Alberta Central is the central banking facility and trade association for Alberta’s credit unions.

This is the continued entity of the erstwhile Credit Union Central of Canada and one of the Financial Institution shareholders of Interac.

Executive accountability for Information Services, Payments Line of Business (including credit card issuance), and Government Relations.

Strategic advisory services to banks, credit unions, and pension funds together with exploratory venture development in select sectors, including financial services and health informatics.

Executive accountability: IT infrastructure and operations, IT digital platform and integration services, consumer and commercial online/mobile banking, data platform, portfolio-PMO, core products/pricing/partnerships, enterprise architecture, information security, and the payments business (credit cards, pre-paid cards, and foreign exchange).

Championing digital transformation with business and societal impact.

• Overall responsibility for strategic technology management for the organization including core and auxiliary banking systems, network technology and support services, information systems development and reporting, information security, and electronic channel development (internet banking, mobile banking, ATMs, cards)• Ensuring that IT investments possess an appropriate risk-return profile while being aligned with the overall business strategy

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This company was a trusted technology solutions provider to financial institutions with a combined asset base of over 18 billion dollars. It was the National Canada Student Loan Administrator for the Credit Union Central of Canada. The product / service portfolio included mortgage processing, customer relationship management, financial reporting, patronage dividend processing, and techno-managerial consulting (especially in the context of merger-driven system integration).

This company, now a fully-owned subsidiary of Affinity Credit Union, pioneered the Canada Student Loan administration service bureau concept in Canada.

Among other responsibilities, played key roles in the project management, system architecture, development, and quality assurance of the Integrated Electrical and Control System (IntEC) software, now used worldwide.