
Siobhan Neville
Legal
Services offered
Experience media professional who is highly skilled in producing clear excellent captions fast. Innovative, driven, reliable and passionate about captioning, communication and accessibility. Authorized Court Transcriptionist with a keen knowledge of legal procedures and terminology.
Experience
Accessibility Operator / Closed Captioning Editor
Bell Media, Toronto, ON 2019 - Present
- Captioned and transcribed programs and promos for all of Bell Media's channels, both remotely and in-house
- Acted as lynchpin on evening shift to troubleshoot and ensure shows were processed
- Worked efficiently using Bell Media's closed-captioning style and standards, exceeding targets and excelling in accuracy. Regularly volunteered to complete overflow and last minute items
- Worked closely with a fantastic team to problem solve, share tips and discuss language, style and descriptor issues. Contributed regularly and enthusiastically to the daily meetings
- Communicated clearly with the captioning administrative team flagging issues and ensuring deadlines were met
- Trained on Eclipse AccuCap Broadcast Captioning for voice-activated live captioning
- Used Word short-forms and macros, Dragon software, AI, and created templates in order to produce transcripts efficiently
- Evaluated the team's captioned files according to Canadian NER Evaluation Guidelines
- Quickly tweaked and adjusted live files after airing in order to re-broadcast
- Adapted scripts and previous captions into CaptionMaker to conform with Bell Media's captioning style and standards
Court Reporter / Authorized Court Transcriptionist
Superior Court of Justice, Ministry of the Attorney General, Toronto, ON 2013 - 2019
- Ensured the effective operation of Ministry approved court-recording devices
- Made annotations to the court record in accordance with Ministry Annotation Standards for Digital Recordings
- Ensured the security of the court recordings, safeguarding against unauthorized access or copying
- Provided certified transcripts to the judiciary, counsel and stakeholders in a timely manner, following the guidelines of the Court Transcripts Standards and Procedure Manual
- Spoke publicly during court proceedings in order to seek clarification and ensure audio was being recorded clearly
Closed Captioning Editor
Alliance Atlantis / CanWest Global / Shaw, Toronto, ON 2002 - 2012
- Using Softel Swift, transcribed, edited and formatted quality captions for a wide variety of television programming in a timely manner
- Used judgment in order to effectively convey spoken dialogue through punctuation, sentence structure, timing, shaping of captions, and descriptors
- Thoroughly researched the spelling and use of terms, slang, other languages and dialects, and song lyrics
- Used judgment in order to adapt captions to commercial breaks and shows with on-screen graphics
Education
Master of Arts (English)
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities
ILCO Law Clerk certification
Authorized Court Transcriptionist
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