A few Birmingham 2022 photos popped up on my phone last week week. It is hard to believe it has already been four years.I joined @Progress Productions as an Assistant Producer early in the planning process.... Read more
A few Birmingham 2022 photos popped up on my phone last week week. It is hard to believe it has already been four years.
I joined @Progress Productions as an Assistant Producer early in the planning process. I supported the team across the wider sports programme before becoming the on-site AP Lead for boxing at the NEC.
Until then, most of my career had been in radio and television. Birmingham 2022 showed me how much of that experience could transfer into live sport and event production.
The scale and rhythm were completely different, but I quickly found that I loved the planning, teamwork, problem-solving and buzz of helping bring a major sporting event to life.
A lot of the work happened out of sight. My role involved keeping people, schedules and more importantly the entertainment we were producing was all cohesive and to a high standard. It also meant reacting quickly when plans changed and making sure the right people had the information they needed.
That project opened the door to the live event side of my career. Since then, I have worked across several major sporting events and have gone on to lead production and showcalling on some of them.
Looking back at the photos reminded me how rewarding it was to be part of an event so close to where I grew up. It remains a proper career highlight and an important step in the development of my live sport work.
Thanks to @Progress Productions and to everyone I worked alongside, including Duncan Rycroft, Warren Muggleton, Aky Karim, John Gooden, Sarah Floate, Robert Davis, @LauraSenior, Steve Adams, among many others.
Always keen to continue building on this side of my work through live events, sport presentation and venue-based production.
I joined @Progress Productions as an Assistant Producer early in the planning process. I supported the team across the wider sports programme before becoming the on-site AP Lead for boxing at the NEC.
Until then, most of my career had been in radio and television. Birmingham 2022 showed me how much of that experience could transfer into live sport and event production.
The scale and rhythm were completely different, but I quickly found that I loved the planning, teamwork, problem-solving and buzz of helping bring a major sporting event to life.
A lot of the work happened out of sight. My role involved keeping people, schedules and more importantly the entertainment we were producing was all cohesive and to a high standard. It also meant reacting quickly when plans changed and making sure the right people had the information they needed.
That project opened the door to the live event side of my career. Since then, I have worked across several major sporting events and have gone on to lead production and showcalling on some of them.
Looking back at the photos reminded me how rewarding it was to be part of an event so close to where I grew up. It remains a proper career highlight and an important step in the development of my live sport work.
Thanks to @Progress Productions and to everyone I worked alongside, including Duncan Rycroft, Warren Muggleton, Aky Karim, John Gooden, Sarah Floate, Robert Davis, @LauraSenior, Steve Adams, among many others.
Always keen to continue building on this side of my work through live events, sport presentation and venue-based production.
