Experience

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  Toronto Catholic District School Board

  • Canada
  • Primary and Secondary Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Vice Chair Special Education Committee, TCDSB

    • Dec 2021 - Present

  • SEAC Ontario Disability Coalition - Community Representative

    • Jan 2020 - Present

  • Past CPIC Member, Vice-Chair, Chair, & Secretary

    • Oct 2007 - Oct 2020

    The Catholic Parent Involvement Committee (CPIC) is a provincially mandated and funded committee. The focus of the committee is to support student academic achievement through increased parent involvement. Regulation 612/00 under the Education Act was amended in September 2010 to set out specific requirements regarding the composition of a Parent Involvement Committee. CPIC is a parent-led committee of volunteers who work both at the Board and at the Ward level. CPIC members provide information and advice on parent engagement to the school board, create initiatives that promote and facilitate parent engagement, and educate parents to support them in their children’s learning at home and/or at school. They collect information and ideas from wards, discuss the information at meetings and disseminate it to parents.

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  Ontario Disabilty Coalition

  • Greater Toronto Area, Canada

  • Director

    • Sep 2017 - Present
    • Greater Toronto Area, Canada
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  Canlink Business Solutions, Inc.

  • Founder and CEO

    • Jan 2000 - Present

    Training and Seminar Courses: Business Management Training; Forensic Account and Internal Controls Seminar Leader; Leadership Training; MsOffice Training.Accounting: QuickBooks ProAdvisor; Simply Accounting Partner; QlikView Associate.Analysis: Operations Analysis and Improvements; Plant Layouts;...

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  Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

  • Canada
  • Hospitals and Health Care
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Member of Bloorview Research Institute Family Engagement Committee

    • Oct 2012 - Present

  • CoChair of Bloorview Research Institute Family Engagement Committee

    • Nov 2013 - May 2016

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  Intuit Inc (QuickBooks)

  • ProAdvisor

    • Jan 1995 - Sep 2021

    An expert in all of QuickBooks applications. Also on the Beta Testing Team to assist with the development of QuickBooks

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  Canadian Decompression & Pain Centers

  • Clinic Director - Oshawa/Kingston

    • 2010 - Apr 2012
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  CARP

  • Member

    • 2007 - 2011
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  WinSIm and ACT!

  • Partner

    • Jan 2008 - Dec 2010
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  NumberCruncher

  • Representative

    • 2008 - 2009
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  Swimming Pools by Jack Anthony

  • BusinessConsultant

    • 2007 - 2009
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  Technology Training Corporation

  • United States and Mexico

  • Speaker

    • 2007 - 2008
    • United States and Mexico

    Provide business executive and bankers with training in a seminar format

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  International Corporate Business Solutions

  • Buffalo Grove, Chicago

  • Senior Business Consultant

    • 2000 - 2007
    • Buffalo Grove, Chicago

    A full-service business development group and general management consulting firm focused on small and medium-size privately-held companies in North America.The company helped more than 200,000 small and medium-size businesses maintain positive cash flow, control costs and accelerate profitable gr...

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  Independent Consultant

  • Web Consultant

    • 2000 - 2001
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  Assetplus Real Estate Management Inc

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • President and CEO

    • Feb 1993 - Nov 1995
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    Managed commercial property consisting of 72,000 sm. of office and retail spaces and five residential condominium buildings totaling 1,300 units.

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  Development Company

  • Toronto, Canada Area

  • General Manager - Vice President, Operations

    • Aug 1985 - Mar 1993
    • Toronto, Canada Area

    Reported to the President, responsible for development, construction and management of luxury residential and commercial buildings. Also held responsibility for overseeing the Human Relation Department for this company. Responsibilities included the updating of the computer/software used by this...

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  Elwood Holdings Inc

  • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  • President and CEO

    • 1975 - 1985
    • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Operated three retail locations known as, Brown Bag Cookery Ltd. A delicatessen style breakfast and lunch operation that served office employees with light lunches and catering of conventions and meetings.Operated two retail locations known as “Brown Bag Cookery Coffee and Tea Company Limited”. W...

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  Federal Government of Canada

  • Ottawa,Ontario, Canada

  • Senior Organizational Analyst

    • 1977 - 1979
    • Ottawa,Ontario, Canada

    Communications Canada - Organizational Studies and Office Processes.Anti-Inflation Board - prepared recommendations and supporting analysis of Union requests to increase wages above the set minimums.

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  Statistics Canada

  • Canada
  • Government Administration
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Head of Census Collection and Processing

    • 1974 - 1977

    Responsible for the collection and processing of the Census of Canada Forms. Responsible for planning, training, implementation and technical direction of an Optical Character Recognition process scheme requiring 16,000 office workers in 8 regional centres across Canada. Worked with Regional Directors in recruitment plans and personally selected and trained all senior staff on the technical requirements of these O.C.R forms.Part of 1981 Tactical Planning Task Force charged with planning the implementation of improvements gained during the 1976 Census. Commended on innovative process design and clarity of presentation.

  • Sabbatical Leave

    • 1972 - 1974

    Studied for two years to obtain my M.B.A at Ottawa University

  • Organizational & Methods Analyst

    • 1970 - 1972

    Education Division - measured the clerical time required to process the monthly survey. Recommended changes in the organizational structure to reduce process conflicts and designed forms to maintain measurement of process times.Census Division - measured the process time of Census Representatives and Regional Office workers in order to recommend amount of personnel required and process improvements. Actively Involved in the 1971 major census and 1974 test census

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  Computing Devices of Canada (Bendix Inc)

  • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  • Engineer

    • 1964 - 1970
    • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Designed Test Equipment to ensure the accuracy of production of military computerized display and gunnery systems and equipment.Developed machine shop and electronic processes both manual and computerized.Maintained schedules for Vice-President Operations of Manufacturing Costs and Process Time t...

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  English Electric - Marconi Division

  • St. Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

  • Engineer

    • 1960 - 1964
    • St. Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    Test Equipment Design and Testing. Assigned to Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Generator worked on Heavy Water Radiation Test Equipment.

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  Furzehill Laboratories

  • Watford, United Kingdom

  • Engineering Trainee

    • 1957 - 1960
    • Watford, United Kingdom

    Learnt the basis of electrical circuitry, highly innovated test equipment design, and analogue computing technology.