Edward J. O’Neill M.A.

07517.360460

ted.fleetstreet@gmail.com
Wokingham, Berkshire

PROFILE

• Journalist specialised in local print, history and archaeology, but also with a deep knowledge of foreign affairs, diplomacy, politics, and science.
• Senior video leader and producer with deep expertise in both public service (BBC) and commercial (Mediaset) broadcast environments but also at ease with modern mobile filming kit.
• Ability to choose and select the best kit, prepare colleagues for a shoot, but also to film, edit and post-produce a slick sequence quickly to demanding deadlines.
• Video filming, editing and sound production experience obtained at the BBC, and with my own production company specialised in cultural heritage in Italy.
• Ready-to-go film maker and sound recorder equally at home with broadcast quality cameras or contemporary mobile kit.
• Technical video specialist with 5 years unique experience working at the BBC’s R&D department.
• Owner/operator of speciality broadcast equipment including XDCAM cameras and Rode mics.

NOTE:   The image on the left is synthesised by a computer.

• NCTJ Diploma in Journalism

Sutton College Nov 2021

• Certificate in Mobile Journalism

SMART Film School November 2020

• M.A. The Classical Mediterranean (Roman Archaeology)

University of Leicester School of Archaeology and Ancient History 2019

• Advanced Cinematography (Met Film School / Ealing Studios) 2015

• Intensive Italian Language training – now fluent

Scuola Leonardo da Vinci (Florence and Rome) 2001-2003

• Diploma in Advanced Broadcast Engineering

BBC Training and Development 1998

• B.Sc. Mathematics and Computing

University of Bath 1992

Print Reporter, Reach plc, Somerset and Humberside, UK 2021 - 2025

• Fulfilled a long held ambition to improve my writing skills working for titles such as the Lincolnshire Echo, the Bath Chronicle, the Hull Daily Mail, Business Live and Lincolnshire Live.

Support Worker, Support Horizons, Wokingham, UK 2018 – 2021

• Using my warm and disarming people skills to support and empower vulnerable people in the community, assessing their needs and helping them access care and medical services.

Technical Director, MEON HDTV Productions (Rome and Italy) 2008 – 2017

• Developed historical documentary films.
• Trained myself in cinematography and acquired skills to plan, record, film and edit high-quality video stories.
• Led a team that performed archaeological research and field work in Italy; filming the ancient Roman aqueducts and Leonardo da Vinci's canal system around Milan.
• Extensive use of GPS measurement and plotting features on maps using Garmin Oregon GPS, Google Earth Pro and other tools.

Strategic Consultant, Three Italia (Milan) 2005 - 2007

• Strategic Consultant in Mobile Television system for the Mobile Telephone network, “3”.
• Marketing Management team for the new service to stream television shows to mobile phones.

Strategic Consultant, Mediaset Group (Milan) 2003 - 2005

• I guided two projects concerned with the launch of Italian Digital Terrestrial Television: Italy's first Electronic Program Guide for DVB-T, and the effort to diversify revenue streams from advertising customers, focusing on viewer profiling and gathering of viewer behaviour data.
• I was also a member, of the DGTVi team which wrote the Italian D-Book, standard for Italian Digital Terrestrial Television receivers, leveraging my knowledge of Digital Terrestrial Television from BBC Research and Development, and I am named in the first Italian D-Book as co-author and translator.

R&D Engineer, BBC Research and Development 1997 - 2002

Research and Development Department, Kingswood Warren, UK.

• Trained as a Broadcast Engineer by the BBC, I was present at the launch of the first operative Digital Terrestrial TV service.
• Over the course of five years I led some significant projects at BBC R&D such as certifying the BBC's web traffic, and a European project to standardise a new audio-video file format now used in TV Cameras and digital production.

Video newsgathering example: https://youtu.be/eheTydWjm4I - also shows my skills with mics, photoshop and gimbal.

• Discovery Channel News: https://youtu.be/qiE0pi99z-A (Filmed by me, edited by Discovery Channel).
• Restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s lock gates in Milan: https://vimeo.com/127997251 (all filmed, edited and performed by me).
• Archaeology Magazine film - Includes ancient coin animated by me with Adobe After Effects: https://vimeo.com/36814395 - also filmed and edited and acted by me.
• My showreel in Italian: https://vimeo.com/165982113 - edited and performed by me, elements filmed by myself, by film-school comrades and Italian broadcasters.

• Video production: Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop and After Effects but also Sony Vegas, Adobe Premier Rush, FilmIc and Vlogit.
• Television Cameras: Highly proficient in filming, lighting, and sound recording using broadcast quality Full HD cameras (Sony PMW-200, PMW-EX1, PMW-EX3).
• Disarming interview skills. Ability to put people at their ease.
• Archaeology: Led specialist archaeological and archival research project based in Rome for 10 years involving networking, map-making, lighting underground spaces, filming.

C. S. Lewis