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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Welcome Marianne

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Marianne Marck, the CIO for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, has been with them for almost 1 year.  She specializes in Business Alignment/Relationship Management, Business Intelligence, IT Architecture, IT Competencies/Culture, Planning & Program/Project Management, Professional,Scientific and Technical services, Solution Delivery/Support, Strategy and Innovation.

Digital Transformation in Vancouver

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On October 25, 2016 the CIO Association’s Vancouver Chapter hosted their monthly event at the Vancouver Terminal City Club. Digital transformation is the alignment of your business to your customers at every touchpoint in their journey and it’s changing the way companies interact with both their existing & prospective customers. Who better to lead this …

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Real Conversations with Real CIOs: Have you been held hostage?

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The September event hosted by the Vancouver Chapter of CIOCAN provided opportunities for conversations among members on five different topics of interest.  Brian Kuhn hosted the discussions about Security/Ransomware, and submitted this summary: When asked if they had experienced a Ransomware ‘event’, virtually all participants in the three sessions indicated that they had. Ransomware is …

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