ComputerWorld Blogging Idol 2011 Contestants (in no particular order)

Nigel Fortlage

Information Technology executive that see's technology as a tool, not an end game. Able to take broad view on technology and it's impact to business. Not afraid to push the envelope when it makes sense, does not seek to be bleeding edge for the sake of technology.
http://nfortlage.blogspot.com

Don Sheppard

I'm a veteran Blogging Idoller who also does consulting for a living. I began my career as a railway data communications engineer and also spent a considerable amount of time on ISO standards development. After working for a bank, I took up the consulting challenge, and I still find it challenging! I try to keep in touch with a lot of IT topics but I'm usually doing things that involve service management and ITIL. I use both an iPhone and a Blackberry, still print a lot of paper, and I own a green OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) but I haven't found much use for it! I got an iPAD but doubt that I'll go for iPAD2 - maybe version 3. I'm starting to get interested in networking history, so I guess I'm starting to look backwards as well as forwards!
http://www.concon.com

Joel Martin

I have over 15 years IT market experience managing products, performing qualitative and quantitative market analysis, developing new business and partnerships, and creating business/product strategies. My experiences vary from Microsoft to IDC where I have enjoyed the challenge of working with industrious and smart people both from a vendor, consultant, and customer perspective.
http://softwarestrategies.wordpress.com

Tania Samsonova

I am a translator and a technical writer. I have published several book translations (Margaret Atwood's "The Year of the Flood", to name just one) into Russian. I also do technical translations (IT-related, mostly, as I have been in software development for 15 years), provide SR&ED consulting (in cooperation with SRED Unlimited) and write technical documentation. I have a degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Moscow State University, an MCAD certification, and several certificates: one in Technical Writing from YorkU and two from U of T SCS (in Financial Management and in Enterprise Risk Management). I am currently working on the Russian translation of "Someone comes to town..." by Cory Doctorow (under Creative Commons license) and on "The Cornish Trilogy" by Robertson Davies, a Canadian classic. *** My page on proz.com: English - Russian Translator *** My profile on LinkedIn *** My business websites: *** Translation Services (English - Russian) *** SR&ED Consulting *** My LJ (in Russian) *** My Twitter (personal): @TaniaSam *** My Twitter (business): @SRED4you
http://www.sred4you.com

Hugh Chatfield I.S.P.

Degrees in Physics, Documentary Production In Information Technology since 1965. In General markup languages since 1993. In Film projects since 2007. In Documentary Production since 2008. Follow my adventures at Hugh's World http://hugh-chatfield.com
http://cyberspace-industries-2000.com

Maurice Amzallag

Maurice has extensive experience in IT and technology, and views IT from a strategic/business perspective.


Ron Van Holst

Ron is a consultant at High Performance Computing Insights Canada. He is an electrical engineer with over 25 years experience in the development and management of telecommunications and High Performance Computing (HPC) products and services. Ron is also certified in the IT service management framework ITIL foundations. His passion is to see HPC technology employed to make Canadian enterprises more globally competitive.
http://whyhire.me/ron_van_holst

Seema Noushad

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Craig Borysowich

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Kevin Pashuk

While I'm currently the CIO for Appleby College in Oakville (the best IT job in Canada), I've had a great ride in a number of positions in various locations. I've lead a team of more than 100 staff at Sheridan supporting a constituency of 50,000 users, I've been part of the founding team building a brand new medical school in Northern Ontario based completely around distributed education, I've started 3 companies, consulted internationally, drove my gorgeous wife crazy moving around all over, raised 2-1/2 great kids (I'll round it up when the final one leaves home), and occasionally scratch the ear of our butt ugly dog. My craft is not IT, but building IT organizations that support challenging and new ways to do things. I am utterly convinced that we as IT leadership need to dramatically change how IT is delivered, before we get relegated to a costly overhead department. In the midst of all this fun, I've had the distinction of being awarded the inaugural 2010 IT Leader of the Year (SME) Award from Computerworld Canada for my work at Appleby College. I'm humbled by the honor and thankful that some of my ideas actually make sense to someone.
http://turningtechinvisible.blogspot.com

Mel Melnyk

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Cyndi Henry

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Martin Seto

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David Machlis

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Ushnish Sengupta

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http://www.freegeektoronto.org/

Martin DesRosiers

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Jorge Gamboa

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Michael Gerochi

Michael has delivered wide organizational change in the areas of IT Service Management and IT Governance through his consulting work as a Project Manager, Process Specialist, ITIL Software Trainer, and Mind Manager Enthusiast. Michael is currently leading projects that are optimizing IT data centres, improving IT operational processes and building "IT knowledge" inventories.


bhagwantsingh

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HemanChan

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Alicia Farmus

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Jonathan Gross

I'm a Vice President at Pemeco Consulting. As an ERP selection consultant, I draw upon my previous experience as a lawyer to help my firm's clients negotiate the right deal. In 2012, I'll be giving an advanced MBA course on information systems design at the Schulich School of Business at York University.
http://www.pemeco.com

Ousin Habib

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Donna Fairhurst

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Barton McKinley

I have been working in IT, in a variety of roles, since 1983. In the 80's I worked for companies like Apple as a networking "expert", researching new tech. and liaising with firms like Nortel and AT&T. Over the years, I also developed and delivered some 150 IT courses for various post secondary institutions and multi-national companies with (at least) some 65,000 students attending just those that I taught. Now I am a consultant and most of my work involves InfoSec planning, enterprise technology architecture development and IT strategy (with the occasional bit of writing on the side ;-). I used to say "the technology is not the hard part" and its true. So, I work within IT, but I tend to zero in on the human issues and in fact that is what really drives me. I see IT as something which can and does offer positive change for humanity - as long as we remember that human beings are at the root of what we do. I intend to expand on some of this in my posts and I am really hoping to engage in some interesting dialogue as a result. So, please reach out and comment! Also, I have started (and plan to expand) a new project (with Scott Wright) a new site and podcast called Security, Eh? Check it out as it is fleshed out over the summer at http://www.security-eh.com/ Barton


Alvin Armstrong

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Faisal Saleem

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