Meet Our Team
Ma茂 Aba Limane
Service Delivery Specialist
Having worked as an Operations Analyst for years in Information Technology and Citrix support, my goal is to provide value and support for the OISE community by responding to end-user service requests, serving as a resource on hardware and software-related issues, as well as working on all IT-related projects.
I make workflow easier by researching, troubleshooting, and resolving all technical issues.
Aside from technology, I enjoy taking road trips, and playing badminton when I get a chance. I鈥檓 also very big on nature, be it small-scale gardening, fishing, camping, or photography.
Al-Hasan Ali
IT Procurement Officer
As an experienced Supply Chain Professional, focusing on the big picture while paying attention to details has always been my recipe for tackling any task. This approach has assisted me in developing issue mitigation strategies as well as being involved in many process improvement initiatives. I am also very keen on developing and maintaining excellent relations all throughout, which I believe is the icing on the cake in exceeding expectations, providing the ultimate satisfaction to the end user, and in supporting the OISE community at large.
Apart from being somewhat of a techie, I am a father of 3 and we love spending plenty of time together. Whether it be exploring the outdoors, travelling, shopping, or simply enjoying tech videos, you will find us together exploring the big picture of life.
Barrett Arbour
Full Stack Developer
As a full-stack developer, I am passionate about creating accessible, educational, and fun websites. My goal is to use my technical acumen to stay up to date in tech and create great products everyone can use. I am ecstatic to be able to contribute to the creative, passionate environment at OISE. Outside of my 9 to 5, I love baking and cooking, and have recently started gardening.
Laize Bacay
Technology Adoption Consultant
I鈥檓 passionate about understanding the technology needs of clients and delivering excellence in customer service鈥攕omething I learned during my time at Apple Inc. In my spare time I collect and wear my sneakers, and I鈥檓 a huge basketball fan.
Jed Dela Cruz
Drupal Developer
I鈥檝e spent the past ten years involved in nearly every aspect of the website-making process on projects large, small and everything in-between. I work with codes, pixels and people.
I鈥檓 a web generalist by trade, but a front-end designer by heart. When not at work, there鈥檚 a good chance I鈥檓 watching a Raptors game.
Julia Duncan
Director, Education Commons
As the Director, I have the privilege of leading a talented Education Commons team in the pursuit of OISE鈥檚 excellence in teaching, learning and cutting-edge research.
One of my passions is viewing challenges and possibilities from the lens of People, Process, and Technology. I am always on the lookout for continual improvement opportunities through technology and its contextual application while understanding the long-lasting impact on people, their wellbeing and their experience.
My areas of inquiry are in pervasive technological changes and their effect on our everyday living, learning and discovering.
Dinushy Elamurugan
Technology Adoption Consultant
I am a cybersecurity professional passionate about keeping the digital world secure and diving into all things cybersecurity. I make it a point to stay updated with the latest trends in the field. Being an altruistic person, the opportunity to work at OISE gives me a greater sense of contribution. My goal, and the most interesting part of my job, is to reduce the threat landscape and foster a culture of a cyber safe environment within OISE.
Azeem Khan
Audio Visual and Business Solution Architect
My passion lies in digital transformations and driving efficiency in workplaces. I have a diverse work background: I鈥檝e worked as an entrepreneur delivering a myriad of AV projects in settings like education, defense, airports and office spaces. I鈥檝e also been a lead for complex projects at enterprises such as Shell and CIBC. Coming from a security background, I have an eye for processes which re-enforce security in AV/IT.
At OISE, I hope to drive visionary projects which help improve people鈥檚 everyday experiences with technology.
Outside of work, I love building play-structures for my kids (also my cat) and playing video games with my son.
Jun Huang
Budget and Financial Analyst
I am a designated accounting professional with many years鈥 experiences in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting and internal control. I am passionate about supporting better business decision-making by accurate financial analysis and optimizing work efficiency.
I also enjoy cooking and hiking with families and friends when I am free.
Chris Klammer
Technology Adoption Consultant
My passion is to help to make people's lives easier through technology. Having worked in research, education, and IT, I'm always driven to explore the technological tools of my trade, particularly when it comes to data.
I believe that good data facilitates making good decisions, and as such, I strive to organize data into clear, accurate, easily-digestible formats.
Outside of work, I like to wind down with a bike ride or some old video games, or experience other cultures through food and travel.
Ryan Lahti
Technology Adoption Consultant
As a Technology Adoption Consultant, I work with clients and subject matter experts to solve contemporary issues surrounding educational technology.
I have a strong background in the education field, holding four degrees from education faculties, including my Doctor of Education from Western University. As a certified Ontario teacher, I have worked in the K-12, college and university sectors.
On a personal level, I love to travel and share my experiences with others. From winter camping in the Arctic to backpacking across Central America, I believe travel is the best way to learn and grow.
Thomas Lynch
Full Stack Developer
I am a full-stack developer who likes to push myself to try new things and learn new technologies across the stack, from tinkering with electronics to learning functional programming. As a web developer, accessibility, performance, and good design are always at the forefront of my work. As such, I am excited to leverage the technological tools at my disposal to provide value to members of the OISE community. In my personal life I enjoy biking, reading, and nature photography.
Hentry Mathias
Drupal Developer
As a Drupal Developer, my job is to link between design and technology that turn an idea into an interactive web page.
I have more than 12 years of Web Design and Web Development experience. I constantly update myself with latest web technology/ standards and love to implement it. I like to use analogy when explaining web terms to my clients for easy understanding.
Outside of my work, I enjoy driving long distance.
Chandra Pabbisetty
Service Delivery Specialist
As an IT support specialist, I contribute a diverse set of skills in a variety of technical areas, including troubleshooting strategies, IT asset management, network infrastructure, and operations management. I am always keen to learn about and assess new technical platforms, tools, and cloud technologies, with an emphasis on IT service efficiency, continuous IT innovation, and IT security.
I accomplished my Post Graduate Diploma in Wireless Information Networking and a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. I am a CompTIA Security+ holder and Certified ITIL 4 Strategist with a focus on IT Planning and Improvement.
As a Service Delivery Specialist at OISE, my priority will be to offer an efficient approach to resolving end-user technologies, collaborate and plan IT initiatives, and assist IT service delivery operations using my prior professional, academic, and technical skills.
Aside from my tech interests, I enjoy photography as a hobby. Cooking and spending time with family and friends are two of my favourite pastimes.
Raman Saini
System Analyst
As a system administrator with OISE, I am responsible for diagnosing and resolving performance issues to ensure optimal performance and reliability. My goal is to ensure that our technology infrastructure runs smoothly and efficiently. I am glad to be part of the OISE family and hope to share my experience and knowledge.
Apart from technology, I also enjoy gardening and biking in my free time.
Guree Sandhar
System Administrator
I have experience working on and supporting various infrastructure technical towers throughout my career. I have managed Linux, VMware, Citrix, Azure, and AWS environments.
I like to get to know different tools and technologies, and how they compare in practical environments. I do not like to be chauffeured around.
I enjoy taking short vacations with family and friends and exploring new desserts.
Roger Shaw
Associate Director, IT Client Services and Business Management
I am a senior service delivery leader providing strategic and tactical guidance to organizations along their service delivery and digital transformation journeys. With community and partner engagements always a top priority, I enjoy working cross-functionally and collaboratively to successfully deliver services and projects.
I am motivated every day by a passion to create value, influence positively, empower others, and never stop learning. I am also passionate about keeping current on emerging trends and best practices, technologies, regulations, thought leaders, and my client鈥檚 needs, along with an unwavering focus on world-class service delivery and customer satisfaction. Outside of work, I enjoy watching sports and travelling to track and field events around the world.
Bernie Spudic
Associate Director, Digital Products & System Architecture
As Associate Director, I am continuously working with our team to provide reliable and responsive applications and infrastructure to OISE.
Engagement with partners and the OISE community to understand and provide great service is a key area of focus. Together, we will look for opportunities to change and evolve to strengthen the services delivered through People & Technology. I am always open to questions, discussions and feedback and look forward to having them with everyone in the community.
Fun fact, you鈥檒l often find me with a cup of coffee in hand. I am easily convinced to have another.
Neil Tinker
Service Delivery Specialist
As the longest-serving member of the Education Commons team, I have seen dramatic change in our technologies and services over the years. Still, the guiding principle remains the same: to provide the highest quality service in an approachable, friendly way. In my current role as Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Analyst, I take great pride in realizing the spirit of that principle every day. Developing strong relationships within OISE and beyond is the foundation of everything I do, both professionally and personally. Whether I鈥檓 setting up audio-video for an OISE event, enabling video collaboration, advising researchers and instructors on their best technology options, or overseeing the provision of hardware and software to meet a need within a budget, it鈥檚 always all about the people I鈥檓 working with.
Todd Vernon
Solutions Architect
In my time with the Education Commons as a Senior Developer, I鈥檝e been privileged to work with our team supporting the OISE community. I enjoy the creation of technological solutions for life鈥檚 little problems. Some might call it laziness, but I鈥檇 rather automate something than have to do it a second time. That鈥檚 why I derive pleasure from building software for the web, mobile and desktop platforms that takes the repetitiveness out of day to day tasks for the OISE community, while adding consistency to workflows and output.
Brian Whelan
Service Delivery Specialist
A small-town guy from Ireland, I have experience in industries ranging from Education to Tech start-ups. I have found that nothing satisfies me more than meeting new people, developing new relationships, solving problems, and contributing to the overall success of a business.
After three years of living and working in the education industry in South Korea, I moved to Canada to restart my career in IT. An IT professional, I bring years of experience working in service desks dealing with hardware, software and network related issues. I hold two cybersecurity certificates and the Cisco CCNA, and spend most of my time self-studying. My goal is to bring these skills to the OISE community in the role of a Service Delivery Specialist.
On a personal level, I love to travel having spent over a year backpacking Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In my free time, I play disc golf almost daily and am an avid supporter of Arsenal football club in the UK.
Bahman Yaghoobi
Full Stack Developer
As Oliver Gaspirtz says, 鈥淵ou only live once, so enjoy the ride!鈥 I enjoy computer programming both as a hobby and a profession. It is exciting how you can imagine something and use your knowledge and experience to make it a reality. As a full stack developer with Education Commons, I am thrilled to work with both front-end and back-end technologies to make a difference and provide our teaching and learning community with the right tools and technologies to help them reach their highest performance.
Andrea Zdzylowski
Technology Adoption Consultant
As a Technology Adoption Consultant, I look forward to helping the OISE community enhance the delivery of their thoughts and findings through multimedia integration. I am passionate about accessibility standards and strive to adopt the latest technology solutions鈥擨 rarely say no to a software update.
In my spare time, I enjoy going to concerts, collecting trading cards, and watching New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW).
