History:
2012-2020: Freelance
2020-2021: Above + Beyond
2021-2025: Draftline Europe
In the suite, I’m known for proactively supporting those around me, whether it’s helping with projects or resolving technical issues—always with editorial craft in mind. I consider myself a problem solver who strives for a high level of creative craftsmanship.
Out of office. I love cycling and I have an unhealthy obsession with punk + hardcore music, whilst often asking those around me what’s actually popular. I enjoy reading 404 Media, televisual and broadcast tech magazines of an evening to keep learning. In short I get obsessed with learning about things that interesting me, whether it’s music, cycling or tech.
Some might say
It was fantastic working with Jack… highlights were his collaboration, ideas and patience! - Sheldon Bont - The Valley NL
He’s quick thinking, super organised, eager to find creative and technical solutions and has a great relationship with his peers. Jack is able to keep his finger on the pulse of the latest software and technologies, keeping us at the forefront of trends and techniques... - Anita Osborne - Executive Producer.
He has a wonderfully creative attitude towards work, pushing the boundaries of the projects he works on, and adding a special flare to each asset he creates without ever making it feel like "a job he has to do". I have always been impressed with the interesting creative solutions he's had when creating videos and social assets… - Tommasso Fontanella - Global Content & production lead at AbInbev.
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OFFLINE
On-site ingest, transcode, sync, and edits. Assembled sound mixes for edits.Hosted sessions with directors, creatives, and clients. ONLINE
Global versioning + localisation campaigns. Social and DOOH campaign deliveries.HAP deliveries for Piccadilly Lights. Delivered mixes via AAF and OMF to engineers. Delivered conforms via EDL and XMLDelivered templated projects.Broadcast clocking and QC.
Motion Graphics
Storyboarding. Style frames.Delivered branded templates for Budweiser Premiere League.Produced templates for multiple global newsroom campaigns.Workflow
Whilst at Draftline Europe, I have managed and executed proof of concept campaigns for multiple cloud based video editing platforms, including EditShare + Lucidlink + Overcast. I have created structured processes for testing, to allow a team of five editors to deliver accurate results against measurable KPI's. This enabled the post-production lead to secure funding from the C-Suite through procurement, enabling an agency wide change in tools + archival storage. Completely changing the way the agency runs. This new efficient workflow enabled the agency to secure Global social newsroom's with onsite production + remote post production.TOOLS DELIVERED INTO PRODUCTION WORKFLOW INCLUDE:
Lucidlink / Overcast / Frame.io + C2C / Evercast / Kyno / MediaInfo / Hedge + Fool-cat / Shotput pro studio / Soundly.Software.
Premiere + After Effects, Audition, Photoshop, Illustrator, Media encoder, Mocha, Lockdown.AI / automator
I have experience using ChatGPT for various agent-based toolsets. Knowledge sharing through the use of chatbots has enabled the production workflow to be seamlessly deployed, with questions being answered by bots instead of humans. A small time saving. I also have experience using Nano Banana, Runway.To provide efficiencies in our servers and toolsets, I have built multiple automation tools that allow file duplicates to be found between our MAM + Server. Whilst other tools remove cache files and reduce storage/migration time savings to our editors. We also have multiple Slack integrations that allow these to work seamlessly.Mentorship
Whilst at Draftline Europe, I have mentored various junior + mid level editors. This has been with weekly spots in my calander allowing them time to ask questions, with software, career or anything else they wish to speak about. I have also run a meeting called the social breakfast where we have spent time looking for inspiration. A form of engaging the team in futher education / studying what else is going on in the industry to help build the development of the teams creative output.