Naomi Kilby

Current

• Freelancing at N/A (Self-employed)

Past

• Content Delivery Producer at Disney Interactive Studios
• Games QA Manager at Orange UK
• Content Producer at Orange

• News Reporter at Ananova
• District Reporter at Western Daily Press
• News reporter at Evening Star, Ipswich
• Trainee/Senior Reporter at Tivy-Side Advertiser

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Naomi Kilby’s Summary

• Mobile specialist
• Fully qualified journalist
• Content delivery and product management of personalisation content for The Walt Disney Company across EMEA
• Instrumental in running the Orange UK games portal since the launch of java games on mobile in the UK
• Played an integral and crucial role in driving games revenue from a few thousand pounds a week to a multi-million pound a-year business for Orange UK
• Responsible for choosing, delivering and promotion of games content for the past five years, working side-by-side with a number of the biggest games companies in the world
• The driving force behind establishing the quality control criteria for the games QA team on Orange
• Building and managing a team of four people, including a Games Design degree student from Leeds University on a year's work placement, to carry out this essential work
• Fully qualified journalist with seven years experience working on daily, evening and weekly newspapers, plus national and international news on the international news website Ananova
• Undertaken all types of reporting, including deployment to Kosovo with a Suffolk-based Army regiment to cover the war; travel pieces from various places around the world, including a World Press Conference in Turks and Caicos and following the England football team as a fan at Euro 2000 and the 1998 World Cup; to court reporting, local council reporting, interviewing celebrities and writing reviews

Naomi Kilby’s Experience

• Freelancing

  N/A (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Writing and Editing industry)

  May 2009 — Present (3 months)

• Content Delivery Producer

  Disney Interactive Studios

  (Telecommunications industry)

  April 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 1 month)

  Responsible for delivery of personalisation products to all content partners across EMEA.
  
  As well as building and maintaining strong external partner relationships, I also worked very closely with the Hollywood-based global mobile production team, members of business development globally and marketing teams to ensure smooth and timely delivery of products to mobile operators and aggregators.
  
  Helped increase personalisation revenue through driving strong operator/aggregator relationships, ensuring prompt delivery of content to coincide with major synergy promotions like HSM3, Narnia and the highly successful seasonal content and pushing for sales of new content types like Flash clocks and calendars, Phone Themes, etc...
  
  Also helped come up with ideas for new content types like "Shaking Wallpapers" and comics.
  
  Worked with third party developers, creating products like Disney Phone Themes, to ensure exact requirements of partners were met.#
  
  Liased with Disney marketing teams to ensure the stringent Disney branding guidelines were met by all partners all promotion activities undertaken - press, television and radio.
  
  Product localisation - worked with third parties where required.

• Games QA Manager

  Orange UK

  (Telecommunications industry)

  April 2003 — April 2008 (5 years 1 month)

  • Responsible for setting up and increasing, year-on-year, the multi-million pound annual revenue generated by mobile games.
  • Product and management of the entire games service.
  • Dealing with quality assurance, managing launch, in-life performance, withdrawal of products and arising customer service issues.
  • Responsible for employing and managing two quality control assistants.
  • Support and testing of games and video for each new device, before they are available on the market.
  • Helped plan and deliver marketing campaigns with many of the 40 content providers.
  • Responsible for the games chat forum.

• Content Producer

  Orange

  (Telecommunications industry)

  August 2002 — April 2003 (9 months)

  • International and national news reporter
  • Writing stories for Web and mobile

• News Reporter

  Ananova

  (Online Media industry)

  April 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 5 months)

  • International and national news reporter
  • Writing stories for Web and mobile

• District Reporter

  Western Daily Press

  (Newspapers industry)

  October 2000 — March 2001 (6 months)

  • Senior district reporter for the Bath edition of the Western Daily Press.
  • Single-handedly set up and ran the Bath office of the Western Daily Press.
  • Portfolio including news, reviews and feature writing

• News reporter

  Evening Star, Ipswich

  (Newspapers industry)

  September 1997 — October 2000 (3 years 2 months)

  • Senior reporter for all editions of the multi-award winning Evening Star.
  • Deployment to Kosovo with a Suffolk-based Army regiment to cover the war.
  • Sent to a World Press Conference in Turks and Caicos to represent the paper in one of several travel assignments.
  • Responsible for the property pages/supplement and created a popular ‘pets’ section.
  • Portfolio including news, reviews and feature writing.

• Trainee/Senior Reporter

  Tivy-Side Advertiser

  (Newspapers industry)

  June 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 3 months)

  • Trainee reporter, completed training a year early, to become an NCTJ fully qualified Senior Reporter.
  • Set up and ran a highly successful environment page.
  • Ran a successful campaign, on my own, to gain thousands of pounds worth of sponsorship for the 1996 Cardigan town carnival.