Education

• Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications)
• Distinction (Royal Schools of Music)
• Certificate in Adult Teaching (UCOL)

Memberships

• Manawatu Chamber of Commerce (Co-Vice Chair)
  
• Sustainable Manawatu (Board Member)
• Palmerston North Linux Users Group (President)
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (Board member)
• Business Networking International
• New Zealand Network Operators Group
• Massey University Alumni
• Australasian Performing Right Association
• Greenpeace New Zealand
• SpringBoard Board Member Development Group

Blog

• www.spinningplanet.co.nz/brynn-neilson-blog
  

Attended Courses

Professional History

2011 - 2012
Company: Spinning Planet New Zealand (SPNZ), Manawatu Chamber of Commerce (MCC)
Role: Developing SPNZ and MCC 

Main achievements:

• On belalf of the Manawatu Chamber of Commerce spearheaded the launch of New Zealand's largest free wireless network.  Find out more here
• Negotiated 3 year contract to support Texas based Internet marketing company with offices in Australia and the United States.
• Negotiated 3 year contract to create software and servers to collect data from gaming machines nationally and provide online cash management system.
• Doubled Spinning Planet annual turnover
• Designed and built Spinning Planet's new Cloud IaaS web servers.

2010 - 2011
Company: Spinning Planet New Zealand (SPNZ), Manawatu Chamber of Commerce (MCC), Sustainable Manawatu (SM), Palmerston North Linux Users Group (PLUG), e107 Project.
Role: Developing SPNZ, MCC, SM management 

Main achievements:

• Joined the Sustainable Manawatu Task Force in early 2010 and helped the team develop a Constitution, attain sponsorship, open an information centre and market Sustainable Manawatu to the community.
• Hired two new staff to increase Spinning Planet's productivity and opportunities.  In a recession we managed to increase our new customers per annum by 24%.
• Have begun building our new "cloud" based web server platform which has already significantly improved server reliability/speed and our ability to integrate with new cloud based services such as Google, and Amazon Ec2..
• In conjunction with the Spinning Planet team and a marketing Intern from Massey University we created a 50 page marketing manual and have started targeting Auckland and Wellington customers which has significantly increased new customers.
• The Spinning Planet team has improved our customer support and services whilst also developing new services which have been added to our new website.
• I worked with Manawatu Chamber of Commerce to achieve a number of new policies and strategies to move MCC forward over the next 5 years.
• Joined the International management team of the e107 Project and are helping develop a Constitution, 5 year business plan and policies and procedures to ensure that e107 remains one of the top 5 Open Source content management systems available in the World.

2009 - 2010
Company: Spinning Planet New Zealand, Manawatu Chamber of Commerce
Role: Developing Spinning Planet management and sales

Main achievements:

• Doubled Spinning Planet productivity through the use of Lean manufacturing business principles.
• Created sustainability goals for Spinning Planet to be the first emissions free web host in New Zealand.  We've reduced overall power consumption by 80%.
• Significantly improved servers and our services to customers to be more reliable and cost effective.
• Started as the Technology and Media office for Manawatu Chamber of Commerce (MCC) and then got elected as Chairman.
• Working with fellow MCC Strategic sub-committees such as Lobbying, Special Projects and Membership to improve MCC services to members and influence positive change in the Manawatu.
• Have worked with Manawatu Chamber of Commerce suppliers and staff to improve our services to members and internal processes.
• Completed 12 month persuasive Sales and Marketing course with the Marketing company
• Completed New Media paper at Massey University

2004 - 2008

Company: Spinning Planet New Zealand
Role: Developing Spinning Planet

Main achievements:

• Tripled income in 18 months
• Tripled our clients in 18 months
• Built our own data centre with multiple fiber data connections, enterprise class redundancy and security.
• Moved all core internet services from the US to our own data centre in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
• Automated most of our Internet services such as website setup, backups, security, etc.
• Setup international VOIP telephony service: click here for more info.

2002 - 2004
Company: Spinning Planet New Zealand contracted to UCOL
Role: Contracted to design and teach Third Year Design and Multimedia courses

Main achievements:
Designed and taught many courses including, but not limited to, media studies theory, interactive design, 3D animation, web design, professional practice, research, video & sound design.

2000-2002
Company: Spinning Planet LLC (United Kingdom and United States)
Role: International Web Design and Development

Main achievements:

• Travelled the globe as a freelance designer trading as Spinning Planet
• Installed an Internet Café in London
• Started Spinning Planet LLC in Kingman and built up core a core clientele of US clients.

1989-1999
Company: NZMADE.COM
Role: Internet Design and Constancy

Main achievements:

• Jointly built Ezibuy Clothing Limited's first E-Commerce Website - Australasia's Largest mail-order distributor
• Jointly built the Millennium Technology website - Subsidiary of Magtek Corporation who invented the magnetic swipe card
• Jointly designed the hollywoodmusic.com website and video streaming system

Company: Massey University
Role: Independent Contractor

Main achievements:

• Achieved Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communications
• Achieved Distinction through the Royal Schools of Music
• Tutored in Television Studies whilst doing Masters
• Multimedia tutor for Institute of Natural Resources teaching 3D and HTML
• Produced a number of multimedia CDROMs for Massey departments.
• Designed and built Massey's first digital video editing suits
• Contracted as cameraman for TV3 and TVNZ to supply news footage
• graphic design, and software development. Since its successful launch in January The Media House has allowed me to retrieve news footage for Television New
• Communications Lab Technician for Massey University Human Resource Dept.
• Vice President of the Massey University Students Association
• President of the Massey University video production club
• Audio engineer for Equalizer recording studios in Wanganui