SPANNER WORKS
About Us
Spanner Works Ltd provides engineering services and personnel to the television broadcast industry.
Founder Hannah Chambers has been working in the broadcasting industry since 2007, spending the beginning of her career as an in-house studio support engineer for QVC and later The London Studios for ITV. In July 2018 ITV closed The London Studios, so Hannah opened Spanner Works Ltd and embarked on a freelance career in broadcast engineering.
Recent work:
Celebrity Catchphrase Series 9 - Comms supervisor
Project - Maidstone Studios Talkback installation for Studio 2, project manager and engineer
Jools Holland's 2021 Hootenanny - Comms engineer
Supermarket Sweep series 2 - Technical director/Comms supervisor
Joined the Hawk Media Partnership - a collaboration of like-minded broadcast experts offering consultancy, project management and more.
Project - Maidstone Studios Talkback installation,
for Studio 1, project manager + engineer
Encompass Chiswick - Migration project engineering support
Glyndebourne Opera - Live Opera streamed to Youtube
Project - Maidstone Studios Grams Desk Design, Install and Guarantee for record of celebrity Catchphrase
Encompass Wyvil Court - engineering support and projects
Boat Race 2019 - equipment build support
MotoGP 2019 Calendar - Jerez, Catalunya, Aragon, Japan, Malaysia
F1 2019 Calendar - Bahrain, France, UK, Italy, Abu Dhabi
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CV in Summary
Managing Director - Spanner Works Ltd July 2018 - present
Various freelancing work as listed above
ITV - The London Studios – Production Support Engineer July 2012 – July 2018
Regular secondments whilst at The London Studios
ITV Daytime - Technical Director June 2015 – July 2018
ITV The London Studios – Project Engineer July 2012 – July 2018
QVC UK - Broadcast engineer June 2010 – July 2012
Showcomms Ltd – Workshop Technician Dec 2007 – June 2010
Ravensbourne Short Courses - Multiskilled Operator Dec 2008 – June 2010
Ravensbourne Broadcast Department - Maintenance Engineer March 2010 - April 2010
Rave On Air 2009 – Head of Engineering June 2009
Big Brother’s Big Mouth - Cameras & Lighting Assistant Aug 2008, Aug 2009
AELTC Wimbledon Tennis Championships - Radio Comms Assistant July 2008
Rave on Air 2008 - Head of Communications June 2008
Leicester Square Premieres - Sound Assistant 2007-2008
Skills & Qualifications
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Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication (Chislehurst Site) - BSc in Broadcast Technology First Class Degree with Honours awarded 2009 - 2010
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Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication (Chislehurst Site) - FDSc in Broadcast Media Technology 2007 - 2009
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ICND1 Cisco CCNA Training
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Calrec Apollo Training Course
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Riedel Artist Talkback Training Course
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Avid Interplay and ISIS support (3rd party)
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EVS Technical Support and Network Administration Training
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Grass Valley Publitronic Nexus and Cobalt Server Administrator Training
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Sony Vision Mixer Training – 7/8000x Series Switcher
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Clearcom Eclipse System and V-series Training
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Quantum Advanced Stornext Storage Manager Training (Quantum course 4-0509)
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Quantel Integrated Server Architecture Professional Engineer
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BOC Compressed Gas Safety Certificate (valid to Aug 2012)
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IPAF Mobile Vertical Platform Operator 3a (valid to 2016)
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UNIX Tools and Utilities Training (Learning Tree course 396)
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Emergency First Aid at Work (valid to 2014)
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Experienced with Windows Server 2008, CE, XP, Vista, 7, 10; Mac OS9, OSX and Linux Ubuntu among others
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Confident with AutoCAD, MySQL Query Browser, Excel, Word, Outlook, Mediawiki among others
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Working knowledge of Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, EVS IPDirector, Pixel Power Clarity
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Full, Clean UK Driving License – B, B1, f, k, p (gained July 2007)
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Availability Calendar
Please note this calendar is subject to short-notice change and is for use as a guideline only. Please make email contact for bookings enquiries.