From a South Shields community channel to Wimbledon.

I was born in the small North East seaside town of South Shields, just a few miles from Newcastle, where I spent my childhood growing up. I spent much of my early years learning and experimenting with technology, which made me a very technically minded and productive person. Since then I've always known that I wanted to work in a broadcast environment, and I was always looking for things to do and ways I could broadcast content to one of the easiest platforms: the internet.

In 2009 I set up a community media organisation for South Shields, which ran a community radio station from 2009 to 2013 and a community television station that still operates to this day and has nearly half a million views! I also got involved with other local community organisations, doing event work with sound and lighting, which let me work on some great productions.

After leaving school in 2011 I went on to study media production at Newcastle College, where I came out with top grades and experience. I then completed a degree in Broadcast Media Production at the University of Sunderland, graduating in 2017 with a first-class honours degree, BA (Hons). After graduating, I worked in live television as a TX operator for Ideal Shopping Direct for almost a year, alongside taking on other client work.

In my free time I like to present and produce videos for my community media organisation. Whether it's documentaries, news reports, event highlights or short films, it's all a part of what I do at Cram Media UK. I've also worked with and been involved in a number of radio stations, including NE1fm, Broad Radio, Pulse Radio, HCA Radio and my very own station, CramFM, where I presented my flagship Saturday Night Party show.

In 2013 I began working at HCA Radio as the station technician before taking on the role of station manager, spending 5 years there. As well as all this, I'm a mobile DJ offering a professional service across the North East of England. I also work with sound and lighting at events, setting up and controlling stage lighting for a number of events and mixing front-of-house sound on other occasions.