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Nikkie Beier

Business Support Analyst

June 2009 - December 2010

Nikkie is completing her final year to earn a degree for Human Rights at Carleton University. Nikkie spends her time working at a local Brewpub, as well as volunteering with the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, supporting the FemNorthNet Project.

Nikkie also contributes to the Young Professionals Amnesty International group that was recently formed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

While working at Cambridge Solutions, Nikkie assisted with support services for QCsolver and performed administrative tasks in the office. Nikkie dealt with documentation, design creation and with anything else that needed to be accomplished in the office.

Elizabeth Kilgour

Business Analyst

April 2007 - May 2011

Elizabeth was a graduate from the Materials and Operations Management program at  Conestoga College, and was actively involved in all of our enterprise resource planning and manufacturing resource planning projects. She was thoroughly involved in the SX.Enterprise project by performing extensive investigations in purchasing, order entry, inventory control and finance. She helped develop customized reports for various departments, monitored data entry to ensure quality assurance and was responsible for proper entry and understanding of corporate pricing.  She was heavily involved in the data conversion process when implementing new software.

Elizabeth provided continuous support to clients and provided technical support for those using SX.Enterprise and Global Shop. Elizabeth was one of our connections to the world of supply chain management as she is the director of communications for APICS OGV parent chapter and had been nominated as one of eight future leaders in the APICS 2010 Future Leadership Program.

Elizabeth is now a Business Analyst at Research in Motion.

Karen Drabyk

Busines Analyst

Feb 2006 - Jul 2010

Karen was our "rock" at CSI and worked with us for several years. She was always willing to help out where required and delivered excellent customer service. The first major project that Karen helped with was assisting Jerry with Denso Manufacturing's outsourced purchasing services during Denso's Guelph construction and startup phase.

The next time Karen came to work with us she was the team leader working with Deb Cripps. Their job was to source and purchase furniture and equipment for three Upper Grand District School Board schools. She also helped to write the technical specifications for the Request for Proposal (RFP) for Cafeteria services for two schools.

Next time you see Karen ask her about the Open Text auction. This is where the team had to consolidate surplus goods that were stored in several warehouses. We had to do a complete inventory in a very cramped space and ensure that everything was sold or disposed of properly during a very tight time frame and with limited resources. Creativity and work ethic were part of the everyday expectation and Karen was our shining example.

Her focus during her most recent time spent with the CSI team was working on two Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations. The first one involved five (5) branches across Canada upgrading the company from Accpac for DOS to Infor's SX Enterprise. The second was a much larger project. Karen was responsible for the training and scope of work documentation for fifteen (15) branches located in several US States. With Karen's help the staff of Proveer Sign and Graphics were able to transition relatively smoothly from one software package to the next.

Karen proved to be so valuable to our customer (Proveer) that she was offered and accepted a full time role with them as their Business Analyst/Application Support.

James Smith

Software Applications Analyst

Nov 2009 - Feb 2010

James Smith is a graduate from Conestoga College in the Software Engineering Technology program. He has now moved to Ottawa to work at Bitheads as a Software Developer. 

He was a main contributor to the infor project, as he worked on data conversion for an Enterprise Resource Planning project. 

Amanda Berry

Business Support Analyst

Jul 2007 - Jul 2009

Amanda Berry is a fourth year Bachelors student at the University of Guelph, who is very active in both the Guelph and Cambridge communities. 

Amanda was a former summer-student employee, and Amanda performed various administrative tasks, helped with the administration of QCsolver which was then called QCVC.

Her strenghts included helping with documentation, organizing, and creative website design.

Kathryn Young

Technical Business Analyst

Apr 2007 - Feb 2008

Kat has a bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph and is a graduate of the Software Engineering program at Conestoga College.  Kat's primary focus at CSI was converting data between databases during an Enterprise Resource Planning software implementation.

She is very skilled in design and analysis skills and has two years experience in developing large multithreaded netwroking applications using C++. Kathryn is highly experienced in designing and implementing user interfaces using Microsoft MFC and web design and development using HTML, PHP, JavaScript, ASP.NET, Adobe Flex and AJAX. Kathryn has worked in database design and implementation using SQL Server 2008 and MySQL and has some experience in .NET technologies including C# and ASP.NET

From Conestoga College, Kathryn has recieved the Presidents award, the PAC award, the SET alumni award and the CISCO-ACCC Technology Scholarship for Women award.

She was recently a C++ software developer at Research In Motion and spends her spare time experimenting with RIA technologies such as Adobe Flex.

Amy Kunz

Oct 2006 - Apr 2007

Michelle Houghton

Jan 2005 - May 2007

Michelle Houghton was a Purchasing Management Association of Canada (PMAC) student representative at Conestoga College when she began working with Cambridge Solutions Inc. helping with administation of dinner meetings and seminars for the local chapter of PMAC.

While going to school and working part-time with CSI she helped with various consulting projects ranging from purchasing, inventory analysis and software implementation. She was also responsible for creating and updating various customer websites.

Upon graduating from the Materials and Operations Management program at Conestoga College, Michelle accepted a Purchasing position at Merit Glass, a commercial glazing company located in Guelph, Ontario.

Success has come to Michelle very quickly in the form of promotions at Merit Glass. In April of 2009 she was appointed as a Purchasing Manager and by April of 2010 Michelle accepted the offer to become the Operations Director. This position involved overseeing all plant operations, purchasing, and project management team.

A personal quote Michelle lives by: “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it, keep your nose to the grind and everything will work out”.

Allen Fretz

Associate Technical Analyst

Jul 2002 - Dec 2003

Allan is a graduate of Niagara College's 3-year Computer Programmer/Analyst program. His four month co-op placement was fulfilled as a part of his two and a half years at CSI.

As an Associate Technical Analyst at CSI, Allan gained valuable experience performing a variety of duties. These include providing hardware and network solutions, designing and implementing databases, creating dynamic web-pages and providing technical support to a number of clients.

Following his time with CSI, Allan worked as an IS Support Specialist for a law firm for two years, followed by a temporary postion at an insurance firm as a Deskside Support Analyst. Since late 2006, he has been a Technical Analyst for a transporatation logistics firm in Waterloo Region.

Stephanie Catcher

Apr 2004 - Feb 2005

Stephanie is a graduate of Conestoga College in the Marketing Program. At CSI Stephanie was responsible for our accounts receivable and accounts payable. She was also responsible for networking and event assistance as well as scheduling and customer support.

She currently works for Rogers Communications as a customer relations consultant and was awarded the top sales representative in 2007.

She owned her own business called Basket Sweet Basket and was nominated for Young Entrepreneur of the year in 2006. The business involves creating gift baskets for corporate businesses.

She is also a sales representative at Re/Max Real Estate Centre.

Meagan Wadeson

Jun 1996 - Dec 2004

A corporate communications professional with over seven years experience, Meagan is an accomplished writer and is highly skilled in interpersonal communications, project management, communication planning, media relations, and special event organization.

Meagan is currently involved with CSI for the second time as she sits on the Board of Advisors.

Click here to see Meagan's full biography.

Andrew Berry

Business Analyst

Sep 2001 - Jul 2004

Joanna Gonczar

Business Analyst

Nov 2001 - Apr 2004

Joanna is a graduate from Conestoga College in the Microcomputer Administration Program where she met Jerry who was her instructor. She was offered a position with CSI and worked there for almost three years. Her main role was taking care of websites and in particular the Laubach Literacy Ontario project. She also coordinated business seminars and meetings for the Greater Wellington District of PMAC.

Currently, Joanna is finishing her bachelor degree in the Human Resources Management program at the Concordia University in Austin Texas. Residing in a sunny state of Texas, she is a happy wife and mother expecting her second child and hopes to open her own business in a couple of years.

She loves to travel and supports “slow food” idea believing that life should be “savored, shared with others, and lived in harmony”.