About Us
President: Susanna Rodriguez
Susanna has over twenty years in Management and Business
Development both nationally and internationally. With extensive
experience in Business and Services Delivery, this includes
bringing together teams of experts qualified to analyze existing
capabilities and requirements and recommending areas for
improvement. Her focus has been in planning, analyzing, deploying
and integrating advanced systems.
Susanna’s strengths are in areas such as providing advise in
developing and integrating process and information models between
and across business lines to eliminate information and process
redundancies;
Susanna also has the ability to analyze production operations and
growth opportunities, defining new requirements and opportunities,
then preparing cost/benefit analysis for implementing new
processes and solutions.
Chief Executive Officer:
John Nicol
John brings over 20 years of progressive management and
international business development experience in all phases of the
Project Life Cycle to the team. He was the creator of two
successful high-tech companies in
New Zealand
before moving to
Canada
with his Canadian wife. As the VP Engineering for Ankari
Inc, a biometric and security company in Ottawa, he successfully
oversaw technical due diligence of the acquisition by ActivCard
Inc and became the ActivCard VP Engineering overseeing engineering
staff in the USA, Canada and Australia.
He is a seasoned technologist who performs development, project
management and technical specialist functions on a wide variety of
traditional and cutting edge systems and software. John also
has wide experience implementing software development processes
and practices. He gained a B.Sc. in Information Technology
from
Auckland
University
in
New Zealand
and an MBA from
Trinity
University
(with a major in Project Management). John is a retired Army
Major with operational experience in the Signals and
Intelligence fields.
Chief Technical Officer: Raul Rodriguez
Mr. Rodriguez is an information technology architect with over
10 years of experience in IT in systems analysis, design,
development, maintenance, support, validation, and verification.
Accompanied by several years of experience in the C4ISR
field, specializing in the architectural design and capability
engineering, he has contributed to the NATO Interoperability
Program with CASE tool modeling and design of operational, policy and metadata repositories, in
support of a C4ISR Model-Driven, Policy-Driven Architecture.
His experience consists of the Project Support Environment (PSE),
a Collaborative Engineering Environment (CEE) that provided the
engineering and management processes and tools to establish the
necessary rigueur for effective planning, evolution and support of
C4ISR capability to the MOD UK.
Vice President Knowledge Management: Larry Sampson
Larry brings over 30 years of consulting, operations and
project management experience to Acron's Knowledge Management
division. In addition to running production for one of
Canada's largest e-Learning companies, and directing operations
for a division of a major U.S. IT Services firm, he has led
large-scale IT and Knowledge Management projects in Canada and
the United States for clients such as the Canadian Department of
National Defence, and Fortune 1000 firms in the finance,
telecommunications, aerospace and retail verticals.
Larry has also developed and run nationally recognized IT
training programs, as well as making recommendations to
government on the restructure of post-secondary programs in
Computer Science.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Saint Mary's
University, is a graduate of Management and Information
Technology programs at Babson College and the University of
Western Ontario, and is a National past President of the
Canadian Information Processing Society.
Vice President Market Development & Sales Management: David
Moore
For over 30 years, David
has been a leader, a business and technology manager, and change
agent in a wide variety of challenging positions where
program-development, project-management, leadership ability, and
relationship management were critical. David brings extensive,
hands-on experience, developing people and managing the
resources of large, complex organizations, programs, and
projects to the Acron team.
David is a retired
Canadian Army Lieutenant-Colonel. He commanded a Battle Group
in central Bosnia-Herzegovina under the banner of the United
Nations (UN) and was received in private audience by His
Holiness, Pope Jean-Paul II in recognition of his outstanding
humanitarian leadership. Subsequently, as Director of National
Defence’s Command Centre, David played a key role in the
planning and execution of complex international operations,
including humanitarian relief efforts, on five continents.
Prior to joining Acron,
David was an Executive Consultant with CGI where he was
recognized as a Canadian ‘thought leader’ in the application of
internationally recognized best practices for enterprise
business and technology architecture, such as the Business
Transformation Enablement Program (BTEP), Department of Defence
Architecture Framework (DoDAF), and IT Service Management (ITSM)
Framework . His strengths revolve around business
transformation to drive capability engineering and technology
strategy, encompassing program management, planning and
operations, problem solving, resource management and
development, team building, mentoring, and education and
training.
Vice President Product Development: Scott Arbuthnot
Scott brings over 25 years of experience in software design and
development to the Acron team. He holds a Bachelor of
Mathematics degree from McMaster University and has developed
software solutions ranging from database management to current
cutting-edge graphics for 3D content development and high-end
simulation image generators. Scott also has a great deal of
experience working with distributed simulation environments and
transforming legacy systems into integrated network
architectures.
Scott is a retired Canadian Air Force Major. As a pilot, he
served as a tactical flight officer in the scout-reconnaissance
role, a qualified flight instructor, standards officer, and
instrument check pilot, and has served on international
operational deployments. Scott also has broad experience in
research and development and modeling and simulation having
worked for Director General Intelligence, Operational Research
Division and the Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Center as
Section Head for the Synthetic Environments Coordination
Office. In these positions, Scott played a pivotal role in a
large number of modeling and simulation efforts for the Canadian
Air Force, including Canadian Head of Delegation for the NATO
SMART steering group, Canadian Head of Delegation to the NATO
Special Air Charts Working Group, and the Chairman of NATO
SAS-34 Visual Database Sub-working Group of the Technical
Working Group.
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