ourCIO Leadership
Paul Beaudry | Managing Partner
Paul Beaudry | Managing Partner
Paul Beaudry | Managing Partner
Paul graduated from The University of Manitoba in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science. His nearly 30 year career in technology has seen him in roles as a programmer, technical specialist, project manager and IT leader. He has worked for and with businesses in such varied sectors such as Agriculture, Food Processing, Software Development, Heal
Paul graduated from The University of Manitoba in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science. His nearly 30 year career in technology has seen him in roles as a programmer, technical specialist, project manager and IT leader. He has worked for and with businesses in such varied sectors such as Agriculture, Food Processing, Software Development, Health-care, Retail, Financial Services, Technology Managed Services and Technology Outsourcing.
He is past member of the Board of the Manitoba Chapter of the CIO Association of Canada, past member of the Novell Customer Council and past member of the VMware Commercial Customer Advisory Board. He has been featured in articles published in Edge Magazine, Baseline, IT World Canada, Dark Reading, Network World, The Globe and Mail, CIO Canada, InfoWorld, Computing Canada and ComputerWorld Canada.
Paul is recognized as an IT leader with experience across many areas of IT including strategic thinking, individual and team development, mentoring, coaching, recruitment and retention, vendor management, negotiating, compliance, disaster recovery, datacentre, cloud, infrastructure, telecommunications and customer service.
Kent Smith | Managing Partner
Paul Beaudry | Managing Partner
Paul Beaudry | Managing Partner
Kent graduated from Midwestern School of Business and Technology in 2001 wearing an entrepreneurial and IT leadership hat since. He is a Managing Partner at ourCIO where he is sharing his IT leadership know-how as a Principal vCIO. Prior, Kent headed Technology and Innovation portfolios in the Energy sector and was a partner in an IT cons
Kent graduated from Midwestern School of Business and Technology in 2001 wearing an entrepreneurial and IT leadership hat since. He is a Managing Partner at ourCIO where he is sharing his IT leadership know-how as a Principal vCIO. Prior, Kent headed Technology and Innovation portfolios in the Energy sector and was a partner in an IT consulting firm with clients in Real Estate, Automotive, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Legal, Retail, Services and Non-profit. Kent is currently Vice President of the CIO Association of Canada Manitoba Chapter Board of Directors and is incredibly involved within the IT community in the Province of Manitoba.
Kent is recognized as a progressive technology leader and forward thinker. He is skilled and experienced across many facets of IT Leadership including Strategy, Team Coaching, Staff Recruitment & Retention, Assessments, Reporting, Budgeting, Vendor Relationships & Procurement, Negotiating, Business (Digital) Transformation, Project Management, Change Management, Contract & License Administration, Process, Policy, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Datacentre, Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery & Incident Response, Mobility, Unified Communications, Customer Service and Emerging Technologies (Internet of Things, Robotic Process Automation, Artificial Intelligence).
ourCIO Team
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