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A good personal/resume site a tremendous advantage in a highly competitive employment market, says Trevor. He goes on to outline four must-haves for a professional online presence.
One of RIM's top executives talks about preserving quality in the face of explosive growth, shares the secret of great developer/tester relationships and talks about the company's unique perk.
Many people in Canada's tech industry were hit hard by last year's downturn. Do you think the cuts have been capped? How safe do you feel in your current job?
The founder and CEO of Ottawa's T-base communications turned her disability into opportunity, winning the 2009 Sara Kirke award for Women Entrepreneurship in the process.
Crazies, lazies, pettiness, power plays, power nappers. You've managed them all without a whit of recognition from your own boss. What's your management gripe?
The Waterloo Record’s inaugural list of young difference-makers named teenagers, university professors and of course entrepreneurs and leaders from the technology-rich region.
Mario has been through more than one economic downturn. His advice? Cut your dead weight sooner rather than later. If you don't they just end up dragging everyone else down. Tough times are fightin' times. Mario wants you to think about who's in your corner.
Whether it's by launching satellites or launching companies, this award-winning CEO has seen the peaks and valleys of Canada's technological landscape. Today, the recipient of the 2007 Sara Kirke Award is leading a thriving, three-pronged software business.
A collection of bon mots, witticisms, rants, and more, chosen from over 200 entries and several years of blood, sweat, and editing.
Christine Tutssell has earned a reputation for selling -- and winning -- everywhere she lands. Now the former Descartes VP is selling (and still winning) in a difficult environment -- a young emerging technology software company. Red Canary caught up with Tutssell to talk about why she made the jump, where startups go wrong in sales, and what it takes to sell in terms of both tactics and personnel.
Charles Plant has worked with startups as an operator, a financier and now as a leader at one of Canada's largest incubators for young technology and science companies. He shares his thoughts on the external and internal challenges facing our emerging technology sector.
In the west we often assume that buildings schools in poorer nations is the catalyst to learning. Kristy's time in Northern Ghana has taught her otherwise, and she talks about the many economic and cultural obstacles standing in the way of broader education.
Kristy Minor is an environmental engineer graduate working in Ghana as part of an Engineers Without Borders initiative. In the first of many blog entries she will share on Red Canary, Kristy talks about the geographic challenges faced by the local population.
Armed with multiple degrees, development experience that reaches back to the Apple II, and a beard that would make Methuselah jealous, Mark Maxted knows his stuff. Red Canary talks to Mark about writing software for hardware, and why Edmonton is no place to be in February.
The man behind a market-leading software company laughs about his mafia-esque hiring methods, his CEO brother, and shares his passion for his work. Toronto’s PointClickCare is a market leader in providing on-demand software for the Long Term Care industry.
Cadman Chui talks about his path to PlateSpin and how the company has kept its breakneck growth from turning into neck-breaking change. Toronto-based PlateSpin helps organizations optimize their data centre operations. Since 2002, PlateSpin has been the second-fastest growing Canadian technology company, winning awards for both its software and business execution.
Tira Wireless' Co-founder and Senior V.P. of Corporate Development relies on a combination of hardcore venture financing experience and exceptional soft skills to lead a crack team responsible for building relationships with mobile operators and publishers around the globe. Tira Wireless is a Toronto-based solutions provider in the mobile applications space.
Dr. Mike McCool is co-founder and chief scientist of Waterloo’s RapidMind, the world’s leading provider of multicore platform solutions to the software industry. Professor-turned-founder Dr. Mike McCool talks with Red Canary about how even wildly complicated technology needs a human perspective.
What's it take to be a successful technology professional? Despite divergent careers, a young director and executive share surprisingly similar approaches.
The former CEO of Shoplogix talks about what's changed -- and what sells -- when it comes to early-stage success