A dynamic and enthusiastic professional operator with extensive technical experience within prestigious post-production companies. Possesses excellent interpersonal, communication and technical knowledge, the ability to influence decisions and to develop reasonable solutions. Experienced in dealing with leading production companies and advertising agencies in complex situations. Enjoys being part of, as well as motivating and training junior staff of a productive team, or to assist external clients.

MCR Operation                      AVID Unity Server                             FTP Programs

VT Departments                     Tektronix Waveform                          AVECO Automation

SD & HD Decks                      Quantel Harry                                    Infocaster Player

16-35 mm Mag Sound           Aston Character Generator            Media Cleaner Pro    

AVID Media Composer          Patch Panels                                     Quicktime Pro

AVID Symphony                     Routing Panels                                 QC to Broadcast Standard

AVID Xpress                            Anystream                                         Linear Editing

AVID Adrenalin                       Sonic DVD Creator                         1 Inch Type C & B decks

June 2007 – present SBS Broadcasting Ltd, London

Freelance Transmission Controller                                                                    

• Responsible for broadcasting of fifteen television channels

• Monitoring the automated transmission broadcast systems and manually intervening as required

• Ensuring adherence to Ofcom specifications and guidelines

• Editorial decision-making where live event inserts to broadcast affect scheduled timing

• Monitoring of television channel outputs for quality and continuity of service

• Execution of schedules to ensure exact content is transmitted at the correct time

• Direct Liaison with third party MCR and control rooms to ensure ancillary feeds are available

• First Line fault diagnosis and liaising with the Engineering team as required

• Managing scheduled caching of program material

• Responsible for the deployment of redundant systems under failure conditions

• Logging errors or technical difficulties and report to client

2004 – 2006  Pictorion Das Werk, Munich Germany

In house editor and Senior AVID and Media support  

Full-time Senior AVID in-house editor and Support for wet and dry hire suites.

• Liaison with third party production companies and other technical staff prior editing sessions

• Experience with offline and online projects

• Preparing (capturing or importing) footage for editing session

• Responsible for sorting project logically for external clients

• Track laying and sub clipping prior editing session

• Responsible for delivering finished project for external post-production processes

• Routing signals for playback to VT machines

• Creating video and/or sound files for streaming or non-streaming platforms

• Experienced to work well under pressure due to editing with production clients and/or advertising agencies present at times

• Experience in following briefs and keeping tight deadlines

• Ensuring edited version implies corporate branding requirements

• Responsible for managing and archiving projects on external servers

• Restoring archived material when required

• Creating EDL’s, OMF’s, Quicktimes or any other required format for further processes

• Editing offline showreels, in-house reels and re-edits of advertisements and trailers

• Online conform creating output material to broadcast standards

1998 – 2004  Arri Film and TV Services, Munich Germany

Technical operator                                                                                                                                                               

Full-time Operator MCR and VT room (SD&HD) in post- and studio production

• Track laying from DAT and16-35mm magnetic sound to master tape

• Duplication and conversion of any given broadcast tape format

• First Line fault diagnosis and quickly finding redundant systems in a live studio show situation

• Daily operation of a large selection of broadcast video and audio equipment in standard- and high definition

•Quality Control and writing technical assessments for audio and video content including feature films

• Reporting the quality of assessed material according to strict broadcast specifications

• DVD creation encoding and authoring material with simple menu functions

Arri Film and TV Services cont.

• Experienced to work well under pressure due to live studio show situation with tight production schedules and deadlines for broadcast delivery

• AVID Support and in house editing (Same duties as @ Pictorion Das Werk)

1994 – 1997 Kirch Media, Munich Germany

MCR Operator                                                                       

Full-time VT Operator (SD) in post-production

• Duplication and conversion of any given broadcast tape format

• 1” C and B Standard duplication

2006 – 2009 London Metropolitan University, London

BA (Hons) Film and Broadcast production

Upper Second Class Honours

Script writing, research, communication, lens & sound craft, editing, production management, directing actors, ethics, cultural history, visual studies, short film production, dissertation about film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

  2005 – 2006 Bavarian Television Academy, Munich Germany

Video Editing, Foundation Degree

Editing, video camera operation, studio news production

Satellite newsgathering

Driving license and health and safety training as part of the license training

Art, cinema, keeping healthy, travel, culture, cooking, intellect, yoga, meditation

Fluent in German and English, both verbally and the written word

References are available on request