Brian Mcneil Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Just a little art project...

Internet

A volunteer contributor, promoted by the community to a senior level. Responsible for management of access rights, review of submissions, contributing author on a substantial number of the project's featured articles.Wikinews is the news-based sister project to Wikipedia.To much of the community, I am the 'de-facto' chief editor on-project.I've guided the project through implementation of an independent editorial review process; liaised with Google News to see this accepted for their news indexIn working more closely with the Wikimedia Foundation, I've assisted managing queries from the press and public; handled several input streams for their online support and enquiries service; and, presented on Wikinews at one of their annual conferences in Alexandria.At present, along with one of the professors from the University of Wollongong, I'm involved in assessing the suitability of Wikinews as a platform for use in journalism education with student work exposed to a broad reader base. This is intended to lead on to video-based news-reporting via Wikinews, and I am in the initial stages of learning to use a range of tools for this.Below are links to samples of my work on Wikinews.* http://tinyurl.com/a-portrait-of-Scotland* http://tinyurl.com/ACLU-EFF-vs-US-secret-orders* http://tinyurl.com/Listening-to-you-at-last* http://tinyurl.com/Homs-Feb9-video

United Kingdom

Transferred to GENBAND with their acquisition of C3C (then-rebranded as GENView Provisioning Portals). Mainly telecommuted, but working one week per-month at GENBAND's UK offices in Maidenhead.Left due to redundancy; this the result of a key customer's decision to re-tender their contract following product acquisition, with significant changes to requirements.

Leith, Edinburgh

Initially taken on by Ventraq, and trained as a specialist on their C3C provisioning client. Involved with structured, and unstructured, QA testing of ongoing developments to extend VoIP support within the product. Served as primary support contact for British Telecom's (BT) use of the product.Transferred to GENBAND with their acquisition of C3C (then-rebranded as GENView Provisioning Portals).

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Technical support, billing resolution, fault resolution and initial setup for consumer broadband customers. Duties expanded to include providing initial fault diagnosis, troubleshooting on fixed-line telephony services, and liasing with BT Openreach.Left due to redundancy, having been elected to serve as employee representative for 150+ staff for the duration of the consultation process.Served as an elected staff representative during the redundancy negotiations and discussion process.

Started with the UK division working on a package upgrade. Moved to Belgium based and did on-site work for a wide variety of clients. Chemicals, Food, Pharmaceuticals, and Government sectors. Particularly enjoyed free chocolates at GuyLian (the seashell praline makers).Eventually settled into work-at-home package development. Involved in some Sarbanes Oxley work and other audit trail improvements.Departed company following change from Ross Systems to CDC software (takeover by China Dot Com and laying off of majority of technical consultants/staff).

Brief break from Ross/CDC to work for this client of theirs.Involved in analysis, design, and development of enhancements to the manufacturing modules of their ERP system.Did not accept final contract extension due to bi-weekly 5-hour+ commute and extended time away from family.

My first real IT job - started as Trainee programmerGained experience on IBM Mainframes (MVS TSO JCL COBOL)Developed Mailsort+ package which we sold to the bank we bought mainframe time off (then calculated one run of the software saved them more money than we charged).Got exposure, and a liking for, Digital/DEC/Compaq OpenVMS machines. Learned basic C and DCL.Moved to company's burgeoning GEMBASE development team, worked on early GSM/Cellphone billing and management software.Left to become freelance

Systems Analysis

Education record

Education record

Education record

Activities and Societies: School quiz team member.