Biography

About me

After pursuing a career in science for several years, I retrained as a broadcast journalist. This involved on-the-job training at a local cable TV station, where I was involved in gathering and presenting news stories for two ‘magazine-styled’ programmes, GTV and Insight.

After achieving a NVQ Level 4 in broadcast journalism I worked for the Press Association as a sports news reporter, and then as a print journalist for BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Whilst at BCS I was involved in commissioning articles for a number of in-house publications including the membership magazine, ITNOW, the information security magazine, ISNOW, and the health informatics magazine, HINOW. I also commissioned for and edited our Annual Review book for several years and regularly wrote columns for related publications Computing and Computer Weekly. In addition to commissioning and writing articles I also interviewed various IT experts, and filmed a number of these interviews and BCS events, both in the UK and abroad. I was also trained in the use a number of desktop publication software packages such as Quark and InDesign.

After initially going part-time at BCS to enable me to co-write some film scripts, I co-founded Bazooka Bunny Ltd. Initially we were focused on post-production work, but more recently we have concentrated our efforts on AI upscaling, colourization, subtitles, dubbing, video repair and animation. My work at Bazooka Bunny includes liaising with clients, proof reading, editing, copywriting and scriptwriting.

Additionally, in my spare time, I have run a number of genre film festivals in Bath, Bristol and Swindon, which have helped bring a plethora of independent filmmakers to the attention of fresh audiences.