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| I was promoted to Associate Professor of Information Systems at Biola University, Crowell School of Business. |
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Graduation Date:1992
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Robert Garigue Passes Away in January
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Robert Garigue, a veteran member of the IT industry who used his expertise in data security to develop technology strategies for some of Canada's largest public sector organizations and corporate enterprises, died suddenly in January. He was 55.
In a career that spanned the worlds of financial services, telecommunications and the military, Garigue was an unusually high-profile IT executive who was eager to discuss the ways Canadians need to protect information and the dangers to which it can be exposed.
"You have to make the debate less technical and talk about privacy, regulatory compliance and show that security is there to catch you," he told Computing Canada in 2003. "It's a doctor's role . . . you try to encourage a healthy lifestyle, but then sometimes it's, 'Go to the hospital.'"
Friends and colleagues described Garigue as a man of exceptional intelligence and humour, who was as good at articulating a vision as he was at bringing the best out of a team.
“He had what I would call constructive irreverence -- he was always pushing the envelope in terms of the status quo,” said Jim Robbins, president of Electronic Warfare Associates-Canada in Ottawa. “He had an understanding of the impact of technology. He was one of the visionaries who could see what needed to be done as opposed to following the conventional path.”
Robbins said he first encountered Garigue when the latter was serving in the Canadian Forces, establishing the Network Vulnerability Assessment Team (NVAT). Occasionally referred to as information protection cops, NVAT’s members recommended patches, changes in configuration and procedures to system managers. It has since been renamed the Strategic Network Vulnerability Analysis Centre.
“To be able to share that vision with the senior leadership and establish that team -- any time you’re breaking new ground within an organization that can be steeped in history, that’s a considerable achievement,” said John Weigelt, who also met Garigue during this period and later led IT strategy at Treasury Board Secretariat. “Even years afterwards, he was always keen to see what had become of his organization and provide advice and guidance.”
Garigue moved on to become assistant deputy minister in the Office of Information Technology for the Province of Manitoba, but his biggest project as CTO there was to organize the National Public Sector CIO Council sub-committee on Information Protection.
“The nickname for that group was the Tiramisu working group,” Robbins said, referring to a desert whose Italian name means “pick me up” but which he said Garigue translated as “pulling up by your bootstraps” to inspire the council. “It was a message to provinces – ‘Don’t wait for a handout from Ottawa, we have to do this on your own.”
Weigelt, who left the government to lead security strategy at Microsoft Canada, said the fluently bilingual Garigue had a flair for visual language and coining terms that were later adopted by others in the industry.
“He referred to ‘toxic data’ within an organization – if data is released inadvertently, that toxic data can really have a detrimental effect,” he said. “In another research paper, Garigue referred to computers as “epistemological exploration machines.”
Though he was most recently working as vice-president of information integrity and security at Bell Canada, Garigue spent much of his private sector career as CISO for the Bank of Montreal. There, he dealt with one of the most public IT security incidents in the bank’s history: a pair of recycled BMO servers that had client information that could have potentially been disclosed which turned up on eBay. BMO only learned of the servers after those who found them on eBay contacted the Toronto Star.
“Wherever he worked, he had genuine desire to improve how security was handled in Canada generally,” Weigelt said. Robbins agreed, noting that Garigue was appointed as a delegate for two G8 conference s on cyber-crime in Berlin and Toyko.
A graduate from the University of Montreal in Quantitative Analysis and Master of Science in Computer and Information Systems from the Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles, Garigue also completed a Ph.D. in knowledge discovery at Carleton University. In addition to his other industry affiliations, he was also past chairman for the Canadian Bankers Association’s Financial Service Industry Computer Incident Response Team organization (CFI-CIRT).
An online guest book to offer tributes has been set up at Legacy.com.
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Dr. Ahmed Elmorshidy received his Ph.D. (Information Systems) from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California in 2004. He also holds an M.A. (Computer Resources and Information Management) and an M.B.A. from Webster University, Irvine, California in 1994 and 1995.
Dr. Elmorshidy taught several courses in information systems both in the United States and Internationally. He published several articles in IS journals and conference proceedings related to IT-based security mechanisms, online emergency medical training, data warehousing and data marts in practice, and the effect of online information systems on the U.S. financial markets.
Dr. Elmorshidy can be contacted at elmorshidy@usa.net or at ahmed@alumni.cgu.edu
Dr. Elmorshidy’s web page is available at: www.dr.ahmed.com/vita/vita.html
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Integrated Computer Services, Inc. Founder and President (1982-2003). Created and implemented business plan for start-up. Developed marketing and operating strategies, identified clients, products and services. Business sold 2003.
Import Bourbon Gourmet Coffee from El Salvador (www.golden-coffee.com), internet based business. Work part time during Tax season with H & R Block.
Notary Public, Certified Signing Agent
Enjoy traveling, reading and attend numerous cultural and professional activities as much as I can. Semi Retired. |
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Madden Works
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REPRESENTATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Architected and developed long range strategic IT plans at the divisional and sector level, including all technology domains and supporting annual IT operating plans and budgets.
• Provided federated technology architectures and technology roadmaps that support mission/vision statements for both business units and business segments.
• Information Technology integration administrator for the integration of Information Technology systems into a large enterprise. Provided planning for how the business was to be integrated with the parent’s.
• Developed standards-based (ISO 9001 and ISO 14001) generic business processes describing the way an organization gets its work done utilizing information technology , creating the means to reorient long-standing practices by improving internal processes.
• Project manager for divisional Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory compliance for financial systems. Technical manager for Sarbanes-Oxley enterprise remediation activities.
• Project manager, analyst, programmer, implementation manager, and systems engineer for automated data collection systems (ADC) for aerospace. Implemented system yielded > $1000K/year cost avoidance and earned acclaim from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the Computer and Automated Systems, several symposiums, technical forums and trade publications.
• Marketing manager for Fortune 500 companies, responsible for sales promotion, customer traffic building, and sales force support programs that significantly increased market share. Designed a program that won the prestigious Point of Sale Association Industry trophy “US National POPAI winner, Outstanding Merchandising Achievements”
• Serves as both an Adjunct Professor and a Board Member of the School of Information Systems and Technology at the Claremont Graduate University in California.
• Acting Chief Technology Officer for a major aerospace company, directly responsible for moving the company from a 453 place ranking to top ten ranking in the 2001 Information Week 500 Top 10 Manufacturing Companies as “America’s Top Information Technology Innovator” (three gold medals.)
• Recognitions include: Jane’s “Who’s Who In Aviation and Aerospace,” 1983; Marquis Who’s Who editions: (Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2nd E. 1994-1995; Who’s Who in the West, 19th Ed., 1984-1986; Who’s Who in Europe, 1995; Who’s Who in the World, 12-14 editions, 1996-2000).
Background
Preceding this assignment as Chief Systems Integrator, Mr. Works was the Software Engineering Manager for the Space Systems Division. Mr. Works’ professional experience included employment with the following organizations prior to joining Northrop Grumman:
Aerojet/GenCorp—Mr. Works was the acting Chief Technical Officer and also the Manager of Manufacturing Operations Automation.
HITCO Div. of ARMCO—Mr. Works was Supervisor, Manufacturing Engineering and the Change Control Board Chairman.
Knott’s Berry Farm—Mr. Works was the National Manager responsible for Sales, Traffic, and Food Product Marketing/Promotion.
Hunt-Wesson Foods—Mr. Works was the US Manager responsible for national brands Sales Promotion.
Union 76 Division of UnoCal—Mr. Works was the National Manager responsible for Traffic and Station Promotions.
Proctor and Gamble -- Mr. Works was Supervisor of Field Advertising and an advertising promotions planner.
Teaching—In addition to serving as an Adjunct Professor of information technology, Mr. Works has taught courses in Germany, Belgium, England, and the United States. He instructed the U.S. Navy Seals for several years. His books have been used as course texts at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Mr. Works has considerable experience in an extensive range of technology and planning disciplines.
Mr. Works earned advanced degrees from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management and from the Claremont Graduate School of Information Science. He completed all coursework for a Ph.D. in the Management of IS and is a life-certified systems engineer, an Oracle Master, and a Six Sigma Green Belt. He has four published books, many technical articles, and has made numerous technical presentations.
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Graduation Date:2000
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| Hanjoo Kim has accepted the biostatistician poisition at City of Hope. |
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Graduation Date:2001
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Peter Garza is founder and president of EvidentData, Inc., a company specializing in computer forensics, electronic discovery, and information security. Garza previously served as a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, conducting and supervising investigations for more than
10 years. He is former president of the Southern California High Technology Crime Investigation Association and a member of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists.
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Graduation Date:1997
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Murray Jennex is assistant professor in the Information and Decision Systems Department in the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University. He is also editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Knowledge Management and president of the Foundation for Knowledge Manage-ment. Last month, as academic keynote speaker at an Air Force conference in Tucson, Jennex presented research findings regarding critical factors for knowledge management success. He also moderated a panel on issues facing the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force in implementing knowledge management. This summer, Jennex taught knowledge management in the Ukraine through a federally funded CIBER grant.
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| I relocated to the Bay area to start working for Tencent's US Office. Tencent is the leader in Internet services in China with over 180M active subscribers. As the director for Business Development, I work closely with our partners here in the US to strengthen the strategic relationships. I am also reviewing new technologies/trends in the industry to help guide the operations back in China. |
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