Developing Tomorrow’s Workforce Today
Information and Communications Conseil des technologies de l’information Technology Council et des communications
Advancing the Digital Economy [ Success Through Professional Development ] November 16–17, 2011 | Ottawa, ON
This project is funded by the government of Canada’s Sector Council Program Agenda About ICTC and I-ADVANCE™
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 | Networking Dinner The Information and Communications The I-ADVANCE™ The Capital Dining Room at Delta Ottawa Hotel and Suites | 361 Queen St Technologies Council (ICTC) Certification Program 06:00 PM WELCOME | Norm McDevitt, Vice-President, ICTC The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) I-ADVANCE™ is an industry-wide certification program designed to KEYNOTE | Alan Kearns, Canada's Career Coach and Founder of CareerJoy™ 06:30 PM is a not-for-profit sector council that strives to create a diverse, validate and recognize the technical knowledge, industry experi- “Professional Success Through Personal Branding” prepared and highly educated Canadian ICT industry and ence, business and interpersonal skills of ICT professionals. The 07:00 PM DINNER & NETWORKING workforce. We forge partnerships that will help develop the goal? To equip professionals with a single, integrated certification Thursday, November 17, 2011 | Presentations & Forum quantity and quality of ICT professionals needed to maintain and that meets national industry standards. Pinnacle Room (Penthouse Suite) | Delta Ottawa City Centre | 101 Lyon St improve Canada’s position as a leader in the global marketplace. The program was developed in close collaboration with indus- ICTC is a catalyst for change, pushing for innovations that will 08:45 AM ARRIVAL | Coffee and networking try, government, educational institutions and ICT professionals. provide standards, labour market intelligence, career pathways I-ADVANCE™ Certification leverages existing vendor and pro- WELCOME & ICTC PRESENTATION | Meenakshi Gupta, Program Director, ICTC and immigration initiatives for Canadian ICT industry, educators 09:00 AM fessional certifications because it encompasses a full range of “I-ADVANCE™: A Journey, Not a Destination” and governments. competencies in the full spectrum of jobs within the ICT industry— BREAKOUT SESSION | Facilitator: Ersin Asliturk, Psychometrician, ICTC 09:25 AM ICTC’s Standards and Certification initiatives facilitate the building from technical knowledge to important soft skills such as business, The Pathway to Success Value Proposition of a quality ICT workforce in Canada by defining the competencies, interpersonal and teamwork. KEYNOTE | Ritch Dusome, Director, Product Marketing, Cisco Systems Canada abilities and knowledge required to work successfully within the 09:45 AM No other certification program combines technical and soft skills “Building a Better Industry by Developing Tech Talent” ICT and ICT related sectors. They also provide a foundation of like I-ADVANCE™ does. 10:15 AM COFFEE BREAK innovative tools, resources, and a standardized recognition system to meet the needs of the ICT sector. GROUP BRAINSTORMING | Facilitator: Ersin Asliturk, Psychometrician, ICTC 10:30 AM Pitching the Pathway Standards and Certification assist employers in creating effective HR strategies, educators in designing curriculum and training that 11:45 AM LUNCH & NETWORKING meet industry needs, and individual practitioners in analyzing 12:30 PM NEXT STEPS | Meenakshi Gupta, Program Director, ICTC their skills gaps and developing career pathways. 12:50 PM CLOSING REMARKS | Paul Swinwood, President, ICTC
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Alan Kearns Ritch Dusome Canada’s Career Coach and Founder, Director Product Marketing, CareerJoy™ Cisco Systems
Alan Kearns is Canada’s Career Coach and career expert on the upcoming new reality show on the O Network Ritch Dusome is currently Director of At TD Bank he ran both the Network and Data Centre Operations CareerJoy founder, Workopolis career – Million Dollar Neighbourhood. As host of the country’s top rated Product Marketing for Cisco Systems. team and was responsible for their global WAN rollout. expert, Chapters/Indigo Trusted Advisor career Podcast , CareerJoy Conversations, he interviews high- He has held this position for over Ritch has lived in the Ottawa area since joining Cisco Systems. He and author of Get the Right Job Right profile career gurus, ranging from John Stanton, founder of The 4 years but has worked for Cisco for over has 4 children and is active in coaching and playing hockey. He is Now! is one of Canada’s leading author- Running Room, to Jim Citrin, best-selling author of The 5 Patterns 12 years in Ottawa in both Engineering also an avid Ottawa Senators hockey fan since moving to the area. ities on career management issues. As of Extraordinary Careers. and Product Marketing. He is responsible founder, president and head coach of Canada’s career coaching for the ASR 1000, 7200, 7300 router products on a global basis Alan is a highly sought after guest speaker at organizations company, Alan has shaped his almost 20 years of career manage- within Cisco Systems which translates to a greater than and conferences in Canada, where he enlightens employers and ment experience into a company that helps people from all over $1Billion bookings annually. employees on all topics related to professionals and their careers. North America to navigate a wide variety of career-related issues. Ritch is also the Ottawa R&D Site Leader for Cisco Systems. Having been educated as an optician, Alan himself made a career He was primarily responsible for the recent announcement on transition when he leapt into the recruitment field and founded August 17th between Cisco and the Ontario Government for TalentLab, a recruitment agency. A few years later when he recog- essentially doubling the size of R&D in Ottawa (Ontario, nized that professionals need unbiased advice and tools to manage Canada) over the next 5 years. their careers, he founded CareerJoy. Ritch holds a BSc from the University of Ottawa. He is also a Voted one of the Top 40 entrepreneurs under the age of 40, Alan 10 year CCIE alumni. is a regular contributor to Canadian media on the latest trends Ritch has held positions of Network Analyst at Bell Canada and in the Canadian workforce, he has been on a number of shows TD Bank. At Bell Canada he was involved in the Bell Sympatico including, Till Debt Do U$ Part, Princess, Canada AM, BT, The ADSL rollout, CA*net conversion and cross Canada router National & The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos. He is the backbone on fiber.
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Path to Recognition (PTR) Path to Recognition (PTR) I-ADVANCE™ National Test Item National Steering Committee National Working Group Review Committee
Andrew Pridham Barb Berg Brian Lobban Marc O’Brien Chair, Computer Studies, Algonquin College, Ottawa National Healthcare Director and Western, Professor, Cambrian College, Sudbury Consultant, Technology Group Atlantic, Halifax Yvan Labiche Provincial Government Director, Microsoft Canada, Vancouver Brice Yao Bolet Michael Coté Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa Chris Mogensen Cité Collegiale, Ottawa CTO, Payroll Solutions International Inc., Guelph Line Soucy Project Coordinator – School of Applied Arts & New Media, Nova Carmen Ciubotariu Mukesh Kashyap Directrice recrutement et affectations, CGI Scotia Community College, Institute of Technology Campus, Halifax MRU Instructor, Mount Royal University, Calgary Business Advisor, Victoria Wadih Zatar David Wilson David Frederick Conrad Nancy Butler (since Jan-11), INLEA AAM for/pour le Canada, Independent HR Consultant, Victoria Solution Builder, Pinnacle Project Management, Halifax System Analyst, MTS Allstream, Winnipeg Cisco Systems Canada Co., Montreal Gina Van Dalen Elena Pribotchenkov Winnipeg Joanne Wong Manager Professional Standards, CIPS, Toronto Senior Quality Assurance Consultant, Patrick Bélanger CTO, Nmedia Solutions, Drummondville (Mar-09 – Jan-11), Cisco Systems Canada Co., Toronto Kerry Augustine CIBC Lending, Insurance & Amicus Technology, Toronto Robert Graham Independent Consultant, Winnipeg Etienne Simard Pieter Botman Member – Professional Activities Board, Director, Community Planning and Relations, ORO, Neil Lang Network Specialist, Cisco Systems Canada, Quebec City IEEE Computer Society, Vancouver Chief Information Officer Branch, Chair, Computer Systems Technology Assistant Program, François Luneau Treasury Board Secretariat, Ottawa The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Edmonton Senior Consultant, Victrix, Montreal Seth Harman Managing Director, MenEssentials.com, Toronto Jay Lawrence Robert Fabian Frank Boesche CEO & President, Patientway, Ottawa, Management and Systems Consultant, VP Business Development & Strategy, Sylvain Denoncourt Catherine Boivie Robert Fabian | information technology consulting, Toronto Prestige Business & Management Consulting Ltd, Vancouver Network Engineering Consultant, Cisco Systems Canada, Montreal CEO, Inventure Solutions, Vancouver Roberto Garbugli Glenn Abcede Thomas Jankowski John Oxley Conseiller de direction principal, CGI, Montreal Independent Consultant, Toronto Director of Web Analytics, Flight Network, Toronto Director, Microsoft Canada, Toronto Stéphane S. Somé Linda Mozewsky Vince Anderson Reg Bird Assistant professor, Faculty of Engineering, Independent Consultant, Toronto IT Architect, IBM Canada, Edmonton Lead Director/Board, Vecima Networks, Victoria University of Ottawa, Ottawa
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I-ADVANCE™ Subject Matter Experts
Alexander Fernandes, Richmond, BC Chris Malicki, Oakville, ON Gary Berezowski, Ottawa, ON Kien Tan, Toronto, ON Nancy Butler, Winnipeg, MB Sertan Gun, Ottawa, ON Ammar Yousef, Mississauga, ON Chris Pink, Halifax, NS Geoff McKay, Brampton, ON Laz Bouros, Ottawa, ON Nasiem Shorafa, Toronto, ON Seth Harman, Toronto, ON I-ADVANCE™ Test Item Writing Andrew John Hickey, Outer Cove, NL Christaan Bacchus, Oakville, ON Glenn Abcede, Mississauga, ON Leonid Kulikov, Toronto, ON Niranjan Kulkarni, Toronto, ON Shamesh Parkhi, Brampton, ON and Reviewing Participants Andrew Miller, Ottawa, ON Constantin Mihai, Ottawa, ON Gopinath Ramanan, Calgary, AB Liaqat Ali, Burnaby, BC Nur Ozgun, Ottawa, ON Shlomo Covrigaru, Vaughan, ON Andrew Wang, Ottawa, ON Dan McConnell, Ottawa, ON Gordon Bowers, Thornhill, ON Linda Hartwell, Ottawa, ON Parveen Nath, Richmond Hill, ON Steve Percival, Brampton, ON 25+ Full-day Workshops across Canada. Anne-Marie McElreavy, Brampton, ON Darren J. Harkness, Edmonton, AB Greg Taylor, Mississauga, ON Linda Mozewsky, Oakville, ON Paul D’Andrea, Ottawa, ON Subbulakshmi Mohan, Toronto, ON Anthony Debassige, Ottawa, ON Dave Bodnarchuk, Edmonton, AB Guy Rosario, Victoria, BC Luc André Burdet, Ottawa, ON Paul Ozzello, Montreal, QC Sue Joban Putra, Vancouver, BC 150+ ICT Subject Matter Experts repre- Anthony Hooper, Ottawa, ON David Conrad, Beaver Bank, NS Hanna Farah, Ottawa, ON Mainur Rahman, Calgary, AB Pete Grieve, Ottawa, ON Sukhdev S. Atwal, Mississauga, ON senting a diversity of geographic, ethnic, gender, education, Arvind Ramaswamy, Ottawa, ON Don Christie, Ottawa, ON Henry Ng, Norh York, ON Malcom Burtt, Bedforth, NS Peter P. Bevilacqua , Toronto, ON Suresh Maganti, Vancouver, BC years of experience and areas of specialization developed, Asghar Ali, Mississauga, ON Doug Brenner, Toronto, ON Homayun Feyzbakhsh, Ottawa, ON Marc Jahama, Calgary, AB Peter Parkinson, Ottawa, ON Susan M. Hardman, Ottawa, ON reviewed and validated test items (exam questions) for the Barry Wiesner, Victoria, BC Dragan Basta, Toronto, ON Hugh Van Dusen, Ottawa, ON Marc O’Brien, Halifax, NS Peter Weaver, St. Catharines, ON Suzanne Winterflood, Winnipeg, MB six professional ICT designations. Benann Thiruthuvanathan, Duncan Baird, Victoria, BC Issa Cattan, Mississauga, ON Mark Bragança , Ottawa, ON Pierre C. Brien, Lower Sackville, NS Tamader Taham Toronto, ON Mississauga, ON Dusan Zlatanovic, Toronto, ON Jamunah Buvan, Toronto, ON Mark Christopher, Ottawa, ON Pierre Villeneuve, Ottawa, ON Tarlika Shah, Winnipeg, MB Bhavani S. Sikha, Mississauga, ON Ebru Dalbudak, Ottawa, ON Jim Pallister, Courtice, ON Mark Mackenzie, Ottawa, ON Pieter Botman, Vancouver, BC Thomas Jankowski, Toronto, ON Blaine P. Bey, Victoria, BC Elena Pribotchenkov, Toronto, ON John Baker, Edmonton, BC Mark Oliver Angeles, Vancouver, BC Rajesh Thukral, Ottawa, ON Tony Shewchenko, Ottawa, ON Boytcho Spassov, Toronto, ON Erdem Ozcan, Ottawa, ON John Jiang, Brampton, ON Mark Pleasance, Hamilton, ON Ram Kodali, Burnaby, BC Troy Jollimore, Halifax, NS Brenda Jean Butler, Ottawa, ON Eric von Stackelberg, Stony Plain, AB John Ribeiro, Toronto, ON Maureen Den, Victoria, BC Rashida Sadikot, Brampton, ON Uma Doddi, Toronto, ON Brian Farwell, Victoria, BC Etienne Simard, Quebec City, QC Johny Chow, Markham, ON Melinda George, Winnipeg, MB Ravi Joshi, Edmonton, AB Valrie Forbes-Bryan, Brampton, ON I-ADVANCE™ milestones: Brian Lobban, Sudbury, ON Eugene Lee, Ottawa, ON José Miguel Peleato, Ottawa, ON Michael Alexander, Vancouver, BC Richard Fenner, Victoria, BC Vince Anderson, Edmonton, AB Brice Yao Bolet, Ottawa, ON Evette Morland, Victoria, BC Jozef Babiarz, Ottawa, ON Michael Henderson, Toronto, ON Rita Patterson, Vancouver, BC Vinnie Pham, Ottawa, ON • Developed integrated recognition program in compliance Bruce Ecroyd, Ottawa, ON Fereshteh Amini , Winnipeg, MB Judi Moffat, Ottawa, ON Michael lv-Kegang, Toronto, ON Robert A. Stanley, Ottawa, ON Wayne C. King, Ottawa, ON with ISO 17024 Bruce Samhaber, Ottawa, ON Florence Brophy, Darthmouth, NS Julie Bruno, Ottawa, ON Michael Sy, Victoria, BC Robert Fabian, Toronto, ON • Tests written for 5 designations Bruno Gagnon, Ottawa, ON Frank Boesche, Vancouver, BC Karl H. Fatemizadeh, Ottawa, ON Mike Bonar, Winnipeg, MB Robert Stanley, Ottawa, ON • 628 questions and scenarios created Cam Steeves, Victoria, BC Fred Murphy, Toronto, ON Ken Kitamura, Ajax, ON Mohammed Hossain, Ottawa, ON Santhosh Chakkungal, Toronto, ON Candida Almeida, Vancouver, BC Fred Rahm, Etobicoke, ON Kenneth Stasiak, Ottawa, ON Muhammad I. Ibraheem, Toronto, ON Scott Murphy, Ottawa, ON • Established passing scores Carmen Ciubotariu, Ottawa, ON Gagandeep Singh, Toronto, ON Kevin Chapman, Ottawa, ON Mukesh Kashyap, Victoria, BC Scott Perley, Calgary, AB • 234 ICT representatives from 56 companies beta-tested Catherine Potts, Scarborough, ON • Pilot tests conducted for two designations, Business Man- agement and Quality Control 8 [ Advancing the Digital Economy ] 9 Thank you I-ADVANCE™ Our Partners
I-ADVANCE™ Test Development – snapshots ACCC CareerJoy™ ITO2.0 Powerex ACCES Employment CGI Kanata Kareer Group RealDecoy AccesEmployment CIPS KPMG Rogers Alberta ICT Cisco Systems Canada Macadamian Sheepdog Inc. Algonquin College Dapasoft Inc Microsoft Canada TorontoJobs.com AQIII FITT MTSAllStream Vancouver Community Network | webteam BCTIA GEMCOM Mining NATI Software Solutions ViaTec Binary Stream Nmedia Solutions Inc. ICTAM Victrix Brock University Payroll Solutions ITAC International Inc. Camosun College
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