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

Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication (Chislehurst Site) - BSc in Broadcast Technology First Class Degree with Honours awarded 2009 - 2010
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication (Chislehurst Site) - FDSc in Broadcast Media Technology 2007 - 2009
ICND1 Cisco CCNA Training
Calrec Apollo Training Course
Riedel Artist Talkback Training Course
Avid Interplay and ISIS support (3rd party)
EVS Technical Support and Network Administration Training
Grass Valley Publitronic Nexus and Cobalt Server Administrator Training
Sony Vision Mixer Training – 7/8000x Series Switcher
Clearcom Eclipse System and V-series Training
Quantum Advanced Stornext Storage Manager Training (Quantum course 4-0509)
Quantel Integrated Server Architecture Professional Engineer
BOC Compressed Gas Safety Certificate (valid to Aug 2012)
IPAF Mobile Vertical Platform Operator 3a (valid to 2016)
UNIX Tools and Utilities Training (Learning Tree course 396)
Emergency First Aid at Work (valid to 2014)
Experienced with Windows Server 2008, CE, XP, Vista, 7, 10; Mac OS9, OSX and Linux Ubuntu among others
Confident with AutoCAD, MySQL Query Browser, Excel, Word, Outlook, Mediawiki among others
Working knowledge of Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, EVS IPDirector, Pixel Power Clarity
Full, Clean UK Driving License – B, B1, f, k, p (gained July 2007)

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