My experience is varied, ranging from setting up and running of Broadcasting Operations to research and fixing for tv programmes and documentaries in Italy and abroad.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

“WORLDWIDE TELEVISION NEWS”
Producer/Reporter
1992 - 1998

Generated and produced breaking news stories in Italy and abroad including the Balkans.
This involved satellite co-ordination, video editing, management of personnel, finances and administration and developing strong working relationships with WTN clients. As well as covering interviews with European Heads of State, Ministers and various Political figures the major stories covered were:

VISIT OF PRESIDENT CLINTON June 1994
G7 IN NAPLES July 1994
AIRSTRIKES OVER BOSNIA
Covered from Nato Headquarters Naples and aboad US aircraft carriers in the Adriatic Sea 		Sept 1995
BOSNIA (Tuzla-Sarajevo-Mostar)
Changeover from UNPROFORM to IFOR, arrival and deployment of US troops & Civilian Serbians leaving their territories
 winter-spring 1996
ALBANIAN GENERAL ELECTIONS May 1996
VATICAN
including stories of the Pope’s Hospitalisation 		Oct 1996
FIDEL CASTRO IN ROME Nov 1996
ALBANIAN CRISIS Feb-Mar 1997
GIANNI VERSACE FUNERAL July 1997
EARTHQUAKE in UMBRIA Sept 1997
ALBANIA/KOSOVO April - June 1998
MUDSLIDES in CAMPANIA May 1998

Also involved with the Production of entertainment features: behind-the-scenes on film sets, interviews with “stars” and directors, models & designers, concerts, art exhibitions, sports, fashion shows.


FREELANCE EXPERIENCE

NEWS
The main projects I have worked on are:
Event/Programme Company/Role Date
KOSOVO crisis APTN - Producer Oct 1998
Macedonia/Kosovo/Montenegro/Albania SAT 1 - Producer Mar/Apr 1999
KOSOVO
Operations and Editorial Manager for the
reconstruction of Public Television of Kosovo (a UNMIK-OSCE-EBU project) 		EBU Nov/Dec 1999
May/Jun 2000
KOSOVO
Depleted Uranium
Producer/Editor for DW tv
2001
General Elections PRO7 & N24  
IRAQ WAR
Producer for FOX News

FOX News Sept/Oct 2003
POPE’S DEATH
Producer fo ABC News 		ABC News April 2005
     
     
DOCUMENTARIES    
Event/Programme Company/Role Date
DOMES
Dir: Thomas Levenson 		Location Manager for PBS 1998
DELUGE: Flash Floods
Dir: Philip Doyle 		Location Manager for Channel 4 1999
ARCHAEOLOGY, STOLEN ART
Dir: Mary Crisp 		Location Manager for ARTE 1999
ITALIAN FIX
Dir: Nathalie Cabrier 		Location Manager for BBC 2000
ITALY INSIDE OUT Rome & Lecce
Dir: Elaine Mullings 		Location Manager for BBC 2000
OMNIBUS - BOTTICELLI
Dir: Ben McPherson 		Location Manager for BBC 2000
OMNIBUS - DINO DE LAURENTIIS
Dir: Adrian Sibley 		Location Manager for BBC 2000

SEE HEAR - Deaf Olympics
Dir: Sarah Tavner

 Location Manager for BBC

2001
EUROGRAFTERS - Naples
Dir: Nathalie Cabrier 		Location Manager for BBC

2001
RENAISSANCE SECRETS - Florence
Dir: Ian Levinson 		Location Manager for BBC

2001
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA - Rome
Dir: Nick Godwin 		Location Manager for Ch. 4 2001
OMNIBUS - CARAVAGGIO - Rome
Dir: Roger Parsons 		Location Manager for BBC

2001
Euro shows: “100 days of Euro”
 Dir. Dario Canciello		 South Europe Producer for
CNBC (Spain, Greece, Italy,
Balkans)
 2002
NAUMACHIE Rome
Dir: James Younger 		Location Manager for
Discovery Channel 		2002
DYING TO LEAVE
Dir: Aaron Wolf 		Field Producer for PBS 2003
ITALY OF THE PORTS
Dir: Alessandro di Nitto 		Producer for RAI 2 2003
"THE YOHAN” Deep Sea Detective
Dir: Niel Laird 		Field Producer for The History Channel 2004
THE ORIGIN OF ART
Dir: David Wilson 		Field Producer for BBC Arts 2004

ROME: ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE
 Dir: Chris Cassel
Winner of 2 Emmy Awards at Academy of Television Arts & Science Los Angeles 2006

Producer for Italy
The History Channel		 2004/2005

SCIENCE OF THE BIBLE (Rome)
Dir. Debbie Blumm

Field producer for
National Geographic		 2005
MEGASTRUCTURES (Rome)
Dir. Ron Marans 		Field producer for
National Geographic		 2006
RENAISSANCE: AGE OF ARCHITECTS
Dir. Dana Ross (Florence, Siena, Pienza, Lucca)
Field producer for
The History Channel 2006		 2006
ENGINEERING AN EMPIRE: DA VINCI’S WORLD
Dir. G. Mahler  

Field producer
The History Channel

   2006

MIRACLES OF JESUS 
Dir A. Cox, J.C. Bragard

 Field producer
BBC 1		   2006

MARY MOTHER
Dir. M. Johnson

 Field producer
PBS		 2006

MEGA DISASTER - THE VESUVIO

Producer/directo
The History Channel

                                                                                                		2007

STELLA DEL SUD – EFFETTO SABATO              

                                                                                                		Production Manager
RAI UNO            		 2007/2008
THE LAST TYCOON Field Producer  
BBC 3

2008         

CHRISTIANITY DECODED

 Field Producer                         National Geographic 2008     

MUMMIES

 Field Producer                         National Geographic 2008     

SECRETS OF THE CROSS

 Field Producer                         National Geographic/Ch 5 UK 2008     

ANIMAL GLADIATORS

 Field Producer 
Animal Planet 		 2008     

RAGING PLANET II

 Field Producer
Discovery Channel                		2008

STELLA DEL SUD – EFFETTO SABATO

 Production Manager
RAI UNO		 2007/2008

ANGELS & DEMONS

 Field Producer
Discovery Channel		 2009

LOVE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD:
THE ROMAN EMPIRE

 Field Producer
History Channel		 2009

UNWRAPPED ROME

 Field Producer 
National Geographic		 2009


ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS

- Native language Italian.  Also fluent English.
- Full, clean driving licence (car & bike).
- Excellent contacts with the Vatican (permanent accreditation) & Italian authorities and Press Offices.
- References available.