Ian Forrester
Senior Producer at BBC R&D
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- United Kingdom
- Industry
- Internet
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Ian Forrester's Overview
- Current
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- Senior Producer at BBC
- Past
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- Senior Backstage Producer at BBC
- Senior Backstage Producer at British Broadcasting Corporation
- Founder at DataPortability.org
- 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
- Recommendations
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3 people have recommended Ian
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Ian Forrester's Summary
Ian Forrester is a well known character and asset in any role he takes on. He lives in Manchester, UK where he works for the BBC's R&D north lab. He focuses on open innovation and new disruptive opportunities via lively engagement and collaborations with startups, early adopters and hackers.
Ian use to head up the BBC's Backstage project, 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.
Previously a founder of the dataportability.org group, social geek events, including London Geekdinners, BarCampLondon, Hackday, Mashed, Edinburgh TV Un-Festival and Over the Air. Ian has a proven track record for making the impossible happen.
He tends to work best with W3C technologies and Open Standards. A keen blogger he has kept up writing on his personal blog cubicgarden.com for 8+ years
Specialties
Dataportability, XSL, XML, Open standards, Creative Commons, SVG, CSS, Webstandards, Social Media, RDF, Cocoon, XBMC, Design, Media
Ian Forrester's Experience
Senior Producer
BBC
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BBC; Broadcast Media industry
December 2010 – Present (1 year 3 months)
Senior Backstage Producer
BBC
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BBC; Broadcast Media industry
September 2006 – December 2010 (4 years 4 months)
Senior Backstage Producer
British Broadcasting Corporation
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BBC; Broadcast Media industry
May 2006 – December 2010 (4 years 8 months)
Software Engineer
BBC
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BBC; Broadcast Media industry
April 2004 – September 2006 (2 years 6 months)
Designer/Developer
Ravensbourne College
Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry
August 2001 – March 2004 (2 years 8 months)
Ian Forrester's Education
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
BA, Interaction Design
1999 – 2001
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BBC Backstage, BBC RD, BBC R&D
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