Welcome to the website of Victor G. Abbott (VGA) (www.victorgabbott.com). This website gives access to VGA's blog, short films, photos, engineering information, favourite music links and other details. This website will be expanded into a full-blown comprehensive site over time. Please enjoy. VGA

::About

VGA is a degree qualified Electrical Engineer and MBA graduate with twenty years experience in railway signalling, control and telecommunications systems for the rail industry and business IT systems including project management, project engineering, systems engineering, marketing and sales, business development, strategic planning, operations and maintenance planning, and training. He currently works as a consultant/contractor. He has implemented projects in New South Wales for Railcorp (formerly State Rail Authority), Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) in Hong Kong, Taiwan High Speed Rail, and now Dubai Metro Project.

His interests include movies, filmmaking, rock music & music history, travelling, cycling, running and swimming. He was the cofounder of MediaStorm Productions / MediaStorm Films. He has produced a number of successful short films. He hopes one day to produce a feature film.

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::My Blog

VGA Blog. This link goes to VGA's blog for the latest news and other information.

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::Films

Mediastorm Films

Please take a look at some short-films that VGA has produced. Click on each link to view each film or go to www.youtube.com/VGA001.

	Method School Drama / Comedy. 15 min. An Acting Class get a real lesson tonight.
	Brace Yourself. Comedy. 7 min. A girl with bad teeth meets a stranger.
	The White Nightie Drama / Comedy. 12 min. Two neighbours overcome their fear.
	Bugger All World Comedy. 3 min. A theme park where bugger all is bugger all.
	Cardboard Scott Comedy. 7 min. Two guys have a new method to meet girls.
	Fifty / Fifty Drama. 5 min. Life's choice is at the toss of a coin.

The above films have been uploaded and are streamed from www.youtube.com.

For the full history and details of MediaStorm's short films including description, cast, crew, awards and screenings, either left mouse click on MediaStorm Details to open the pdf file in the browser, or right mouse click and select "save target as" to download the pdf file. (Adobe Acrobat must be installed).

Note that since the 01 July 2006, MediaStorm Films is now the responsibility of VGA's good friend and filmmaker Judd Tilyard.

Short Film Production Management Kit

VGA has compiled a comprehensive production management kit for short films and other low budget works. This kit includes:

• General - letterheads, faxes, meeting minutes, filing index.
• Script - script template, script analysis worksheet.
• Agreements – writers, production, actors, crew, location and music.
• Pre-Production – planning checklist, budgets, schedule, resource breakdowns.
• Production – shot list, shooting schedule, continuity, call sheets.
• Post-Production – resources required.
• Marketing – publicity kit.

To download, right mouse click on Production Management Kit and select "save target as" to download the zip file containing MS Word and Excel files.

Writing / Screenplays

VGA has written a feature screenplay called Worldway. It's about a future scenario where a large multi-level marketing company has taken over the world and everybody is in the network except for some. The screenplay is quite old now having originally been written in 1998 and needs updating. For example, the world didn't go beserk after Y2K yet the future of flash memory devices for music was predicted!

Anyhow, it can be downloaded by clicking here - Worldway Screenplay, Worldway Titlepage.

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::Photos

VGA Photos. This link goes to an external site www.photobucket.com where a selection of photos can be viewed.

Note that the photobucket website has a lot of advertising such as "Warning Message", please ignore these ads.

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::Engineering & Management

Railway Signaling, Control and Communications Systems

Please find some papers VGA has written on railway control systems engineering and management.

(Either left mouse click to open the pdf file in the browser or right mouse click and "save target as" to download the file).

Maintenance Management

VGA has produced some documents for maintainability analysis and maintenance support as follows:

• Maintainability Analysis. This is an Excel spreadsheet used to calculate overall system Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) for a system comprising of a number of equipment or components.
• Maintenance Support Plan. This is a Word based document providing a generic plan for the maintenance support of a system, equipment or facility. The plan is not based on any one particular standard but can be tailored appropriately to suit. It covers most of the issues required for a maintenance support system.

To download, right mouse click on the links above and select "save target as".

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::Music

Current Listening

VGA must getting too old now because he's listening to a lot of chill-out, lounge type music these days to unwind and relax. 

Anyhow, you can check out what what I'm currently listening to and watching on my blog, by clicking HERE.

Favourite Music

Check out the links below to some of VGA's long time favourite bands and musicians.

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::Updates