DeVry Institute of Technology, which helps students adapt to a fast-moving world with computer training, has made some changes itself.
Dean of Technology Joe Lund has seen his role expanded. In addition to being responsible for planning and development of campus technology needs, Lund has assumed responsibility for implementation of new academic programs, oversight of new student and career services and the supervision of academic operations services.
Lund, who has been with DeVry in Calgary for four years, was previously dean of academic operations and a faculty member. Before joining DeVry, he spent 20 years in the Canadian military in appointments in Canada and overseas.
DeVry’s new dean of information technology is Greg Lucier. He recently joined DeVry as its dean of computer information systems after 25 years as a professor of biomedical technologies at the University of Toronto and University of Calgary. As well, Lucier spent three years in the animation industry, including an eighteen-month project leading to the establishment of Disney animation studios in Canada.
Mike Armstrong has been named the new director of information technology at DeVry. He has been with the institute for seven years, five as a faculty member and the last two as DeVry’s systems manager. In his new position, he’ll have responsibility for delivery of all information technology services at the institute.
The new dean of computer information systems is Gerald Hunt, who replaces Lucier. Hunt has been a faculty member at DeVry since the late 1980s, and computer information systems chairman for the past five years.
Jim Conroy, managing partner of Conroy Partners Ltd. of Calgary, has been elected chairman of IIC Partners at the organization’s annual general meeting in Munich, Germany.
IIC Partners is an international organization of independent retainer-based executive search firms with 39 offices in 26 countries.
Conroy will continue to work with Conroy Partners, as well. He founded the firm, which now has 14 staff members, in 1994.
Michael Primeau, senior strategic alliance manager for Jawz Inc. in Calgary, will move to Orlando, Fla., in January to take over the company’s new regional head office there.
The strategic plan for Jawz Inc., which trades on Nasdaq, calls for it to expand into the southeastern U.S. — one of the fastest growing high-tech centres south of the border.
“Orlando is the place to be for high-tech companies who are serious about becoming and remaining dominant players in the industry. Mike’s presence in Florida will ensure that Jawz is positioned to seize the business opportunities that are flourishing there now and in the future,” says Bob Mahood, the company’s executive vice-president of corporate development.
Jawz specializes in information security. Its international headquarters are Toronto, but it also operates out of Calgary and several other Canadian and U.S. cities.
Equess Communications Inc. of Calgary has appointed Richard LeBlanc to its board.
“The broad experience of Mr. LeBlanc will lend great support to our continued growth and exposure into new media and new-technology related industries,” says Darren Moore, president and CEO of Equess.
LeBlanc has been a senior manager or director of several public and private companies, including Soft-Q.com. Equess is traded on the Canadian Venture Exchange. Started in 1995, it’s a communications technology company employing seven people in Calgary.
