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'''Director General, Digital Academy, Canada School of Public Service''' <br>
'''Director General, Digital Academy, Canada School of Public Service''' <br>
Erica Vezeau is the acting Director General of the Canada School of Public Service’s Digital Academy. She joined this team in March 2021 to support its mandate to help public servants gain the knowledge, skills, and mindsets they need to succeed in the digital age. She has over 15 years of previous private- and public-sector experience in program administration, service delivery, and strategic planning with a special interest in digitally focused projects to modernize business processes and improve government services.
Erica Vezeau is the acting Director General of the Canada School of Public Service’s Digital Academy. She joined this team in March 2021 to support its mandate to help public servants gain the knowledge, skills, and mindsets they need to succeed in the digital age. She has over 15 years of previous private- and public-sector experience in program administration, service delivery, and strategic planning with a special interest in digitally focused projects to modernize business processes and improve government services.
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=== Sami Khoury ===
'''Head, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security''' <br>
Sami Khoury is the Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (the Cyber Centre). The Cyber Centre is the single unified source of expert advice, guidance, services and support on cyber security for government, critical infrastructure owners and operations, the private sector and the Canadian public. Sami began his career at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in 1992 as a research engineer exploring the impact of emerging multimedia communications technologies. He held various management positions and leadership roles at CSE, including Director General Capabilities Development and more recently as Deputy Chief (ADM) for Enterprise Technologies and Solutions. In this role, he was CSE’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and responsible for IT and Information Security, as well as leading CSE’s overall Research program and 24/7 Operations Centre.
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Sami holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering (1988) and a Masters of Applied Science (1991) from Concordia University in Montreal. He completed a certificate program in Public Sector Leadership at the University of Ottawa in 2016. Sami received the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and the APEX Award of Excellence for Innovation in 2020.
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=== Stephen Burt ===
'''Assistant Deputy Minister, Data, Innovation, Analytics, Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces''' <br>
Stephen Burt is the Assistant Deputy Minister (Data, Innovation, Analytics) for the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces. He is also an active member of data community of the Government of Canada, and led the creation of the Chief Data Officer Council. As an organization, ADM(DIA) works to ensure that data are leveraged in all Defence programs to enhance capabilities and decision-making, and to provide an information advantage in military operations. Mr. Burt holds an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Ottawa, and a Master’s in Public Administration from Queen’s University
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=== Jason Reid ===
'''Chief Information and Security Officer, Director General, Natural Resources Canada''' <br>
Jason Reid joined Natural Resources Canada on July 27, 2020. He has more than 25 years professional experience working within the Government of Canada (GC), the majority of which has been in fields of Information Management, Information Technology and Security. He has held positions of increasing responsibility including being the Executive lead of two GC transformation projects. Jason was named to the EX cadre in 2007, he was awarded the Queens Golden Jubilee medal in 2002 and is a graduate of the Executive Leadership Development Program and the Career Assignment Program. He holds bachelor degree in Social Science with a concentration in Economics from University of Ottawa.
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=== Rina Lorello ===
'''Chief Information Officer, Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada''' <br>
Erica Vezeau is the acting Director General of the Canada School of Public Service’s Digital Academy. She joined this team in March 2021 to support its mandate to help public servants gain the knowledge, skills, and mindsets they need to succeed in the digital age. She has over 15 years of previous private- and public-sector experience in program administration, service delivery, and strategic planning with a special interest in digitally focused projects to modernize business processes and improve government services.
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=== Bruce McHaffie ===
'''A/Director, Cloud Competency Centre, Canada Border Services Agency''' <br>
As a highly motivated and innovative leader within the CBSA, I have been able to develop and direct strategies to better support the Government of Canada strategic plan for IM/IT, particularly in a "Cloud first" approach. Under my leadership, the Cloud Competency Centre Division has delivered a Protected B Cloud environment on Amazon Web Services (AWS), migrated over 20 applications into Cloud, and built and maintained the ArriveCAN Backend services that are critical to the functioning of the CBSA ArriveCAN mobile app.
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I have been in the private sector for over 20 years as a Developer and Manager, working specifically in the area of security software. I began working in the public sector in October of 2019. <br><br>
During my time at Trend Micro Canada Inc as a Software Development Manager, I led two software development teams, championed the adoption and development of CI/CD pipeline tooling and coordinated with Product Managers to develop product strategy. In this role I was able to further enhance my leadership skills, through mentoring and motivating employees, and providing career guidance. <br><br>
My personal mandate is to continue supporting the Government of Canada Infrastructure Modernization directives, by devising strategies to support Workload Migration (WLM) plans for CBSA applications.
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