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USC
Excellent approach to introducing MATLAB for technical problem solving.
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Purdue U.
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Virginia Military Institute
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Celia Desmond
Mississauga, Ontario
Occupation
Owner of a small consulting firm providing education and management in Telecommunications
Education
B.Sc, Mathematics & Physics, Queens University; M. Eng, Electrical, Carleton University
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Studying Engineering
I started adult life as a Kindergarten teacher, while completing a BA at night. In the process, I decided to go on for a second degree that I also completed at night. This allowed me to teach high school Mathematics, which I quite enjoyed. However, after two years of teaching I got married, which necessitated a move to another city. By this time I was 21. With the move, I could not find a high school position, so I looked for work in a corporation. Then my husband decided to do his M.Eng and I decided to accompany him. We completed a Systems Engineering degree together.
Career Life
After my short teaching career, I joined the corporate world. My background, together with the Masters studies, got me into a job at Bell Canada doing traffic analysis on customer circuits and developing traffic models. This was very interesting work. After two years I was promoted to a planning job, and later moved to supervise a group of engineers standardizing equipment for data transmission. I then decided that I wanted to try something different, so I moved to Human Resources. There, for one year, I handled all the hiring for corporate and customer support before going to the line organization to supervise four groups which provided customer support.
When the staff group called me back, I took the lead in setting up a new network architecture which provided greatly enhanced signaling capabilities. I then created a position as an external technical interface, Director Industry Liaison, which kept me busy for a year before we spun off a smaller corporation. In this new corporation, in addition to managing some interesting projects, I had the opportunity to help establish some new processes, a new corporate culture and an employee coaching program. Through most of these years, I also taught telecommunications at Ryerson.
Eventually, I went out on my own to start a small education company. I developed two university programs in telecommunications, and a number of telecom and management courses. I teach courses and manage the programs. I now teach mainly through University of Toronto.
Life Outside Of Work
I have a family—a husband and three children, with one child already at university. I have enjoyed a wonderful volunteer opportunity with IEEE working with the Communications Society for many yearsI have twice been on the Board of Directors of this huge organization (350,000 members). I also sat on the board of the Engineering Institute of Canada. I am currently President of IEEE Communications Society, an international Society of about 60,000 members. My IEEE involvement has brought me many close friendships around the world. In my spare time I run and I make porcelain dolls.
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