CAL The Best of Gartner 2016, Nov 17, 2016

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In our technology leadership roles, we are all challenged with monitoring emerging technologies, ensuring reliability and relevance for the information resources we maintain and use, setting strategic direction, and pursuing priorities that will bring value to our organizations – all while ensuring that the information assets of our organizations and their customers are kept safe …

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EDM – Cloud Contract Negotiations Presentation

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Jeff Wyton, Executive Partner with Gartner, spoke to Edmonton chapter members over lunch on November 16, 2016.  The slide deck and notes from that presentation are available to members.  You must be logged in to access the presentation.  Click on the screen icon below to download the pdf version of the file.    

CIOCAN Participation in Top Executive Survey – We’re getting close!

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  Over the past couple of weeks, CIO Association members have been invited to complete IDC’s Top Executive Survey. Thanks are extended to all of you who have responded to the invitation.  Congratulations is due to Manitoba and Edmonton Chapters, both of which have exceeded their quota of participants! The survey will close soon.  We do need …

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Welcome Joe

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Joe Wong, Vice President IT, has been with Coastal Capital Savings, for almost a year.  His areas of specialization include: Business Alignment/Relationship Mgmt, Business Intelligence, Business Process Alignment/Support, IT Architecture, IT Competencies/Culture, IT Infrastructure, Service Management, Strategy and Innovation.

Welcome Jeff

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Jeff Vogstad, Director Business Technology, has been with Translink for over 7 years.  He is responsible for the Data Centre, Network, Service Desk, Desktop, and ITSM.

Welcome Jason

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Jason Tso, Manger, Technical Operations Vancouver, has bee with Absolute Results.  He comes to the chapter from the SFU program.

Welcome Volker

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Volker Seidel is the IT Assistant Manager Operations and Service for The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.  He specializes in IT support, optimization and ventured into Green IT with my passion for sustainability by moving organizations to VMWare based operations and Cloud Computing.

Welcome Erik

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Erik Garrett, Director, IT Ecommerce Development, has been with MEC for almost 5 Years.  His areas of specialization include: Business Intelligence and Business Process Alignment/Support.

Welcome Michael

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Michael Currie is a Senior Manager with the Justice Institute of BC for almost a year.  His areas of specialization are Business Process Alignment/Support, IT Architecture, IT Infrastructure and Service Management.

Welcome Tony

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Tony Chan, Software Development Manager, has been with Central 1 Credit Union for almost 8 Years.  He is responsible for Management of a large size Software Development Team specializing in the creation of innovative financial products meeting the highly technical requirements of Credit Unions across Canada.

Welcome Darren

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Darren Broder is the Deputy Minister – IT Infrastructure for the City of Burnaby.  He has been with the City of Burnaby for 4 years.  His specialties include: Risk Analysis and Mitigation, Relationship Management, Team Building, Infrastructure Planning and Design, Budget Management, Enterprise Network Architecture,  Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Management,  Service Support and Operations, Server Virtualization,  Desktop Infrastructure and Identity Management (IdM) Solutions.

Welcome Neil

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Neil Muir is the VP of IS Stemcell Technologies and is new to Stemcell.  He is a well-rounded, results-focused senior leader with over 25 years’ international systems experience – in both the consulting sector and as a Technology Executive with full responsibility for the strategy, implementation, operation, and delivery of IT for dynamic, growth oriented, private …

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