About me
An award-winning broadcaster and media professional with over eight years' experience in the entertainment and marketing industry. Experience includes producing content for radio, YouTube series', brand advertisements and terrestrial TV commissions. Expertise spans a skillset in technical video production and creative development through content creation. Able to use one’s own initiative to design and execute work projects at the forefront of the businesses’ mission, thriving in leading a team; as done throughout my work career. Through a friendly but unwavering persona, the ability to show strong leadership traits and excellent communication skills convey the will and determination needed to succeed.
Through 60,000,000 global views across all main social media platforms, delivering high-level, shareable, emotionally charged and provocative digital/audio content organically over a period of eight years; the desire to proliferate and enhance the quality and impact of the UK entertainment scene has only furthered.
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Projects
- YouTube Channel Content | #Who'sWhoWho’s Who- a gameshow that tests our thoughts, conceptions and stereotypes behind the humans around us in our everyday lives! The format allows personalities to express their storytelling abilities and shared life experiences in a testing, and comedic environment. The show makes for compulsive viewing, with moments of genuine tension, and laugh out loud funny! Over 2.2 million views across five series' on YouTube.
- SOAS Recruitment Drive | #Eye2Eye Debate ShowExploring different topics each month, SOAS presents a series of scenarios to a group of people and test how differently they respond to the scenario, to challenge whether people from similar, or different, walks of life can see eye to eye. Collaborated with SOAS University London to see how their students respond to scenarios for a novel entertainment based promotion for a major university.
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Projects credited in
- Diary of a Homeless Girl | Channel 4In the run-up to May’s General Election, Word On The Curb explored three issues which are close to the hearts of three talented young poets. The first, aired on Channel 4 on Tuesday 21st April, sees Sophia Thakur discuss the rising issue with homelessness in the UK in a hard-hitting poem.
Work history
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Broadcast Radio Presenter (AM/DAB/Online)Lyca Gold Radio 1035MW
London, United KingdomFull Time
¨Lyca Media serves an est. UK audience of 162,000 listeners, with daily news, music and entertainment features from the world of Bollywood.
¨Producer of on-air output from; Content Research, Guest Management, Sound Design, Format Creation (original), Script Analysis and Music Output.
¨Presenter of the Breakfast Show; a delve into the archives of Classic Bollywood music from the 1950’s to the 2000’s by exploring the real-life stories behind its inspirations, alongside tips and advice to improve mental health within the BAME community.
¨Compère and Master of Ceremonies for a variety of industry-related public events and festivals across the U.K.
¨Conscientious responsibility for creating the highest audience figures per broadcast across the entire station, leading to an early distinguished and loved radio personality.
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General ManagerRS NEWS
London, United KingdomFull Time
¨Undertook emergency management role across the full scope of a retail business, familial-established.
¨Oversees the entire account-management process with a variety of blue-chip stakeholders including BAT, Camelot, Transport for London, Pay Point, Imperial Tobacco, John Menzies, Mars.
¨Accountable for creating a regular book-keeping process, including strict management of purchase and sales invoices, bank statements, business expenses receipts and credit control.
¨Responsible for liaising and maintaining relationships with a collection of suppliers to negotiate and operate stock flow management.
¨Responsible for preserving all legal documentation pertaining to the multiple licenses required to sell restricted goods, including establishing training and safety procedures for all staff.
¨Control over all administrative and manufacturing overhead expenses, introducing innovative organisational procedures to streamline costs and increase profit.
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Skills
- Video Production
- Adobe Editing
- Script Writer
- Photography
- Teaching
- Copywriting
- Production Management
- Production Design
- Account Management
- Digital Content
Education
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A Level Biology, Chemistry, EconomicsBeths Grammar School
Bexley, United Kingdom
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Biological SciencesUniversity of Manchester
- Manchester, United Kingdom
¨Studied a broad range of courses within the Faculty of Life Sciences, ranging from topics regarding the evolution of life to the politics of scientific involvement in society. The Final Year Project involved being completely self-sufficient in conceptualising and creating an educational resource competent enough to be replicated for use for years to come. Developed the ability to meticulously research a topic, to manage one’s time under one’s own constraints, and the capacity to present complex scientific information as simply and professionally as possible. Numerical skills and statistical skills were cultivated in the laboratory and in data handling units.
¨Produced a First-Class Division report for the University of Manchester concerning the failings of the psychiatry industry in terms of the diagnosis and treatment of depressive disorders. This involved auditing the numbers of anti-depressant administration at the Bodey Medical Centre, interviewing those suffering with the condition, and meeting with qualified experts in the field to discuss better treatment solutions. This meant frequently stimulating senior professors to their concepts around the topic.
¨Constructed an educational resource regarding the ethics behind the process of In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF). This involved producing and directing a short film about the topic and introducing a novel form of teaching into the classroom; a Socratic Seminar.
Awards
Screen Nation Online Entertainment Content AwardScreen Nation Media
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TMC Community AwardThe Millenials Club