A Chief Information Officer (CIO) and published author-text book on "Integrated IT Project Management". Retired CIO at the Government of Alberta for the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Ministry of Transportation with over 30+ years of "hands-on" IT experience. He has been in this CIO leadership position for eight plus years, using open and influential leadership styles, resulting in various Innovations and Premier's Awards of Excellence. He has worked in the public sector (Government of Alberta) and private sectors, which included some of the largest companies in Canada and USA: Canadian Pacific Railway, Union Pacific (USA), IBM, Petro-Canada, Telus/AGT, US West Communications (USA), EPCOR and Nova Scotia Power. His academic qualifications include an MBA (Edinburgh Business School), Bsc (University of Alberta), and professional designations-PMP (PMI Institute), P.Mgr., CIM (Canadian Institute of Management), and CCP (Institute for Certification of Computer Professional). He is a public member of Alberta Health- College of Psychologists (CAP) Council, Vice-President of the Institute for Certification of Computer Profesionals (ICCP-USA), on the academic advisory board of Athabasca University and formerly VP-Professional Development-PMINAC and Board member of CIPS Alberta.. In the 1980s published Data Modeling (Journal of Systems Management) and Information Systems Planning (Auerbach Publishers) articles with international recognitions. Published text book in 2004 on Integrated IT Project Management (Artech House –Boston and London . This text book, referenced by universities across the world, has gained international recognitions, especially in setting the direction for the next generation IT Project Management- transforming towards a project management culture of disciplined Agile and Integrated framework. In February, 2016, published another text book titled "Integrated IT Performance Management" , by internationally recognized publisher ,CRC Press.Specialties: Author of an IT Book titled "Integrated IT Project Management-A Model Centric Approach", published by Artech House Publishers- London and Boston, world-renowned publisher of Engineering books.SpecialtiesInformation Technology management and delivery, using a client-centric outsourced model. IT Services = Outsourcing + Innovations = TransformationIT Project Management;IT Data Centre Operations Management -virtualization & optimizationIT Outsourced Management