Category: Volunteering
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How Time Flies
It seems like such a short time ago that my son (the elder) was in elementary school. In 2010 I helped his school by upgrading their systems from an unmanaged Windows XP environment onto Windows 7… along with Office 365 for e-mail. The story was picked up by IT World Canada. While I was given…
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A Sour Note From Toronto 2015 Volunteers
Let me start by saying that I had the greatest time at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games. It was a pleasure to spend eight days (plus training) with a group of mostly like-minded individuals who, when they were asked, signed up by the tens of thousands to volunteer at the Games… in any capacity…
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Pan Am… Do something for nothing, and get so much!
If you follow me on Facebook you will already know that I was selected as a volunteer for the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games. My decision to volunteer dates back to the 2013 Taekwondo Canada Open; at the end of the event the administrator thanked me for my hard work, and hoped that I would…
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The Genesis of my Career as an IT Consultant and Trainer
I can’t believe it has been eight years… I wrote this article for TechRepublic while I was still working for IGS Security in Montreal. These articles are the genesis of my career as a computer consultant and IT Trainer and Presenter. The first article tells of how and why I began to transition from a…
The World According to Mitch 