Independent Design Professional
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
- Current
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- Creative Director at nigelparry.net (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Independent Consultant at United Nations
- Public Relations at Birzeit University
- Coordinator at Friends of Birzeit University
- Coordinator at Living Stones
- Researcher at Jubilee Campaign (UK)
- President, Southlands College Students' Union at Roehampton University
- Education
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- Roehampton University
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Nigel Parry’s Summary
Chief designer and consultant on tens of Internet projects for local, national, and internationally-known individuals, businesses, and non-profit organisations, including the United Nations, Birzeit University, The Electronic Intifada, Electronic Iraq, Electronic Lebanon, Middle East International magazine, the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival, the Institute for Middle East Understanding, United Palestinian Appeal, the Religioscope news service, the Tilsner Artists Cooperative, Partners for Peace, Stop The Wall Campaign, the American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights, Soul Asylum's Daniel Murphy, and others. Services include consulting, taking website projects smoothly from conception to launch, content management systems, content creation, multimedia, and print design. For more information and to browse the web portfolio, see nigelparry.net, "award-winning communications solutions for clients with something to say".
Nigel Parry’s Specialties:
Content management systems, writing and editing, photography and photo editing, media and public relations.
Nigel Parry’s Experience
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Creative Director
nigelparry.net (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
June 1995 — Present (13 years 5 months)
Since 1995, Nigel Parry has been designing and developing websites and website content for educational, advocacy, non-profit, media, and business organizations. Responsible for pioneering several ground-breaking Internet projects, Nigel was invited to speak at the United Nations on Internet development in 1997 and has been featured in interviews and articles in publications around the world. Today, together with an experienced network of consultants around the world, Nigel Parry offers complete website, multimedia, and print solutions for clients of all sizes, in any geographical location.
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Independent Consultant
United Nations
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; UN; International Affairs industry)
December 2004 — February 2005 (3 months)
In 2004, Nigel Parry was contracted by the United Nations as a consultant with the Division of Palestinian Rights. The project brief was to come up with three designs of "varying graphical intensity" for the main Question of Palestine portal, the UNISPAL documents collection subportal, and the NGO subportal. nigelparry.net consultants Nigel Parry and Ken Harper worked on the project.
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Public Relations
Birzeit University
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1994 — May 1998 (3 years 9 months)
"The Palestinian Harvard or Oxford", an internationally respected higher educational institution and one of the key engines of progressive and sustainable development of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip. Work included publishing, writing, education and large-scale fundraising (1994-1998).
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Coordinator
Friends of Birzeit University
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
February 1993 — September 1994 (1 year 8 months)
UK charity founded to "support education at Birzeit University". Newsletter writing and editing, fundraising, orienting groups traveling to the university, taking study tours to the occupied territories.
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Coordinator
Living Stones
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Religious Institutions industry)
February 1993 — September 1994 (1 year 8 months)
Newsletter editing, database management in this UK charity that promoted responsible tourism to the Holy Land.
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Researcher
Jubilee Campaign (UK)
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
March 1992 — February 1993 (1 year)
Researcher in Parliamentary Unit and an editor of the Street Children in the Philippines report.
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President, Southlands College Students' Union
Roehampton University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
July 1989 — July 1990 (1 year 1 month)
Elected representative of this UK students' union.
Nigel Parry’s Education
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Roehampton University
BA (Hons), English and Psychology, 1986 — 1989
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Nigel Parry’s Honors:
Recipient of American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's "Voices of Peace" Award, (June 2003)
The award was presented to Nigel Parry and Ali Abunimah on behalf of the Electronic Intifada team for their work on Electronic Iraq and The Electronic Intifada "in recognition of its commitment to bringing the concerns, voices, and experiences of the Iraqi and Palestinian peoples to audiences the world over via the Internet."
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