Inclusive New Media

Participant Profiles

Anibe Agamah

Anibe has been involved in web design working as a freelancer and also for Quanteq IT Consulting in Nigeria since 2001. He is about to complete an MSc in Technology Management at the University of East London,  and is currently assisting with management of www.u8development.com.
mail@anibeagamah.com

Alex Beech

Alex Beech is a web developer and has worked at Laban for 8 years in marketing/communications.
A.Beech@laban.org

Adam Benjamin

Adam has worked at two Universities, 20 years as a graphic designer and 9 years as a web developer. He has worked for 8 years as a tutor/trainer, using photoshop, indesign, quark, dreamweaver, flash and html.
adam@theinnovatory.com 

Dan Bowden

Dan has a BA in Industrial Design and Technology from Brunel. He worked for 2 years for a salvage firm working on a website with an online catalogue/auction. He has been working at UEL for 4 years as a Learning Materials Developer producing a range of on and offline learning materials. These include designing and producing web based learning materials using flash animations & quizzes, video/audio and basic html/css pages.
d.bowden@uel.ac.uk

Anuschka Fritz

Anuschka has a MA in languages and worked in e-commerce start-ups before starting her own company. The company mainly builds e-commerce sites or CMS-driven web sites.
anuschka@moustique.net

Richard Garside

Richard has a BTEC in Art & Design and 1st class degree in computer science. He  worked for 5 years as web developer for dwp.gov.uk, and recently decided to work freelance. He also runs art groups for people with learning disabilities.
richard.garside@richardsprojects.co.uk

Lisa Haskel

Lisa teaches technical studies, supports postgraduate media projects and runs online educational resources at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. She has a history of working on community media and education projects and experience of backend development.
lisahas@gmail.com

Stuart Hopper

Stuart is a web designer/developer working in the commercial sector. His areas of interest include Web Standards, css, DOM scripting/javascript, information architecture, accessibility & usability, SEO, flash animation, digital branding, & anything else vaguely web-related that takes his fancy.
stuart@s2digital.co.uk
www.s2digital.co.uk

Maciek Hrybowicz

Maciek has been working in media all his life, as a musician, a new media lecturer, a new media consultant and a manager of a  multimedia production centre. He has over 10 years experience in accessible and usable web design and consultancy.
M.Hrybowicz@uel.ac.uk

James Leslie

James is a 33 year old Designer/Developer based in Cambridge. He works for a company specialising in natural language, online help systems for clients ranging from Barclays to Sony.
james.leslie@transversal.com

Silver Oliver

Silver has trained as a librarian, worked on the information architecture and metadata for a number of large government projects (directgov) and for the british library, and is now a permanent member of staff at the BBC. He works with CMS and other web products. 
Silver.Oliver@bbc.co.uk

George Ornbo

George is a London-based freelance designer and developer with 5 years experience on the web. He has worked for many blue chip companies and more recently a number of venture-capital funded start-ups.
george@shapeshed.com

Prisca Schmarsow

Prisca started out with graphic design and now works as a freelance web designer and web design tutor. She delights in bringing her own experience into the classroom while keeping skills up-to-date for her own work as well as lessons.
prisca@graphiceyedea.co.uk

Melissa Robinson

Melissa has a BA in Library and Information Management and has worked at the BBC for 5 years. During that time she has worked as a radio cataloguer, media manager (advising on information management and archiving best practice) and information architect.
melissa.robinson@bbc.co.uk

Naomi Rousseau

Naomi started her career working in libraries, then moved into working on websites. She is now part of the Web Team at Birkbeck, University of London.
n.rousseau@bbk.ac.uk

Reena Sonigra

Reena graduated with a BSc and MSc in Business and IT/Software Development. She has worked in both the public and private sector within new media development and website design. reena.sonigra@dwpdevelopment.net

Maria Villamayor

Maria's field is IT, and art & design, and she has worked with web formats for approximately 5 years.  She works for the Richmond Fellowship, a Mental Health Organisation, training/supporting individuals with a mental health background to move forward into employment or further education.
Maria.Villamayor@richmondfellowship.org.uk

Darren West

Darren West is an experienced web developer specialising in user interface development with a passion for accessibility and usability. The past years have been a roller coaster of technical practice, both learnt and self-taught. He has a sound knowledge and understanding of the W3C specifications and the WAI guidelines, with a higher than average exposure of real world usage of assistive technologies through both experimentation and observation of the people who use them. He wishes to further his learning and would welcome the chance to share this knowledge.
darren.west@gmail.com

David Barrett

David is an Inclusion Strategy Manager at BT. He promotes the use of customer-centred design throughout BT to improve the usability of BT's products by disabled people.
david.k.barrett@bt.com

Dave Foster

Dave is responsible for supporting the development and delivery of BT's web accessibility strategy and raising awareness of web accessibility within BT. He is not a web coder but has a general understanding of web sites and the accessibility issues that people face. 
david.a2.foster@bt.com

Guy Carberry

Guy works as a web designer for Student Services at The Open University. He has over ten years of experience, working at Central Counties Newspapers, his own web design consultancy business and studying for a BA in Communication, Culture, Media. His work involves database (eportfolio, moodle, wordpress, bespoke) and mobile content.

Andy Clarke

Andy has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is a member of the Web Standards Project where he redesigned the organization's web site in 2006 and is also an Invited Expert to the W3C's CSS Working Group. Andy regularly writes about creating beautiful, accessible web sites and he speaks at conference and workshop events worldwide. Andy is the author of the best selling Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, published by New Riders in 2006. 

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