Adam McGreggor

Current

Technical Director at NO2ID
List'er / Interested Party at The Open Knowledge Foundation
volunteer at mySociety

sysadmin, tea-boy, and all sorts of stuff. at Open Rights Group
wearer of at TooManyHats
General TroubleMaker at a couple of orgs
Founder, (co-)owner, non-exec director at Own Projects

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Adam McGreggor’s Summary

First and foremost, I'm an opinionated blunt generalist.

Dabbling in a variety of things, mainly somehow involving IT management, or analysis.

IT wise, I'm a *nixer & windows bloke, although I tend to preferring dealing with OpenSource: mainly due to my hatred of wizards/the idiotization of the industry.

I will do Windows (and, at a push, Netware) consultancy, management, analyses, second-opinions, infrastructure rejigs, negotiations, strategy, migrations & upgrades, procurement, advice, and external consultancy.

Mainly Debian & FreeBSD, these days, with a bit of MacOS for good measure, I'm Old-Skool windows, from 3.0 to XP on the Workstation (I don't rate "Vista"), LanMan, NT, Server 2k/2003. Also Exchange, SQL (MySQL, PostGres, and MS), Exim, Apache...

Elsewhere, I'm (mainly) a Commercial Analyst, Policy Draftsman, Negotiator, Strategic Thinker/Directionalist.

Very broad knowledge-base into areas outside my 'specialism(s)', opinionated, confident.

Adam McGreggor’s Specialties:

α Lobbying & Political Work
β Proprietary → FLOSS not-quite evangelist.
γ Common Sense.

Adam McGreggor’s Experience

Technical Director

NO2ID

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Formerly (since 2003) the National Secretary, I've since been appointed (in a job-swap) the organization's technical director.

I've got oversight, and involvement in All Things Technical for the campaign.

At the moment, we're migrating into a Drupal set-up, and a few other things. All fun and games.
List'er / Interested Party

The Open Knowledge Foundation

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — Present (1 year)
volunteer

mySociety

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — Present (4 years)

I play with infrastructure, and do the odd fixing of things that annoy/irritate me. Very occasional coder, tea-maker (when we get together), a few other things, probably.
sysadmin, tea-boy, and all sorts of stuff.

Open Rights Group

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

2005 — Present (4 years)

I tinker with Apache, Exim, Mailman, MySQL, a couple of bits of perl, and Subversion on FreeBSD (some people might call it sysadmining...), and provide support to the office Umbungo machines.
wearer of

TooManyHats

(Civic & Social Organization industry)

2005 — Present (4 years)

fun stuff online, and offline.
General TroubleMaker

a couple of orgs

(Non-Profit; Government Relations industry)

2002 — Present (7 years)

Not-Work, but things to keep me busy. Mainly tech, but some other things, including secretarial, and director-designate.
Founder, (co-)owner, non-exec director

Own Projects

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

1995 — Present (14 years)

Share-holder (and now, non-exec director) in a privately-held consultancy and acquisitions firm.

Mainly based in the Confederation, but operations elsewhere in Europe, too.

Possibly expanding into the Middle East during 2008-Q2

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Adam McGreggor’s Interests:

gin, wine, beer, music, tech, politics, media, film, books, art, architecture, church, disestablishmentism, skating, watersports, horse-riding, pigs, balance of power, language, theatre, opera, C18 Germanic music, technology, politics, technopolitics, toys,