Extensive experience in strategic technology planning as well as system and IT infrastructure deployment and management in the transportation, system vendor, government and defense fields. This includes program, project and product management, and executive management, in small firms and large private enterprises and in the public sector. Work history spans technology roadmaps, requirements and feasibility studies, system architecture, system specification, deployment planning, system integration oversight, commissioning and system administration/management. Served as CIO of two firms (an Oracle/Sun/BEA VAR and a large trucking company), established and led a public-sector IT unit of approximately 100 persons with responsibility for all midrange technology for a user community of 23,000 users and (as a contractor) led enterprise-wide IT task forces for McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard and Amdahl/Fujitsu. Led business/market development activities for products and services of major technology firms.Also an expert in the planning, acquisition and deployment of technology infrastructure and in the application of advanced technology to the home workplace. Author of five books, including two published worldwide by McGraw-Hill on open systems and client-server; also write a regular column in Technology in Government magazine which has a national readership of public sector IT professionals. Also, please note that most consulting assignments undertaken were as leader of major IT initiatives within F500 corporations, not conducting 'studies'.Specialties: Strategic planning, strategic technology management, program management, IT architecture, CIO, CTO, senior project management.Led very large IT programs, $230M for Transport Canada, $300M for Boeing and $300M for Hewlett-Packard.