MCIS AGM 2013

MCIS Volunteer of the Year Award recognizes one individual selected from among our Volunteers of the Year for his/her outstanding achievements in the community and for upholding our MCIS values. The purpose of the Award is to recognize the importance and contributions of unpaid volunteers to MCIS, to promote the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Canadian Bill of Rights promotion interpretation and translation at a community level, to identify role models for emulation and to encourage the involvement of community organizations within the region. Our warmest congratulations to the recipient of MCIS Volunteer of the Year Award -  Fred Li!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fred Li was born in Tianjin, China, and has been living in Canada since 2001.
Fred has over 30 years of IT and consulting experience working for various organizations including fortune 500 industry leading companies such as GEC and Motorola.
 
Fred started his IT career in 1983 at the Tianjin Computer Institute.  In 1988, he became a national certified software engineer and senior programmer by China High Tech Promotion Committee under State Council. From 1994 to 1996, he joined GEC in UK as a senior software engineer in a Sino-UK government exchange scholars program. He learnt and mastered industrial software development standards, managed projects and designed bespoke software for the organizations in Europe and Middle East including blue chip companies. During this period, GEC sponsored Fred for an advanced training in Software Engineering at the Aston University.
 
Upon completion of a two year program Fred returned to China and undertook several large scale projects. In 1997, he joined Motorola as an IT specialist and then started progressive IT and management career that included advanced HR management training which allowed the shift from mostly technical role to more comprehensive global IT management role. Additionally, Fred won a Motorola scholarship and completed his MBA at the Arizona State University in 2003. Fred strongly believes that continuous educational opportunities and career development benefit not only employees but business in general:  solutions, implementation and process improvements provided by knowledgeable personnel always exceed clients’ expectations and, in turn, expand the number of business opportunities.
 
In July 2001, seeking better education experience for his family, Fred decided to emigrate to Canada. Fred continued his career at Motorola  managing enterprise applications and IT service delivery to support world-wide business sites and groups and ensuring that IT service operation models  provided maximize the alignment between business operation and IT.
 
Fred joined MCIS in July 2012 first as a volunteer.  For Fred, this was the very first “Canadian experience” and Fred considers himself to be very fortunate having this opportunity to make contribution to local community while acquiring working networks and experiences.
 
Upon completing his volunteer placement Fred is now working at MCIS as an IT consultant.
He enjoys tremendously working with MCIS’s team and hopes that his work is a bit of help and make difference.