John Sherrah

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John Sherrah
ITI International Technology Integration
Inc. Since 1985
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25 Years in Technology
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Camosun the beginning

• 1970 Victoria votes to establish Juan de Fuca
  College at Institute of Adult Studies (Lansdowne)
  
• 1970 The College obtains provincial approval.
• 1971 Camosun adopts the name Camosun, a
  Lekwungen (Songhees) First Nation name meaning
• where different waters meet and are
  transformed.
• 1971 Camosun enrolls 1st students, 1st
  principal, Grant Fisher, offering university
  transfer, vocational, and upgrading courses at a
  tuition of 10 per credit to 980 students.

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Typical 1975 Employee
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The Victoria Normal School - 1915
(Camosun College, Lansdowne Campus)
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Camosun growth

• 1980 Camosun serves 3,500 students in credit
  programs (up from 980).
• 1985 - Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided
  Manufacturing (CAD-CAM) used at Camosun
  Interurban classes
• 1986 Camosun Business Division opens the First
  Coop Education Program
• 1990 - Camosuns credit enrollment hits 6,600
• 1997 Camosun College is the eighth largest
  employer in the district with 1,250 employees.
• 2004 Camosuns Computer Systems Technology
  Co-op Program receives national accreditation
  from the Canadian Information Processing Society.
  
• 2005 PacificSport and Camosun College receive a
  18.5 million BC Government investment.
• 2006 Camosun celebrates 35 years of excellence,
  with more than 8,400 students
• 2007 Camosun enrolls 10,000th student, at a
  tuition of a little bit more than 10 per credit

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Programming in the 70s

• Salaryman
• White shirt, suit, tie, polished shoes
• Mainframe computers
• Terminalsno computer on your desk
• 1 compile a day
• 1 test overnight
• 40 hours a week, weekends to test

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Technology Highlights of the 80s

• 1980 - IBM selects PC-DOS from upstart Microsoft
  as the operating system for its new PC.
• 1981 - Osborne 1 - first commercially successful
  portable computer, weighed 23 pounds, used the
  Z80 chip, had 64K RAM, and used CP/M as the
  operating system.
• 1981 - Arcade game Pac-Man released
• 1981 - Commercial email service begins in 25
  cities.
• 1984 - Domain name system (DNS) is introduced.
  DNS allows organizations to associate
  easy-to-remember network names with their
  Internet
• 1987 - The IBM PS/2 computer with its OS/2
  operating system came to market this was an
  attempt to bury Microsoft.

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Technology Highlights of the 90s

• 1990 - Sun Microsystems first announces Java
• 1994 - Sony releases Playstation - 100 million
  sold
• 1995 - JavaScript development by Netscape.
• 1995 Jack Smith along with Sabeer Bhatia
  founded Hotmail - free email (now MS owned, not
  so free)
• 1998 2000 Y2K upgrade costs 100s of billions
  worldwide.
• 1999 Internet Domain Cybersquatting is banned

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Technology uses today

• Business / Government
• Video Games
• Internet Blogging
• Hospitals
• Transportation
• Telecommunications
• Infrastructure
• Alternative Energy
• Education
• Underwater
• Music/Video
• Weather
• Photography
• Pornography

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Negative Technology Quotes Through Time

• Technological progress has merely provided us
  with more efficient means for going backwards. 
  Aldous Huxley
• The production of too many useful things results
  in too many useless people.  Karl Marx
• When a machine begins to run without human aid,
  it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory
  or a government.  Alexander Chase, Perspectives,
  1966
• Technology presumes there's just one right way to
  do things and there never is.  Robert M. Pirsig

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Positive Technology Quotes Through Time

• The number one benefit of information technology
  is that it empowers people to do what they want
  to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people
  be productive. It lets people learn things they
  didn't think they could learn before, and so in a
  sense it is all about potential. Steve Ballmer
• The new information technologyInternet and
  e-mailhave practically eliminated the physical
  costs of communications Peter Drucker
• A fundamental rule in technology says that
  whatever can be done will be done. Andrew Grove
• Nerds of yesterday, rule the world today.
  Unknown

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Technology as a Business

• FOCUS ON SOME SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES

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1911 IBM

• 1911 the Computing Tabulating and Recording
  Company was incorporated (C-T-R)
• 1924 C-T-R became International Business
  Machines (IBM)
• 2006 IBM had 355,766 employees and 91.4 B
  revenue worldwide.
• 19,426 full time employees in Canada
• 2007 acquired Cognos for 5 Billion

1959 - IBM 1620 Model I Level A
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1975 Microsoft

• 1975 - Microsoft founded
• 1981 - Microsoft incorporated
• 1981 - MS-DOS was released (had eight major
  versions released before Microsoft
  stopped development in 2000)
• 1985 released Windows Version 1.0
• 1986 - went IPO in at 21/share - one IPO share
  today is worth over 7,000
• 1989 - Launched MS Office (Office was introduced
  by Microsoft in 1989 on the Mac, with a
  version for Windows in 1990)
• 1993 - Launched Windows NT
• 1995 - Bill Gates commits to supporting and
  enhancing the Internet
• 2007 - 79,500 employees, Revenue US 51.12
  billion

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1982 Electronic Arts

• Electronic Arts (EA) is the worlds leading
  independent developer and publisher of
  interactive entertainment software
• Founded in 1982 with 7,900 employees worldwide
• Revenue 2.951 billion USD (2006)
• Largest studio in the Electronic Arts family is
  headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia

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1989 America Online (AOL)

• Started as an on-demand video game download
  service
• 1987 - Apple gives the go-ahead on what would be
  called AppleLink personal edition.
• 1989 - AppleLink changes name to America Online
• 1992 AOL IPO NASDAQ 2M shares/11.50
• 2001 Merged with Time Warner
• 2007 - Over 13,000 employees in North America

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1994 Yahoo

• 1994 Founded by Stanford Ph.D. students David
  Filo and Jerry Yang
• Yahoo is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical
  Officious Oracle"
• Yahoo is a search engine, subject directory, and
  web portal.
• 1995 Yahoo was incorporated
• 1996 Issued IPO with 49 employees at 13/share
• 2006 Over 50 Million users worldwide
• 2007 - Revenue 6.7 billion USD and 13,600
  employees
• How come the founders of Yahoo are not the top 10
  richest men in Forbes.com? Yahoo never made any
  profit until just recently..Can't get rich
  without making profit

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1995 eBay

• 1995 Founded as eBay The World's Online
  Marketplace
• eBay's mission to provide a global trading
  platform where practically anyone can trade
  practically anything
• 1998 Stock went IPO at a split adjusted price
  of 0.75/share
• 2006 Over 248 Million registered members
  worldwide
• 2006 - Revenue 5.969 Billion USD
• 2007 - Over 13,000 employees

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1995 Google

• 1995 Larry Page Sergey Brin started Google.
• Google's mission is to organize world's
  information and make it universally accessible
  and useful.
• 2006 Revenue 10.604 Billion USD
• 2007 - 15,916 employees as of September 2007 with
  offices in Bangalore, New York City, Irvine,
  and Mountain View (the Google Campus)
• 2007 - Current NASDAQ stock price 684/share
• The Google Corporate Slogan Don't be evil

Google Founders in 2007
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2001 Wikipedia

• 2000 created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
• 2001 officially launched on January 15, 2001
• Is a multilingual, web-based, free content
  encyclopedia project.
• Wikipedia is managed by a non-profit parent
  organization the Wikimedia Foundation
• Wikipedia is written collaboratively by
  volunteers
• There are more than 75,000 active contributors
  working on 9 Million articles in more than 250
  languages.
• Slogan - The free encyclopedia that anyone can
  edit

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2004 Facebook

• 2004 Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg
  while attending Harvard. Born in 1984, he was a
  member of the Harvard class of 2006.
• Facebook is the second most-trafficked PHP site
  in the world, one of the largest MySQL
  installations
• 2006 - Revenue 100 million USD (estimated)
• 2007 - 350 employees, 55 million users
• 2007 - Microsoft bought a 1.6 share ownership of
  Facebook for 246 million
• Anyone can use Facebook

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1998 RIM

• Research in Motion (RIM) best known for
  developing the BlackBerry
• Headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario
• Current stock price 111.00
• First BlackBerry released in 1999 (now over 5000
  in BC Gov)
• First BlackBerry with integrated cellular phone
  released in 2001
• Employees 6,000

Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO
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2005 YouTube

• Founded by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, and Jawed
  Karim
• YouTube is the leader in online video, and the
  premier destination to watch and share original
  videos worldwide through a Web experience.
• 2006 - Purchased by Google - 1.6 billion in
  stock
• Over 100 Million videos watched daily
• 500,000 users
• Number of employees 70

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2003 MySpace

• MySpace is an online community that lets you meet
  your friends' friends.
• Free to join and supported solely by advertising
• Over 200 Million accounts
• Google provides search and advertising (900M)
• Purchased by News Corp in 2006 for 327 Million
• 300 Employees
• MySpace is a site where gorgeous models
• can meet Chippendale Dancers

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You graduated now what?
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Thoughts for Job Hunting

• Consider working in the provincial government,
  it's rapidly evolving, provides for flexible
  working conditions, and offers good career growth
  potential.
• Look locally 1100 companies,1B revenue. In
  2006 the VIATeC 25 had 2,441 employees and 2007
  revenue estimated at 794 million.
• Decide where your passion lies and then pursue
  that goal and be prepared to go the extra mile.
• Consider volunteering to gain experience or a
  foothold into the industry

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Thoughts for Job Hunting

• Connect with organizations like VIATeC and OUG.
• Find a company you would like to working for !
• Network to understand more about the company and
  get the inside track on the position you want.
• Research the companys services, products,
  clients, and markets.
• See if the company you are applying for has a
  preferred resume format and guidelines (for
  example, ITI likes a long, detailed resume, while
  some companies prefer 2 pages max)

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Thoughts for Job Hunting

• Tailor your resume and cover letter to every
  position
• In your cover letter, briefly and concisely
  demonstrate that you have the required skills,
  using similar terminology and language.
• Dont overstate or understate your experience and
  include a list of your skills and skills level.
• Have someone you trust review your resume and
  cover letter before submitting.
• You got called for an interview - now what?

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Key points for an Interview

• Do your homework before an interview. Know the
  employer's line of business.
• Research common interview questions and practice
  answering (e.g., Your strengths/weaknesses) .
• Bring a list of questions for you to ask in the
  interview, focusing on the position role and
  responsibilities (not the benefits, vacations,
  etc.).
• If possible, prepare samples of your work to show
  .
• Pay attention to their body and facial language
  to get insight into how your answers are going
  over.

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Key points for an Interview

• Listen to the question and think before
  answering better to ask them to clarify than
  answer a question they werent asking.
• During an interview, ALWAYS SMILE! Be confident,
  calm, positive, and reasonable. Dont criticize,
  empathize!
• Show you appreciate the interview opportunity,
  and follow up with a thank-you note or email.

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No matter where you work, dont let email be
your only source of communication!
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Questions

• Look for Opportunities at
• Www.iticanada.ca
• www.viatec.ca