Speaker Biographies: M to R

Geoff Malleck

Associate Director, Student Development
CBET - Center for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology, University of Waterloo

 

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Joanne McKinley

Software Engineer
Google

Joanne is a software engineer at Google, specializing in wireless/mobile client application development. Prior to joining Google, she spent several years working for a small Canadian wireless startup company, which makes her a relative old-timer in this extremely fast-paced and exciting area. She received her M.Math and B.Math (both in Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo in 2002 and 2000 respectively.

Joanne is thrilled at this opportunity to return to CUTC; she was a planning committee member for the original CUTC way back in 2000 when the conference was much smaller and still held at the University of Waterloo. She makes her home in Waterloo today.

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Mike McWilliam

Solar Technology Education Project (STEP), University of Waterloo

Born in 1980 in Calgary Alberta. Raised Surrey BC, Accepted into Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 1999. I have a father in the oil industry. As such I have always been interested in the energy. I started studying energy in 2003. Found out about STEP (www.step.uwaterloo.ca) in Fall of 2003. The following work term I did a lot of reading into the various renewable energy technologies. Consequently I discovered that wind is the most feasible and economical. I felt that it was not being utilized to its full potential in North America. Since then I have been researching wind energy. In September of 2004 I was accepted to the University of Waterloo to do my MaSc in Wind Energy. Over that time I have been advancing the wind initiative with STEP. At the time of writing, STEP has raised over $10000 and recruited over 200 volunteers since January 2005.

My vision is a world where our energy infrastructure is sustainable, healthy and environmentally sound. The only way our modern society, with all its technological comforts we have come accustomed to, can survive is by relying on sustainable energy sources.

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Vladimir Melnik

Business Intelligence Manager
TELUS Communications Inc.

Vladimir Melnik is a recognized expert, educator and speaker on business intelligence, enterprise data warehousing and information quality improvement. He also consults and coaches in information stewardship, decision support system management, information visualization, information resource management, data modeling and data architecture, and agile development methods. Mr. Melnik is a Business Intelligence Manager at Telus Communications Inc.

Mr.Melnik has more than 12 years of experience in IS/IT and has been involved in several high-profile industrial projects (including Telus Imagine program, Microsoft SmallBiz portal, Bell Canada SuperNet and Bell West Enterprise Data Quality program) Also his contribution extend beyond business intelligence into the development of Program and Portfolio Management Guide within PMI PM-BOK – Project Management Body of Knowledge 2005. He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Scrum Master.

Mr. Melnik holds M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Hon. M.Sc. in Economics and is currently working on his PhD in Computer Science.

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Jacqui Murphy

Associate
Tech Capital Partners

Jacqui brings over ten years of operational and investment experience to her role as vice president at Tech Capital Partners. She is responsible for identifying and evaluating investment opportunities and participates in investment decisions and the development of portfolio companies post-investment. Jacqui joined Tech Capital in 2001.

As a director of marketing at PixStream, Jacqui developed and managed an influential marketing team that was instrumental in creating exposure and building the emerging company. After the company was acquired by Cisco Systems, Jacqui led the marketing operations team for Cisco’s video networking business unit.

Prior to PixStream, Jacqui provided marketing services to technology company clients at a marketing consulting company. She has instructed business courses at The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and Wilfrid Laurier University, and has published numerous business cases.

Jacqui holds an honours bachelor of business administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, and has completed the Entrepreneurship Development Program at MIT and the study course of the Venture Capital Institute.

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James Perly

Entrepreneur, Businessman and Consultant
James Perly Consulting Inc.

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