Adam Shand (manager) explained

Adam Shand is a New Zealand visual effects operations manager and advocate of community wireless networks.

Career

Shand founded Personal Telco in November 2000 which subsequently grew into one of the largest community wireless projects in the United States.^{[1] [2] [3]} He is one of the original members of the Shmoo Group^[4] and the primary author of the Wireless Commons Manifesto.^{[5] [6]}

In 2003 he moved back home to Wellington, New Zealand to work as a senior systems administrator, and later became the operations manager, for Weta Digital.^[7]

Visual effects

The company produced visual effects for the films:^[8]

• 2011 The Adventures of Tintin (systems manager: Weta Digital)
• 2009 Avatar (systems manager: Weta Digital)
• 2009 The Lovely Bones (systems manager: Weta Digital)
• 2009 District 9 (systems manager: Weta Digital – uncredited)
• 2008 The Day the Earth Stood Still (lead systems engineer: Weta Digital)
• 2008 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (code operations manager: Weta Digital)
• 2008 Jumper (code operations manager: Weta Digital)
• 2007 The Water Horse (digital operations manager: weta digital)
• 2007 30 Days of Night (code operations manager)
• 2007 Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (code operations manager)
• 2007 Bridge to Terabithia (digital operations manager: weta digital)
• 2006 Eragon (digital operations manager: weta digital)
• 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand (digital operations manager: weta digital)
• 2005 King Kong (digital operations manager)
• 2004 I, Robot (systems administrator: Weta Digital)
• 2004 Van Helsing (senior systems administrator: Weta Digital – uncredited)
• 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (systems administrator: Weta Digital)

External links

• http://adam.nz/
• http://www.personaltelco.net/

Notes and References

1. News: Dundas. Zach. 9 June 2004. Free for All: How a brainy Brit and an army of idealists are leading Portland to Internet Nirvana. Willamette Week. 17 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20180320171103/http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-3294-free-for-all.html. 20 March 2018.
2. News: Alternative Net: Wireless activists bring the battle over public space to the airwaves . Andrew Blum . August–September 2001 . Metropolis Magazine . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20010821074014/http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0801/ob/ob05.html . 21 August 2001 . 17 August 2013 .
3. News: Adam Shand, Founder, PersonalTelcoProject . Vince Vittore . 1 January 2003 . Wireless Review . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20030208022647/http://wirelessreview.com/ar/wireless_adam_shandfounder_personaltelcoproject/index.htm . 8 February 2003 . 17 August 2013 .
4. Web site: The Shmoo Group. The Shmoo. Group. www.shmoo.com.
5. Web site: 17 August 2007. The Wireless Commons. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210214101922/https://adam.nz/wireless-commons/. 14 February 2021. 17 May 2021. adam.nz.
6. Book: Apprich, C.. The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becoming of Network Culture. Dragona. D.. Lovink. G.. Wüst. F.. Gansing. K.. Institute of Network Cultures. 2020. 978-94-92302-45-8. Amsterdam. 14-22. What Was the Network? A Conversation on the Possibilities and Limits of the Network Imaginary.. https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/127490690/TheEternalNetwork_1_.pdf.
7. Web site: Adam Shand – From WiFi To Wild Via Weta. 2021-05-17. Access Granted NZ. en-NZ.
8. Listed in respective movie credits