Driving innovation and economic development within the municipal sector across Canada.

La mission d'Axelys est de contribuer à la prospérité économique et sociale du Québec en accélérant le développement, la commercialisation et le transfert d’innovations à haut potentiel issues de la recherche publique.= = =Axelys’s mission is to contribute to the economic and social prosperity of Quebec by accelerating the development, commercialization and transfer of high-potential innovations resulting from public research.

Responsible for Science and Engineering knowledge and technology transfer activities related to innovation and inventions for several Quebec universities including ÉTS, Concordia and UQAM. Assume leadership in the management of inventions arising from research activities, including protection of intellectual property, maturation of the technology, and its valorisation through licensing or spinoff creation.Meet with researchers and others in the university community on a regular basis to provide general information and advice on the commercialization process, inventorship and publication criteria in order to ensure reporting of inventions and foster their success in a commercial environment.Identify technologies with commercial potential. Provide early assessment of an invention’s commercial potential and the opportunity to pursue intellectual property protection.Monitor a portfolio of on-going reports of invention, patents, licenses and other commercialization-related activities. Manage the intellectual property protection budget for their files.Identify potential licensees for the inventions through networking, database searches, and partnership activities and actively promote the inventions.Facilitate the creation of spinoffs by researchers, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows by connecting them to mentors, coaches, and business incubators.Foster interaction with the research community and the development of long lasting relationships to bring value to university-generated intellectual property.Provide service with a focus on innovation, inventions, business development/partnership, and entrepreneurship.

Business development and provincial team supervision.

Collaborative innovation advisor, building partnerships and bridging the gap between business and university. Key understanding of challenges faced by R-D stakeholders in both industry and university. Managing R-D opportunities with multiple partners, long cycles and complex structures. Developing and maintaining a network of contacts in the R-D space via outreach and networking activities. Creating detailed outreach plans and proactively soliciting prospective clients via a consultative sale approach. Presenting Mitacs programs to university experts and to industry senior management and R&D project leads. Gained a broad understanding of Canada’s key R&D actors and support programs.

Business development (prospecting, networking, RFP), assisting clients in finding technologies adapted to their needs, analyzing client requirements and providing guidance, writing specifications documents, tracking business integrations, creating prototypes & giving demonstrations, participating to organize marketing activities (document, design promotional material, seminars), recruiting new personnel, giving talks on new technologies, developing business partnerships, keeping a technological & strategic watch, respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs, able to convey customer requirements to product management teams, able to travel throughout sales territory.The AZUR Group specializes in rapidly developing custom business grade software for various enterprise data management needs.

Project lead & Supervision in Business Intelligence, analysis, design, development & support of data processing & mining applications, interact with internal clients, meet with high-ranking executives to identify KPIs, identify requirements and follow-up on internal and external projects, develop BI applications, develop and support ETL systems, web services integration, reporting, secure communications, feasibility studies.

Software developments, configuration and integration of CAD, ERP and PDM system components. Solidworks CAD, DBWorks PDM, Epicore ERP.

Software engineering of core air-traffic control simulation framework components, interprocess communication, process synchronization. C Programming. Red Hat Linux.

Software developments for real-time embedded telecommunications systems.

Software developments to revamp Bell Canada's aging public telephone management system. Met with client to determine needs, analyze problems, design solutions, occasionally code them and supervise personnel. Gained a good understanding of the three-tiered layered architecture and the usage of strict OOP and UML methodologies.

Software engineering tasks for a start-up that was building a Group Virtual Reality entertainment system (motion platform). Responsible for designing and coding the hardware motion control subsystem & input/outputs management, the Windows graphical 2D/3D special effects subsystem and the TCP/IP communication subsystems.

Software developments for a hydro-electric energy management system.

Software developments for 3D Human CAD Modeling. Unix, C/C++ Programming, GL/OpenGL. Requirements analysis and training with clients. Documentation.