I am an Automated Lighting Designer / Operator, working mainly in Television. I live high in the Chilterns, in a village that no one has ever heard of, and work wherever "Studio" television is made, which can be anywhere nowadays. Projects have taken me as far afield as Israel, or a Lunatic Asylum in Brentwood. I originally come from Nottingham, in the East Midlands.

I spent the first three years of my working life with BBC TV in West London learning the rudiments of broadcast electronic engineering. Sounds mildly exciting now, but all it meant really was when the lighting folk spilled coffee into the control system, I'd know exactly what to do; ask if it had sugar in it or not! From that, I moved into the lighting side of the business, and trained as a vision engineer, or "Racks operator", a post which I held until somewhere around 1991 when I found myself looking after six Goldenscan Mk1s running on a BBC Micro. People who knew so much better told me it was just a gimmick and that I was wasting my time getting involved with automated lighting. Well, here we are in 2020, and that six lamp per show "gimmick" has grown substantially, to the point where I am employed solely to run large automated lighting rigs for TV shows.

I have a thing for classic boats. Among other things.

My TV work is generally on music or light entertainment shows, ranging from "The Eurovision Song Contest" all the way through to "Mastermind".
A collection of pictures will follow shortly, but suffice to say, I see a large number of "End Rounds".....

And finally, the obligatory photo, finds me in the stalls at the London Palladium.