Introduction
An accomplished Educator with extensive experience developing and delivering technology curriculum to postsecondary students. Proven career history as an IT Professional in a variety of senior positions including Systems Architect, Project Manager, Technical Lead, Database Administrator and Business Analyst, including 8 years as a successful software development consultant. A strong ability for seeing the big picture with a superior understanding of enterprise computing and related security and information privacy issues. Expertise identifying, performing business analysis upon and presenting technology solutions to senior management. Talent for leading technical teams to achieve on time within budget implementations. A well-deserved reputation for teaching on the leading edge of technology using hands-on project experience to enrich and deepen students' understanding.References
See my LinkedIn profile. Or contact me directly; peter@rawsthorne.orgAs a technologist
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Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Enterprise Architect (April 2007 - present) The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) is a provincial Crown corporation established in 1973 to provide universal auto insurance to BC motorists. In addition, we are responsible for driver licensing, vehicle registration and licensing. My role within ICBC is to provide enterprise architecture consulting and guidance to project teams as they plan and design information system based initiatives. (... I'm a propeller head ...) |
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Protexis Inc.
Team Lead - System Architect (Feb. 2005 - July 2006) Protexis provides efficient global infrastructure for the protection and sale of software, they also provide hosted e-commerce and digital rights management (DRM) services for software publishers. Protexis was selected as a winner in Software Business Magazine's 2005 Software Business Industry Awards. My role within Protexis is threefold; it is to lead a team of developers to build out the hosted e-commerce services, to solidify their software development platform and to migrate their Microsoft based server technology to .NET 2.0 using an Agile approach. |
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Fincentric Corp. Systems Architect
(Dec. 2001 - Sep. 2004) Fincentric is a leading provider of core retail banking and customer value management software solutions. My role with Fincentric was threefold; it was to provide architectural guidance for the customer value management suite of products, to provide design and mentorship for the data warehousing initiatives, and to assist senior management with strategic planning and product roadmaps. |
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As an educator
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WikiEducator - (March 2007 - present)
Instructional Designer - Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate My role with WikiEducator is threefold; to develop Open Educational Resources for assorted online curriculum programs, to participate in workshops which explore the near term futures of integrating technology into international education initiatives and to research the use of new technologies within instructional design. |
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Memorial University of Newfoundland - (Aug. 2006 - Feb. 2007)
Educational Consultant - Instructional Development Office - School of Graduate Studies Research Assistant - Department of Education My role at MUN was twofold; to create and facilitate online workshops for faculty and graduate students in educational blogging, podcasting, wikis and the Web 2.0, to provide technical assistance in researching socio-constructivist techniques for online K12 teaching. |
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British Columbia Institute of Technology - Sessional Faculty (Sep. 1997 - May 2005)
School of Computing and Academic Studies, Computer Systems Technology Department My role at BCIT is twofold; to teach computer science, internet, software development lifecycle and database courses to adult students, and to act as interim option head for the Information Systems CST option. |
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Coordinates
Longitude: -123.347626 latitude: 47.570178Snail mail: 1284 Oceanview Rd. Bowen Island, BC CANADA V0N 1G0
Email: peter@rawsthorne.org
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