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I am the series editor of Final Score on BBC ONE and Score on BBCi, as well as being the women's football editor.

I studied journalism at Richmond College in Sheffield and began my career as a newspaper journalist. I joined the BBC in 1990 as a sub-editor with Ceefax Sport. Three years later I moved over to BBC TV Sport on attachment as a trainee assistant producer. I became a producer here in 1998, an assistant editor in 2001 and an editor in 2004.

I have had a varied and enjoyable career at the BBC. I have worked at three World Cups, two European Championships and two Olympic Games (Atlanta and Sydney). I have also produced and directed documentaries, worked on nine Wimbledon tennis championships (both as a journalist and a producer; I also directed the titles sequence in 1999), six world darts championships (including one as editor in 2001) and was director/producer on the World's Strongest Man in Las Vegas in 1997.

But football has always been my main love. I worked on Football Focus and Match Of The Day as a producer from 1994 and first began editing programmes in 1999. I was Assistant Editor of Football Focus from 2001-2004 and since 2001 I have also been responsible for our women's football TV coverage, including Women's Euro 2005 in England and Women's World Cup 2007 in China.

I am the Head of TV Sport Editorial. That area takes in all our TV output except Football, which Niall Sloane looks after , and the Olympics and Athletics, which Dave Gordon looks after.

So I am responsible for a wide range of sports including rugby, golf, tennis, racing and snooker, as well as other programming such as Sports Personality of the Year and the new sports show Inside Sport.

My role is to oversee all this output, make sure that we are covering the right areas in the right way and to keep looking ahead to see how we can improve what we do.