About Me

INTJ / ENTJ / autodidactic

Voiceover Artist

• Launching once I've somewhere professionally quiet enough to record
• Voiceover Studio

Voice Arts Related Reading

1. A Challenge for the Actor: Uta Hagen
2. A Practical Handbook for the Actor: M. Bruder, L.M. Cohl, M. Olnek, N. Pollack, R. Previto, S. Zigler
3. Actions, The Actor's Thesarus: Marina Caldarone, Maggie Lloyd-Williams
4. An Actor Prepares: Constantin Stanislavski
5. An Actor's Handbook, Constantin Stanislavski
6. Building a Character: Constantin Stanislavski
7. Creating a Role: Constantin Stanislavski
8. Finding Your Voice: Barbara Houseman
9. How to do Accents: Edda Sharpe, Jan Haydn-Rowles
10. How to do Standard English Accents: Edda Sharpe, Jan Haydn-Rowles
11. Respect for Acting: Uta Hagen
12. Sanford Meisner on Acting, Sanford Mesner and Dennis Longwell
13. Tackling Text [and Subtext]: Barbara Houseman
14. The Actor and the Text: Cicely Berry
15. The Actor Speaks: Patsy Rodenburg
16. The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper, Damon DiMarco
17. The Alchemy of Voice: Stewart Pearce
18. The Art of Acting: Stella Adler
19. The Art of Voice Acting: James R. Alburger
20. The Michael Chekhov Handbook for the Actor: Lenard Petit
21. The Need for Words: Patsy Rodenburg
22. The Power of Voice: Denise Woods
23. The Right to Speak: Patsy Rodenburg
24. The Voice Exercise Book: Jeannette Nelson
25. This is a Voice: Jeremy Fisher and Gillyanne Kayes
26. To the Actor, on the Technique of Acting: Michael Chekhov
27. Voice and The Actor: Cicely Berry
28. Voiceover Narration: Dian Perry
29. Your Voice and How to Use It: Cicely Berry

A name in yellow denotes I wish to undertake training with that person in the future.

Mobile Web Development

• Wrote a mobile content platform for all types of ringtone; graphics, videos, games and music downloads
• Sourced, negotiated and licensed a mobile content library of over 50,000 ringtones
• Sold ringtones to the public: provided mobile content to networks, industry / media partners, and globally known brands
• The first .mobi mTLD Certified Mobile Web Developer
• Entered the music download market: sourced and managed an inventory of 6,500,000+ legal songs from all the big labels
• Wrote a ground-breaking reverse billed / premium SMS powered mobile web billing system with phenomenal repeat sales
• Sourced, negotiated and integrated premium rate payment solutions in 24 countries

Innovation

• Wrote a PHP based 'Mobile Device Detection' system that was used by 100,000+ sites including many global brand names
• Users included DreamWorks entire online portfolio inc Shrek.com, NASA's Earth Observatory, Nintendo and Stanford
• Wrote 'Wordpress Mobile Plugin' which was used on 100,000+ sites
• Presented for PayPal at an event in London about the future of the mobile web
  The first merchant and customer to do a live transaction on PayPal Mobile
• Helped 1,000+ radio stations stream to Alexa devices, including national and international brand franchises
• Wrote an Icecast, liquidsoap and HLS powered streaming radio platform that can handle a million plus concurrent listeners
• Books that mention my work