From live broadcasts to digital set and prop design, meet the man behind the National Theatre’s IT infrastructure.
The £83m capital programme to revamp the National Theatre is good news for the NT's IT director Joe McFadden, as it's allowing him to start manoeuvring into the forefront of management thinking at the venue.
Even at the first phase of the project, known as NT Future, McFadden says that IT infrastructure has become a focus, which is a marked contrast to previous IT facilitation.
"We had, understandably, a period where investment for IT infrastructure needed to make its case against other infrastructure, such as, for example, the mechanical engineering plant for running a public building this size, so there have been areas where we struggled to keep up the pace for investment," admits McFadden... Keep reading on Computing
The £83m capital programme to revamp the National Theatre is good news for the NT's IT director Joe McFadden, as it's allowing him to start manoeuvring into the forefront of management thinking at the venue.
Even at the first phase of the project, known as NT Future, McFadden says that IT infrastructure has become a focus, which is a marked contrast to previous IT facilitation.
"We had, understandably, a period where investment for IT infrastructure needed to make its case against other infrastructure, such as, for example, the mechanical engineering plant for running a public building this size, so there have been areas where we struggled to keep up the pace for investment," admits McFadden... Keep reading on Computing