(6 votes, average: 6.83 out of 10)
Loading ...The University of Waterloo Student Project Team
Castillo, Galo
Galo Castillo has a Commercial Engineering Degree (Business + Applied Math). He has mostly worked for IT companies. His last job was at ATI Technologies (now AMD). He is currently working as a Logistics Coordinator in a new staffing company called Diamond Global Recruitment Group.
Choudhry, Talal
Talal Choudhry is a Professional Engineer with a degree in Software Engineering and a post graduate diploma in Applied Information Technology. He has over nine years of experience in system architecture, development and deployment. He is currently working as an IT leader for an environmental company whose focus is on water purification and reuse. Currently he is working on Remote Monitoring and Data Acquisition Systems deployment and maintenance. His other expertise includes Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and database systems.
He has also volunteered for humanitarian goodwill projects in Vietnam and Pakistan. The focus of these projects was primarily in the areas of environmental conservation and protection, environmental education and health through providing safe water supplies.
Josefchak, Patricia
Patricia Josefchak has more than 25 years experience in IT (Texas Instruments, Nortel, Bell) and private-sector Defence industries. Most of her last 15 years have been with Lockheed Martin Canada as Company Proposal Manager and also on rotation as Ethics Officer for all Canadian employees. In her current posting, she is Business Development Analysis Manager, reporting to Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Government Services (IS&GS), Maryland, USA. Her expertise is in the areas of procurement/proposal and project management, requirements and process analysis, and technical communication. Patricia has a B.Math from the University of Waterloo (1979). She is a member of the technical committee on Integrity in Public Procurement at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD), Paris, France.
McDorman, Adam
Adam McDorman is a Professional Engineer with 8 years of pharmaceutical project management experience scaling-up drug product programs from clinical trial to commercial supply.
Adam’s multi-disciplinary project experience spans various roles within Planning, R&D, Validation and Manufacturing execution and oversight, all with a focus on quick time to market. His core competencies include risk management, technology transfer and aggressive schedule execution. His diverse background highlights his ability to manage complexity and exploit transferable skills.
Adam originates from the Canadian Atlantic Provinces and holds a Bachelors Degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering. He currently resides in Dublin, Ireland where he serves as Operations Manager for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in support of the launch of a new vaccines syringe filling facility at the world’s largest integrated pharmaceutical campus.
Patel, Reena
Reena Patel works as a Programmer-Analyst at one of the Regional Municipalities in Ontario. She analyzes the information needs of client departments to identify requirements for new or enhanced Internet/Intranet systems and applications; designs, develops, and supports Regional Internet and intranet websites; and ensures that Region’s web presence is professional and timely.
Reena holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from National Institute of Technology, India. She started her professional career by working as a Systems Analyst for a leading IT company in India. After three years, Reena immigrated to Canada and continued her software career.
Reena continues to progress her software career by managing IT projects at the Regional Municipality. She is actively involved in improving the project management framework used by the ITS department at the Region.
Pourkafi, Faranak
Faranak holds a bachelor degree in software engineering from University of Tehran, Iran; and has over 15 years of experience in IT industry in design, development, and implementation of large business information systems such as banking, telecom billing systems and more recently mutual fund applications.
Faranak immigrated to Canada 10 years ago. Faranak’s IT experience is compromised of Systems Analysis, Business Analysis, and project leadership in software development in Iran, Canada and the US.
In the past two and half years she has been working as a technical project lead leading a team of developers to redesign and rewrite the legacy mutual fund application systems of the Citi Investment banking Inc. on a new platform utilizing a new technology. Currently, she is working as a Software Architect in the Emerging Technologies team at the IT department of Citi Inc. Canada, Toronto.
Faranak trusts that her graduate studies in management sciences at University of Waterloo will help improve her organizational and management skills as a technology manager.
Song, Rui
Rachel Song has a bachelor degree in the Electrical & Electronic Engineering field. From 1998 to 2004, she worked as a Telecommunication Engineer in a well-known Telecommunication company. When moved to Canada in 2004, Rachel Song faced the challenges of language barrier and environment difference. She adapted quickly through hard work and applying herself to her studies. Her recent working experience includes Configuration and Documentation management, VP assistant and project analysis. From March 2007, she started a small security system company with her husband. She has many roles in this company from salesperson, technical support, customer service, accounting, purchasing to “CEO”. She is improving her skills in the business and management areas by taking the master education of Management Science in the University of Waterloo.
Swanson, Eric
Eric Swanson is an IT manager with over 15 years experience within the Government of Canada (GOC), managing a large network environment for a public program with strong security and high availability requirements. In addition to managing and coordinating local IT staff, including managing a data center and structured cabling plant facilities, Eric is an experienced team lead of a national work team with membership distributed across Canada. Project work has included various large IT projects, performing the role of project manager, team member and stakeholder as appropriate. Eric’s formal education consists of a BSc in Computer Science and a BA, both from the University of Manitoba.
At work, Eric is known for his inclusive, team building and client service focus. Outside of work, Eric is known for his love of animals, especially the two cats that share their small apartment with him and his wife, and his travel stories.
Wang, Hongwei
Hongwei Wang works as IT Consultant with more than ten years of experience of design and implementation of IT applications, and has been involved in the development of IT projects in different banks such as BMO, CIBC, and ScotiaBank.
He is currently employed as application architect by Deloitte working on TD Bank project.
Hongwei graduated from Peking University in China, and had worked as a project manager in China State Construction Engineering Group. In 1997, he changed to work in the IT industry, and immigrated to Toronto in 2000.
Yip, Raymond
This is Raymond Yip’s 3rd semester in the MSci program at UW. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and Economics from the University of British Columbia as well as a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University. Raymond has numerous certifications from CompTIA and is PMP certified.
Raymond works for McKesson Corp. as a Manager, Technical Services in its Production & Installation Department. Part of his responsibilities is to manage large scale IT implementation and deployment of McKesson’s medical imaging systems in hospitals throughout North America. McKesson follows the PMI methodologies very closely but tailors certain project management processes to fit our requirements. Prior to this current role, Raymond was a traveling integrator. As a traveling integrator, he had very little exposure to the planning and project management tasks but was very involved in carrying out the project plans and ensuring deliverables where completed by the assigned due dates.
On a more personal note, Raymond was born in Thailand, raised in Maple Ridge (a small town 2 hours outside of Vancouver) and currently resides in Vancouver, BC (home of the 2010 Olympics). On his spare time, he likes to play sports, workout, and catch up on some good reading.
Zambrano, Enid
Enid Zambrano has a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the Telecommunications and IT area. She has worked for technology and financial organizations providing voice and data services. Her experience has a vast contrast among technical services, project management and team lead, providing and leading steady state support and special projects.
Currently, she is working for a financial organization in Toronto as a team lead of the systems department. Her main responsibilities are related to ensure the proper technology is in place, analysis of new potential technologies and lead technical projects for the business area.
In addition, she is taking the Master of Management of Technology in the University of Waterloo, to improve her skills in leadership and management and pursue new opportunities in the management area.
There is one further team member would did not wish to be publicly identified.
Add to: del.icio.us | Digg IT | Furl | Google | magnolia | StumbleIT | Wink | Yahoo! Technorati
(6 votes, average: 8.67 out of 10) Loading ...Introduction
Welcome to the NetHope blog. NetHope and the MMSc Online, supported by ITWORLD Canada signed a Memorandum of Understanding in May 2007 to create an online elective in the MMSc programme in International Project Management and Development. The elective will first be offered in September 2007 and students will work online with international aid organizations on projects that will support the application of information technology to third world development.
To watch video statements of the announcements click the links below:
Ed Granger-Happ (NetHope Chairman) http://mscimedia1.uwaterloo.ca/p78184834/
Peter Carr (MMSc Director) http://mscimedia1.uwaterloo.ca/p26868702/
This blog is intended to allow NetHope member organisations to follow the progress of each project and provide comments and ask questions of the student project team. Each week the project team will post a weekly report on their progress. The first report will appear on Monday September 17th 2007.
A video of a sample NetHope project
To learn more about NetHope goto www.nethope.org
To learn more about the MMSc from the University of Waterloo go to http://mscionline.uwaterloo.ca
