
Owner, Speaking Volumes
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

Owner, Speaking Volumes
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands
All around media, website and design abilities; also copy writer and communications strategist. Rip works with various forms of digital media and communication: from video and interactive presentations to digital images, web pages and HTML email.
Conversant in a wide range of technologies and applications; good at combining a wide variety of media and formats into an attractive and practical communications solution -- whether in print, on DVD or on the internet. Not a web developer in the sense of an application programmer; but able to set-up, implement and manage websites using data-driven Content Management.
Keynote, PhotoShop, Final Cut Pro, online CMS (Joomla), DTP
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)
March 1998 — Present (11 years 9 months)
provision of media, design and website related services;
includes consultation in content management and communication strategy
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Program Development industry)
1999 — 2003 (4 years )
Mostly digital video production - planning, scripting, shooting, editing, post-production: short films and interactive presentations for events and internet, series of training videos; video mixing at live events. Used Apple's Final Cut Pro and became proficient at this non-linear editor.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Philanthropy industry)
1994 — 1999 (5 years )
Planning, design, production and management of several in-house publications: newsletters, updates, annual reports, training materials; launched an international journal and produced and edited it for two years. Proficient in copy writing, DTP and in pre-press prep; use Adobe PhotoShop and InDesign.
(Online Media industry)
1990 — 1994 (4 years )
BA , Public Relations Journalism , 1989 — 1994
photography, travel, cross-cultural projects