Kristina McDougall

Stories

Software Performance Specialist [Nov 29 2007]

Director of Quality [Feb 14 2008]

Team Lead, Software Development Support [Feb 19 2008]

Software Localization Tester [Feb 19 2008]

Senior Consultant - Financial Software [Mar 04 2008]

Interview coming up? Here are some questions for the questioners [May 19 2009]

Looking for Work you can Love? Don't Jobstitute Yourself [Jun 22 2009]

There's only one way to create a headhunter-proof organization [Aug 31 2009]

Employer brands and why your foosball table doesn’t matter [Oct 21 2009]

Recruitment after the Social Media Apocalypse: What happens when everyone can find anyone [Dec 01 2009]

Looking for a new job? Tell the market today! [Dec 21 2009]

Comments on above stories

Comments

"This person with work with a new team focused on the Small – Medium sized business market, where RIM is investing significantly in developing new Blackberry solutions.This is a great opportunity for someone with experience collecting and crunch…" [Nov 20 2007 10:20]

"This is a new area of product focus for RIM and a new Product Management group. The opportunities represents incredible revenue potential for RIM, but they are at tteh very early stages of getting to understand the unique needs of this business cust…" [Nov 20 2007 10:31]

"What if I am NOT in Waterloo? This role is Waterloo-based, as it is essential that you work closely with the Software Product Management team, as well as other key individuals across the rest of the head-office organization.More than 800 people com…" [Nov 20 2007 10:35]

"What if I am NOT in Waterloo? This role is Waterloo-based, as it is essential that you work closely with the Software Product Management team, as well as other key individuals across the rest of the head-office organization.More than 800 people com…" [Nov 20 2007 10:51]

"This is a key role on Product management team – with the focus on planning vs execution … it is highly strategic and focused on developing an understanding and plan for communications to a new customer-base. You are looking in the right…" [Nov 20 2007 10:55]

"Q: “I've not heard much about Blue Coat, what is their Waterloo prescence really like, and what are plans for local growth?” A: Blue Coat is a growing development powerhouse in Waterloo. The local office is primarily engineering, and …" [Jan 21 2008 16:07]

"To add to Penny's comment, RIM has been building one of the largest and strongest performance engineering teams that we've seen in the Canadian software space. They have some incredible talent in this group and are open to bringing on board a few mo…" [Jan 21 2008 16:10]

"Q: How senior is this role and who will I report to?A: This is at a Manager/Project Manager level and will report into the Director of QA at Blue Coat's HQ in California. The role is quite strategic, as you will ultimately be responsbile for all of …" [Feb 22 2008 08:21]

"Q: I am concerned about the fact that Blue Coat is US-based… what is the commitment to Waterloo? A: With the SVP of Engineering operating from Waterloo, and a solid foundation of very senior technical team members, Blue Coat has shown great…" [Feb 22 2008 08:24]

"The BEST person for this role is:Someone who has ‘been there – done that' in a software organization that develops large, high-availability systems. He/She has experience in leadership of development and testing organizations and has imp…" [Feb 22 2008 10:06]

"This is a new team that has tons of high level support and growing enthusiasm among the ranks at RIM. There is a firm commitment to growing this team with solid A Players from the wireless space across North America. Working with RIM's most presti…" [Mar 25 2008 14:08]

"It is important to note that this is a ground floor opportunity with RIM's new Pro Services team. This is a very big area of focus and investment for RIM, as it will ensure customer loyalty and ongoing revenue streams from their large enterprise cus…" [Apr 22 2008 08:23]

"learn more about RIM’s Pro Services group at: http://www.blackberry.com/select/professional_services/" [Apr 22 2008 08:24]