Jamie Knight

Education

1^st Class BA (Hons) Animation

Key Skills

Animation & VFX.
Projection Mapping & VJing.
Media production.
Videography, Cinematography, Photography, Lighting & Compositing.
Editing & Colour Grading.
Design for digital and print.
Sound Engineering & Music Production.
Broadcast, Streaming & Live Event Media.
Creative & digital solution consultancy for businesses.
Graphic Design.
Project Management.
Development of learning packages and delivery.
Immersive technology, environments & simulation.
Training & learning environments.

Employment History

Raytheon UK | Media Developer | Sept 2022 – Present

– The role requires me to hold and maintain Government Security Clearance up to and including ‘a high’ level classification.

– Advanced Safeguarding of trainees.

– Compiling and providing proposals and reports.

– Creating engaging training support media and creative scenarios that facilitate the modernisation strategy for the Royal Navy: This includes spatial augmented reality, immersive environments, training simulations, virtual reality, film, animation, 3D design and digital fabrication, photography, and graphic design.

– Product design: Designing media training design solutions directly with client SMEs to modernise training delivery methods to improve learner experience, learning retention, and efficiency of the training solution. Offering Both conceptual and practical technical knowledge.

– R&D: To the same effect as above.

– Offer showcase demonstrations: My responsibilities include leading the design and delivery of ‘direct to client (RoyalNavy)’ demonstrational showcase events of the Media Department’s ability, value, and potential to enhance and improve training solutions on the GBP 2 Billion Project Selborne contract.

– Establishment support: Providing general media support to HMS Raleigh and extended bases.

– I chair and lead a think-tank network group that focuses on knowledge exchange, innovation, collaboration, sustainability, and cultural change.

– To be able to communicate at all stakeholder levels. From the general public and trainees to members of command, government, and the royal family.

– Maintaining and inventorying Media department equipment.

Real ideas org | Creative & Digital Consultant | Dec 2018 – SEPT 2022

– Offering extensive specialist creative, digital, and technical knowledge to the organisation.

– Light Festival Specialist Event Support: Providing specialist, technical and contextual projection mapping support, educational lectures and workshops as academic support to university partners to assist and facilitate student delivery and learning opportunities within the festival. Support emerging artists to upskill and cultivate developing new practices. I also exhibited my own spatial augmented reality work within the festival.

– Inhouse Business Support: Providing media provisions within the organisation ranging from; animation, film and graphic design for promotional, pitch and bid support, to educational and training materials for HR. I was also responsible for digitising the organisation for the COVID-19 adaptation strategy. Bringing a solution for delivering the business’s offers online and digitally without disruption of service and retaining connections with the hundreds of the organisation’s stakeholders. This included the addition of a broadcast/streaming service offer and remote working capabilities.

– Digital Sector Facilitation: Delivery of Digital Sector specialism on Game Changer project. This included working with and cultivating B2B relationships within the digital industry and creating economic and academic opportunities. I was also responsible for working with and mentoring 16 – 25-year-olds in gaining digital skill sets to maximise their employability, create pathways to their career progression and break into industry within their chosen vocation. I was also responsible for the safeguarding of my cohorts.

– Programme Design: Working collaboratively to produce, from design to delivery, programmes of work and product offers for the organisation. Taking an idea, creating a structure and designing how it works, to trialling, delivering and refining it to hit contract or objective KPIs.

Digital Media Producer | Freelance | 2015 – Present

Additional Info

Full Clean UK Car Licence.
Full Clean UK Motorbike Licence.
Government Security Clearance.

Key areas of experience

16 Years of project management, business and sales focused experience.
7 Years’ experience creating film and visual concept for the private and third sector.
Extensive Design house experience creating to marketing, and direct from client briefs.
Experienced in designing and developing creative product suites/offers.
Over 8 years of commercial experience in producing film & animation throughout entire working pipeline.
Over 5 years of experience in digital media creation for live events and festivals.
7 years of experience in delivering consultancy, lecturing, and teaching of animation and immersive design to students and professionals up to university and industry level.
7 years of creating and delivering immersive media content nationally and internationally.
Producing the shaping, functionality and delivery of live, broadcast web-based events & webinars. In addition to digitising organisational delivery and creating staff training packages in response to COVID-19 business adaption strategies set out by leadership team.
Production of high-quality video resources for training, e-learning and promotional/marketing purposes throughout entire production pipeline.
High level of understanding of industry trends and innovation.
Development of high-quality content for public & private sector audiences which focus on audience experience, engagement, value proposition, attention retention, awareness, growth, and sales.
Experienced in the creation/expansion of IP, branding packages with strong visual design.
Scripting and story/narrative structuring (understanding of communicating information to audience through dialogue).
Effective storyboarding & visual language (understanding of visually engaging an audience and communicating information – externally and within teams).
Firm knowledge and ability of sound design/engineering to broadcast standard.
Experienced in the development, creation and delivery of high-quality learning packages to meet learning outcomes across multiple delivery methods for clients including educational institutes and trusts, private sector organisations, research grant funding bodies, the public sector and the Ministry of Defence.
Experienced in collaborating with Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to deliver enhanced, updated learning experiences to accelerate mastery of taught content, improve knowledge retention and make learning more accessible to a broader scope of learners.
Development and design of high-profile technology and creative innovation product suite demonstration expo showcase events (physical & virtual).

Government Security Clearance Status:

Vetted to a high UK Government standard/level and currently hold ‘active’ Government security clearance at an advanced level.

Notable Achievements:

First Class Honours in Animation BA (Hons) degree.
Highest recorded institutional grade in the ‘Creative and Professional Development’ module at Arts University Plymouth.
Live Motion Tracking Projection Mapping of BBC singers during operatic music festival.
Video Mapping consultancy and immersive content producer across multiple international video mapping light festivals performed to audiences of hundreds of thousands of people.

Practical & Contextual Industry Knowledge & Experience Subject Areas:

Animation – Graphic Design & Design House (print and digital) – Film – Game – Videography – Cinematography – Photography – Art & Design inc. Digital – Immersive Experiences – Narrative – Streaming & Broadcast – Motion Capture – Projection Mapping & Live Event Performance Media – Training & Education.

Primary Software Packages Experience:

Office | Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint), Mac (Keynote).
Animation & Film | Adobe Suite CC (After Effects inc. Trap Code suite plug-ins, Premiere Pro), Dragonframe, CelAction 2d, TV Paint, Auto Desk (Maya and 3ds Max), Cinema 4D, Blender, Camtasia.
Streaming & Broadcast | OBS, GoTo Webinar.
Design | Adobe Suite CC (Photoshop, In design, Illustrator).
Live Event | Resolume, Madmapper, VDMX5, Touch Designer, Notch.
Game | Unity, Unreal Engine.
CAD | Rhinoceros.
Sound | Audition, Audacity.

Additional Certification:

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), Cleared – active status.
Security Check (SC), Cleared – active status.
ACoT – Advanced Care of Trainees.
Basic CoT (Care of Trainees).
Defence Information Management Passport (DIMP).
Diploma: Anti-Corruption.
Diploma: Antitrust Compliance.
Diploma: Conflicts of Interest.
Diploma: Labour Charging.
Diploma: Privacy Principles.

GDPR Update Training.
Health & Safety Essentials.
Manual Handling Training.
Emergency First Aid at Work.
Unconscious Bias for Managers Training.
Fire Awareness Training.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Training.
iHasco – Display Screen Equipment.

Digital Badges:

Real Ideas CV-19 Workforce.
Real Ideas Webinar Support Crew.

Hardware: Familiar with a wide variety of on-location/set (content capture hardware) and editing, mixing and postproduction studio suites as well as live performance infrastructure and equipment.