About SPSC
SPSC's mission is to assist Canadian Software Professionals in advancing their development, through improving skills, productivity and knowledge to better compete in the global economy.
Organization
| Board of Directors: | Peter Kroeger, Gerry Burtenshaw, Satheesh Kumar, Bernie Pallek |
| Executive Officers: | Peter Kroeger, Gerry Burtenshaw |
Board of Directors and Executive Officers
Peter Kroeger - Director and President
Peter is one of the original founders of SPSC. Before pursuing a consulting
career, Peter was a former Project Leader at Corel Corporation. During his nine
years at Corel, Peter was involved in producing web technology related
features and components in most of Corel's products. He was also involved
in many activities related to team collaboration, technical strategy,
co-op and team management procedures. Today he does software consulting.
Peter has a Bachelors degree in
Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
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Gerry Burtenshaw - Director and Treasurer 
Gerry's involvement with development dates back to when he was 13. At that
time he purchased and assembled his first computer, a Sinclair ZX-81. In the 7
years since graduating from university, he has been developing large scale
windows software. During that time, he has worked for both Corel and IMSI. A
former Project Lead at both companies, he has worked on 5 different products
and has survived 9 release cycles, not to mention numerous service packs. His
longest tenure was with WordPerfect's spreedsheet application, QuattroPro,
which he managed for 4 years. Recently, in addition to having co-founded SPSC,
he has started his own consulting business. Since then, he has worked on the
Embassy of Paraguay website, and Simsave, a high performance enterprise product
for GSM phones.
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Satheesh Kumar - Director and Secretary 
Satheesh joins SPSC as a secretary with more than 9 years of experience
in computer industry. He has worked at Corel for 5 years in Corel WordPerfect
suite. While leaving Corel, he was Senior Software developer in the SVG
rendering team, preceded by various team leading roles. Prior to entering into
programming, Satheesh has been in marketing and training programming languages.
His expertise include application development with various Microsoft
technologies, web technologies and object oriented programming. Satheesh has a
bachelors degree in Physics.
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Bernie Pallek - Director In his six years as a professional software developer, Bernie has contributed to the development of e-commerce applications and integrated solutions, HTML, XML, and SVG authoring sotware, and graphical applications, including Corel DRAW. While at Corel, Bernie took an active part in formally training new co-op students, as well as mentoring co-op students on his team. Prior to embarking on his career, he provided hardware consulting services (upgrades and troubleshooting), as well as software tutoring services for individuals. His hobbies include personal software projects (games, applications), electronics, Tae Kwon Do, learning about other cultures (and attempting to learn their languages), and cars. |
Contributors
SPSC would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions in the development of our web site and content:
Adam Milling, Anjali Sastri, Antonio Maio, Anthony Tsoukanas, Candy Kroeger, Dave Sproule, David Leibovitz, Dwight Hubley, Frantz Charles, Greg Schmidt, Ian Brown, Jaspreet Jodhka, Jessica Henderson, Joanne Lussier-True, Marilyn Dodds, Parul Mathur, Peter Kelly, Susan Wheeler, Tom Cruickshank.
If you would like make a contribution to SPSC please visit our Opportunities page.
