Victoria Butt
Summary
Highly skilled broadcast operations leader with a strong focus on problem solving, attention to detail, and the ability to work under pressure. Demonstrates exceptional adaptability and critical thinking, coupled with excellent communication and collaboration skills. Delivered over 99.99% contracted commitments in 2023 & 2024, exceeding SLA expectations with minimal outages all year. Known for being client-focused and possessing strong leadership abilities. Committed to leveraging these competencies to drive success in future roles.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Operations Manager
Red Bee Media
Leeds
02.2023 - Current
- Managing a large team of highly skilled and dedicated broadcast professionals. Leading service strategy and the team to deliver an excellent level of broadcast, equal to or exceeding contracted agreements and KPIs for our client ITV.
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders in support of operational excellence and maintaining best practice.
- Mentoring and coaching to maximise the use of the teams individual strengths, to recognise and develop key talent and encourage creativity and originality.
- Interfacing with internal service providers to ensure the best possible standards are received and client needs are foremost. This includes accurately communicating change, documenting processes and managing problems through to resolution.
- Cost centre and budget management ensuring that the suite operates within agreed budgets, while identifying opportunities to drive and deliver efficiencies.
Senior Transmission Controller
Red Bee Media
Leeds
05.2022 - 02.2023
- Collaborating with the Operations Manager to encourage a culture of continual improvement and innovation within the team.
- Being a strong role model, providing a positive and optimistic outlook on change, challenges and problems.
- Training and mentoring new and existing employees. Including creating training matrixes and checklists.
- Maintaining operational compliance with regulatory guidelines and established company requirements.
- Managing department additional payments/overtime and annual leave.
Transmission Controller
Red Bee Media
Leeds
05.2004 - 04.2022
- Maintaining a high level of error free transmission for our client ITV. Responsible for the scheduled playout of multiple transmission channels and regions including +1, SD, HD, DSAT and DTT to effectively deliver SLA's and KPI's.
- Ingesting and processing of programme, promotional and commercial content. Including tape transfer to server and publishing of tx material.
- Transmitting daytime live programmes, numerous live sporting events and breaking news stories. Including high profile events like the UEFA European football championships, Football World Cups, Rugby World Cups, I'm A Celebrity, the Super Bowl, horse racing, snooker, darts and many more.
- Problem solving and critical thinking in evolving scenarios working under pressure.
- Excellent knowledge of transmission systems and environments.
Transmission Controller
ITV Central Television
Birmingham
05.2002 - 05.2004
- Technical assessment and QC'ing of programmes, to make sure industry standards were met.
- Incident escalations including: outages, logging and reporting.
- Responsible for the creation of regional training material, implementing regional training and establishing DR documentation.
- Calculation of programme intervals and timings ahead of scheduling and tx.
- Responsible for networking regional variations and live sport to the rest of ITV.
MCR Technical Operator
ITV Central Television
Birmingham
05.2000 - 05.2002
- Working in MCR, experience with server based media, automation and VT formats.
- Coordinating live line feeds and sporting events.
- Actioning line bookings.
- Racks room experience and diagnosis.
- Subtitling and compliance checking programmes and content prior to transmission and whilst on air.
Education
HND - Media Production & Technology
University of Salford
ManchesterSkills
- Client Focused
- Leadership skills
- Change Management
- Problem Solving
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure
- Adaptability
- Critical Thinking
- Excellent Communicator
- Collaborator
Timeline
Operations Manager
Red Bee Media
02.2023 - Current
Senior Transmission Controller
Red Bee Media
05.2022 - 02.2023
Transmission Controller
Red Bee Media
05.2004 - 04.2022
Transmission Controller
ITV Central Television
05.2002 - 05.2004
MCR Technical Operator
ITV Central Television
05.2000 - 05.2002
HND - Media Production & Technology
University of Salford
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