April 2010 - present

• Developed and now managing own company to provide broadcast camera operating services to wide range of mainstream broadcast clients and bespoke audio-visual services to corporate clients in the private and public sector.
• Fully conversant with Final Cut Pro X.

Working as a Camera Operator or Camera Supervisor on a range of programming including:
Studio:
‘Count Arthur Strong’ - series 1, ‘Live @ The Electric’ - series1-3, ‘Lee Mack Not Going Out’ series 5-7, Lee Mack DVD, ‘Vicious’ series 1 and 2, ‘Citizen Khan’ series 1-3, ‘IT Crowd’, series 3 and special 2014, ‘In With The Flynns’ series 1 and 2, ‘Birds Of a Feather’ series 7, ‘House of Fools’ ‘Vic & Bob’ series 1-2, ‘Watson & Oliver’, series 1, ‘Yes Minister’, Goodness Gracious Me, two specials,

Concerts/live shows:
Russell Howard DVD, Reginald D Hunter DVD, John Bishop DVD (Supervisor) at the Royal Albert Hall

Sport:
Host Broadcasting Services for FIFA World Cup, Brazil and South Africa, Perform Rugby, BT Sport- Emirates, BT Sport Conference Football, Premiership football Sky, ESPN Rugby, BBC Wales Scrum Down.

Lighting Camera Operator
Self-Employed
April 1998 – April 2018
Working as a Lighting Camera Operator or Camera Supervisor on a range of programming, including:
Studio
'Not Going Out' Sitcom 9 Series, 'Upstart Crow" 3 Series,
'Citizen Khan' 5 Series,‘IT Crowd’ – series 2/3 & Finale
‘My Family’ – series 1-11, ‘Black Books’ – series 1-2, ‘Harry Hill’, ‘Baddiel’s Syndrome’, ‘Winning Lines’, ‘Sam’s Game’,’ The Match’,’ The Kumars at No 42’, ‘The Catherine Tate Show’, Lee Mack ‘Not Going Out’ - series 1-5 , ‘Hell’s Kitchen’, ‘The Great Garden Challenge’, ‘Armstrong & Miller’, ‘Greengrass’ series 1-3, ‘Bremner Bird and Fortune’,, ‘Reggie Perrin’(Martin Clunes remake), ‘As Time Goes By’.
Concerts/live shows:
‘The Live Bill’ (ITV 50th Anniversary),’Dr Doolittle’ musical, ‘David Bowie in Concert’ FIP, ‘London Calling’ FIP, ‘Millennium Night 2000’ Concert from Greenwich Park, Lee Evans DVD, Jimmy Carr DVD, ‘An Audience with Diana Ross’, ‘League Of Gentleman’ DVD.
Sport
FIFA World Cup Final 2014 Rio, FIFA World Cup Final 2010 South Africa, FIFA World Cup Final 2006 Germany,
Wimbledon - 2001-2004, FIFA U-17 Youth Cup Nigeria 1998,Trinidad & Tobago FIFA Youth Cup 2001, Dubai FIFA U-17 Cup 2003, FIFA World Club Cup 2009 Abu Dhabi, ITV UEFA & Champions League coverage, Setanta Football. Sky Sports – cricket, rugby and Premiership football, Channel 4 Racing and Polo, the Boat Race, ‘BBC The Open’ (2004-2005), IMG Football League Show.


Senior Camera Operator
Central Television - Carlton Television
Nottingham, NG7 2NR
April 1984 – April 1998

Senior Camera Operator, supporting and managing day-to-day operation of crews on productions and electronic newsgathering. Extensive experience and expertise gained as a Lighting Camera Operator with skills and experience in single camera directing on location. Expertise gained in a range of programme types including:

‘Children of winter’ (CH4 Period drama), ‘Smokebusters’, ‘Who Do You Think You are?’ ‘The Time The Place’, ‘Good Health’, ‘Stop Look Listen’ and a range of programmes for the Carlton Food Network.
‘Men Behaving Badly’, ‘Crossroads’, ‘Auf Weidersen Pet’, ‘The Bretts’, Drama Playhouse, ‘Phoenix House’ (Live drama), ‘Family Fortune’s’, ‘The Price is Right’ (Leslie Crowther), ‘Blockbusters’, ‘From The Top’, ‘The Upper Hand’, ‘Paul Merton as Hancock Galton and Simpson’, ‘The Freddie Starr Show’, ‘It’s a Kind of Magic’ (Wayne Dobson) ‘Joe Longthorne’- series 1-2, ‘Torvil and Dean Ice Dancing’, ‘Combat’ (1989-90).




Camera Operator
Television South,
Vinters Park,
Maidstone,
Kent.
April 1982 – April 1984

Within this new regional ITV company, responsibilities included a senior support role in the integration of the new studio complex and camera facilities. Developing skills and expertise in the use of new video technology in the production of location based drama programmes and weekly live drama productions.
‘No. 73’, ‘Showcase’, ‘Strange but True’, ITV’s ‘The Match’, ‘Coast to Coast’, ‘Farm Focus’, ‘Company’, ‘Carols from Canterbury Cathedral’, ‘Not for Women Only’, ‘Afternoon Club.’

Camera Assistant/Junior Camera Operator
BBC Television,
Television Centre
Wood Lane,
London W12 8QT
August 1978 – March 1982
Selected for the BBC’s prestigious training programme for Camera Assistant, (6 places from 600 applicants). Core training included: Camera production techniques – drama and factual, outside broadcast and sound and technical operations.
Experience of working as a junior operator on a range of programmes and output including:

‘Blue Peter’, ‘The Val Doonican Show’, (live), ‘Panorama’, ‘Newsnight’, ‘Money Programme’, ‘Nationwide’, ‘Playschool’, ‘Playaway’, ‘Crackerjack’, ‘Jackanory’, ‘Mike Yarwood’, ‘Des O’Connor’, ‘Are you Being Served?’ ‘Ken Dodd Special’, ‘Top of the Pops’ (live), ‘Hi-Di-Hi’, ‘Dr Who’, ‘Tomorrow’s World’, ‘Crime and Punishment’, ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Love of Three Oranges’, ‘That’s Life.’