About me
Passionate about music from an early age, I soon discovered my passion for live events through technical theatre aged twelve. I have gained vast industry experience through organising all aspects of music festivals and subsequently put my engineering and project management skills to work thorugh managing transformation projects for a larger business portfolio. I’m an optimistic, detail-oriented individual and specialise in empowering the music industry through technology, in an agile mannner. I am a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).
Projects credited in
- Field DayOver the last decade Field Day has slowly become one of London’s very best alternative music festivals, with a consistently showcasing the world’s finest alternative acts. Fanatic have been the official photographers since 2017. All images © Fanatic9
- SnowbombingTaking place in the picturesque Austrian resort of Mayrhofen, the ski holiday-music festival hybrid that is Snowbombing is now in its 20th year, and attracting more than 6,000 revellers each April. Fanatic have provided the official photography since 2010 when director Danny North first shot the event alone! A late-season, Jägermeister-soaked endurance test, it regularly hosts some of the biggest names in electronic music, with past acts including Example, Dizzee Rascal and Pendulum, and is ge11
Work history
Project ManagerBroadwick Live
London, United KingdomFull Time
Scoping, direction and delivery of a greenfield software project to tie together business operations across a new portfolio of festivals. Scope included: supplier relations management (SRM), staff contracting, accreditation management, on-site services management, artist logistics and resource scheduling.
• Optimising the project to provide portfolio-wide business analytics, while catering for bespoke needs of individual events.
• Procuring and instructing third-party developers including statement of work.
• Matching specification and delivery of project to business needs and operational KPI’s, creating materials including user stories and workflows.
• Gathering user and stakeholder feedback, frequently revising and iterating specification to ensure successful buy-in.
• Ownership of project budget and timelines, always remaining on a tight schedule due to the nature of impending festival delivery dates.
• Inputting to key operational decisions for the festivals, enabling systemisation of existing processes and supporting post-transition business change.
• Coaching, developing and training key staff, freelancers and suppliers across all business departments; including on-site support.
• Feedback to directors/project board on buy-in, impediments and lessons learned.
• Utilisation of system data to outline a new multi-point tendering system.
• Enabling and enhancing GDPR, counter-terrorism and other compliance initiatives across the portfolio.
• Successful roll-out to all events, creating several points of return on investment, such as 30% wastage reduction on staff catering.
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Festival DirectorPangaea Festival
- Manchester, United KingdomFull Time
Responsibilities
• Primarily responsible for all areas of planning and delivery.
• Coordinating 300+ student volunteers who drive the creative direction of the festival.
• All artist bookings, logistics and production procurement and briefing for fifteen stages across the event.
• Budget management.
• Scheduling and chairing of operations meetings. ensuring that key milestones were developed and deadlines adhered to.
• Briefing and assisting the marketing and communications team in all areas of content, design and targeting including full development of the festival’s website myself.
• Primary contact for all areas of the event on the night including training and leading the artist liaison team.
Achievements
• Shortlisted for Best Use of New Technology at UK Festival Awards for implementation of festival management software.
• Record ticket sales.
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Skills
- Product Owner
- Project Management
- Software Development
- Event Management
- Operational Management
- Business Operations
- Data Analysis
- Mathematics
- Engineering
- Stakeholder Management
Education