing the ITV breakfast franchise in 1992 I have worked solely on a freelance basis. Below is a list of Clients since 1992, a relatively short one due to the high number of repeat engagements I have performed for these companies.

GMTV - Studio Cameraman

London Weekend Television - Studio Cameraman

MTV Europe - Studio Cameraman - Studio VT operator - Also worked as Technical Supervisor/Operator on "MTV Hot" making separate versions for the UK, Germany and Italy.

VH-1 Europe - Studio Cameraman - Studio VT operator

The Money Channel - Transmission Controller - Ingest operator

Thames Television - Mixing Foreign narration onto documentaries for the Discovery Channel.

Corinthian Television - Encoding and Archive management for Disney UK channel. Project support for launch of three Disney Scandinavian channels including technical training of staff. Project support for Programme Archiving system including technical training of staff and improvements to workflow and management of assets. Media management and transmission support for Disney and Jetix channels.

Technicolor Network Services - Encoding and media management.

BSkyB - Remote studio camera operator using four Rademac camera heads on live channels. Studio Camera operator on live programmes

CORPORATE VIDEO

WMP - Cameraman for single camera location shooting and multi-camera recordings.

ICON SOLUTIONS - Cameraman, non-linear editing and encoding to web server

PHOTOGRAPHY

Clients for my photography have ranged from The Tate Gallery - London to the Australian National Maritime Museum. As well as my corporate work I also offer limited edition prints for sale.

MULTIMEDIA

In 2008 I produced a media package for artist Michael Rees that included two short films together with digital photographs of his artwork and MP3 files for pod casting. The films were delivered in mpeg format for exhibition display and Flash Video format for posting on the web.

Also in 2008 I made a short film made film at Garden Organic during their "Potato Day" for web and venue display.

This year I have made a further two short films for Michael Rees in support for his submission to the Saatchi Gallery.