Keoni D'Souza

Keoni D'Souza

Computer Engineer & Technical Assistant

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Broadcast Engineer and Royal Television Society Scholar

  • Education

    • St Thomas More High School

      2009 - 2016
      GCSEs & A Levels
    • University of York

      2020 - 2021
      Master of Arts - MA Linguistics
    • Swansea University

      2016 - 2020
      Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Second Class Honours, Division One

      Activities and Societies: CathSoc Chair for 2017/18 and 2019/20 Includes placement year at ITV (2018-2019)

  • Experience

    • Austech Computers Ltd

      Sept 2013 - Sept 2013
      Computer Engineer & Technical Assistant

      Duties included: shadowing a key member of staff, observing their day-to-day work; assisting customers with their queries and requirements; installing and testing essential computer software; stripping and assembling computer systems; cleaning and maintaining computer hardware.

    • Royal Television Society

      Sept 2016 - Aug 2020
      Technology Bursary Recipient

      One of seven in the 2016 cohort of Technology Bursary recipients from the Royal Television Society

    • Xtreme Radio

      Nov 2016 - Mar 2020
      Radio Presenter

      Presented 'A Voice for Radio', a weekly two-hour programme with general and specialist music (including music not in the English language and songs from the Eurovision Song Contest), games and some listener interaction.

    • Swansea University

      Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
      Swansea Telephone Campaign Caller

      Duties included: contacting alumni, creating affinity and maintaining conversations; supporting prospective students by obtaining funding from alumni for bursaries; allaying concerns and communicating calmly and effectively.

    • Swansea University

      Aug 2017 - Sept 2017

      Duties included: directing a video on hate crime, planning and producing all necessary components with assistance from South Wales Police; researching and development around a specific subject and its associated sub-contexts; organising, managing and co-ordinating a small group of people. Duties included: receiving calls and conversing clearly and with composure, to put possible prospective students’ minds at ease; conducting calls to convince students to choose Swansea University as their place of study.

      • Video Director

        Sept 2017 - Sept 2017
      • Swansea Clearing Helpline Caller

        Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
    • ITV

      Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
      Trainee Software Engineer
    • Sip by Sip with Keoni D'Souza

      Mar 2020 - now
      Podcaster

      Started a podcast in lockdown where I chat to a friend and play a game over a beverage of some sort.

    • SUTV

      Mar 2020 - May 2020
      Television Presenter

      Co-presented two live shows for Swansea University Television: coverage of the Student Union election results and the inaugural Virtual Varsity, the yearly sporting event between Swansea and Cardiff University.

    • University Radio York

      Sept 2020 - Aug 2021
      Radio Presenter

      Co-presenting and producing special interest programme 'A Classical Bedtime'; presenting narrative-driven variety programme 'Keoni's Cave'; and partipating in other programmes across the schedule.

    • York Student Television

      May 2021 - Sept 2021

      - Attend Computing Meetings.- Provide apologies/notice to the Computing Director or Deputy Computing Director if they are unable to attend.- Attend Production Meetings.- Provide apologies/notice to the Computing Director or Production Director if they are unable to attend.- Liaise with the Production Director and team on upcoming productions and their computing requirements.- Ensure a competent member of the computing team is available for any production that requires it, with the assistance of the Computing Director/Deputy.- Work with the Computing Director/Deputy on training and use of our vision mixing and livestream tech. Show less

      • Production Coordinator (Computing Team)

        May 2021 - Sept 2021
      • Television Presenter

        May 2021 - May 2021
    • Tesco

      Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
      Customer Assistant

      Worked as a 'Festive Colleague' at the checkouts to cope with the influx of customers during the Christmas season.

    • Collnod

      Dec 2021 - now
      Director
    • IMG

      Jan 2022 - now
      Multi-Skilled Operator Engineer

      Broadcast engineering for the EFL (football) and (formerly) ATP (tennis)Duties include:- Audiovisual feed routing (MCR operations and Dante routing)- Setting up production spaces (Simplylive ViBoxes, audio mixers and commentary booths)- Post-production support (editing produced content and QCing highlights)- Equipment maintenance (testing on-site infrastructure at single-camera football grounds)- Client-facing support to producers (IT, engineering, and general)- Administration (keeping records of resources and detailing service critical operations into comprehensible documentation)- Front-line support and guaranteeing live tennis matches and supporting QCs during football games Show less

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