Here at ITV I'm one of three drama commissioners, we commission new drama programmes for the channel and my job in particular is to spear head development of new projects, so what that means is I shepherd projects right from the start of the idea all the way through to production and then each project once it's shooting we divide up so we all take different kind of shows to sort of oversee while they're being made.

I've been in TV for about 19 years and my path to commissioning, I would say quite a classic one in that I started as a script reader, I became a script editor, I did 5 years of script editing, I was a producer, I made programmes for about 5 years and then I became an executive producer and then I became a commissioner, so my background is very much in making programmes and script based work. I feel really strongly that if you're going to do this job you have to know what it's like to make the programmes.

I work in ITV online and on-demand in the product strategy and audience engagement department, that's a bit of a mouthful, but I'll explain - it;s part about online product strategy, which is what we're going to do with our online products in the medium-term so in 1 to 3 years, but then it's also partly about audience engagement, which is how do we engage with our viewers through say social media or what we might provide to them on the website or various other platforms.

My career path at ITV is quite interesting and different. I joined ITV three years ago as a developer, that's a programmer, so my day job was very much about technology, I was neck-deep in computer code, but soon after joining I became very interested in product development which is much more business focused, it's about what we do with our products and I was very lucky to have the support of my manager in forging a new path in this direction. The atmosphere at ITV is great at the moment, we're obviously in the middle of a transformational period we've just recently acquired a new chief executive and chairman who are not traditionally from the broadcasting industry, so they're bringing a very different thinking to things at ITV and that's certainly means lots of exciting development in online and on-demand where I work.