Ed McIvor   Education & Qualifications Range of Experience

Specific Experience   Performed a sensitive IT Needs Assessment for the newly acquired Vancouver office of a major Canadian securities firm covering service delivery, organization, decision making, capabilities and issues and recommendations for delivery functions, client relationship, personnel, opportunities and risks in order to optimize the integration of the companies. Led a team of subject matter experts to conduct an Application Architecture Review for the Board of Governors of a major university to ascertain the state of preparedness and risks of a multi-million dollar application, architecture and development framework initiative. The findings and recommendations for mitigation of risks were accepted and are being instituted. For a major BC health authority was project manager for an initiative to bring the authority’s systems, processes and contracts into compliance with the province’s freedom of information and protection of privacy legislation. Following the acquisition of Westcoast Energy by Duke Energy, Ed had a significant transitional role in managing the change to new ownership; including managing all contractual aspects of Canada-wide infrastructure services outsourcing, successful transition of IT agreements, and ambitious cost reduction and synergy achievements resulting in year-over-year savings of 20 – 25%. Managed enterprise IT supply chain for an organization of 100+ subsidiaries to optimize aggregation leverage and promote consistency in acquisition and deployment of products and services that resulted in annual savings ranging up to 37%. Led business management of enterprise-wide outsourcing which positioned cost reduction and service delivery consistency to a user base of 6,000+ employees. Facilitated alignment of operating companies with corporate governance, policies and standards to establish new corporate benchmarks. In this governance role he provided leadership to the Program & Risk Management Office activities for standards development, compliance, and the risk assessment monitoring of strategic IT projects. Played a key role in the due diligence and implementation for operating company acquisitions and divestitures. Instituted consolidated IT planning and financial reporting which enabled cost management and reduction, eliminated redundancies, identified opportunities for collaboration and other synergies, fit to business, etc. Developed a comprehensive company business process model, IT strategic and operational planning methodology and activity based costing model for a Manitoba consumer gas company. A member of the company’s strategic business planning team, Ed was the lead IT role for Labour Disruption Contingency and Business Continuity Plan and a company lead for a comprehensive Change Management and BPR initiative. Successfully led the first Westcoast Energy enterprise IT team and negotiated its first enterprise-wide contract. For another energy company, Ed developed and introduced the management and governance framework and processes to sustain a new IT organization resulting from acquisition, divestiture and amalgamation within the organization. Planned and managed the successful centralization and standardization of systems and services of five geographically dispersed operating company acquisitions. Introduced word processing and PC technology into the organization. to top