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Stan Shaw


Stan Shaw, Ph.D., PMP
http://sshaw.profiles.corbantechnology.com/

Stan Shaw is a results-oriented IT professional with expertise in communications technologies, including videoconference systems. He has exceptional project management experience as a certified PMP, with strong interests in health care and higher education. Stan has been a key contributor to the medical school expansion program at the University of British Columbia, developing leading edge multi-media systems and working with a team of support staff in three Universities and six Health Authorities to teach medicine across the Province. Stan has a proven ability to build strong relationships with staff and clients. He is an innovative thinker, matching technology to client needs to ensure requirements are met within budget, on time, and in many cases exceeding expectations. During the past year, Stan has worked as a key project management consultant in a wide variety of IT initiatives, including
  • a multi-University eduroam project to authenticate users on wireless networks at participating sites across British Columbia.  In less than five months from the initial project kick-off, five  major universities and institutions were able to successfully demonstrate they were connected to eduroam at the BCNET annual conference in April, 2008.  Stan has since taken on the role of project lead in "phase two" of the BCNET eduroam project. This phase involved evolution into a larger service, called Canada eduroam ( www.eduroam.ca ), which is currently linking universities across Canada to member eduroam communities around the world.
  • authoring a multi-university business plan for disaster recovery.of core administrative systems, based on collaborative efforts of six major universities and institutions across British Columbia..
  • creation of the project plan for a PeopleSoft implementation project at a mid-Western US university, which involved tracking over three thousand project tasks.
  • managing requirements analysis, an RFP selection process and coordinated development of an iMIS business system implementation for a professional association in British Columbia.
  • auditing key IT-related business processes at a major department in a university located in Eastern Canada
Most recently, Stan has served as interim Director, eHealth for a First Nations health care organization in British Columbia that is playing a key role in managing electronic medical records in native communities throughout the Province.  Part of this mandate was to provide leadership in developing a reliable network infrastructure supporting Telehealth videoconferencing in over two hundred First Nations communities across British Columbia. This work is involved close collaboration with all six Health Authorities in British Columbia, the Ministry of Health, Heath Canada and the UBC Faculty of Medicine.

Currently, Stan is managing an Electronic Medical Records implementation project in a First Nations health care organization linking four primary health care clinics in Northern British Columbia and is actively involved in BCNET and projects involving the provincial Telehealth community.

Prior to this, he served as the IT Strategic Initiatives Lead for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. With over 4,000 full-time faculty and staff, the Faculty of Medicine has 20 departments and centers. The medical school spans the province, using leading edge educational technologies to teach medicine to stringent standards across three Universities and six Health Authorities.

In this role, Stan was an active contributor in the planning and development of a distributed e-learning environment to support the expansion of the Medical School into Victoria and Prince George. The distributed medical program is the first of its kind in North America. Now in operation covering the first two years of the medical program, and spanning three Universities, the project has been regarded as highly successful and has attracted interest from medical schools across the country and the United States.  For an insight into the network infrastructure required to support the program, see:  http://www.bc.net/advanced_networks/case_studies/technology.htm

As part of planning for the 3rd and 4th clinical years of the medical expansion program and post graduate medical education, Stan represented the Faculty of Medicine, together with a team of senior faculty and staff, during discussions with CIOs in six Health Authorities concerning a $15 million project to install high-quality medical education technologies in health care institutions across the province. The result was signoff on the MPAACT project scope document, which formally launched the project last fall.

Prior to his work on the medical expansion program, Stan directed the strategic planning, design, purchase and implementation of services and facilities for the Faculty of Medicine across a wide area network linking the UBC Point Grey campus, three teaching hospitals and affiliated centers across British Columbia. This included setting policies, procedures and guidelines and developing a quality assurance program to maintain a high level of support for faculty and staff. It also included development of a comprehensive network security policy designed to maintain a high level of data integrity while promoting a collaborative working environment for research, teaching and administrative activities.

Stan also worked with UBC project managers to coordinate the activities of the University Networking Project (UNP) within the three teaching hospitals and associated research facilities in the Lower Mainland. This result has been a significant benefit to researchers, students and staff working in teaching hospitals and has helped to develop the cooperative environment that has been crucial to delivering the technology necessary to support the expanded medical school and post-graduate education within the Health Authorities.

Before Stan was at UBC, he developed a successful IT consultancy firm from the ground up, eventually employing five business associates. His clients included:
  • a pharmaceutical research firm based in Richmond, British Columbia, where he installed the network, servers and workstations to support laboratory and administrative requirements in a highly secured environment.
  • a large security firm in downtown Vancouver, where his group managed Novell file servers and desktop systems to support administration.
  • an insurance adjustment firm head office, where Stan reviewed requirements and oversaw the selection of software developers who successfully developed a complex custom insurance adjustor application supporting offices across Canada, and provided operational support.
  • A large engineering firm based in Vancouver, where he supported a distributed contact management system linking offices across Western Canada.
Stan has also worked in the Health Care community, working as a clinical medical laboratory technologist at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and UBC Hospital. While at UBC Hospital, Stan developed several custom in-house applications related to laboratory medicine, and through his daily work with laboratory information systems developed strong interests in IT solutions for health care. While at UBC, he completed a Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science degree in 1989, followed by a Ph.D. with a thesis on cholesterol metabolism in 1996.

Stan is currently a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is engaged in teaching and course development for Risk Management  courses offered through the Canadian West Coast PMI chapter.  He is also an active participant on Identity Management and  Collaborative Technology Working Groups for BCNET, and is a member of the Canadian Society of Telehealth. An avid long distance cyclist, in June 2009 he completed a 1200 km cycling tour from Vancouver to Banff in nine days as a fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis.