June 2008 to Present: As President and owner of Cognition Consulting Services Ltd., Anthony has been leading the growth of Cognition while consulting directly with a number of clients. Recent assignments include:Lead Negotiator and Project Lead roles for: Home Health Care Monitoring Negotiation Project, Lead Negotiator (January 2013 – April 2013)ICON II Negotiation Project, Lead Negotiator (December 2012)STMS Change Orders Print Negotiation Project, Negotiator (November 2012)Managed Print Negotiation Project, Lead Negotiator (October 2012)Fulfilled the role of Lead Negotiator for the Province of BC in negotiating a contract for $35m+ of managed print services.Strategic Partnership Office Implementation, Project Director (August 2011 – September 2012)Reporting to the Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM), Strategic Partnership Office, led the implementation of the Administrator’s Office for the Telecommunications Services Master Agreement (TSMA) arising from the STSP process. Anthony also assisted in the implementation of the Strategic Partnership Office (SPO), including acting in a senior executive role as Assistant Deputy Minister of the office for two months.Strategic Telecommunications Services Procurement (STSP), Project Director and Chief Negotiator, Province of British Columbia (June 2008 – July 2011)Reporting to the CIO of the Province, Anthony led (as Project Director and Chief Negotiator) the 50+ member team conducting a procurement for telecommunications services on behalf of the Province of British Columbia and a large number of other public sector entities (Health Authorities, Crown Corporations). With a duration of ten years and a total value of ~ $1B, this major procurement initiative included the development of a detailed approach and strategy, the preparation of the procurement instruments (~ 1,500 pages), the management of the evaluation phase and negotiation of comprehensive agreements.

On this 24 month assignment, Anthony led a sales program for Sun in pursuit of the British Columbia Provincial Laboratory Information Solution (PLIS) opportunity resulting in a CDN $150.0 million contract for Sun. Anthony’s was Sun corporate team lead from the beginning to the end of the process, including:• Developing initial sales opportunity assessment and response strategy;• Developing partner team strategy and coordination;• Supervising and producing all response proposal and presentation materials;• Identifying, coordinating and leading Sun internal resources required for solution development and bid support;• Leading financial modelling and analysis team;• Leading 50+ person Sun and Partner response team through BC Government JSRFP process up to final presentation and subsequent selection, including personally leading the 7 hour final presentation team in conjunction with Scott McNealy, founder of Sun Microsystems and Andy Canham, President of Sun Microsystems of Canada;• Leading Sun and Partner team through a seven month negotiation process with the Province;• Subsequent to contract signing, filled Acting PLIS Program Director role for Sun while staffing actions were underway; and,• Assisted Sun with development of national healthcare opportunities and strategy, including personal support for teams in multiple other provinces.

Thi assignment involved acting as Project Manager for 3 Data Migration projects being managed as a group for the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management. Reporting to the Project Steering Committee (including Gary Cooney, Director, Information Management Branch) and Elaine Dawson, Manager, Data Management Services, Anthony replaced another resource as Project Manager. The project involved coordinating a team of Ministry Headquarters' staff, regional staff and contractors to plan the approach for, schedule and execute a set of projects migrating geographic data from traditional GIS data stores to new GIS architectures. As the project manager, Anthony personally led and managed the team, developed plans, schedules, strategies, Steering Committee and Project Sponsor issue notes and decision frameworks, facilitated planning and strategy sessions, status reports and communications materials. In addition, Anthony worked with Ministry staff to conduct procurement activities including contract negotiations.Technologies included both client/server and web based solutions. The projects were challenged by a number of key issues related to the coordination and business vision of the regional GIS teams. Anthony was instrumental in raising these issues and developing strategies for their resolution. In addition to this management level consulting, Anthony also led the team in executing the assessment activities in determining target data for transition and then executing the data transition strategy and activities.

Responsible for all accounts and business development in Western Canada, includes all aspects of strategic account management from opportunity identification to contract negotiation. Starting cold in the territory, in the midst of the greatest slowdown in software purchasing in history, closed CDN $1.5m+ in new license sales in the first 18 months. Leading a company wide team, Tony introduced BroadVision to targeted accounts in the territory, educated the customer in BroadVision's unique value proposition and shaped customer requirements. Coordinating resources from across North America, he responded to major structured RFP processes and won against competition such as IBM, Microsoft and Sun. In the implementation phase, he subsequently positioned BroadVision's services arm and has secured commitments for $1 million + of follow-on services revenue.

As a senior manager for DMR, worked extensively with customers in US and Canada in identification of business problems and formation of solutions in complex environments. Oversaw customer satisfaction for a broad range of customers in the private and public sector. Monitored the delivery of solutions on an ongoing basis for multiple clients. Negotiated simple and complex teaming agreements and contracts.

This project was an initiative to create an employee-owned corporation and then to pursue the opportunity to acquiring the license for the BC OnLine service of the British Columbia government. This business project had a very broad scope, including organizational development, the preparation of a solution model for the service, the preparation and delivery of a comprehensive proposal and the management of the procurement process from the company perspective. Specific responsibilities included: · Organizing and initiating employee bid and corporate formation · Developing business model and plan for the proposal and for the service, including business expansion plan for government online service delivery and organizational change management strategy for transition to new corporate model. · Identifying, recruiting and negotiating relationships with appropriate partners (DMR, Amdahl, Microsoft, Camosun College) · Organizing, supervising and participating in the development of the proposal · Identifying and negotiating relationship with suitable financial partner (CIBC Wood Gundy) · Working directly with financial partner to develop and finalize business case, contact investors and obtain investment commitments for over $100 million CDN · Directing and conducting marketing communications and strategy · Providing supervision and project management to process

Supervised a BC Online staff of 27 and $35 million in gross electronic service delivery revenue. Led the organization through a major transition in technical platform, business model and practices to provide the most flexible and cost effective service delivery tools for government. Specifically: · Providing specific leadership on all aspects of e-service development from a legacy system based architecture and business model to a new Internet (Web) based model for electronic service delivery to the entire population of the province. This included detailed evaluation, design and assessment of security and authentication mechanism for the system. · Supporting and providing leadership to staff and managers through a time of extreme organizational change including extensive team building and communications activities. · Coordinating and supervising the branch activities related to the transfer to government, including financial systems, policies and procedures. · Providing ongoing management to service. · Implementing a complete redevelopment of unit working practices to employ formal project management disciplines in organizing unit work. "Projectizing" the organization. · Through involvement with government-wide steering committees and other forums, providing leadership to the provincial government community on the implementation of electronic commerce technologies and business models. Dealing with multiple stakeholders of the service, building consensus and customer support. Advising senior government executives to the Deputy Minister level.

Technical Manager for a $35 million per year business unit with a user base of over 15,000. Responsible for all technical development and enhancement activities for the systems involved in delivering retail access to government databases via the BC OnLine service. Specific roles included:• Senior design architect for the service developing new technical approaches which expanded business potential. This included both direct design activities on multiple hardware/OS platforms as well as business case analysis of technical alternatives and business opportunities.• Project manager of the ongoing BC OnLine Transition project which re-developed the services’ systems. This included all the planning, budgeting, supervisory and other responsibilities of a senior project manager.• Technical advisor to the Director of BC OnLine and senior corporate executives on the evolution and direction of technology in the electronic commerce field, including analysis of specific business threats and opportunities.• Administrative manager of all technical staff.• Technical Areas Involved: IMS, HTML/HTTP, mainframe/Internet integration, UNIX development, mainframe/fax integration, cross platform integration architectures (e.g. DCE, including security and authentication approaches), thin client architectures; security architecture, user authentication and authorization architectures and approaches.

· Technical advisor to the Director of BC OnLine and senior corporate executives on the evolution and direction of technology in the electronic commerce field, including analysis of specific business threats and opportunities. · Administrative manager of all technical staff. · Technical Areas Involved: IMS, HTML/HTTP, mainframe/Internet integration, UNIX development, mainframe/fax integration, cross platform integration architectures (e.g. DCE, including security and authentication approaches), thin client architectures; security architecture, user authentication and authorization architectures and approaches.As Director responsible for business development in a new joint venture, activities focused on a combination of technical, marketing, sales and organizational development challenges. Accomplishments included the sale of the product to a major U.S. telecommunications firm for $200k+ CDN and several local sales. Specific activities included: · Conceiving, designing and managing as a project the sales program for the Masque thin-client software project. This included directing and leading the marketing resources with product definition, establishing sales organization (organizational design, staffing), establishing sales strategy, tactics and procedures (program), training initial sales staff, developing pricing and fee structures, developing marketing strategies for product line.

As the sole BC Systems manager on the joint Purchasing Commission/ BC Systems BC Buy Smart Project, responsibilities included the following: · Providing project management services to the project overall, including arranging training for other team managers and conducting all direct project management activities on behalf of the project director. · Representing BC Systems interests within the project. · Advising the account director, VP executive sponsor and president on project status, direction and risk. · Analyzing and determining the technical requirements and solutions for the project. This included ongoing analysis of electronic commerce approaches including EDI and on-line, mass audience business systems (such as BC OnLine and the privately managed federal Open Bidding System). · Managing the technical infrastructure development activities, including significant design input, including the development of a client/server toolset focused on electronic commerce solutions (coordinating a multi-organizational team of 10 developers). · Managing the BC Systems Integration Team on the project, including staffing. · Developing operation revenue and cost models for the service models under consideration, including business case analysis and recommendations. · Technical Areas Involved: Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Electronic Commerce technologies, Internet technologies and protocols, including Gopher and HTTP, "thin" client client/server architectures, VM, UNIX, dial IP technologies.

As manager of the multimedia team with gross revenue of approximately $250k, per annum, supervised updating of existing multimedia applications and personally directed and project managed a major new multimedia application for the Ministry of Forests. This project involved managing and integrating all facets of the production, including overall technical design, hardware selection and acquisition, developer selection and management, video editing, ambient sound production, narration production, music production, still capture and kiosk design and construction.As EIS team manager with gross revenue of approximately $230k, managed and directed a wide variety of EIS initiatives. These included: · A major EIS support contract at the Ministry of Health, including technical and project management and direction, user support, ongoing system support and assistance to user departments in developing EIS requirements and applications. · An EIS initiative at the Ministry of Environment, including project management, technical design, application design, development and implementation. · A billing analysis application for Motor Vehicle Branch. · A number of internal applications in financial and operational reporting. · Technical Areas Involved: Pilot EIS software line, MVS, VM, Windows and Mac workstations and related networking technology (IP, SNA).

Assisted in directing company from an unfocused general consulting practice to a distinct focus on key niche markets and client groups, organized upgrading of in-house skill sets to meet new market strategy, raised Executive Information Systems billings from none to $100K in six months.As a senior manager, was responsible for marketing, sales, project management and consulting across a number of business areas, including EIS, business analysis, technical writing and text management.

As a Foreign Service Officer for EAITC, completed several assignments: · In the Office for Multilateral Trade Negotiations, worked on the Federal/ Provincial desk arranging regular consultative conferences between federal officials and provincial trade representatives, developing briefing material for ADM, DM and Ministerial level, preparing summaries of provincial inputs for use by the negotiating team and managing the distribution of relevant documents from the GATT Secretariat in Geneva to provincial officials. Responsibilities required developing a substantive knowledge of the economic, trade and political issues underlying the Uruguay Round negotiations of the GATT and the functioning of the GATT system itself. · For a trade development division of EAITC, developed a directory of Canadian Exporters of packaging and labeling machinery, including a new mapping of CITC import/export codes to the international HS coding standard, writing of corporate profiles and document design. The directory was subsequently distributed to Canadian posts overseas for market development purposes. Completed policy paper on market intelligence requirements for Canadian exporters, including a business model of the export process.13

As a systems analyst for BCSC, conducted a wide variety of assignments. Project work included acting as Project Team Leader on an EIS implementation project, the design of a data dictionary database and planning for its implementation, conducting a survey of client registries in the B.C. Ministry of Health and others.