RICHARD ALLEN SCOTT - Through the Years
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<strong>RICHARD</strong> <strong>ALLEN</strong> <strong>SCOTT</strong><br />
THROUGH THE YEARS<br />
2000<br />
In April, I left HVR Canada Inc., as <strong>the</strong> company was going to close its Canadian operation.<br />
Since I was <strong>the</strong> last one on, I’d be <strong>the</strong> first one off, so to speak, so I found employment at<br />
ano<strong>the</strong>r tech consulting firm, APG Solutions and Technologies, in May. While I was busy<br />
working on potential contracts, none actually happened…I wasn’t bringing in revenue for <strong>the</strong><br />
firm, and so was getting kind of anxious. I stayed busy by being ‘creative’ and putting toge<strong>the</strong>r<br />
documentation that would be of benefit to <strong>the</strong> firm internally.<br />
Not to worry though, in September <strong>the</strong>y were bought out by CGI Group Inc., a very large<br />
Canadian high-tech firm. They absorbed all of us APG’ers and put us at desks in hallways as<br />
<strong>the</strong>y didn’t have space for us in offices. We weren’t expected to sit at those desks for very<br />
long…we had to hustle for contracts and generate revenue. They didn’t want us in <strong>the</strong> office at<br />
all, but at client sites.<br />
CGI at that time was going through a massive acquisition of smaller firms, and those who came<br />
over to CGI were not especially welcomed by <strong>the</strong> existing CGIers, in my opinion…not very<br />
friendly. I managed to get a good contract in <strong>the</strong> RCMP where I identified a governance<br />
structure model for business continuity management within <strong>the</strong> RCMP and performed an allencompassing<br />
risk assessment and business impact analysis across all business lines,<br />
concerning <strong>the</strong> delivery of national RCMP services from and within <strong>the</strong> National Capital Region.<br />
A big job that took me about 4 months. I presented <strong>the</strong> RCMP client with a couple of ‘bricks’ –<br />
large documents containing findings, options and recommendations…and walked off into <strong>the</strong><br />
sunset.<br />
One nice thing about this consulting business. You ‘did your thing’, presented documents, and<br />
<strong>the</strong>n disappeared, without worrying about what <strong>the</strong>y did with <strong>the</strong>m! A little hard to get used to<br />
since my life up until <strong>the</strong>n had been all about implementing solutions. I quickly got used to<br />
walking away without worrying.<br />
Robyne started as<br />
a customer service<br />
agent at First Air in<br />
<strong>the</strong> Ottawa airport.<br />
Tim was appointed<br />
National Logistics<br />
Effectiveness<br />
Manager for<br />
Nestlé.<br />
June 2017<br />
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