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Kitchener, Ontario

I teach IT courses to business students and human resource/social science students. My goal is to give students an appreciation of what information systems and data analysis can do to enhance their decision making value. Courses include:Business Computer Apps I & II (MS-Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Management System Strategies I & II, Accounting and IT Controls, E-Business, Internet Applications, Business Process Integration, Interpersonal Communications, Human Resource Research and Information Systems, and Information Systems for the Social Sciences.Selection of course topics covered include: IT project management and methodologies, change management, assessing the value of projects, Lean principles, IT leadership, e-business opportunities, ethics, e-commerce, Web, social media, Web 2.0, data integration, cost/benefit analysis, IT governance, HRIS, and the soft-skills of personal development.

Lakeshore Campus

I teach the Big Data Certificate at Humber Lakeshore. This is a three core course, and two elective certificate that runs two nights a week. It is offered by Media Studies, with courses that include a Google master class, Excel data essentials, and Big data essentials, plus elective classes. What interests me is how we teach students how to use many of the key tools of big data: Rapidminer, Hadoop, Tableau, etc, to prepare them for a world that in increasing driven by data decisions.

Guelph, Ontario

Managed IT department of 10 full-time and 2 contract employees in a fast paced automotive tier-1 MAGNA supplier. SOX compliance, policies and procedures manuals (wiki). Managed multiple high impact projects - data collection, telecommunications, electronic Kanban, accounting document archive, warehousing location-based system. Developed, administered, and tracked spending against an annual department budget of approximately $1m. Researched and strategized new technologies and future directions. Evaluated development and training programs for IT staff. Introduced Citrix and thin clients, and virtualization through VMware. Remodeled reporting systems to include dashboards, and statistical analysis for more evidence-based decision making.

Cambridge, Ontario

Worked with iSeries/400 to PC connections. Built multiple front-office applications to automate iSeries/400 data access. Installed, configured, and supported over a dozen iSeries/400 machines across Canada. Designed and taught numerous data access courses. Delivered two keynote addresses at US IT conferences, and spoke at several user-group conferences. Sub-contracted to develop and deliver user training courses (1-day, 3-day, 7-day) to over 60 locations through Canada, US, and England.