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As the Chief Information Officer I am in charge of WPV Corp's ( www.wpvcorp.com ) information technology department. This includes development and maintenance of the applications WPV Corp assist organizations to be compliant with workplace violence legislation (Bill 168 in Ontario). These application include the Work Place Violence Risk Assessment Application and the Work Place Violence Incident Reporting System.

Consultant providing user and technical (IT) support to the AMMS (Airport Maintenance Management System) as well as training.

My main responsibility was to develop econometric models to forecast freight traffic in Canada. These methodologies were developed using regression analysis to forecast marine and rail freight traffic, both international and domestic. The primary tools used were Microsoft Excel, including PivotTables, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. Also, we developed a methodology to calculate marine terminal capacity.

I provided user training for web based software used to obtain an authorization to travel, book the travel and submit expense reports. This was a contract position that lasted until the end of June 2009.

I provided training and support for the Airport Maintenance Management System (AMMS). Also, I provided estimates of ground transportation facility requirements as part of airport master plan preparation as well as for facility specific studies.Projects included:• Victoria Airport Authority, Victoria Airport Master Plan• Ottawa International Airport, Ottawa International Airport Master Plan• Abbotsford Airport Authority, Abbotsford Airport Master Plan• Nanaimo Airport, Runway Extension Business Plan• Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA), Business Aviation Study at Toronto Pearson Int'l. Airport• Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP), Airport User Survey Guidebook• Winnipeg International Airport, Customer Service (Tenant) and Mystery Shopper Surveys• Ottawa International Airport, Mystery Shopper Surveys• Ontario Provincial Government, Study of the Municipal Airports of Ontario (AMCO)• St. Andrews Airport, St. Andrews Airport - Master Plan and Business Plan Development• Goose Bay Airport, Goose Bay Airport Site Assessment• St. Hubert Airport, Air Services Study• Morocco Airport, Air Services Study• Sudbury Airport, Air Services Study• Charlotte-Douglas International Airport(CLT), AMMS• Edmonton International Airport (YEG), AMMS• Ottawa International Airport(YOW), AMMS• Ottawa International Airport Master Plan

My responsibilities included the support and development of the Airport Maintenance Management System (AMMS) as well as other facility life cycle management systems; the integration of the systems with other engineering, operational, financial, and management systems; and the development of these integrated systems to ensure the cost effective use of information systems technology.Projects included:• Transport Canada Airports, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Toronto-Lester B. Pearson Int’l Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Orlando Int’l Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Tampa Int’l Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Pensacola Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Victoria Int’l Airport (Canada), AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Ottawa Int’l Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Grantley Adams Int’l Airport (Barbados), AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Aruba Int’l Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• St. Lucia Int’l Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Norman Manley Int’l Airport (Jamaica) , AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Montego Bay Int’l Airport (Jamaica), AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Regina Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Washington Dulles Int’l Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Ft. Myers Int’l Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Sept Iles Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Quebec City Int’l Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Edmonton Int’l Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support• Charlotte Int’l Airport, AMMS Implementation, Training and Support

My responsibilities included developing and maintaining simulation models for ground transportation planning; managing the collection, storage and analysis of ground transportation data; coordination of airport ground transportation planning with municipal, regional and provincial counterparts; developing and maintaining Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications and databases and participating with international organizations in cooperative research and development programs.

My responsibilities included the support and development of the Airport Maintenance Management System (AMMS); the integration of the system with other engineering, operational, financial, and management systems; marketing the AMMS in North America and the Caribbean; implementation of the AMMS at all sites and the development of these integrated systems to ensure the cost effective use of information systems technology. I provided user training and system implementation, both individually and in formal group training sessions (courses).

Staff of 20, budget of $2,100,000, supported over 300 users, maintained 6 minicomputers, 10 servers an airport wide network and 350 PC’s. Maintained & developed 50 applications including 400 programs and 375,000 lines of code. Operating systems included DEC VMS, Windows NT, DOS, Windows 3.11 and Macintosh.

My responsibilities included the design, development and implementation of Transport Canada airport facility management systems, including CAD, maintenance management (AMMS), facility management (FM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). My primary responsibility was the support and development of the AMMS with emphasis on interfaces with other systems, CAD, GIS, financial and management. Support and development of these systems and interfaces was coordinated with Canadian airports and six regional offices. I provided extensive user training and system implementation, both individually and in formal group training sessions (courses).

This position was the Airports Authority Group's specialist in the development of computer based models, quantitative and econometric methodologies and database definition pertaining to airport groundside facilities (terminal building curb, parking, roadways, etc.).Under the direction of the Chief of Quantitative Systems, provided specialist advice and project support; develops and provides the methodology for simulation, econometric and other quantitative models and identifies future facility needs using these models develops, promoted and monitored national programs ensuring dissemination of knowledge concerning applications in areas of competence; supported corporate development and management in areas of specialist competence; developed, maintained and updated computerized data collection, editing and storage systems.This position was also responsible for the management of all informatics requirements for a group of approximately 55 people (including a large number of engineers and architects) who reported to the Director General, Professional and Technical Services. This included coordination and input to the departmental Informatics, Technology and Systems Plan (ITSP), recommending and managing hardware and software purchases, recommending and implementing training programs to upgrade computer skills within the group.An additional responsibility of this position was the implementation and maintenance of Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) systems in Technical Data Centers in the Airport Authority Group's six regional offices, nine major airports and headquarters.

I was acting Superintendent of Ground Transportation Facilities from 83/04 to 87/11 when the position disappeared in a re-organization.Under the direction of the Superintendent of Ground Transportation Facilities, provided a specialist service to the Air Administration in the area of ground transportation planning; developed policies, standards and guidelines with respect to planning and design parameters, capacity and level of service criteria for ground transportation facilities; initiated and coordinated research in the ground transportation field; devised, coordinated and conducted transportation surveys to obtain data needed to develop ground transportation policies, standards and guidelines and needed in support of site development studies; provided advise to ground transportation planning teams (including regional and headquarters personnel as well as consultants) in the development of ground transportation facilities at airports; conducted functional reviews of regional and project teams' ground transportation planning activities; developed, maintained and updated computerized data collection, editing, storage and analysis systems.

Under the direction of the Project Engineer, researched and reported on the work that was done under contract with the Transportation Development Center of Transport Canada.

This position started as a candidate in their Engineer-in-Training Program. I started the program in May 1974, obtained a leave of absence to complete my master's degree in September 1974, returning full time to the program in May 1975. The program involved tours of duty with different branches of the Ministry, varying from two to seven months. While with each branch, the engineer-in-training was expected to learn the internal function and organization of the branch as well as participate in a current project at the branch.I spent seven months with the Planning Branch designing, organizing, managing and analyzing a survey of inter-regional truck traffic in B.C. As another example, I spent two months with the Design & Surveys Branch. The project I worked on involved optimizing the route alignment for a proposed six lane freeway such that the number of river diversions was minimized.These projects involved computer programming, including FORTRAN, IBM OS/360 JCL and SPSS as well as the use of some proprietary highway design programs at the Design and Surveys Branch.In April 1976, I was assigned to the planning branch. My work there involved the continuation of the truck survey as well as arterial network and corridor studies.The arterial network studies involved identifying and developing a system of streets whose primary function was to move traffic. This was done in a multi-disciplinary environment. The congested corridor studies were more specific and tended to concentrate on bottleneck areas where topography and existing land use combined to produce a situation where a large volume of traffic must pass through an area of limited capacity.