VanWiT Board Of Directors

Over 35 years of experience in the IT Industry, including a variety of industrial sectors including Telecommunications, Utilities, Oil and Gas, Finance, Banking and Education having worked in Canada, USA, UK and the Caribbean.

For my Education sector experience, I am currently a Coordinator and an Instructor at Capilano University, Faculty of Business and Professional Studies, School of Business, Business Information Management and Analytics (BIMA) Centre of Imagination.  Susan started in this sector in 1990, where she spent 2 years at the University of the West Indies- Continuing Education, lecturing in `Introduction to Computer Science` and 3.5 years working full time at University College London, England, from 1992-1995. Susan re-entered the Higher Education Sector in Summer and Fall of 2011, as a visiting Lecturer at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.  Here she taught undergraduate 400 Level Courses: `Selected Topics in Business Administration- Developing a Business Intelligence Framework` and `Managing Information Technology for Business Value`. She also taught “Introduction To Business Technology Management” at Fraser International College, SFU, for 4 years, from 2013 to 2016.

Previous to being full time in the Education sector, Susan was  a Principal Platform Strategist with Microsoft Canada, remit being to garner in-depth business knowledge and determine core business issues as they could be mapped to and reinforce the value of, the Microsoft Technology to the Customer`s overall business strategic direction.

For many years, Susan undertook Business and Technical Management, Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Lead roles for several GIS, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture and Data Warehousing projects at: Trinidad and Tobago Oil Company Limited (TRINTOC); Oracle Corporation (UK, USA, Canada); BC Hydro/Accenture Business Services of British Columbia (ABSU); Accenture; WorkSafe BC; Telus and Microsoft.

Susan has a Graduate Certificate in Executive Management Program (EMP) from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Canada. She also possesses a MSc. Degree – Geographic & Geodetic Information Systems (GGIS) from University College London, England and a BSc. – Comp Sc. Major- University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad.