Massive Moves - Windfall Films , Unspecified
2011 - Series Producer
13 x half hours - an offshoot series from C5's very successful Monster Moves. Following the incredible technical abilities of whole house 'movers'/engineers. These teams in the States and Canada try and relocate family homes along ice lakes, open sea, waterways and inland, and deliver them to their new locations hopefully in one piece.

Antique Road Trips - BBC2/STV , Unspecified
2011 - Edit Producer
BBC2's popular antique series taking two experts out on the road to find some treasures and ultimately make money at the auction.

This 44 minute show had to be edited in just 9 days, from 30-35 hours of rushes, complete with graphics and detailed VO.

Serious Fun (working title) - Rock Wallaby Productions , Qatar
2011 - Series Producer
Setting up, finding contributors and filming 13 x half hour programmes about 13 busy Qatari business men who have a passion for very different extreme hobbies. Filming on XDCAM, phantom cameras, go-pros, and DSLR's, this will be a visually very exciting series that hopes to encourage others to try a variety of sports.

Vet School - Discovery / STV , Scotland
2010 - Producer/Director (Self-shooting)
'Vet School' is an ob doc series of 6 x one hour films about the world reknown Royal 'Dick' Veterinary School in Edinburgh, one of the most prestigious vet centres in the country. It will follow the vets, the students, the animals and their owners as they are treated at one of the schools centres. From the equine and large animal hosiptal, to the exotic animal section, feline and canine centres and animals treated in the local area. Shot on EX3's using nanoflashs and backing up the work flow on site.

BBC2 The Private Life of Pigs - BBC Scotland , United Kingdom
2010 - Producer/Director
New three part documentary series which takes a closer look at the science, the behaviour and cultural heritage of our often over looked farmyard animals - cows, chickens and pigs. This quirky factual documentary about pigs is presented by Jimmy Doherty for BBC2, made within Specialist Factual at BBC Scotland.

Grand Designs - Talkback Thames , United Kingdom
2008 - Producer/Director
June 2006 - October 2008

Producer/Director and self-shooting on Z1 and DSR on C4's flagship series Grand Designs.

I directed on two series working across 9 programmes of this very popular show following people build extraordinary houses, presented by Kevin McCloud.

Pay Off Your Mortgage in 2 yrs - BBC , Unspecified
2006 - Producer/Director (Self-shooting)
Sept 2004 to May 2006

A ob docs/factual entertainment series (two runs) which was BBC2's biggest experiment following 8 households who are trying to pay off their mortgage in just 24 months, presented by Rene Carayol. I produced and directed the contributors in Cornwall who received phenomenal feedback from the programmes.

K9 Boot Camp - Discovery/Granada , United Kingdom
2002 - Series Producer
May 2002 - December 2003

Series producer/director
10 x 50mns

The films were about the US military specialist security forces and their bomb and drug detecting dogs. I had unprecedented access to film their training and their work across the USA, Europe, Japan, Korea and Iraq. Huge ratings success internationally. I directed 5 films as well as series producing and managing a large production and post production team to very tight deadlines.

Building the Dream - Zeal/ITV , United Kingdom
2004 - Producer/Director
64 x 30mns reality show for ITV about 12 couples building a house and then voting each off in the hope of winning the finished home.

Fast turnaround multi-camera shoot, presenter-led successful character-driven series (25% audience share regular 3 million daily viewers) about 12 couples building a house that they could win.
Eps: Mark Linsey / Nick Shearman. Series Producer Susie Staples

March - May 2011
Series producer - Rock Wallaby Productions
13 x 30 mins - set up, found contributors and started filming a series about 13 individuals and their - often - extreme hobbies in Qatar. 

August 10 - March 2011
STV/Discovery  - Shooting series P/D
Vet School
6 x one hours following the extraordinary work of the vets at the Edinburgh's famous veterinary hospitals, with it's state of the art treatment and technology, and the emotional stories of the animals and their owners.

June - July 10
IWC, Glasgow
Relocation relocation.
Directing Kirsty Allsopp on the popular property show.

April 10 to June 10
Development work

October 2009 to March 2010
BBC Specialist factual Dep, Scotland
The Secret Life of the Farm - Pigs
P/D on a new 3 part series for BBC2 about the behaviour and science of our domesticated animals, so often over-looked and underestimated. Presented by Jimmy Doherty.

November 08 to Sep 09
Development producer, building a house in Scotland (now finished, see on www.bruchlas.co.uk) and working on a stills photography project.

June '06 - October 2008 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
C4 GRAND DESIGNS
Series TX 2008 and 2009

Award winning Grand Designs follows ambitious individuals or couples pursuing their architectural dreams as we chart the pitfalls and pinnacles of their unique Grand Design journeys.

Designer and writer Kevin McCloud follows the structural, financial and emotional journey, the tears, tantrums and the triumph and despair of each build over many months. I worked across 9 programmes including the Bath Kit house, Somerset old mill, the Kent Eco Arch, and the Oxford Decagon House.

Sep '04 - April '06 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
& self-shooting P/D
BBC2 - Pay Off Your Mortgage 8 x 1 hrs
TX 19 Jan & 2 March '05
BBC2's biggest experiment following 8 households who are trying to pay off their mortgage in just 24 months, presented by Rene Carayol. A factual and observational series with great personal journeys and helpful financial and business advice. Both contributors in Cornwall received phenomenal feedback from the programmes.

Aug - Sep 2004 EDIT PRODUCER
ZEAL TV - ITV and Canada
Reversions of Building the Dream
20 x 30mns and 1 x 1hr special

March - July  2004 Producer/Director
ITV/Zeal TV BUILDING THE DREAM
64x1/2 hrs
Fast turnaround multi-camera shoot, presenter-led successful character-driven series (25% audience share regular 3 million daily viewers) about 12 couples building a house that they could win.
Eps: Mark Linsey / Nick Shearman. Series Producer Susie Staples

JAN 2004 DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER - GRANADA/BRISTOL
Writing science, animal and ob docs series proposals.

Jan - Dec '03 SERIES PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR
Granada Discovery/Animal Planet
K9 BOOT CAMP SERIES 2
8 x 50mns on the US military and their specialist dogs, with unprecendented access to film acrossthe USA, Europe, Japan, Korea and Iraq. Huge ratings success internationally.

May-Dec 2002 SERIES PRODUCER and DIRECTOR
Granada/Discovery/Animal Planet
K9 BOOT CAMP (1)
An Observational series on the US Forces military dog training filmed across the USA.
Huge ratings success.

April-May 2002
BBC/Catalyst TV GARDENERS WORLD
Working on six one-hour specials for the Gardeners World Team.

Jan-March '02 Event Manager
The Moving Poster Company
Marketing, event-management.

June-Dec '01 LOCATION SERIES PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Wall to Wall/Discovery
SENTENCED TO HEALTH
A Science/health reality series shot in Philadelphia. (6 x 1 hours)

April-May '01 EDIT PRODUCER
C5/ Granada
TOYOTA WORLD OF WILDLIFE

September '00-March '01 ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Discovery/Transatlantic Films
THE SCIENCE OF LOVE
Three x1 hrs about how and why we fall in love and stay in love. Explained by some of the worlds leading neurobiologists, anthropolgists and psychologists, with drama reconstruction, archive, and true extra-ordinary tales of love.

March to Sept. 00 DIRECTOR
BRISTOL FIGHT CLUB
15 mn promo on kung fu team

1993-  2000 PRODUCER
Partridge Films/BBC/Discovery
Work included:
TIGERS THE TALE OF TWO FAMILIES PRODUCER - 1 x 50mn wildlife doc on wild tigers in India. Discovery

HIDDEN WORLDS INDIA'S OTTER PARADISE PRODUCER - PBS
One x1hr on Corbett National Park in India. footgae used on BBC's Planet Earth series.

THE TIGERS TALE
PRODUCER - BBC The Natural World and Discovery
A documentary on wild tigers in Bandhavgarh, India.

Oct '99 to Mar '00
Glasgow Museums - tiger exhibition producer

Aug-Dec 99 AP/ Director
SWARMS One hour for Discovery.

Assistant Producer TLC/Discovery
Written and presented by Desmond Morris, this series was nominated for an Emmy.

Assistant Producer and director
THE SECRETS OF CATS - PBS
Directed filming in India on leopards, Asiatic Lions, tigers.

Hidden Worlds and Wild Horizon series
17 half-hours filmed in over 15 countries. Series co-ordinator & AP

TIGERS : LORD OF THE WILD
Production Co-ordinator
ABC - Winner of best investigative documentary at Jackson Hole 1997.

1991- 1993 GEOFILMS LTD Production Co-ordinator

BSC Hons Applied Earth Sciences 2:1
Kingston University London

Oxford High School, GPDST, Oxford
3 A-levels Biology, Geography, Economics
10 O-levels

Various BBC courses
- Hostile Environment Training for Iraq shoot (June 2003).
- Four-Wheel Drive Course.
- Trained sound recordist
- Various health & safety course incl BBC. Plus Several short courses - including script writing, lighting, time lapse photography, sound recording.
Directing DV at VET training London 2000
Producing a Doc. NFSC 1995.

Own Nikon D700 and several prime lenses