User:Gfawkes

Geoff Fawkes is a technology executive with a background in software development and business operational management spanning the past 20+ years. He is currently a technology advisor with the Federal Government of Canada’s National Research Council program (NRC-IRAP), providing business and technology advisory services along with financial support to growth-oriented Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises. Previously, he was in the role of Director, Engineering at Teradata leading the Toronto and Beijing architecture, engineering and testing teams. In addition to his engineering responsibilities, he served as the site IT infrastructure lead for the Teradata analytical database hardware and IT support systems for the Canada-wide sales and R&D groups. He has 10+ years expertise in offshore software development in India, China and Brazil, having structured and mentored teams to grow their expertise globally.

His experience spans industries and technologies including Demand Chain Management (DCM), international banking, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and telecommunications. Prior to Teradata, he was at HSBC Bank Group development in Vancouver for 7+ years with his most recent role as Director, Business Systems engineering for global mobile/personal internet banking systems. He has held various prior leadership/developer roles at Ingenium, Pivotal, Newbridge/Alcatel and Inmarsat. He holds an MBA degree from Simon Fraser University and a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia.