Jonathan Hack Email & Phone Number

Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Provide leadership and strategic direction to the Applied Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Services activities at Centennial College. Grow and develop partnerships with industry and community organizations to support technical streams (aerospace, advanced manufacturing, energy, data analytics, medical tech) and social innovation streams of research. Implement broad entrepreneurship programming to empower students to become adept at 'for profit' and 'for change' entrepreneurship activity. Represent the College as the senior research representative to funding organizations, other post-secondary institutions and with industry associations and industry partners.

The Yves Landry Foundation facilitates opportunities for technological education and training through partnerships among industry, education and government. The Yves Landry Foundation is an impartial intermediary and advocate for outstanding technological education and training across Canada.

Toronto, On

Member of Executive Committee for Society which promotes advocacy for Professional Engineers in Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Provide strategic direction, financial oversight and audit management functions for the foundation

Ontario, Canada

Provide input to Board of Directors as an ex-officio non-voting member of the Board. Member of the OSPE Executive Committee and Joint Relations committee activity.

Ontario, Canada

Provide strategic direction to the Board, act as President of the association. Initiate public advocacy on engineering related issues to government and private sector groups. Work with sector associations, companies and government to highlight engineering innovation, and highlight policy support initiatives required to ensure engineers succeed and grow in influence in Ontario.

Toronto

Work with federal and provincial governments, sector associations and academia to expand innovation and identify sector development barriers for aerospace in Ontario. Manage Bombardier Aerospace's strategic engineering project portfolio (R&D) for Ontario, and provide support for other strategic research activities. Build, maintain and enable a corporate patent focal network & allign patent filing & intellectual property development activities with Bombardier's technology roadmap. Lead Bombardier R&D activities related to cabin interiors technology development.

Managed large operations engineering group & various labs and product development activities. Completed strategic technology validation on R&D initiatives, and new programs. Regulatory activity (governmental affairs) sign-off on all new programs. Supplier development from RFQ through production on new program initiatives. Managed ISO 9001 compliant test lab, and materials standards activity & lab groups.

Led a team of engineers to provide production & logistical support to various off-shore GM assembly sites where product was kitted in Canada, and shipped overseas for assembly and distribution in Venezuela, Colombia, South Africa, China and Indonesia. Provided strategic and operational leadership on Cadillac export initiative into China.

Detroit Michigan

Quality as a Value: Management of a transformational set of quality policies and initiatives that substantially improved GM product quality execution. Executive technical assistant to Corporate VP of Quality.

Worked on revenue enhancing, collaborative business venture initiatives based on direction received from GM corporate strategy board.

Global product development responsibilities for GM Minivans and Mid-Size Cars. Ensured products met regulatory and market requirements for all countires of sale. Participated in regional product launch activities and develolpment of product marketing tools in countries of sale.

Brand Quality Manager and Product Planning manager for General Motors of Canada vehicle marketing division. Completed competitive analysis and product technical analysis for marketing tools development.

Mba, P.Eng, Pmp, Businiess Administration, Engineering, Project Management

Pmp, Project Management

Mba

B.Eng & Mgt, Mechanical Engineering