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So within ITV I work for Day Break, I'm a senior producer on the features department and I oversee a department called 'The Guide', which are short films which run within the show twice a morning. And my role within that is, I kind of do everything from scripting to going out to film to coming back and actually edit the pieces together, so I kind of see it from start to finish.

So I did a journalism degree so I always knew media was where I wanted to work, but I always thought it was newspapers because I worked at local newspapers, local radio and I didn't really think much about television and then I did work experience as Grenada in Manchester and loved it and it was definitely somewhere then I knew I wanted to work so then I moved to London and started at GMTV and I've kind of just come from there really, I went from programme assistant to trainee to researcher to producer and now I'm a senior producer, so it's been brilliant, I've loved every minute of it.

My role at ITV is head of programme strategy for ITV3, so my main responsibility is constructing the ITV3 schedule for the year, making sure it's targeted at the right audience, making changes when necessary, we keep a very close eye on the competitors so sometimes we make changes according to what the main competitors are doing, and also the rest of the ITV channels, so we work as like a family of channels, so for ITV3 to keep a close eye on what ITV1, 2 and 4 are doing and because we always want to be a complementary portfolio of channels, sometimes I need to make changes in accordance with the other ITV channels. So I came straight from university to ITV, I did a dissertation on scheduling, as you do, you know. Working at ITV is a really good environment, good experience - we have an open plan office so it's really good, you really feel like you work as a team, especially when there's a number of channels all in the office.