User:Brians

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Professional background

Over 25 years of management experience allied to strong educational development; Able to initiate and institute organisational change; Adept at efficiently allocating limited financial resources; Collaborative and innovative with excellent communication and interpersonal skills; Skilled at recognizing and utilizing the talents of others; Proficient at leading the creative application of information technology to improve business processes and attain strategic objectives; Exemplary record of achievement

Education

ISP, Information Systems Professional, CIPS, September 2006

PMP, Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute, October 2005

M.A., Economics, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, December 2001

M.B.A., Athabasca University C.I.M., St. Albert, Alberta, June 2000

B.A., Economics-Geography University College Cork, Cork, Ireland,1986

My interests

Professional

I spent most of my career in the printing and publishing industry where I was responsible for leading the adoption of information technology to printing processes. What I was most pleased about wwas the development of an automated Internet-based print system; a suite of colour management software tools; and the development of industry leading production systems. I joined Athabasca University in 2003 as Director of Operations at the Centre for Innovative Management and was appointed to his current position of Chief Information Officer (CIO) in 2004. Since becoming CIO, my role is to provide strategic leadership to the application of Information technology (IT) to the activities of the University. I am charged with identifying and resourcing appropriate technologies to improve administrative effectiveness and efficiency; to assist the academic community's use of IT to develop programs which improve students' learning and success; and to facilitate the research and development of world class e-learning initiatives.

Personal

Football - known as soccer in the Americas, both playing and watching; history and archaeology, determining the derivation of things; good films; and last but by no means least Economics and Economic History, eith a dash of psychology and anthropology.

My wiki projects

• I registered for eL4C41, a Learning4Content workshop to learn wiki skills.

My optional community service (learning contract) project

Agreement	By signing this optional learning contract I will try to complete my training in basic wiki editing skills to achieve the status of a Wikibuddy. In return for this free training opportunity, I will give the gift of knowledge by donating or developing at least one free content resource licensed under a CC-BY-SA or CC-BY license which can be used by myself (and others) on WikiEducator.
Brief description of project	<Enter a brief description of the content resource or WikiEducator project you would like to work on here>
Target date for completion	<Specify the target date for completion --- you choose the date which can be after the completion of this workshop>.
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Feedback and notes from my WikiNeighbours

(: Hi Brian, Welcome to this workshop eL4C41. I am your facilitator along with Anirban, Derek & Sarita. We will help you and will watch your page develop. Enjoy this learning mode and ask for help if needed. Warm Wishes.--Dr. Gita Mathur 08:13, 23 July 2010 (UTC))

• (: Hi Brian, very impressive progress on your page. Cheers!--Dr. Gita Mathur 17:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC))

• (: Hi Brian, It would be nice if you fill up your Learning Contract in the above box. Click on the 'edit' on right of 'My optional community service (learning contract) project' and fill the details.--Dr. Gita Mathur 02:54, 31 July 2010 (UTC))

* Hello Brian, as your Group C facilitator, it is a pleasure for me to see that you have developed such a nice userpage. I look forward to reading your contributions here. Warm wishes--Dr. Gita Mathur 13:37, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

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