Location: Vancouver

Postion Type: Contract

Start Date: 15-Feb-2012

Duration: 6 Months

Position Overview:

Working with the overall project manager, technical project manager and business operations team, the project manager would be responsible for managing the business process transition from a distributed to a centralised scheduling and timekeeping model.

The project manager will be responsible for guiding the business operations through this transformation. This will include helping the business design the new business processes (business process review) and leading the organisation through the change by developing and implementing a sound change management plan.

While the project manager does not have supervisory responsibility, this person will have to work with many others in the organization in order to succeed. The project manager will act as a coach for managers and senior leaders in helping them fulfill the role of change sponsors and project leaders.

Roles and Responsibilities:
· Apply a structured project management approach and methodology

· Develop a change management strategy based on a situational awareness of the details of the change and the groups being impacted by the change.

· Conduct readiness assessments, evaluate results and present findings in a logical and easy-to-understand manner.

· Develop a set of actionable and targeted project plan

· Support the execution of plans by employee-facing managers and business leaders.

· Be an active and visible coach to team members

· Create and manage measurement systems to track adoption, utilization and proficiency of individual changes.

· Identify resistance and performance gaps, and work to develop and implement corrective actions

· Create and enable reinforcement mechanisms and celebrations of success.

· Work with project teams to integrate change management activities into the overall project plan.

· Work with communication, training, and HR in the formulation of particular plans and activities to support project implementation.

Skills and Qualifications:
· A solid understanding of how people go through a change and the change process.

· Experience and knowledge of project and change management principles and methodologies

· Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle.

· Exceptional communication skills – both written and verbal.

· Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.

· Excellent active listening skills.

· Problem solving and root cause identification skills.

· Strong analytic and decision making abilities.

· Must be a team player and able to work with and through others.

· Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.

· Experience with large-scale organizational change effort.

· Previous change management experience is a plus.

· A PMP certification is desirable.

Location: Vancouver

Postion Type: Contract

Start Date: 15-Feb-2012

Duration: 6 Months

Position Overview:

A Business Analyst with a strong financial background with preferably an accounting designation. The successful candidate must have a demonstrated ability to work with Senior Management level resources to prepare comprehensive, concise Business Requirements and fully scope a project.A demonstrated ability to analyze, gather information to ensure successful integration and implementation of a software product as part of delivering a business solution would be a strong asset.

The Business Analyst responsibilities will initially be directed at conducting an Expression of Interest (EOI) to determine marketplace availability including: planning, forecasting, Dynamic Capital Adequacy Testing (DCAT) as defined by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries to set appropriate capital targets and assess the corporation’s ability to withstand adverse events and to measure the impact of those events on the corporation’s financial statements.

Location: Vancouver

Postion Type: Contract

Start Date: 01-March-2012

Duration: 3 Months

Position Overview:

- C# experience MCSD or MCP for .NET – main requirement.Net framework experience, OOD and OOA experience (design patterns, refactoring and other application architecture topics)

- Extensive experience with Oracle RDBMS or with Microsoft SQL Server, PL/SQL extensive experience ideally with OCP (Oracle Certified Professional) or T-SQL (stored procedures, triggers)

- VB 6 extensive experience with MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) an asset, Unit Testing experience.

Details/Requirements: An impeccable professional and personal record is a must, The candidate must be a team player

The Cadman Consulting Group was rated in the May 30 – June 5, 2006 issue of Business in Vancouver as number 17 of the biggest Management Consulting Companies in B.C. Topping the list was Accenture, IBM Canada and Sierra Systems.

Gary Cadman of The Cadman Consulting Group was nominated in June 1998 for Ernst & Young, Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Award recipients and finalists are selected by prestigious independent regional and national judging panels made up of leading figures from the business and academic communities including past Entrepreneur Of The Year award recipients. The judging criteria include profit and employee numbers, together with such factors as degree of innovation, development of creative and ingenious production, marketing and selling techniques, extent of expansion into national and international markets, and commitment to the community.

Imagine this scenario. You’re hoping to launch a new technology product and estimate developing the software codes will take five people to complete. The problem is, there are no in-house software developers waiting for something to do and expanding the staff for one project is out of the question. Hiring a technology consultant could be the most efficient way of completing the project.

Before you hire a consultant, Gary Cadman thinks there are a few things to keep in mind. Cadman is a technology consultant recruitment expert, and principal of Vancouver-based Cadman Consulting Group. He offered the following advice:

Define your needs. No technology consultant can do a proper job if you haven’t figured out exactly what you need done. Having detailed notes on what you want to accomplish will help you identify which skills to look for in a consultant.

Up-front due diligence is key. Spend the necessary time going through the applications and look for inconsistencies-Cadman said one in five resumes isn’t entirely accurate. Conduct thorough interviews and check at least three references. A Consultant’s former managers will likely make better references than former co-workers.

Don’t hire sight unseen. Technology consultants won’t become part of your permanent staff, but chances are they’ll still have to work with several of your employees. So meet them in person. Doing so is particularly important when using the internet to locate consultants.

Look for consultants whose past professional environment matches your company’s. A technology consultant used to working in a R&D environment may not be well-suited for a manufacturing business.

Nothing can substitute for years on the job. As a rule of thumb, Cadman seeks technology specialists with minimum of three years of technical expertise and 10 years working in a technology environment.

Put it on paper. Define goals and schedule specifications of a job as far as you can take them. Insist on receiving frequent status reports which will keep you and the consultant on track.

Get your staff involved. Make sure whoever will be using the application or system being developed by a consultant is involved in the entire process, from planning right through to testing and implementation. Clearly identifying the needs of end users will reduce the risk of a consultant going off-track or of a project running too long.

Before hiring consultants to manage your projects related to the Year 2000 problem, complete a systems audit. Make a list of all applications used in your office. The more information your consultants have, the better they’ll manager the project.

Always keep lines of communication open. It will keep you informed about progress and it will give consultants the confidence to talk to you about issues before they become problems.

Trust your instincts. Don’t be afraid to turn away candidates who look good on paper, but who you feel will not be a good match with your company.

GARY CADMAN – 39, PRESIDENT, CADMAN CONSULTING GROUP Reprinted from Business in Vancouver December 31, 1996

IT’S OUR GREAT HONOUR to be back with our sixth Forty Under Forty, B.C.’s original showcase of astounding young business people who make the rest of us feel lacklustre by comparison.

That of course is some people’s initial reaction. But once they read these stories, it’s hard not to get caught up by amazement at what some people in their 20s and 30s have managed to do. Once again this year, as in previous years, the range is phenomenal– from clothing retailers to ultrasound software designers to computer recyclers.

What is especially satisfying in publishing stories about these people is that most of them have never been featured in the media before. No other forum allows Greater Vancouver readers to discover this wealth of upcoming local talent before these people become more widely recognized.

Forty Under Forty winners are picked from names submitted by BIV readers, which are then verified and documented by our editorial research team, led by the exemplary efforts of Noel MacDonald. A panel of judges then decides which ones achieved the most “outstanding performance in a business environment, private or public.” Winners have to live in B.C. and be under 40 on December 31, 1996.

This year’s judges were Suromitra Sanatini, director of provincial affairs, B.C. and the Yukon, for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, Stanley Shapiro, dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, James Hudson, senior VP of the Pacific Division of the TD Bank, and myself. We tried scoring everyone on a points system, but soon gave that up for a more subjective assessment. When you read the stories, you’ll know instinctively, as we did, that these people are winners.

Now that BIV readers have had a chance to meet these “tycoons of tomorrow,” we’ll be giving them a chance to meet each other. On January 30, the TD Bank, Corporate Recruiters and Straiths will be sponsoring a gala reception to honour this year’s top Forty Under Forty.

Gary Cadman has technology for hire.

His recruiting company, the Cadman Consulting Group Inc., has a roster of 600 computer specialists trained to do anything from programming new software to working on mainframe computer systems. Operating as a high tech. temporary agency, Cadman will match up prospective workers with the job his clients need done.

Cadman’s service works well for his customers on two fronts-it helps them find people for temporary work and it prevents them from having to go through a time-consuming screening process.

“They need someone yesterday,” Cadman says. “Companies can be inundated with resumes, and in a lot of cases they don’t know where to start.”

Effective screening is integral to Cadman’s credibility, so prospective candidates must go through an interview and have their credentials verified. As well, reference checks with two or three previous managers are always conducted.

BC Rail has been a customer of Cadman’s for about a year. Ed Smethurst, Application Development Supervisor for the information services department, says Cadman’s company saves BC Rail time by prequalifying its contract candidates.

“He’s very professional, he’s always very enthusiastic and working to help us,” Smethurst says. “We’ve taken on the people he’s put forward.”

Cadman’s company is just three years old, but his revenues are expected to be more than $1 million this year. Currently, he has 22 or 23 workers out in the field. He takes a portion of their salaries.

“We’ve doubled in one year, and we expect that growth to continue,” he says.

Cadman has working in the computer industry for 18 years, holding jobs at such places as the Bank of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Tandem Computers. He has no formal post-secondary degree but has taken many courses to supplement his education.

Cadman, who is unmarried and doesn’t spend all his days indoors with a computer: he enjoys mountain biking and skiing, and even participated in a sailboat race from Victoria to Maui this June.

And he admits that while he can grasp the goals his clients are trying to accomplish, he doesn’t perform any of the technical services himself.

“I’m a sales guy,” Cadman says. “If I tried to go and develop something right now, it would be dangerous.”