Following on from an education in Arts and Sciences at Bishop's Stortford College, I moved to Italy straight from school and started working first as a stills photographer.

 

I lived between Milan and Rome, and, once visual effects supervision took me ever more onto advertising and film sets, I lived and worked in China, India, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, South Africa and the UK, travelling extensively around the world to many different Countries for my work.

 

1976-78 : Assistant editor, cameraman, and program director in SPQR TV - an Italian private television channel based in Rome and managed by film Director Giuseppe Collizzi (a highly successful Film Director at the time, and famed for having created the BUD SPENCER / TERENCE HILL Comedy Film Franchise). Collizzi placed his film professionals in the television station and I was trained extensively by them.

 

1978-83 : Post Production consultant in S.B.P. S.p.A.- a Post Production Facility in Rome, Italy, where I specialized in long format editing, digital video effects, and television graphics. Thanks to my determination and craft skills I became a highly successful professional addition to the company, bringing in large quantities of advertising and broadcasting clients from Milan in those years.

 

1983-1985 : Consultant to RETE 4 in Milan (Channel Four - an Italian national private television channel), where I managed the network’s image and helped build the advanced post production facilities for these; I was among the proponents of the so-called “Technical Operations Centre” (TOC, and which is still in operation today, some 35 years later).

 

1985-1986 : Consultant in UVC srl. - an independent post production facility in Milan, Italy. I managed the creative, commercial, and technical divisions of the facility. During this period I also began on - set visual effects supervision, first in advertising, then later in feature films - an activity that was to become ever more part of my professional career.

 

1986-1987 : Founder and President of IMAGINACTION srl. In Milan - a small, highly focussed company based around Quantel’s Paintbox and specializing in graphics and animation for commercials, corporate communication and broadcast television. The company was housed first in GUICAR srl. for 6 months - a larger post production facility then without graphic capabilities at the time and subsequently, in TTV S.p.A., the largest post production facility and film laboratory  in Milan at the time. The highly successful, small company was subsequently bought outright by ETABETA srl., a larger, Rome based production and post production facility, and I went on to found a new computer graphics and visual effects division in TTV S.p.A.