Broadcast Bid Manager & Consultant

Profile

• Broadcast bid manager and solution architect, with 43 years’ broadcast experience.
• Creative, visionary, numerate, intelligent, with tenacity to deliver workable solutions
• Leader of bid/project teams with individual successes up to USD 30m and turnover £24m+
• Highly collaborative, accomplished international traveller, works seamlessly across time-zones
• Passionate about all aspects of television & media technology; always hits the ground running
• Upholds values of honesty, integrity and accuracy
• Believes repeat business and client recommendations are the most important factors to success

Professional Skillset

• Strategic role in the preparation and negotiation of multi £m bids/tenders, both international and UK
• Meticulous eye for detail and quality in both the bidding and execution of projects
• Champion of technical design, costing & documentation standards (with Excel and AutoCAD expertise)

Project Direction

• Project leadership based on sound technical and commercial background; drawing from extensive experience in delivery.
• Coherent project timeline creation with clearly identifiable and meaningful milestones; closely aligned to deliverables, resources, budget and building considerations.
• APM Project Management Qualification (2018)

Systems Architect

• Bid management; generating, negotiating, winning and executing large-scale projects on an international scale, spanning a wide range of technologies and budgets
• International tendering expertise; beating off major competition through a deeper understanding of needs, tenacious attention to submission detail and superbly creative system modelling
• Authors complex costing models, based on a modular & formulaic approach closely integrated with design concepts.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2021)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2022)

Major Achievements

• BBC Broadcast SI Frameworks 2018 and 2023
• BBC Broadcast Centre – Playout Centre - bid & delivery - £18m
• MediaCityUK – Studio Block for Peel (dock10) - Lead Technical Consultant & delivery - £12m
• BBC World 2020 Bureaus - £5m
• BBC TV Centre Studios – bid and delivery - TC1, TC7, TC8, TC9, TC10, News 24, N6, N8

Major Consultancies Delivered

GBC, HQ Relocation Ideal Shopping Direct, UK MediaCityUK, for Peel Holdings MediaCityUK, BBC Gap Analysis MediaCity, Malaysia, RTM News Mediapark, Brussels, for VRT TWI/mediahouse relocation Perform Relocation Ravensbourne Relocation

Project Manager/Director Roles:

MediaCityUK (7 HD Studios, BBC Philharmonic Concert Hall, BBC Drama Studio, Post and MCR) ~£6m MediaCityUK Phase 2 (BBC studio and post upgrades) ~£5m MediaCorp OBs, Singapore ~£5m ABC TV5 Reliance Media Centre ~£2m Scottish Parliament ~£1.5m BBC Studios TC1/7/8/9/10/N6/7/8 BBC English Regions (SE and London)

Large Studio Complexes

Ideal Shopping IP Core & Playout ~£1.3m MediaCityUK, Salford (7 HD Studios) ~£6m MediaCityUK Phase 2, Salford (BBC studio upgrades) ~£5m BBC Main Block and News Studios (TC1/7/8/9/10 and N6/8) Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh ~£1.5m IMG, London (4 HD Studios) ~£10m ABC TV5, Manila (3 HD Studios) ~£2m QVC UK (2 HD Studios) ITV Regional Studios Dar Al Watan, Kuwait Markiza TV, Slovakia Ekushey TV, Bangladesh

Large Post Production Systems

MediaCityUK, Salford (Avid & FCP) BBC DMI Fabric Integration Mediahouse, London (Avid) BBC FPPA, London (Telecine Integration) BBC PQ GX/Post (Avid/Vizrt) BBC GW Linear Edits (Sony BVE-9100 based) Sky Linear Suites (Sony BVE-9100 based) BBC Post Production Village, London Newsroom Systems RTP Inspiration (iNews and OmniBus) TVNZ Digiknow (iNews and OmniBus) BBC PQ News (ENPS and Avid) BBC English Regions SE and London (ENPS & OmniBus) ABC TV London News (iNews)

Large Transmission Systems

BBC Playout DTA BBC Playout Broadcast Centre ~£18m BBC Playout Disaster Recovery ~£2.5m BBC Playout 6 Flextech BBC National Playout (BBC Scotland/Ireland/Wales) NBC Superchannel Nickelodeon TV ITV 4 Playout BBC HD Playout BBC HD Resilience RBM Channel 4 Playout