Fred Brenton
Senior Content Designer at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFred Brenton is a Senior Content Designer with nine years’ experience specialising in government digital services, delivering user-centred content and service design across multiple UK departments. He has a strong track record of introducing GDS and UCD practices into agile teams, from alpha discovery through to MVP and live services for clients including Defra, Home Office, DfE and HMCTS. As a contractor and founder of Fred Brenton Ltd, he combines hands-on content creation, CMS integration and email automation with stakeholder-led strategy and governance. Notably, he has led complex migrations and designed content for data-rich services (education statistics, Electronic Monitoring insights) as well as farming grant schemes, showing a knack for turning technical or policy complexity into clear customer journeys. Based in the Greater Bristol Area, he brings journalistic roots and a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach to public sector digital transformation.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons Geography, BA Hons Geography at The University of ManchesterGCSEs and A levels, GCSEs and A levels at Fitzalan High School, Cardiff.NCTJ Journalism and Post Grad Diploma in Journalism, NCTJ Journalism and Post Grad Diploma in Journalism at Leicester De Montfort University
Github Skills (3)
statistics10
explore10
prototyping5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DFE-Digital/school-experience-prototype
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
This is for the prototyping element of the book a school experience project
Contributions:417 pushes in 1 year 2 months
prototyping
dfe-analytical-services/explore-education-statistics
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
Explore education statistics (EES) is the Department for Education's official statistics dissemination platform, designed to make DfE’s published statistics and data easier to find, access, use and understand.
Contributions:234 commits, 2 PRs, 167 pushes in 7 months
statisticsdepartment-for-educationexploreeesofficial-statistics
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