Ryan Foster

Current

• Project Manager at Indigo Multimedia

Past

• Internet Co-ordinator at City of Sunderland
• Multimedia Designer at National Trust

Education

• University of Derby

Recommended

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Connections

72 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• www.careerfinder.co.uk

Ryan Foster’s Summary

Interactive Designer and Project Manager
12+ years experience developing web sites and web applications:

Web Design, (Portals, eLearning, Web Applications, eCommerce), Web Development (XHTML, CSS, FLASH Actionscript), e-Marketing (Email, SEM).

Ryan Foster’s Specialties:

Project scoping, Application/information architecture, User experience design, Project management, Client management, Strategy, Business development.

Adobe Creative Suite, XHTML, CSS, Actionscript 2.

Ryan Foster’s Experience

• Project Manager

  Indigo Multimedia

  (Design industry)

  2000 — Present (9 years )

  Project Manager, leading development team(s) creating web based projects for clients across the UK. Projects include both web application development and website design.
  
  Client experience includes Adidas, Newcastle United Football Club, Connexions, Northeast Regional Portal, Prospects, Academy for Sustainable Communities, UK Sport, Shell LiveWIRE, ONE Northeast, Northeast Chamber of Commerce and Durham County Council.
  
  Example projects include:
  
  Careerfinder - web application based on annual subscription model. 45,000 organisations using the product.
  
  RealGame - web application based on annual subscription model with 33,000 users across the UK.
  
  n-e-life - portal with directory of 10,000 businesses with 3,000 active mini-websites managed by business owners using CMS.
  
  Webetopia - eBusiness community.
  
  GetOutThere - web application with 2,600 young people aged 13 to 17 in County Durham who receive £30 of credits a month to spend on positive activities through GetOutThere.
  
  BeAPlaywright - prototype development for new online playwriting course product.
  
  Drift Living - bespoke eCommerce development for boutique specialising in Scandinavian products for the home
  
  Atlas of World History - web application that offers a unique insight into the subject of human history.
  
  ThinkFootball! - a multi-user game where players take the role of a football manager, coaching the NUFC football team for a season, trying to get them to the top of the fantasy league. Includes FLASH games and integrated SMS messaging
  
  Ask:What If? - touch screen kiosk and USB application. Animated, sustainable community, including 31 role model video's.

• Internet Co-ordinator

  City of Sunderland

  (Internet industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

  Internet Co-ordinator, based originally in marketing department and then ICT team. Project management and UI design/frontend build role responsible for the design and development of the councils corporate website, intranet, economic development website, tourism website, Empire Theatre website and members extranet. Lead internal development team and worked at strategic level with key partners developing the City of Sunderland telematics strategy. Projects included the Sunderland Portal – a collaboration with Leighton Media and Sunderland Echo newspaper. Role also involved commissioning agencies to work on specific projects on behalf of internal departments within the council (Shopping Mall, International Kite Festival).

• Multimedia Designer

  National Trust

  (Museums and Institutions industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years )

  Multimedia designer (based at Quarry Bank Mill, Manchester) working on gallery interactives and multimedia collections databases. In 1997, started work on a National Grid For Learning pilot project with Research Machines (RM), creating a museum website aimed at school children to support curriculum learning requirements.

Ryan Foster’s Education

• University of Derby

  BA(hons) , Visual Cultures , 1991 — 1994

Additional Information

Ryan Foster’s Websites:

• www.careerfinder.co.uk