He joined the BBC in 1983 as a Technical Assistant (Trainee Engineer), then spent 6 months on training courses with BBC Training & Development to quality as a BBC Certified Engineer.
In 1985 Tim made the bold move to follow his heart into TV Craft and Operations, quickly progressing to Vision Supervisor in the BBC studios, where he gained valuable knowledge, skills and experience in studio operations, lighting, video effects and graphics sequences.
With the skills of engineering and TV operations behind him, Tim decided to pursue his passion to teach, embarking on a career with the world-renowned BBC Training & Development, based at Wood Norton in Worcestershire.
During the 18 years with Training, Tim has worked with key worldwide media organisations, travelling to destinations as far afield as New York and Kuala Lumpur, while at home for the BBC Tim has worked in small BBC island sites as well as the many prestigious London premises.
With such a wide range of opportunity, Tim has used his knowledge gathering abilities, interpersonal skills and passion for broadcasting to mastermind key training delivery for both the BBC and external clients. Some of the noteworthy projects that Tim has managed are the Trimedia day for the BBC-wide induction programme, which all new recruits have attended in the last 7 years (amounting to some 10,000 trainees), and the BBC’s migration to tapeless workflow (e.g. training all production and technical crew associated with BBC NHU’s milestone programme ‘Planet Earth’).
Currently, Tim leads a team of staff and freelance trainers that deliver the BBC’s TV craft training portfolio. His extensive technical and production knowledge ensure that the BBC can deliver targeted learning events that are at the cutting edge of technology that highlight both the high level and production change process that the changes in the media industry demand.
Tim is very much a hands-on manager and is responsible for the BBC’s High Definition training portfolio, and the Digital Media Initiative that aims to see the BBC working in tapeless high definition by 2010.
In order to deliver BBC’s ambitious goals, Tim has implemented a tapeless high definition work flow across BBC Training venues that consolidate BBC Training’s justified position as a leading Training organisation for the worldwide media industry.
Tim is now looking forward to a world beyond tapeless and HD, where his knowledge and skills will prove invaluable for the BBC and worldwide media organizations, who will experience significantly more cultural and structural change in the next 10 years than has been seen in the last half century.
Tim delivers the "Introduction to High Definition (HD)" course at twofour54 tadreeb.
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