My IT Background
#Career
My IT Background
Education
- University of Waterloo Co-Op Student
- Started work on Bay Street in Toronto May 1982 via co-op program
- Majored in Mathematics – how a Computer Science degree was obtained at UW at that time
Companies / Business Domains
- Corfax / DST / IFDS
- Pension & Benefits processing
- Mutual Funds processing
- Teranet
- Legal systems
- Land Registration systems
- Geospatial systems
- eHealth Ontario
- Healthcare IT
- Alberta Electric System Operator
- Electric (Grid) systems
- Wholesale Energy Market systems
- TransAlta
- Electric Generation systems
- Energy Market Trading systems
- ATCO
- Utilities (Gas, Electric), Logistics…
Roles
- Started out as a Junior Programmer
- Moved up to various levels of Programmer / Analyst
- Moved into Project / Team / Portfolio Management roles
- Moved into Solutions Architecture career path, numerous positions
- Chief Architect roles
- Enterprise Architecture career path, numerous positions
Expertise
- Enterprise Architecture
- Governance
- Client Engagement
- Executive Engagement
- Technical (infrastructure, application development, integration, cloud)
- Team Management / Mentoring / Training
IT / Technical Interest
- Productivity alternatives
- Gadgets gadgets gadgets
- Modelling vs. Diagramming