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Dean Styles BSc, MEng, MBA, CISSP

Dean started with Environment Canada developing real time interfaces for engineering test equipment. He moved to Digital Equipment (now part of Hewlett Packard) and obtained a Masters of Business Administration while supporting engineering and health care systems, providing sales support, consulting, and project management. He moved to Telus and obtained a Masters of Engineering while working for 16 years managing a team that built and operated a very successful enterprise business system supporting over 2000 users.

Now a partner with Sooty Solutions Dean likes the role of trouble shooter drawing on his training as a Certified Information System Security Professional providing strategic advice on security and BCP/DRP or drawing on his many years of project management experience taking over troubled projects and providing the assessment, project redesign, and leadership needed for project recovery.

You can get a more detailed story in his RTF or PDF resume.



James Styles BSc

James was programming a hexapod robot when he was 14 and he taking adult evening courses at BCIT while still in high school. He received his BCIT programming certificate when he was 18. James entered 2nd year Computing Science at SFU when he was 17 and finished with First Class Honours in 2008. He is currently working on a graduate degree in Computing Science at UBC.

He started working at Actenum while he was an SFU student and is still there part time applying constraint programming to develop artificial intelligence scheduling packages for industrial and emergency services applications. He is also working part time at the UBC Beta Lab.

As a partner in Sooty Solutions he prefers to provide technical support to development teams and build the core computer algorithms that are critical to application speed and performance.

You can get a more detailed story in his RTF or PDF resume.