About Declan Wood

Declan joined the Trams consultancy team in 2013 and was instrumental in the successful bid for BBC Sport Production Storage project from tender stage right through to live deployment.

Since this time Declan has worked alongside the rest of the Trams team consulting upon and helping to deliver a number of highly successful SAN deployments. His ability to identify exactly what the customer needs and how to architect an entire end-to-end storage workflow solution is second to none in the industry. This includes the core hardware, the interconnects and the entire software application stack.

Declan has worked in the Broadcast and IT industries for over twenty years including time at the BBC, BBC Technology, Siemens and Media Manor. During this time Declan has worked in most areas of television and radio production on both the engineering and production side of the house.

His vast experience of the industry means he knows everyone, literally – we aren’t joking. Jonathan and Warren have attended many meetings with Declan and there is always someone in the room he already knows!

Having started as a Broadcast Engineer in the BBC in the late 80’s, Declan started work in a traditional broadcast environment before moving into production and then moving across into IT support, management and strategy roles.

Declan then moved back into Broadcast, taking up roles as Chief Solution Architect for Production within the BBC Account and head of a Broadcast and Media focused Research and Development lab building prototypes and demonstrators designed to solve the issues facing the industries move to tapeless production.

Declan now works with Broadcast, production and media companies worldwide, helping to solve the problems associated with introducing convergent media technology and new broadcast and production workflows as well as providing training within production and engineering subject matters.

Declan is a qualified Broadcast Engineer and holds the Managers certificate in Service Management and Delivery along with the ISEB Certificate in Project and Programme Management. He is a regular attendee at Broadcast and IT conferences, building and demonstrating integrated solutions and prototypes as well as completing speaking engagements and key-notes.

• Excellent communicator, at all levels, with an ability to convey the technical, commercial and business benefits of solutions and proposals.
• Experienced trainer with the ability to convey complex subjects in an interesting and enjoyable manner.
• Detailed understanding of the technical and editorial broadcast and production processes and procedures for end to end television, film and video workflows.
• Subject matter expert in the use of Storage solutions to support broadcast, production and archive solutions.

• Strong financial and commercial focus with an ability to quantify business benefits of solution proposals and process improvements.
• Ability to quickly generate a rapport with others, quantifying and understanding the key issues to be addressed and providing strategic advice on the best course of action.
• Recognised authority on broadcast, media and production workflows covering all processes from ingest through editing, playout, archive management and preservation.