Here are some things I’ve done that I either had fun with or I’m a bit proud of (you get to guess which! Fun game!).
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Paramount Global Media Supply Chain (2021-2025)
I spent most of 2021-2025 with Paramount Global, working on their Media Supply Chain. I could go on about this in some detail, obviously, but I’ll just say that my role was mainly trying to break things before they went into production. Also, it’s much easier to just link to this case study by the…
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Classic Movie Quiz
There must be a million daft little daily quizzes online, so one more couldn’t hurt? Building on the principles behind my tmdb.org/Bluesky bot (and my mild obsession with cinema), I created a simple Wordle-style game: Ten questions per day, name the actor/director/composer.As is the fashion of today, of course it tracks your scores and streak…
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Classic Films BlueSky Bot
I had the idle idea of creating a little bot that grabs films released on this day from the themoviedb.org API, and posting them to Bluesky. So I did that.For those asking on Bluesky, it:1. Gets all films released today in a given year, with minimum 20 votes and a vote average of 5 (10/5…
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RR Media Solarr (2015)
I got to work with Giantsource delivering this (for its time) absolute unit of a system for RR Media. I mainly worked on the Compliance/QC/Localisation parts, designing workflows and testing, testing, testing until it actually worked. A few mergers and acquisitions later, it’s now evolved into SES MX1 360:
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Sony Pictures Television MediaCentre (2014)
I got to help with some of the design and testing of this pretty early file-based distribution system at Sony Pictures Television in London. The screenshots might look just a tad dated now, but it really was ahead of its time. The asset-matching bit was particularly fun back then, solving the problem of how to…
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Don’t Hate The Debate (2018)
Possibly my proudest achievement; working on a series of educational films for Zinc and BBC Teach that got Nigel Farage so incensed he took The Telegraph to spew his mindless hate. His full rant appears to still be available here (he really didn’t like it): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/05/18/bbc-poisoning-childrens-minds-pro-immigration-claptrap/
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BBC News & Current Affairs Archive Digitisation (2012)
In 2012 I worked as a ‘Technical Supervisor’ (a very BBC-union-skirting-title) on the KLarc Project to digitise roughly 48,000 hours of news and current affairs from 1948 onwards. I’ll try to write some utterly fascinating words on this at some point, but in the meantime have some dodgy pictures of the very BBC UI.
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Greggs SuperStar Doughnuts Awards (2011)
STEEL let me play with them for a couple of weeks creating this social campaign to flog doughnuts for Greggs. We went through an awful lot of doughnuts. Some of the full videos are right there at the bottom of the page. Here they are:
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UK TV Commercials YouTube
I recently went and got all of our old VHS tapes (I don’t know). Turns out there were around 700 old commercials on those tapes, so of course I had to digitise them all and stick them on YouTube. You know, for the kids to enjoy. I now have to pick up any used VHS…