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Resumé

Career Interests & Passions

• Creating world-beating IT organzations that are more productive, agile, and cost-effective than their competitors.
• Creating outstanding Web-centric collaborative products and services
• Helping leaders understand and benefit from the coming generation of Web technologies and services

Experience and Expertise

• Over 10 years of technology leadership experience in organizations ranging from startups to corporations
• Sound understanding of technology strategy, from both the enterprise and startup perspective
• Deep technology skills combined with substantial management experience
• Internationally known bestselling author on Web technologies
• A clear and inspiring communicator / team builder

Education (and Academic Awards)

Degree	University and Awards	Dates
PhD (Biophysics)	McGill University NSERC and Reinhart Fellowships, Dean's Honour list	1982--1987
French Language Program	Alliance Francaise (Paris)	1981--1982
MSc (High Energy Physics)	University of Toronto NSERC Fellowship	1978--1980
BSc (Honours Physics)	University of Victoria Francis Gold Watch/leading student	1973--1977

Work History

Senior Consulting Manager, IT Strategy and Planning, BMO Financial Group	2002--today
As a senior consulting manager, I am accountable for managing multiple IT strategy project teams, for managing relationships with senior sponsoring executives, and for proposing and developing new strategic work. Some example projects include developing an updated business strategy for the technology division; facilitating organizational change in the technology organization, and developing new frameworks for understanding and better managing the applications portfolio. For one and one half years I also led (with a business co-lead) the strategic planning team for a large (circa $500 million) bank re-engineering project. In addition I manage and coach six junior consultants, and participate as a voting member on the bank's architectural governance review board.
Senior Manager, Emerging Business strategy, BMO Financial Group	2000--2002
As a senior manager my accountabilites included leading technical diligence reviews of external companies (vendors and partners), providing technical liaison between business executives and technical teams, reviewing business cases for business proposals and creating new technology-driven business cases for proposed leading-edge business ventures. Most of this work was done for senior BMO executives.
Vice-President of Research and Development, Groveware Inc.	1997--1999
I was a co-founder of Groveware Inc., a software company developing leading-edge Web-based document management systems, using XML and Java. I acted as Vice President of Research and Development, led the product development and R&D operations, and hired all technical staff. I also helped provide customer support, and coordinated our quality assurance team.
Instructional Technology Specialist, University of Toronto	1994--2000
I assisted faculty in using new technology in aid of education and research. In addition, as a World Wide Web expert I acted as the University's Web technology evangelist, providing workshops and seminars across the campus and at international conferences. On campus I ran training courses on HTML authoring and CGI programming, and acted as a Web application design consultant to faculty and staff. I also designed and built special-purpose software, such as a collaborative Web-based system for posting seminar notices on the Web (see: http://www.utoronto.ca/reg/notices_main.pl). I also authored online HTML training materials (see: http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/intro.html).
Visiting Professor, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, SPAIN	1993
As s Research visiting professor, I collaborated with local faculty to study the use of damage algorithms for measuring fluctuations in nonlinear, out-of-equilibrium systems. This included theoretical analysis of the relationships between the correlation functions measured by these algorithms and thermodynamic properties of systems.
Research Associate, Industrial Materials Institute -- NRCC and McGill University.	1989--1992
As a Research Associated I led several research projects involving researchers and graduate students from both institutions. The projects resulted in many well-received research papers. In addition, I: Introduced leading edge computer technologies (SGI workstations) to the McGill University Physics department, and integrated the machine into the local Sun network (NFS, NIS, login scripts, etc). Designed and built general-purpose 2-d data viewers using Iris-GL and Motif/X11. Supervised graduate students, and co-authored papers with them.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto	1987--1989
I developed sophisticated Monte Carlo simulation models for studying the properties of complex fluids. I also wrote tools for plotting and analyzing the reuslting data (PLOTTER): this tool was adopted for use by a number of students and staff in the department. I also supervised and coached graduate students.

Talks, Presentations, and Other Activities

I am an excellent public speaker, and have given many talks and presentations on subjects ranging from the business of software development to Web technology and architecture to the cultural and business impact of the Web. Some of these presentations are found at: http://www.iangraham.org/talks/index.html

I was the chair for the Developer's Day portion of the eighth International World Wide Web conference (WWW8), held in Toronto, Ontario, May 11-14 1999. A list of the Developer's day tracks, and links to some of the presentations, is available online.

References

Upon request.

Personal Data

Citizenship: Canadian, U.S.

Languages: English, French