Bryan Carbonnell

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Bryan Carbonnell is separated and lives with his two beautiful daughters in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario Canada. He works for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)http://cbc.ca, Canada's Public Broadcaster, in the training Department of the Toronto Television Production Centre.

He is the Manager of Training, responsible for arranging, co-ordinating and planning training for 600 staff ranging from admin/clerical to management to TV Technical folks (camera, audio, lighting, graphic designer, make up artists, maintenace, etc) to TV production staff. He has even done some instructing, Intro to Groupwise, in a formal classroom setting. He is constantly helping everyone with the various MS Office Products around the department, in addition to his regular duties

Some of the other things that he does are develop and maintain Microsoft Word Templates for CBC's instructors to use and maintain a consistant look and feel for their Lesson Plans and Handouts. He has developed and maintain a database of Training Request, to allow the department to accurately track and cost out their training needs for the fiscal year. Version 4 of this database is currently being written. (That's how far this little database has grown.)

In his spare time he likes to write code in Word (VBA), Access (VBA) and Visual Basic. These days he is also getting into the nitty gritty of Linux, to be better able to support DBAs mail server.

When He is not in front of the computer he enjoy woodworking with traditional hand tools. No power tools for him. They are just too noisy!!