Rebekah Ford

Current

• Freelance web designer and developer at Rebekah Ford

Past

• Technical Project Manager Freelance at Somethin' Else
• Technical project manager at Glue London
• Client-side Developer Team Leader at BBC Radio & Music Interactive

• Client-side developer team leader at BBC Radio Music New Media
• People/Project Manager, Web Designer/Developer at Self Employed (Self-employed)
• Owner at Bringit Distribution (Sole Proprietorship)
• Make-up Artist at Self Employed (Self-employed)
• Film PA at Think Communications
• paste up artist at deadline

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Education

• Brighton Polytechnic (College of Art)
• Epsom School of Art & Design

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog

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 considers 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

• Freelance web designer and developer

  Rebekah Ford

  (Internet industry)

  March 2007 — Present (1 year 8 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.

• 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

• Technical project manager

  Glue London

  (Privately Held; 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.

• 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)

• Client-side developer team leader

  BBC Radio Music New Media

  (Internet industry)

  2000 — 2006 (6 years)

• 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.

• 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.

• Make-up Artist

  Self Employed (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Broadcast Media industry)

  January 1990 — March 1998 (8 years 3 months)

• 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.

• paste up artist

  deadline

  (Online Media industry)

  1989 — 1990 (1 year)

Rebekah Ford’s Education

• Brighton Polytechnic (College of Art)

  Visual and Performing Arts BA 1987 — 1988

  Activities and Societies:

  DJ,

• Epsom School of Art & Design

  Diploma, General Art & Design, 1986 — 1987

Additional Information

Rebekah Ford’s Websites:

• My Blog

Rebekah Ford’s Interests:

DJ, music, learning Portuguese, new technology, designing, drawing, painting,

Rebekah Ford’s Groups:

•    UX Professionals
•    User Experience
•    Design World

Rebekah Ford’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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