About

Highlights and Skills:

o Professional writer and editor with experience across games, TV, audio/radio, comics, and novels; creating visceral and unique stories and characters.
o Major experience of editing, proof reading and script editing across games, comics, magazines, contract publishing, audio drama and TV.
o Advanced skills in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Final Draft; Moderate Level of Skill in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator) as well as hand-coded HTML, XML, various content and project management systems, Confluence, Jira, etc.
o Excellent business and project management skills developed in narrative design, TV, publishing, marketing web design.
o Set up and later sold my own marcoms and contract publishing business.
o Media friendly with many appearances on TV, radio, as well as at conferences and conventions.
o Excellent team leadership skills, experienced facilitator and committee chair.
o Expert interpersonal and communication skills — dependability, honesty, good humour, dedication and enthusiasm.
o Member of BAFTA, the Royal Television Society, and the Writers’ Guild; Fellow of the Children’s Media Foundation.

Key Accomplishments:

o Senior Narrative Designer leading a team in creating and writing characters, stories and dialogue for Hyperspace – a new MMORPG.
o Creator of Rob, a re-imagining of the Robin Hood mythos for Hollywood Studio, Legendary Entertainment and digital comics platform Webtoon, 2021.
o Director of Publishing (Comics) for Awesome Media & Entertainment, 2021.
o Staff writer on ITV’s hit family adventure show, Thunderbirds Are Go, 2020.
o BAFTA judge for Children’s Drama 2013, Children’s Pre-School Animation 2019.
o Winner of the British Screenwriters’ Award for best Children’s TV show, 2018.
o Head Writer on Disney India TV Show: Eena Meena Deeka, 2014-2016.
o Scriptwriter for BBC flagship CGI show, Tree Fu Tom on series 3, 4 & 5.
o Winner of the BBC Writersroom Opportunity 2012.
o Assistant producer/script editor/ director on Sherlock Holmes adaptions.  
o Over 21 hours of broadcast television and ten hours of radio.
o Author of several books in fiction and non-fiction, as well as short stories.
o Comics writer for Legendary, Awesome Media, After-Shock, Titan, IDW, and BBC.
o Journalism published in the UK National Press while working as a regular contributor to the City Desk of the Sunday Express.
o Nominated for PTC New Journalist of the Year in 1999.