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I'm David HC Soul ... and for those of you old enough to  remember no not THAT one ... although I have been known to answer to the name Hutch.

This web site covers an number of things of interest to me in my professional life:

• Complex Event Processing  (CEP) - an emerging way of looking at ways to manage the complexity inherent in our global and enterprise computer and communications systems
• Cybernetics - the science of communication and control in animal and machine - especially the design of viable business systems according to Stafford Beer's VSM (viable systems model)
• Sensor Networks - as the actual delivery platform for CEP systems designed according to the principles of Viable System Constuction (Cybernetics) 
• Systemic and/or design errors being passed off as "human error"
• Embedded systems  - as they are used for the construction of sensor networks etc. for our event networks
• Privacy - as all the above have an impact on our personal privacy, precautions and security of confidential and private information is a must
• Protection of intellectual property - as the head of a company that builds onboth  its intellectual property and the skills of our knowledge based workers, we are vitally interested in this field, and very concerned about abuses in the field of Patent Law ...
  
• This site is a reflection of my personal interests and any opinions expressed are my own (or the named contibutor)......
  

I also have another blog ...  more of a journal that captures things of interest of a broader reach (or perhaps just those 'bright and shiny' things that catch my eye.

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1994–2005                    INETCO Systems Limited               
President & CEO
§     Previously held positions of Chairman, VP R&D, VP Admin/Finance, VP Finance
§   Responsible for all areas of the company operations and grew an international client base in 48 countries with its specialty software products in the data communications / transaction processing arena with SDTN (short duration transaction network) technologies.

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1991 - 1994                 Kaizen Systems/J Kunickey & Co
Management Consultant / Certified General Accountant
§     Private practicer public accountant.
§     Consulting roles in manufacturing resource planning implementation.
§     Miscellaneous contracting & other jobs

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1991–1990                    Memex Systems Inc.                  

General Manager
§     In charge of software customization/developers and consultants for vendor of Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII) and Accounting Software. 
§     Assisted clients in determining their business needs in the manufacturing control and management systems areas and in the determination of customization required to Memex’s suite of products to achieve them.
§ Led programming team through the development cycle.

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1986–1990                    Jet Equipment & Tools               
Controller/CFO
§         Importer/ distributor of machinery, hardware equipment and hand tools with branches across Canada
§     Implemented forecasting and management systems to allow control and substantial reduction of nation wide inventories from a centralized facility in an environment with up to 6 month lead times for stock replenishments from Asian suppliers.

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1984–1985                    Dilor Industries Limited                  
Controller/CFO
§     VC funded high tech startup developing leading edge parallel computer based theatrical/TV production lighting control systems and industrial lighting energy savings controls.

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1980–1984                    Gough Electric Limited                
Secretary /Treasurer
§     Previous positions included: Controller, Assistant Controller, Accounting Manager
§     $92 Million revenue, distributor of electrical hardware and programmable control systems to the construction, mining and forestry sectors through 35 Branches
§  Responsible for all aspects of finance and accounting including credit, collections, management accounting, external accounting, branch accounting as well as IT operations and Systems Development.

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1972–1980                    Flecto Coatings Limited                 
Manager Data Processing and Accounting
§     Previous positions included: Cost Accountant, Inventory Control Supervisor, Production Lead Hand, Development Technician, QA technician
§  Through positions in quality control, product development, manufacturing, inventory management, production management, accounting and data processing I was involved in all aspects of the internal operations of the firm which produced coatings for consumer and marine appications.

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Volunteer work for not for profit organization:

§  BC Lacrosse Association – (Treasurer : 16,000 member provincial sports organization).

Frequently Asked Questions

Who are you ?
I'm David HC Soul ... and for those of you old enough to  remember no not THAT one ... although I have been known to answer to the name Hutch.

This is a personal web site but primarily covers an number of things of interest to me in my professional life: <more>

Who may participate this weblog ?
Anyone may view the weblog.  However, you must be logged in as a member in order to post new items.  The postings are moderated, so there will be a slight time lag between creation of a new item to the actual release.

What is CEP ?
"Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an emerging technology for building and managing information systems. The goal of CEP is to enable the information contained in the events flowing through all of the layers of the enterprise IT infrastructure to be discovered, understood in terms of its impact on high level management goals and business processes, and acted upon in real time. This includes the events created by technologies such as RFID. CEP employs techniques such as detection of complex patterns of many events, event correlation and abstraction, event hierachies, and relationships between events such as causality, membership, and timing, and event-driven processes." -  David Luckham <more>

What is Cybernetics ?
Cybernetics is the science of control and communication in the man and the machine.

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Thus if CEP can  be considered the application of technology to enable the information contained in the events flowing through all of the layers of the enterprise IT infrastructure to be discovered and understood in terms of its impact on high level management goals and business processes (and acted upon in real time), then Managerial Cybernetics can be thought of as the theory and practical guidance of how the systems and communication and control processes should be designed and applied in the first place! <more>

What are Sensor Networks ?

What is SDTN ?
Short Duration Transactions Networks (SDTNs) are a type of data exchange in which the connection between devices exists for a short period of time, generally a few seconds. <more>

Why do you have a section for Intellectual Property discussions?
Many who believe the system of software patents is fatally flawed still encourage companies to file for them as "that's just the way things are now".  But that just isn't good enough... if the system is flawed it must be (eventually) corrected or it will destroy that which it was set up to preserve.  .....The US Supreme court knew this when it first applied corrective influence to a process that was out of control.... in 1882.... shame that the lessons of the past have been forgotten by the current PTO with respect to prior art and obvious concepts in the case of software patents ! <full story>

Why do you have a section for Privacy discussions?

Why a section on embedded systems ?

Why a section on "Errors" ... and why is it labelled as "In Extremis"?

Why a section on Society ?

Why a section on Standards ?

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