Award winning senior educator, entrepreneur, writer/author, speaker, IT and business professional
Executive Board Director, Chief Strategic Alliance Officer, Business Plan author, ChinaValue, world's largest business & business intelligence platform (100 million reach, 50 million readers, 1 million premium members)
50 million+ audience/readership for best practices podcast interviews heard in more than 100 countries (2009, ongoing)
All Star Judge Canadian Business Magazine All-Star Executive Awards (Fall 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006)
Keynote Deans of IT Summit - 100% survey satisfaction rating (February 2009)
Keynote Cisco Academy Conferences - 100% uniformly positive rating (April, May, June 2009)
Co-manager and invited international consultant to IFIP IP3 Business Plan (all recommendations approved July 2009 London, UK)
ACM Special Awards Chief Judge Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF: May 2010)
Keynote Career Education Society (November 2009)
Judge Ignite IT Awards (2009)
Gold Award, User Group Community, "for your support of User Group Communities Worldwide" (MS Technical Audience Global Marketing, 2008-2009)
User Group Community Award "for your support of User Group Communities Worldwide and your contribution to UGSS (User Group Support Services)" (MS Technical Audience Global Marketing, 2007-2008)
Chief Business Development Officer, Director, Advisor to the UN-founded IFIP IP3 - global professionalism/certification (2009)
Senior 3rd party advisor and industry analyst to MS Canada (2009)
Editor to MS Technet/YouShapeIT (2009)
MS most valuable Professional Award: Windows Live R&D (2009)
Culminis Hall of Fame (2009)
Judge International Science and Engineering Fair (ACM: 2009/2010)
First Chairman, Global Board of Directors, Culminis (2008-2009)
ASTTBC industry-based, Advanced Technolgy Award for Leadership in Information Technology (2008)
Keynotes: National Council of IT Deans; House of Commons Group; Strategic Architecture Forum; ...etc (2008 and ongoing)
Advisor MS Global IT Advisory Council (2008-Present)
Advisor and Content Contributor/Host UN-Founded International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) (2007--Present)
Chair and President of the CIPS National Board and Executive Committee (2007-2008); serving on the Office of the Executive Council (2008-2009)
Computer World TOP 10 Blogger (2008)
Global MVP Summit TOP 6 Blogger (2008)
Global MVP Summit TOP 5 Most Valuable Professional (2007)
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional [MVP] Award (2006, 2007, 2008)
NPA Vice Chair and publisher/managing editor NPA Journal (2005-present)
Network Professional Association founding Distinguished Fellow (2005)
CIPS founding Fellow (FCIPS, 2005)
Computing Canada IT Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award sole recipient (2005)
Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) and Industry Canada inaugural IT Hero Award (2002)
First and the only international recipient, global networking industry's only Career Achievement Award for Professionalism from the NPA, IDG (Network World magazine), CMP (Network Computing magazine), Interop Conference (Las Vegas), Pearson Publishing (2002)
CIPS Gary Hadford Professional Achievement Award (2001)
CIPS Hall of Fame Inductee (2001)
Multiple Teaching Awards (1980's)
National All-Star Team Award (1980's)
Excellence in writing nomination (Western Magazine Foundation, 1980's)
