Freelance illustration at Freelance Illustrator
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Freelance Illustrator at Freelance Illustrator (Self-employed)
- Digital Project Manager (Contract at Saatchi & Saatchi
- Freelance developer at Applied Information Group
- Freelance web designer and developer at Rebekah Ford
- Past
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- Technical Project Manager Freelance at Somethin' Else
- Technical project manager at Glue London
- People/Project Manager, Web Designer/Developer at Self Employed (Self-employed)
- Client-side Developer Team Leader at BBC Radio & Music Interactive
- Client-side developer team leader at BBC Radio Music New Media
- Owner at Bringit Distribution (Sole Proprietorship)
- Make-up Artist at Self Employed (Self-employed)
- Film PA at Think Communications
- paste up artist at deadline
- Education
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- Brighton Polytechnic (College of Art)
- Epsom School of Art & Design
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Rebekah Ford’s Summary
I have a lot of experience in consulting, informing, structuring, designing and building accessible, functional websites and a lot of experience in structuring sound via the internet from my time at BBC Radio (now Audio) & Music Interactive. from leading a very strong team of developers between 2001 and 2006, I have extensive people and project management experience and training. My team and I were responsible for the technical client-side code of the following BBC websites: Radios 1-5live, 6music, 1xtra, Asian Network, BBC7 Music, The Proms, the launch of the Radio Player (now part of the iPlayer) as well as a number of pan-BBC project affects on the department.
I started my career as a runner in a commercial art studio, in the 80s (before the Internet!) delivering and liaising with advertising creatives on storyboards and above the line campaign mock ups. I then worked as a paste up artist for Deadline comic where I also spent time as a Tank Girl lookalike for the magazine, having to shave my head with a Bic razor on several occasions and appearing on the cover of the April 1990 issue! I also enjoyed a fruitful career as a make-up artist during the 90s beautifying models, actors, musicians for photo and video shoots, before changing tack and teaching myself how to build websites.
I also DJ hip hop, old school, funk, soul and disco.
I spent 5 months living in Lisbon in 2006, where I endeavoured to improve my Portuguese language skills as well as discovering more about the country and its people. I have since, been back more times than I can count and consider it my second home
Rebekah Ford’s Specialties:
Photoshop, Illustrator, omnigraffle, Merlin, Microsoft Project, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, web design, useability and accessibility, wireframing, IA,management experience, project management experience, information architecture, interactive process, web standards.
Rebekah Ford’s Experience
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Freelance Illustrator
Freelance Illustrator (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Internet industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
Currently working on new exhibition work and new portfolio
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Digital Project Manager (Contract
Saatchi & Saatchi
(Public Company; PUB; Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
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Freelance developer
Applied Information Group
(Privately Held; Design industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
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Freelance web designer and developer
Rebekah Ford
(Internet industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Building Wiki's & blogs for various clients including Manchester and Liverpool Univeristies, Consulting and designing branding, designing pitch mock ups for new web 2 & 3.0 companies.
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Technical Project Manager Freelance
Somethin' Else
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)
Technical project manager working on various music/audio related websites
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Technical project manager
Glue London
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)
December 2006 — February 2007 (3 months)
Technical Project Manager for a big global project. Working with various budgets, scopes and developing products.
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People/Project Manager, Web Designer/Developer
Self Employed (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Online Media industry)
March 2006 — December 2006 (10 months)
Freelance people/project manager, designer/developer.My design/development work can be seen at http://rebekahford.co.uk/?page_id=66.
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Client-side Developer Team Leader
BBC Radio & Music Interactive
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Online Media industry)
March 2000 — March 2006 (6 years 1 month)
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Client-side developer team leader
BBC Radio Music New Media
(Internet industry)
2000 — 2006 (6 years )
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Owner
Bringit Distribution (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
PR and sales agency for small up and coming UK fashion lables.
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Make-up Artist
Self Employed (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Broadcast Media industry)
January 1990 — March 1998 (8 years 3 months)
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Film PA
Think Communications
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)
April 1990 — September 1995 (5 years 6 months)
Film PA for corporate films, organising shoots and mid-scale budgets for films and training programmes. Book-keeping and running of the studio.
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paste up artist
deadline
(Online Media industry)
1989 — 1990 (1 year )
Rebekah Ford’s Education
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Brighton Polytechnic (College of Art)
Visual and Performing Arts BA 1987 — 1988
- Activities and Societies:
- DJ,
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Epsom School of Art & Design
Diploma , General Art & Design , 1986 — 1987
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Rebekah Ford’s Interests:
DJ, music, learning Portuguese, new technology, designing, drawing, painting,
Rebekah Ford’s Groups:
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Rebekah Ford’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
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- business deals
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