Jan's career has largely been in administration latterly spending fifteen years in the independent television industry as a Production Manager. She line-managed many exciting projects, covering drama, arts, documentaries, music magazines and current affairs mainly transmitted by Channel Four and the BBC. Spending the first six years of her television career in Scotland as a Production Assistant, graduating to Production Manager and then the remaining years in London. Projects include: The Dressmaker, a feature film based on a Beryl Bainbridge book starring Billie Whitelaw, Joan Plowright and Jane Horrocks; Walkie-Talkie, a ten-part half-hour chat show on the move with Muriel Gray as host quizzing celebrity guests; Half the Picture, a drama documentary written by John McGrath about the arms to Iraq debacle with Sylvia Sims as Mrs Thatcher; In The Wild, one-hour celebrity safaris made by Tigress Productions and many arts documentaries for Wall to Wall television plus much more.