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Rory

WORK IN PROGRESS

TV or Technology - I'm looking for my next challenge.

About me

WORK IN PROGRESS!!!

My Skills

Assistant Editor

In business and engineering, new product development covers the complete process of bringing a new product to market.

iOS Development

Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.

Independent Filmmaker

Project management is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet success criteria at the time.

IT & Cloud

Agile is a repetitive approach to project delivery. Your team delivers multiple smaller steps from the start, instead of delivering everything at the end.

Education

Directing & Producing Science & Natural History - MA

National Film & Television School

Geophysics with Study Abroad - MSci

University of Southampton

TV & Film

Broadcast Credits

Croc Watch / Hippo Watch

Edit Assistant - True to Nature

Planned and implemented workflow for the show, with guidance from Evoloutions post house. Workflow included DIT, ingest, syncmaps, logging, assemblies, online and archive to LTO.

Whale with Steve Backshall

Edit Assistant - True to Nature

Planned and implemented workflow for the show, with guidance from Films @ 59 post house. Workflow included DIT, ingest, syncmaps, logging, assemblies, online and archive to LTO.

Night Coppers

Edit Assistant - Blast! By The Sea

Worked with other edit assistants and an edit producer to create rough assemblies of all stories shot by the various shooting teams.

These rough assemblies (along with logs) were then used by the series producer to assign stories to each episode editor & edit producer.

Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough

Edit Assistant - BBC Studios

Responsible for coordinating between the offline edit and VFX vendors.

Tasked with ingesting storyboards, exporting storyboard cuts and plates to VFX vendors, and replacing updated VFX material in the offline cut.

Film Credits

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

American Express / Aug 2018 - Present

Product lead for the Digital New Card Application across 7 countries. Partnered with GFK Market Research to conduct international user studies to determine core MVP features, plus long-term optimizations.

DIGITAL PRODUCT MANAGER

HP Inc. / May 2016 - Jul 2017

Co-created HP’s consumer PC-as-a-Service eCommerce subscription business from zero to public in 6 months. Collaborated with HP’s external finance partner to build and scale the subscription business.

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Hewlett-Packard / Aug 2014 - May 2016

Designed, executed, and implemented an end-to-end big data analytics dashboard built on HP’s Vertica architecture. Enabled Net Promoter Score growth of HP’s top 10 enterprise accounts by over 60%.

Filmmaker

Personal Projects

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

American Express / Aug 2018 - Present

Product lead for the Digital New Card Application across 7 countries. Partnered with GFK Market Research to conduct international user studies to determine core MVP features, plus long-term optimizations.

DIGITAL PRODUCT MANAGER

HP Inc. / May 2016 - Jul 2017

Co-created HP’s consumer PC-as-a-Service eCommerce subscription business from zero to public in 6 months. Collaborated with HP’s external finance partner to build and scale the subscription business.

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Hewlett-Packard / Aug 2014 - May 2016

Designed, executed, and implemented an end-to-end big data analytics dashboard built on HP’s Vertica architecture. Enabled Net Promoter Score growth of HP’s top 10 enterprise accounts by over 60%.

Tech & IT

Certificates

LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE

Harvard University / 2018

RISK MANAGEMENT

Stanford University / 2017

My Skills

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

In business and engineering, new product development covers the complete process of bringing a new product to market.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Project management is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet success criteria at the time.

AGILE WORKFLOW

Agile is a repetitive approach to project delivery. Your team delivers multiple smaller steps from the start, instead of delivering everything at the end.

Quotes
Quotes
"Laurent is one of the most talented, creative and easy to get along with digital product leader, who really brought in an impact into our company."

Hewlett-Packard, Nancy Blake