CONTACT DETAILS
Name: Juliet John
Tel: +614 32419957
E-mail: [email protected]
LANGUAGES
1. English
2. Malay
3. Indonesian
4. Tamil
EDUCATION
Postgraduate Degree: Master of Global Media and Communications University of Melbourne – Graduated in Dec 2009
Undergraduate Degree: Bachelor of Psychology University of South Australia – Graduated in 2005
Secondary School (Form 1-5): Sri Aman Girls School (Achieved a Grade 1 with 5 distinctions at the end Form 5 and was awarded a medal for Academic Excellency by the Principal of the school)
DOCUMENTED WORK EXPERIENCE
Head of Public Relations/ App Presenter
CURRENTLY working with MELVIA, a Melbourne-based app and games development studio that focuses on trivia-based games on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod touch). I am also featured as a Presenter/Host in some of the apps.
Business News Presenter
I presented the hourly business news updates from 10am till 2pm everyday on Capital TV, an all business and finance news channel in Malaysia.
Broadcast Journalist at Worldview Broadcasting Channel
To date I have interviewed and covered assignments featuring the Prime Minister of Malaysia Dato Sri’ Najib Tun Razak, various Malaysian Ministers and the Foreign Minister to Sudan, His Excellency Ali Ahmed Karti.
Work experience at the ABC’s 774 Melbourne Radio Drive Program.
I assisted the producers and host of the Drive Program in researching and contributing for the latest news stories of the day.
Assistant Producer to Channel 7 Melbourne’s Executive Producer for the Good Friday Appeal.
I worked alongside the Channel 7’s veteran executive producer Gordon Bennett, news reporters and producers by assisting them in a multitude of tasks for the daylong telethon. Together with the community, we managed to raise almost $16 million for the Royal Children’s Hospital. It was broadcasted live on Channel 7 on the 22nd of April 2011.
News Production Assistant to Channel 10’s Melbourne Newsroom.
Job Description:
As the News Production Assistant to Channel 10’s Melbourne newsroom, there are many tasks (some at the same time!) that I need to complete in order for its one hour flagship local metropolitan bulletin to run smoothly at 5.00pm everyday.
These tasks include:
• Shot listing the previous day’s evening news from Channel 10 Melbourne, Channel 9 Melbourne and Channel 7 Melbourne.
• Once I have shot listed the news, I will then store all the vision from Channel 10’s Melbourne 5pm news into the Channel 10’s News Library using the Ardome and the ENPS software.
• Submitting the entire rundown of the previous day’s evening news from Channel 10 Melbourne into storage at the News Library.
• I will also need to be in constant communication with the producers and the reporters from Channel 10 Melbourne, Channel 10 Adelaide, Channel 10 Sydney, Channel 10 Brisbane and Channel 10 Perth throughout the day in order to give them the required ‘vision’ that they will need for the day’s evening news bulletin.
• Reading, checking and editing the news scripts of the News Presenters and the Sports Presenter for Channel 10’s Melbourne and Channel 10’s Adelaide evening news bulletin.
• Reading, checking and editing the scripts of the News Presenters for Channel 10’s Melbourne and Channel 10’s Adelaide news updates throughout the day.
• Rolling the autocue in the news studio in real time during the evening news bulletin while multi-tasking (reading, checking, re-editing and printing news scripts, listening to the news producer, the news director, the studio floor manager and the news presenters for instructions all at the same time!).
• Fill-in reporter. In the event that there are no reporters available in the newsroom, I would be asked to go out with the news crew and conduct an interview or get vox pops from the general public.
Reality TV Show Winner. (Malaysian version of the Apprentice) (February 2007- April 2007)
Job Description:
I was one of the 10 graduates selected among thousands of young hopeful Malaysian graduates, who had auditioned to take part in a Reality TV Show. The show was called “Please Give Me A Job!”. The concept of the show was somewhat similar to the concept of the popular American reality TV show, The Apprentice.
However, unlike The Apprentice, which removes its contestants’ candidacy for a potential job, “Please Give Me a Job!” "eliminates" its contestants by sealing job opportunities for them at the end of each episode. However, there were only 8 job oppurtunites with 10 contestants. Thus making the 2 remaining contestants, “losers” of the show for not being able to secure a job. To make things a little more interesting, the “best job” was to be offered at the final episode/task of the show.
Throughout the show, I took on various challenges from companies of different media and public relations related industries. I managed to gain a lot of knowledge and experience in the media and communications industry as I was subjected to wide range of job responsibilities as I carried out each given assignment. As this was a reality TV show, the cameras were on me and the other contestants for about 16 hours a day. Among the projects that I carried out were:
1) I had to create a sales promo for Malaysia’s fastest growing radio network, FlyFm. My sales promo was recorded by its breakfast shift announcers, Phat Fabes and Ben.
2) I had to come up with an advertising campaign for one of Malaysia’s leading advertising company, MindShare.
3) I was given the task of creating an AIDS awareness video clip for Red Communications, a television programme and film production company.
4) I had to execute a promotional plan for Andaman Group, a huge real estate company. I was given the task to promote Andaman’s upcoming residential- cum-commercial construction project.
5) In conjunction with International Women’s Day, I had to manage an event that was staged in the Summit USJ Shopping Mall. I was appointed EMCEE for the event.
6) I had to organize a press conference for one of Malaysia’s leading television stations, 8TV. The press conference that I organized was to promote its latest television screening of Project Runway Malaysia. The show highlights local Malaysian fashion designers and their creations.
7) I was given the task to carry out a promotional campaign for one of Malaysia’s top colleges, SEGI College. The promotional campaign that I carried out was to promote SEGI College’s new flagship campus in an upcoming metropolitan city, Kota Damansara.
8) I had to manage an event where there were more than 6000 guests consisting of royalty, dignitaries, celebrities and VIPs organized by Royal Selangor Pewter to promote its latest Spring Pewter collection. I was also in charge of the selling and promoting of their latest Spring Pewter collection.
Please Give Me A Job! was shown every Sunday for 4 months at 10.30pm on channel 8TV (a local Malaysian TV channel).
Television Host – “Goolis Gameshow” (July 2006- December 2006)
Job description:
I hosted a live one hour interactive TV game show at FINAS (Malaysian National Film Development Corporation) where contestants were tested on their general knowledge, understanding of current world issues, knowledge of sports and so forth. The winners of each episode were given a cash prize. I hosted the show in English and in Bahasa Malaysia. Goolis was shown everyday at 10am for 6 months on 8TV.
Assistant Producer – “Goolis Gameshow” (Jan 2006- June 2006)
Job description:
I had countless responsibilities as the Assistant Producer. I recruited contestants for the show, set the questions that were used on the show, decorated the studio with various props for each episode, contributed many ideas on the dynamics of the show (most of my ideas were utilized) and assisted the director as well as the producer when the show was being edited (post production). Besides that, I had to write out the scripts for the host of the game show. I was also in charge of coming up with a ‘time and call sheet’ for every episode of the show to ensure that the entire production team of 24 people were on the right track and that everyone (production crew and contestants) were always on time. Goolis was shown everyday at 10am for 6 months on 8TV.
Other media related jobs:
Ø I’ve contributed several articles to the New Straits Times, Malaysia’s oldest and leading newspaper.
Ø I’ve contributed numerous articles, months of extensive interviews and research to the published hardcopy book entitled ‘Leprosy – A Malaysian Success Story”.
Ø I’ve done voice-overs for both TV and radio. In addition to that, I have also done emceeing stints in both English and Bahasa Malaysia.
REFEREES
Mr. Cyril Gaillard Director at MELVIA Pty Ltd Email: [email protected]
Mr. Allan Russell (Former) News Editor Channel 10 Melbourne Email: [email protected]
Mr. Steve Carey (Former) News Director Channel 7 Melbourne Email: [email protected]