Andrew Cowie

Current

• Senior Consultant at Operational Dynamics

Past

• Project Lead & Principal Developer at Java bindings for the GNOME Desktop
• Member of the Board of Directors at Canadian Centre for Creative Technology, aka Shad International
• Secretary and Member of the Board at Linux Australia

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Education

• Royal Military College of Canada/Collège militaire royal du Canada
• Shad Valley

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Andrew Cowie’s Summary

High level perspective grounded in a thorough understanding of information technology. Able to work at levels ranging from boardroom to implementation. Extensive work in project review, change management, and improving operations practises. Ability to work with IT while maintaining focus on business outcomes. Experience facilitating strategic planning.

Skilled at financial modelling, cost control, and formulation of arguments in business plan form. Considerable experience facilitating the growth of startups and young companies, especially scaling IT systems from initial pilot projects to heavy loaded production platforms.

15 plus years in technology, particularly with the Unix and Linux operating systems. Extensive competence in IT operations management, infrastructure architecture, and re-engineering build systems. Long experience in systems administration and associated database management and network design. Remarkable success when troubleshooting, especially enterprise application and e-commerce platforms built around Java.

Experienced in change management, process development, and using procedures to execute massive changes and upgrades to mission critical systems. Emphasis on successfully integrating people with processes.

Strong leadership ability and management skills. Hallmarks are articulating vision, creative thinking and driving change. Have managed groups 150 strong and have had excellent results guiding the growth and development of staff. Able to make sound decisions in time-critical situations.

Excellent presentation and communication skills. Numerous articles and papers published. Frequent speaker at conferences on topics of operations professionalism, Open Source business and development models, decision making within technology contexts, and culture in the information age.

Andrew Cowie’s Specialties:

Strategic Planning
Team Building & Leadership
Procedures, Change Management, and Business Continuity
Business Process Re-engineering
Open Source
Software Engineering

Additional Information

Andrew Cowie’s Groups:

Member Australian Computer Society,
Member Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, Linux Australia

•    Linux Australia