18 Winter . 12S C I E N C E c ntours

1982 - 87

1982 - 87

Lance McAndrew BSc ‘86San Jose, CaHometown: didsbury, ab

Chuck Daniel BSc ‘86Bellevue, WAHometown:Eckville, ab

Marcel LaforceBSc ‘88 Vancouver, bC Hometown: Legal, ab

Derek IversonBSc ‘87 pleastanton, CaHometown: Wainwright, ab

Brent GordaBSc ‘87 San Ramon, CaHometown: Mayerthorpe, ab

Rob EnnsBSc ‘87 (Honours) Los gatos, CaHometown: Edmonton, ab

Edward ChengBSc ‘87 (specialization business application) San Ramon, CaHometown: Edmonton, ab

Jim MooreBSc ‘87 Vancouver, BCHometown:fort McMurray, ab

Moved to California

Moved to California

firstreal job

had sleep-deprivation

inspired social times in all-night labs . . . plus we spent a lot of late nights at

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Organized Computer Science social events using early email on campus -

most noteworthy is CS 469, the weekly CS gathering in Room at The Top, RaTT.

This tradition lives on today!

believe it or not, I was their System Man-

ager while still completing my degree.

The “google” of our era. I didn’t think I had the tech chops to work here - like some of my fellow-grads. but, I ventured over to their offices near the Legislature to visit

Ted allen (bSc. ‘87). When I went to retrieve two Cokes from the vending machine, I ran into derek who asked if I wanted to replace the gal who just left their accounting

department. first experience with being laid off.

This was a

referral from

brent.

Married donna.

We met at a party at Chuck’s. I

was dating Chuck’s

former girl-friend at the time.

Our team moved to Victoria. Job was great - worked with

my friends.

Jim met his wife at a party at my

place, he was dating my former

girlfriend at the time.

Started in the test group for the compilers,

promoted to work on fortan compiler, linker and loader (to fix bugs

in the code). Left for Ca in May 1990, same year

Myrias went under.

Summer before I went to grad school - tested the Myrias assembler (written by gilles Chartrand, bSc ‘84).

I remember writing a bug report where I put a comment that said “this space for rent”. dan Wilson

(bSc. ‘80), founder of Myrias, thought that was hilariously funny...

Started as a soft-ware developer.

Worked really well with clients - pro-

moted to manage-ment within a year.

hired Marcel.

Apple Computer.Cupertino, CA

Started as an intern and stayed for 8 years.

Visited and worked in 15 different countries.

This was my first exposure to a start-up

and the heartbreak of a company that met with

financial despair.

Met Derek and Brent in Lister Hall. When I first walked into

their room, instead of clothes in their

closet they had beer stacked from floor

to ceiling!

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Did start-up #1,

MicroTech, with Geek

House mates

Did start-up #1,

MicroTech, with Geek

House mates

Did start-up #1,

MicroTech, with Geek

House mates

Did start-up #1,

MicroTech, with Geek

House mates

Alberta Hospital.

Edmonton, AB

Computing Devices Corp. Edmonton, AB.

(contract)

married sisters

Myrias. Edmonton, AB.

Moved to California

With Myrias’ insolvency, most geeks

exited to Vancouver

or to the US.

Moved to California

With Myrias’ insolvency, most geeks

exited to Vancouver

or to the US.

I joined them

during my wanna

be Unix kernel

hacker period.

Class of ‘86 but

technically graduated in

‘87...had a bit too much fun,

ran out of money and had

to start work. I finished in

summer school.

Myrias. Edmonton, AB.M.Math

Computer Science,

University of Waterloo,

Waterloo, ON.

Bell Northern Research.

Ottawa, ON.

Met Derek in 1st year Physics class. Met rest of Geeks through him.

Lived inGeek House

Summer Quebec student

exchange: L’office Des Personnes

Handicappe de Quebec.

Drummondville, QC.

KakariSystems Ltd.

Edmonton, AB.

Lotus Development Corp. Toronto, ON.

On couch in basement for

one fall

Northwest Geograph-ics. Edmonton, AB

Lotus Development

Corp. Toronto, ON.

hired by Jim. I was there for a year while waiting for my work visa to join Lance at

apple (joined Motorola in Vancouver instead)

Instructor at the Westerra Community

College, Stony Plain, AB.

Myrias. Edmonton, AB.

It merged

into NAIT.

U of A Instructional Support for Computer Science,

Edmonton, AB.

Myrias. Edmonton, AB.

Played in aC&W band

19S C I E N C E c ntoursWinter . 12

1982 - 87

1982 - 87

1996 - 2006

1996 - 2006 2006 - PRESENT

2006 - PRESENT

Moved to California

Moved to California

MBA, Thunderbird

School of Global Management. Phoenix, AZ

On contract for IbM while CS was also developing their own pC LaN based email system, Network Cou-rier (acquired by Microsoft in ‘91). In ‘94 the co. moved to Redmond Wa.

That was the year I moved coun-tries, got married and had a son.

I had 10 awesome years leading software development and test teams

and working with many of Cisco’s higher-end routing products.

Took over open-source (Lustre), hired 55 staff in 6 countries. Lots of international travel.

Sold to Intel day before second anniversary.

This was around y2k - there was a big hiring surge. I had

to move to the US and I could live anywhere near an airport. I picked the bay area because

Lance, Rob, brent & derek were there. Oracle took over

peopleSoft in 2005. No plans of joining Oracle for a third time.

Joined Myrias ex pats. The fun was short-lived, they

closed the division a year later.

Started as employee #15. Worked on Unix/Linux/Mac user security and privilege

management. Centrify survived the financial crisis of 2008 - 2010

and is still going strong.

Smitten with the idea of exploring the southern USa and bitten by the networking bug.

Took a few Mba courses

at U of T... but I was too busy working & having

fun :-)

The company was acquired by Sage, a Uk based company. I worked in California for 9 years. Sr. Vp in

charge of IT and Cus-tomer Services.)

I moved to Van-couver, bC when Sage

acquired a com-pany there (aCCpaC). I transferred to lead in-tegration and manage

acquired division.

Canadian tech start- up success story. Their uncon-trolled growth led to lots

of problems with customer support. I was hired to turn things around. The

company was eventually acquired by Symantec.

helped some ‘Myrioids’ find

work here, and it’s the only job I ever

resigned from.

‘Travelling IT gnome.’ I’m never actually

in the bay area.

With every

employer change, I changed

industries.

followed amdahl ex patriots to super-secret startup. first experience

with a dedicated corp chef and great food. MicroUnity

filed for bankruptcy in 1996.

My first layoff - but my ten years there were some of the most enjoyable of my career. you have ‘rock star’ status and everyday was interesting. The programming, and the people - artists, musicians,

creative talent and the subject matter experts -pro-fessional athletes, movie stars & directors, models,

race car drivers... It was hard work though. I got reacquainted with all-nighters (fondly remembered all-nighters with the guys - how much we bonded.)

This startup focused on web site security and user login

management. I got to see the internet boom and bust from the inside. The company lost 50% of it’s value in one day.

I was wanting to keep the

start-up vibe going.

big regret, not joining forces with

ebay. We were across the road

from pixar, but we were there first.

Started out as a low-level consul-

tant, rose four posi-tions in two years - became known

as the fixer and the client whisperer.

Consulting services for peopleSoft and Oracle clients

- my intro to the world of small business. I re-purposed the

name from a defunct consulting company I started in university

with Ted allen (bSc. ‘87) and george Rudelich (bSc. ‘87)

program Manager in the Microsoft CRM team. I needed a change and was becoming

more interested in online business and customer management so I moved from the

Microsoft Exchange team to the Microsoft CRM team. after a year there I decided to

leave to become an entrepreneur.

got to “do it all over again” with a co. emerg-

ing from bankruptcy - responsible for building

new software develop-ment and test teams.

digital Signal processing co.

discovered what Real Time pro-cessing meant!

In a start-up you are always defining your role and pushing the bound-

aries of technology.

Worked on phd.

(Computer Science) at University

of California at davis (in-complete)

More bleeding-edge technologies

& lots of smart and passionate

people. The food is better now :-)

The result of this work is the fastest com-puter in existence - Sequoia, and IbM bluegene

Q System at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory @ 16 pflops measured, 20 peak.

enCommerce/Entrust. San Jose, CA Centrify. San Jose, CA (startup) Currently, working at startup #3 in San Jose, CA. Working on Foreign

Exchange and Mobile Banking.

Consumer Software Inc. Vancouver, BC. Microsoft. Redmond, WACurrently, I am a part of

two companies I founded to further my interest in

online and direct marketing, software development and

investing in other businesses. I’m based in Bellevue, WA.

Favorite tech & social apps, etc. Microsoft

Outlook, Word, Excel, Visual Studio, Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Visual SlickEdit, GlobalScape CuteFTP Pro,

Google Chrome, Gmail, TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio

Favorite tech & social apps, etc. I treat computers and

software as tools, and spend my work hours using them.

My favorite time is when I shut them down and do something

like play golf or hockey.

Amdahl Open Systems. Fremont, CA

MicroUnity Systems. Sunnyvale, CA

Cisco Systems. San Jose, CA

Redback Networks / Ericsson. San Jose, CA

Currently, Google, Mountain View, CA Favorite

tech & social apps, etc. Google+,

Aperture and fatherhood to

three boys.

Software Design Lead on the Microsoft Exchange Server team

I joined them

during my wanna

be Unix kernel

hacker period.

Big regret, I chose to not

relocate therefore,

I’m not retired.

Microsoft.Redmond, WA

IBM. Raleigh, NC

FORE Systems. Washington, DC

Berkeley Networks. Berkeley, CA(The company was acquired by

FORE)

Juniper Networks.

Sunnyvale, CA

Nicira. Palo Alto, CA

(Nicira was acquired

by VMware)

Currently, VP Engineering in VMware’s

Network and Security,

Palo Alto, CA.

Favorite tech & social apps, etc. Not much to say about social apps. I’d rather interact with real people

than read about what my friends are thinking when they are standing in line at the grocery store. :) Besides,

it’s early days for this social app thing. Who knows what the world will look

like in 5 or 10 years.

I wanted more

start-up flavour in the

Silicon Valley.)

Left Sage

to start my own

management consult-

ing company and I’ve

been doing that

ever since.

1993 Delrina. Toronto, ON. State of the Art. Irvine, CA.

Currently, JP Moore

Associates Management

Consulting, Vancouver, BC.

Favorite tech & social apps, etc. I’m a nerd/Geek

at heart & I love playing with technology. I’m busy with

three great kids (one in CS at Waterloo, one in Arts at UBC

& one in high school.)

Motorola. Vancouver,

BC.

Microsoft closed shop in Vancouver

and relocated everyone to

Redmond, WA. Spectrum

Signal Processing.

Vancouver, BC.

Electronic Arts. Vancouver, BCCurrently, NetApp Technical Centre,

Vancouver, BC. Sr. Director of Engineering, Big Data and Site Lead for the Vancouver Technical

Centre.

Favorite tech & social apps, etc. Favorite “Likes”: photography, wines, golf,

snowboarding with my son and first and foremost, my family.

Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory (LLNL), High Performance Computing.

Livermore, CA.

Start-up #2, Bonsai

Software, Inc., Emeryville, CA.

Managed “Future Technology

Group”: National Energy Research

Scientific Computing

CentreBerkeley, CA

Back to LLNL to design/develop “Petascale” computing systems. Held a contract with IBM

for the BlueGene P/Q architectures.

Start-up #3: Whamcloud, Danville, CA

Currently: stayed on at

Intel as General Manager for High

Performance Data Division,

Santa Clara, CA

Favorite tech & social apps, etc.

I’m mostly anti-social in practice. I’m not that interested in what people are

having for dinner.

Coopers and Lybrand Consulting.

Edmonton, AB.

Oracle Canada. Edmonton, AB.

PeopleSoft USA. Pleasanton, CA Triagonal Services. San Ramon, CA Currently, Triagonal Services, consulting

services for PeopleSoft and Oracle clients.

San Ramon, CA

Favorite tech & social apps, etc. The only social media that I subscribe to is LinkedIn. And

after being pestered by Lance, I purchased Slingboxes to justify my cable bill. Using high-speed internet and an app on my iPad, I can control and watch my TV

and TiVo from anywhere.