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My Blogs
- An Open Letter to Ed Holder Member of Parliament
- Goodbye Facebook, it has been fun
- Computers Now And Then
- Thinking of using August's Harvest? Perhaps you want to think again!
- Living in the City
- Self-deception may not be your fault...
- A Metablog Report
- More Travel Hell
- Ouch! The mind remembers but the body forgets
- Lefty, Righty, little black tighties
I am on the "Internets"
If you do a quick google for "kinchlea dave OR david" on
you will find about 11,000 hits, and while I do have a cousin in the UK named Dave Kinchlea, who has even done a reality TV show, these represent mostly my own contribution.
Dave Kinchlea on LinkedIn I have a fairly extensive work biography on LinkedIn, though I think http://dave.kinchlea.net/kinch-bio has now surpassed LinkedIn for details, some people think it is far too complete but I figure you can always stop reading at some point
Dave Kinchlea on YouTube On occasion I have made a video or two, these are the ones I've really done for fun, there are others I've done for business
See Dave Kinchlea's Twitter Feed I mostly tweet to let people know about my blogs, I'm not really much of a status tweeter
Follow Dave Kinchlea on Facebook This is where I straddle the line between business and social, where my high-school and university friends mingle with my colleagues and ex-colleagues. I am reasonably active on but not a particular fan of Facebook.
Work History
| Livelink-Experts.com | Founder of this community of experts focused around the Enterprise Content Management Engine formally called Livelink | 2010 -> Present |
Founder and President of GATE: Global Alliance of Trusted Experts Inc. an online web resource centre. GATE Village is the best, most functional online resource for creating web sites and web communities. With a single managed platform, GATE Village designs, hosts, and manages web sites for e-commerce, personal blogging, traditional bricks-and-mortar business, specialized expert communities, each site having as little or as much functionality as they desire. http://www.gatevillage.net provides a place to learn about the capabilities of the platform as well as highlight some of our clients. | 2009->Present | |
Arriving as approximately the 350th employee of Open Text Corporation and leaving a workforce of close to 3,500, I saw and oversaw a great deal of growth and change over the approximate 11 years of employment. Starting as a Senior System Administrator, I quickly moved up to a Director position reporting directly into Senior Management/Executive. I initiated and participated a large number of internal and external initiatives and I was the driving force bringing security issues and their resolution to the attention of the Executive and by extension the company at large. | April 1998 –> January 2009 | |
| Kinchlea Compupter Consulting |
Small systems sales and support, remote and local systems administration, custom coding, security review and recommendations, network design and implementation, and computer training for the consumer, small business, and education markets. KCC was not run as a focused business, rather as a convenient business name to describe a freelance consultant with a growing set of skills and experiences. Highlights were: | June 1990 –> April 1998 |
| Computing and Communication Services, UWO | Virtually all computing at UWO before 1990 was done through a central service-providing department called, at the time, Computing and Communications Services (CCS). I worked on User Desk Support for CCS where I cut my computing teeth and met a lot of really decent people! | September 1986 –> April 1990 |
Education
| Bachelor of Science (Hons), computer science | University of Western Ontario | Completed 1990 |
| Basic Electricity / Basic Electronics | Conestoga College, Waterloo, Ontario | Completed Electricity 1981 Did not complete program |
| High School Equivalence | Fanshawe College, London, Ontario | Did not complete program, 1979 |
| Secondary School | Banting Secondary School, London, Ontario | Completed grade 9, 1976 |
If the truth be told, my education has been varied and quite different than the ordinary route. I do not have a high-school diploma having quit at the beginning of grade 10. I was 15 at the time and was sure that I knew all I needed to to be a success in the world. I tried a few times at upgrading my education as I was a teenager, I took some high-school equivalency courses in Fanshawe College in London, Ontario and I took Basic Electricity and Electronics in Conestoga College in Waterloo, Ontario. In both cases I found that while I definitely could see the value in a formal education I had not yet found the field that excited me and I was not yet mature enough to just do it anyway. In both cases I at first excelled almost to the point of excess followed by boredom and eventual abandonment of the program.
When I hit my twenties, as I started my own handyman business called "Dave Does It All!" I realized that while I could make the business work, it was doing quite well, I still yearned for more mentally challenging things to do. I joined the University of Western Ontario and found the thing I had been missing, I found Computer Science. I schooled and worked at UWO for a decade picking up the BSc and a MSc., both in Computer Science. Though it took a number of years to regain the financial stability I had before I went back to school, I've never regretted that decision.
Publications
My Family
Nothing is more important to me than my family. I've been married to the same lovely woman, Sue Laking and together we have three wonderful children: Keegan, Kareen and Avery. They are all teenagers and they make their mum and I very proud.
Contact Dave Kinchlea
There are many ways to contact Dave Kinchlea, using an online form here, or emailing him here, or, if you are so inclined, phoning him @ 519-435-1277, or even skyping him at davekinchlea.