Cameron Conville

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Calgary, Alberta T3G 4K6

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PROFILE

An IT Thought Leader with over 35 years of experience in the IT industry, offering a wide range of expertise, including:

IT and Business Unit strategic development.

Industry IT trends, technologies and standards (Cloud, ITIL, Java EE, SOA, Web 2.0, Application Security, Virtualization, Containerization, Converged Infrastructures, Network and Security Architecture, End User Computing, Blockchain, e-Commerce, for example).

Enterprise Architecture, with focus on establishing roadmaps, principles, and standards, covering primarily Technical Architecture but also experienced in Application and Security Enterprise Architecture.

Governance and Compliance.

Assisting Business Units in development of realistic, practical technical proposals to serve the needs of End Customers. Facilitated requirement capture and stakeholder needs gathering.

Architecting High-Availability Systems, both from operational / infrastructure and application development design perspectives.

Application Development and Deployment Security best practices.

Building-up an organization’s IT maturity and competence from operational and development perspectives.

IT Methodologies, Frameworks, Notations, Processes and Techniques (Zachman, C4 Model, arc42, ArchiMate, some TOGAF, some PEAF, UML, BPMN, IDEFx, Unified Process).

Technology selection, vendor engagement, procurement, including RFP, RFI, RFQ and formal negotiating. RFx proposal creation and execution.

Management and direction of Architecture resources and technology initiatives; mentoring of Architecture and Analyst resources. Management and direction of application delivery resources, with overall responsibility for individual account managers and their respective solution deliveries.

Experience with complete Software Development Life Cycle, including overseeing of development and implementation projects involving management, staffing, budgeting and teaming with appropriate stakeholders and Business Units.

A noted problem solver, with experience leading Problem Resolution Teams and War Rooms in times of crisis. Exercises a rational pragmatic approach to developing solutions.

Possesses excellent communications skills (written, verbal and presentation), with frequent preparation of documents and presentations for executive and board audiences. Considered to be a skilled facilitator, effectively bridging the technical and cultural gaps between IT staff and Business Unit personnel, often acting as a liaison between IT resources and executive teams.

Domain knowledge includes Real Estate (search, registration, workflows), Pension / Retirement Savings, Mutual Funds, Health Information Systems, and Electricity Markets and Grid Operations. Related experience with third party consortiums and government ministries related to POLARIS, ONBIS, Integrated Justice, OBC, and Alberta Reliability Standards (NERC CIP) initiatives, as well as serving on ISO/RTO Council working groups.

EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Technology Architect, Alberta Electric System Operator, Calgary AB — Mar 2012 – Sept 2019

Reporting to the Chief Architect, responsible for developing AESO’s technology roadmaps and strategies, AESO representative for the Architecture Working Group body of the North American ISO/RTO Council (IRC).

EA Tools, Techniques and Standards: Iteraplan, BPMN 2.0, Office Timeline, Visio, Sparx Enterprise Architect, ArchiMate, some TOGAF 9.

Infrastructure / Technical Environment: Dual Datacentre with Brocade (Extreme) core network. NetApp storage. Virtualized server environment via HPE blade and rack-mounted servers with VMware environments for RHEL, Windows 2008, 2012, 2016. Wendia POB for ITSM. WebLogic and Tibco middleware. Oracle and SQL Server database. SAP Business Objects for data warehouse. OSIsoft PI for time-series data. RSA for user authentication. GE/Alstom for Grid Operations. End User computing on Windows 7 with migration to Windows 10 + Office 365 / M365 in-flight.

Developed Technology Roadmaps and Strategies for all major infrastructure areas (Servers, Storage, Network, Mobile / Communications, End User Computing, Enterprise Services, Cloud, Data Protection, Containers and Microservices). All forecast out between 3-5 years.

Responsible for design / co-design / specifying centralized storage re-architecture, network segregated fabric architecture, Converged Infrastructure (server + storage + network), Unified Threat Management.

IT Lead architect for Energy Management System re-architecture and implementation; said system is used by system controllers to maintain and operate the electricity grid for the province of Alberta. Implementation project spanned 2 years with a budget of $36M, delivered on-time and within budget. Specified and co-selected Converged Infrastructure for the implementation, in a highly available air-gapped environment.

Developed Cloud Strategy, Policy, and Principles, co-acting as a Cloud Broker for service procurement.

Key contributor to the development of governance and technology strategies directly related to Alberta Reliability Standards / NERC CIP compliance and mitigation.

Developed Capability Blueprint for AESO, encompassing current and projected business capabilities, incorporating industry standard reference architectures such as CIGRE.

Chaired the Architecture Review Board, responsible for reviewing all proposed architectural solutions for alignment with technology and business roadmaps, AESO architecture principles and guidelines.

Chaired the Infrastructure Technology Working Group, which crossed all IT domains, a forum for development of new strategies and technology adoption.

Vice-Chair (from Jan-Dec 2015) of the Architecture Working Group of the IRC’s Information Technology Committee (ITC); also representing the AESO as an AWG member from June 2012 through June 2017. The ITC is made up of architecture and security professionals across all ISOs and RTOs in North America and sets industry-related targets and approaches for the ISO/RTO technology practices.

Served on various industry groups, including those involving Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and SCADA WAN modernization, including assisting in the development of proposed ISO rules.

Closely worked with Vendor Management and Operation Support Services for product selection and evaluation across the enterprise. Related activities included participation with formal RFI, RFQ and RFP engagements for major initiatives such as Market Replacement and Energy Management System (EMS) programs / projects.

Responsible for lifecycle tracking and planning for all infrastructure hardware and software, including key business and middleware applications. Drove annual Capital Baseload planning and budgeting cycles.

Enterprise Architect, eHealth Ontario, Toronto ON — May 2011 – Feb 2012

Reporting to the Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture, responsible for development and stewardship of the eHealth Ontario 2015 Blueprint for Electronic Health Records (EHR). Provided advocacy and consulting services to IT and Business Units. Advisor to Architecture Core Team and Business Architecture Review Committee governance bodies.

EA Tools, Techniques and Standards: Sparx Enterprise Architect 9.x, BPMN 2.0, UML 2.0, Zachman Framework, TOGAF 9, GO-ITS / OPS architecture standards.

Developed Architecture Checkpointing Process for all eHealth Ontario agency initiatives, including those involving subcontracted Delivery Partners. This provided comprehensive governance for all architectural phases of all projects, including those that were agency-funded for third party delivery.

Co-conducted a Capability Maturity Model assessment for eHealth Ontario (non-Operations); developed a Roadmap to take the agency to the next CMM level.

Co-developed and coordinated development of SOA Governance and Logical Architecture approaches, patterns and standards (leveraging consulting agencies and independent consultants).

Evaluated and established standard suite of tools and approaches for the new Enterprise Architecture department.

Corporate Architect (Chief Enterprise Architect), Teranet Inc., Toronto ON — Jan 2006 - May 2010

Senior Manager, Architecture Planning, Teranet Inc., Toronto ON — Jan 2003 - Dec 2005

Reporting to the CIO (Vice President, Information Systems) and Director Systems and Development (as Senior Manager) directed all technology selections and standards across the enterprise, with a team of up to 13 architects (software, enterprise, infrastructure) as direct and indirect reports. Developed, maintained and presented Technology Roadmap for quarterly review and incorporation into IS Strategy. Approved all ITIL-driven system changes. Moderated War Room sessions to resolve operational outages / crises when necessary. Oversaw all technical designs by architects and analysts within the enterprise from both infrastructure and application perspectives. Chaired Architecture Steering Committee and was a member of governance steering committees (Operational, Quality, Technology) and working groups, as well as the weekly Architects Group roundtable meetings. Served as a technical liaison between IS and Teranet’s Business Units, including Legal Counsel, involved with integration, acquisition and partnering initiatives. Worked with Project Managers to ensure success of application and infrastructure development projects.

Infrastructure / Technical Environment: Dual Datacentre with redundant Cisco DWDM network. EMC DMX and Clariion storage. BMC management and monitoring stack. Virtualized server environment via IBM pSeries (AIX), and IBM xSeries-hosted VMware (Red Hat Linux, Windows 2003). Desktop virtualization via Citrix XenApp for Windows, OS/X, and Linux desktop O/S.

Software Environment / Standards: AIX, Red Hat Linux, Windows 2003, Oracle RDBMS, Oracle WebLogic, JBoss EAS, JBoss SOA, Java EE, Spring, RUP, ITIL, CobiT, BPMN, UML.

Created Technology Roadmap to drive the IS Strategy, for acceptance by the Executive Team and the Board of Directors. The strategy specified all IS initiatives for a minimum of three years, reflecting various drivers including Teranet’s Business Strategy, industry trends and standards, IS guiding principles and government / regulatory compliance. Roadmap was driven by a Knowledge Base maintained via a dedicated OS/X application.

Trained all IS personnel (190+) on the IS Strategy and corresponding Technology Roadmaps on a by-department basis.

Developed Software and Hardware Standards and Strategies for the enterprise, including development and operational software and standard desktop and server configurations.

Evaluated / selected potential outsourced infrastructure solutions, including Cloud-based and SaaS models.

Initiated modelling of Teranet’s IT processes (operational, project, and development) and introduced Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) to the company. These processes were used in conjunction with the CobiT framework to ensure Teranet’s compliance with the emerging Bill-198 requirements for a publicly traded company.

Designed a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for Teranet’s IT services and systems. A CMDB provides an enterprise with a repository of all related business services, software and hardware components.

Prepared Teranet’s Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) claims on an annual basis. Reviewed and defended said claims with Federal auditors.

Developed and presented the Next Generation Technology Stack for Teranet application and deployment. These standards allowed for the development of software which provided Web 2.0 capabilities to users, leveraging AJAX, Adobe FLEX, WebLogic, JBoss Portals and Enterprise Service Bus (SOA) technologies.

Presented Teranet’s “Portal Strategy and Business Transformation” at the BEA Executive Forum (2006).

Researched, selected and managed initial deployment of Microsoft SharePoint. The initial deployment was subsequently used as the basis for Teranet’s internal employee and department portals.

Co-developed the initial assessment of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) technical requirements for credit-card transaction processing. As part of a PCI working group established the Teranet strategy for PCI compliance.

Identified and researched in-house alternatives to Teranet’s third party -hosted mainframe applications which serve tens of thousands of users. This analysis included identifying an appropriate platform (IBM zSeries), required system software, development teams and operational staff. The solution identified was used in re-negotiating Teranet’s mainframe hosting, with the end result of a savings of approximately $4 million per year.

Introduced Mind Mapping as an idea capture technique; use (through the MindManager tool) was adopted enterprise-wide and was used to formally document all meeting minutes and to drive meeting agendas.

Formally adopted Open Source Software as part of Teranet’s Technology Stack. Developed submission and approval processes to satisfy the IP concerns of Teranet’s Legal Counsel.

Intermediate Solutions Architect, Teranet, Toronto ON — Jan 2000 - Dec 2002

Reporting to the CIO, managed the newly created Architecture Planning department, with emphasis on technology research, selection and strategies. Worked with Project Managers to ensure success of application development projects. Responsible for 4 system architects during this period.

Introduced the Java language and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) as drivers of the standard software stack for in-house development. Researched and adopted the BEA WebLogic platform as the standard container for Teranet’s in-house application development. Architecture used for all subsequent systems development, covering a customer base of thousands of users.

Managed the technical design and execution of the Foundation proof of concept, used to establish the viability of clustered application servers across geographically disparate datacentres (at the time this was not established as a verified option within the industry). This approach allowed Teranet to operate its J2EE applications with an active-active model, allowing for distributed processing and providing for resiliency against site failure.

Managed the development of a Blackberry-based Title Search application. This was a proof of concept exercise to demonstrate to the business units and the board of directors that Teranet’s mainframe and UNIX -based search services could be provided through a handheld platform to real estate professionals.

Co-designed the Unity financial transaction framework (US Patent # 200******** awarded in 2003). This framework library was (and continues to be) a central part of most in-house application software developed at Teranet. It was also licensed to third party developers both domestically and overseas.

Customized developer and architect -centric aspects of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) as part of Teranet’s TIDAL framework. The workflows and artifact customizations were (and still are) used for all Teranet in-house application software development.

Solution Architect, Teranet, Toronto ON — July 1997 - Dec 1999

Reporting to the CIO, responsible for evaluating and implementing standard development methodologies, including all phases of new opportunity feasibility, requirements analysis, design, construction and delivery; particular focus on object-oriented paradigms. Acted as a liaison between Marketing / Sales and potential customers. Worked with Project Managers to ensure success of application development projects.

Researched and introduced the use of the Rational (later IBM) Suite of tools at Teranet. This suite was used to both manage application requirements and source code (SCM) as well as to transition development to the OOAD paradigm, following Object-Oriented principles and modelling techniques.

Managed project for development and distribution of a standalone Teraview Search application, allowing lawyers to simulate the use of the client/server -based Teraview locally from a PC. This software was subsequently incorporated into the Real Estate Law curriculum at the University of Windsor.

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (1982 – 1997)

Systems Architect, IFDS (formerly DST Corfax Systems Ltd.), Toronto ON

Account / Group / Project Manager, IFDS

Developer / Project Leader, IFDS

EDUCATION

University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON — Bachelor of Mathematics.

Loyalist Certification Services, Toronto ON — ITIL 3 Foundation.

Loyalist Certification Services, Toronto ON — ITIL 2 Foundation.

Microsoft Azure Solutions.

Conexiam – EA with TOGAF 9.1 and Navigate.

Sun Microsystems, Markham ON — Java Enterprise Architecture.

Rational Software, Toronto ON — Objectory (Rational Unified Process).

METEX Systems Inc., Toronto ON — OOAD with Rational Rose.

Human Factors International Inc., Kansas City MO — GUI Design.

Progress Software Inc., Bedford MA — Programming in Progress.

Canadian Management Centre, Toronto ON — Project Management and Planning for Systems Professionals.

INTERESTS

Keto lifestyle.

Smoker (barbecue… purely an amateur).

Gadget lover, early adopter of consumer technologies.

Staying current with technologies and trends.

Spare time split between family, hiking, and raising a Coton de Tuléar.

Have performed volunteer / charity work for the Metro Central YMCA and the ALS Society of Ontario.

Interested in learning languages... but admittedly only successful with my native English and (some) French.

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