About Me

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CAREER RELATED SKILLS
• Gained creative and technical production skills in both academic and industry settings. Other experience includes project management, directing, researching, editing, television reporting and radio broadcasting.
• Extremely motivated self starter, solutions driven with a “can do” attitude.
• Ability to work well under pressure and within strict deadlines as well as the capacity to achieve workable compromises in a multi-functional setting.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to perform successfully as part of an effective team.
• Strong ideas led approach.THIRD LEVEL EDUCATION
September 2012 – May 2013 I.A.D.T. National Film School, Dun Laoghaire

Qualification: M.A. in Broadcast Production for Television & Radio
Projects:
• “Why We Wear What We Wear”- This was a fifteen minute television documentary for which I was awarded a first class honours grade.
• “Ireland’s Hidden Secret” – This was a twenty minute radio documentary on the impact of travel on women accessing termination services abroad for which I attained a first class honours grade.
• “The J1 Experience” – This was a fifteen minute “as live television show” on Irish people going to America on J1 visas for which I recived a first class honours grade.
• Research, production and presentation of a thirty minute “as live drive time show” in which I achieved a first class honours grade.


October 2009 – January 2010 London Academy of Media Film and Television
Course: Television Presenting


September 2004 – June 2009 Trinity College Dublin

Qualification: B.A. Social Science and N.Q.S.W.
Awarded 2.1 Honors Degree
Placements:
BROADCAST EXPERIENCE
Summer 2013 Newstalk 106-108FM

Freelance Report on “Young Ireland in America”
for Mark Coleman’s Show


March 2012 – June 2012 96 FM Ballyfermot Community Radio Station

Producer / Presenter of drive time style show on a
weekly basis


2012 R.T.E.

Shadowed Paddy O’Gorman / Reporter


TELEVISION PRODUCTION
October 2013 WholeWorldBand (Kevin Godley), CMJ, NYC
Position: Camera Operator


September 2013 Torlo – short film by Maryland Director Holten Bouyles
Position: 1st AD


July 2013 - Stage Buddy – Online New York Events Website
- Image Factory – Corporate Video Producers
Position: Television Journalist with experience filming, editing,
producing and directing


June 2013 Tiger in the Dark – Feature film / action movie by
New York Director Drew Glick
Position: 1st AD/Camera Opertor


April 2013 TG4 Music Production
(Last Avenue, Producer Ciaran Gallagher)
Position: AD


March 2013 “Roy” T.V. Series
CBBC Production – Jam Media
Position: Assistant Director / Runner



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
• My acting experience includes: “Supper Club” on Bernard Dunne’s Brod Club on RTE in 2011; a European Football Championships Commercial in 2011 for a Polish Production Company; a small role in Love/Hate 4th Season as well as a documentary on the prevention of suicide for EBS, South Korea, Educational Broadcasting Service in New York in summer 2013.
• Directed “Lunch” a local theatre production in the International Bar, Dublin (October 2012); “The American Dream” (March 2011) and Co-Directed “The Playboy of the Western World” (April 2012).
• Successfully completed an Introduction to Drama/Acting for Camera with the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin between January and April 2011.
• Represented Dublin in Gaelic Football at U-16 and Minor Levels. Also Captained the Junior Dublin Team winning an U-12 All Ireland medal.
• Member of First Team in Skerries Hockey Club and nominated Player of the Year in 2013.
• Employed as Social Worker in Children’s Services, Richmond, London between 2009 and 2010.
• Worked as a Social Worker and Teacher’s Assistant in St. Michael’s House between 2004 and 2009.

I have been in the industry since 2011.