Daniel McDonnell
Managing Director
Daniel began his career as a trainee at the BBC in 1989. He worked for the corporation for 17 years as an engineer and VT operator and in later years as an editor. He formed Timeline in 2006 to specialise in providing server systems and shared edit systems to the broadcast sector. The company has now grown to have more than 20 full time staff and supplies facilities for high profile programmes to all the major British and International broadcasters.
Charlie Tear
Technical Director
After graduating from SAE as a recording engineer, Charlie joined the original Timeline team as Technical Director. In addition to his deep and wide-ranging knowledge of broadcast and post-production technologies, he is also a highly regarded picture editor, working on flagship programmes such as the BBC’s Formula 1 coverage. Charlie was part of the team which was awarded the 2011 BAFTA for Best Sports Production for the coverage of the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Stephen Davis
Commercial Director
Stephen had a long and varied career in Project Management and Software Development before joining Timeline in 2006. As Timeline’s Commercial Director he has forged a commercial strategy which has grown the business to its current size and has put the conditions in place for sustained growth.
Steve is also responsible for our digital archive portfolio. A pioneer of IP Director he worked closely with EVS from the product conception to develop it into the mature and market leading proposition that it is today. Major success stories include the All England Club (Wimbledon), French Open, Australian Open, Party Political Conferences, BBC F1 to name but a few.
As an example the Wimbledon tapeless archive allows eight major broadcasters to access the central digital archive on location in SW19, with full integration to their respective edit environments. This landmark deployment is regarded by EVS as a flagship operation. Another industry first was achieved when Timeline deployed a cross-broadcaster tapeless solution for all the UK Party Political Conferences. The system provides every UK news broadcaster with shared storage and live logging workflows which allows all parties instant access to every bit of content generated.