Senior Backstage Producer at BBC
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Founder at DataPortability.org
- Senior Backstage Producer at British Broadcasting Corporation
- Senior Backstage Producer at BBC
- Past
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- Software Engineer at BBC
- Software Enginner at BBC World Service
- Designer/Developer at Ravensbourne College
- Education
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- Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
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Ian Forrester’s Summary
Ian Forrester heads up the BBC's Backstage, a developer/designer network like no other. His role as head of BBC Backstage includes working with internal and external developers/designers to express their creativity through BBC feeds and APIs. Backstage makes available as much BBC data as possible for any member of the public to republish, remix and mash-up under a non-commercial license.
Ian is also well known for geek social events, including London Geekdinners, BarCampLondon, Hackday, Mashed, Edinburgh TV Un-Festival and Over the Air. He now lives in Manchester, UK where he works for the BBC's R&D department where he focuses on open innovation and new opportunities via lively engagement and outreach.
Previously a founder of the dataportability.org group and advocate for the XML technologies, Open Standards and the Commons, he still finds time to blog regularly about a whole mixture of topics at his personal blog cubicgarden.com.
Ian Forrester’s Specialties:
Dataportability, XSL, XML, Open standards, Creative Commons, SVG, CSS, Webstandards, RDF, Cocoon, XBMC, Design, Media
Ian Forrester’s Experience
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Founder
DataPortability.org
(Internet industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
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Senior Backstage Producer
British Broadcasting Corporation
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
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Senior Backstage Producer
BBC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
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Software Engineer
BBC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
April 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 6 months)
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Software Enginner
BBC World Service
(Internet industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year )
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Designer/Developer
Ravensbourne College
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
August 2001 — March 2004 (2 years 8 months)
Ian Forrester’s Education
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Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
1999 — 2001
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Ian Forrester’s Groups:
BBC Backstage
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MediaCityUK BBC North Salford Quays Peels MediaCityUK BBC ITV QVC University of Salford NWDA BOVIS -
IT Professionals - Northwest UK -
Friends of BBC R&D North
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