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In order to stay current and relevant to the industry, the concentration in Information Networking collaborates with the telecommunications and networking industry in several ways:
Industry Advisory Board The Industry Advisory Board was estalished in 1998 together with the Master of Engineering in Telecommunications program. In 2008 the Advisory Board will support the new concentration in Information Networking within the Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering program with the objective of preparing students for practice in the applications, services and networking industry. The Industry Advisory Board, which consists of representatives from education, industry, business and government, plays a key role in the achievement of this objective. Board Member Roles
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Return to M.Eng. in Information Networking Home Page Newstep Networks Bell Canada Jimmy is currently a Network Architect on the IP/MPLS Network Evolution Team at Bell Canada. His work includes Network Architecture development, New Technology Introduction, and IP/MPLS Technology Strategy Planning. He also worked on Service-Oriented Architectures while in Bell's Enterprise Architecture group. Jimmy holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Waterloo in Systems Design Engineering with Computer Engineering and Management Sciences Options. He later obtained his Master's degree from the University of Toronto in the Master of Engineering in Telecommunications program focusing on wireless communications and industry/technology analysis. He is the first MET alumni to serve as an Architect-in-Residence for the MET program. Prior to this, Jimmy has spent time in Antenna Engineering at the Canadian Space Agency (Ottawa) and Research In Motion (Waterloo), as well as Mobile Applications Engineering at NVIDIA (San Jose). AlleWin Technologies After getting his Ph.D in Coding and Information Theory Kit joined Nortel to design digital echo suppressor and speech compression coders in 1976. He spent the next 26 years in system design, digital switching, network management and packet networks. In the summers of 1992 and 1996 he took executive business management courses in MIT and Harvard business school to diversify his management skills. Kit was VP for the Enterprise Data division responsible for the Passport data product when he retired in the beginning of 2001 just before the technology bubble bursted. Kit was invited to lead a freshly formed start up Seaway Networks in Apr 2001 where he went through the most challenging moment in his life trying to raise venture capital funding after the technology train wreck in 2001/2002. Seaway Networks, a content processing and security fabless semiconductor start up was acquired by Freescale Semiconductor (the Motorola semiconductor spin off) in August 2005. He stayed on at Freescale as the Director for the Ottawa Technology Centre to ensure the smooth integration of Seaway into the Freescale corporate structure. He retired from Freescale in August 06 after successfully integrating Seaway into Freescale and meeting all the performance milestones as related to the acquisition. In the autumn of 06 Kit was trying to fulfill a long broken promise to his wife to clean up the garage. He completed the job just before snow started. As he emerged from his garage he was confronted by a group of engineers from a Wireless start up in stealth mode who wanted to find a CEO to take them to the next round of financing. Aided by their investor Kit was drafted to take on the job two days before Christmas. Nortel Jean has been with Nortel for over 22 years. His interests in networking started when he was working on a manufacturing automation project that required linking and controlling various pieces of production equipment. From there he went on to join Nortel's nascent Data Network Division (DND) whose flag ship product at the time was the DPN X25 switch. In DND he was responsible for the divisions communications network which for data was all terminal based at the time. He went on to evolve this network to Ethernet and IP routing. In turn he was given a position in a new department aptly named the Data Network Engineering which was responsible for network engineering pre-sale and post sale support for the DPN (X25) and Passport (FR, ATM, Packet Telephony and Routing) product lines. As the products and protocols evolved Jean has been responsible for defining the network engineering guidelines for traffic management, frame relay, packet telephony and IP routing, as well as consulting to Nortel's key customers in the evolution of their network architecture. Presently Jean continues his work in network architecture as well as working on Nortel's new Multiservice Provider Edge (MPE) router in the areas of MPLS, traffic engineering, traffic management and system performance and scalability. IBM Larry is a Business Development Executive within the Telecommunications Industry of IBM's Global Business Services organization. Larry's role is to help Canadian Service Providers grow their revenues and profits by leveraging IBM's resources to help them create, deliver and manage new services. Larry's previous responsibilities at IBM included relationship management in the telecommunications industry and marketing management of IBM Canada's e-business hosting businesses. Prior to joining IBM Larry launched and managed several businesses in the telecommunications industry, including a consulting firm and a long distance telephone company. Larry holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of New Brunswick. Industry Canada Colman Ho is currently Director of IP Telecommunications and Security in the Spectrum, Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector (SITT) of Industry Canada . He is responsible for identifying issues and impacts of emerging telecommunication services and technologies to telecom policies and regulations; and providing advices and recommendations. In addition, Colman manages the Protocol Analysis Lab which focuses on studying and analyzing network and protocol vulnerabilities. Colman's current focus is Voice over IP and Next generation Network (NGN) vulnerabilities. He is also responsible for the NGN, Security, and other IP standards in fora such as ITU-T, IETF and CITEL. Colman has presented at a wide range of technical conferences and seminars. Colman graduated in 1977 with a B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) degree and a Master of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) degree in 1983, all from the University of Manitoba . Upon graduation in 1977, he joined Manitoba Telephone System (MTS) as a Transmission Engineer. He was assigned by MTS to work in Telecom Canada for two years as a Network Architecture Advisor to formulate the network evolution strategic plan for the member Canadian telephone companies. Prior to joining Industry Canada in 2001, Colman worked in Nortel for 16 years. During his career in Nortel, Colman held progressive senior positions with increasing responsibilities in various work areas, including telecommunication regulation and standards, professional services, design and prototyping, system architecture and network planning, strategic planning, and technical marketing. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in IP Telephony Architecture and Protocols, Service Architecture, Network and Protocol Security, and Network Protocol Design. MTS Allstream TELUS  Shuming is the Director of Planning & Engineering in TELUS Network & Operations department at TELUS. He is responsible for planning function of TELUS nation-wide Voice & NGN networks and associated supporting network systems. Shuming is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario . Shuming received his Bachelor and Masters of Engineering in Telecommunication degrees from Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China. After graduation, Shuming worked for China Telecom in different areas, including as a lecturer in university, as an engineer and senior engineer in manufacturing and network planning & engineering areas. Shuming also held progressive management roles in his career with China Telecom. In 1997, Shuming worked for the University of Sussex, U.K. as a Research Fellow in the School of Engineering with focus on the research on ATM. In the summer of 1998 Shuming moved to Canada and joined Northern Telephone Ltd. as an engineer. Shuming has held progressive positions in Sprint Canada since he joined the company at the beginning of 2000 as a senior data network engineer, solution architect, network architect, Manager of network & architecture group and Senior Manager of Technology Planning group. Shuming joined TELUS in October 2006 in his current role. Shuming has also been involved with the MET program since 2003 by providing guidance to MET students. Shuming has published many engineering design documents in his work with various companies, and two papers at international conferences in his telecommunications career. Nortel Lin Lin is a senior engineer in the Multimedia Applications group at Nortel. Over the past 18 years, he has worked at various levels of abstraction including hardware design, digital signal processing, embedded systems, storage, telecom middleware, speech applications, and web development, with an emphasis on unified messaging and communications. Most recently, he has been working on voice over IP, video over IP, and orchestration in service-oriented architectures. Outside of Nortel, he is involved in an effort to design a common phonetic writing system for interchange among the world's natural languages. Lin did his BASc in computer engineering at the University of Toronto in the division of engineering science. He has been working on computational fluid dynamics at the department of physics, where he received an MSc. He is a PEng in Ontario. Nortel Ping Lin is a Senior Technical Advisor with the Enterprise & SMB Communication Systems (ESCS) and Multimedia Applications (MA) groups at Nortel, currently working in the areas of IP telephony call server architecture and technical strategy/cross-product architecture for the Nortel Application Center suite (which includes contact center, unified messaging, interactive voice response and multimedia conferencing products). She has been in the computer and communications industries since 1985. Prior to Nortel, she worked at IBM for 10 years in product development and leadership positions in several areas, including computer systems and network security, distributed computing, compiler technology, and internationalization/localization. She obtained a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Science, Computer Option, all from the University of Toronto. Return to M.Eng. in Information Networking Home Page
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