Bill St. Arnaud

Presentation: CANAIRE, Inc

Bill St. Arnaud is Senior Director of Network Projects for CANARIE Inc., Canada's advanced Internet development organization and has led the development, coordination and implementation of the national optical R&D Internet network - CA*net 3.

Prior to his appointment at CANARIE, Mr. St. Arnaud was a consultant and chief engineer at Switzer Engineering where he developed and patented encryption devices for transmitting high quality video for TV broadcasts, Project Manager at Motorola where he was involved in the nationwide deployment of a Police wireless communications system, President and founder of TSA Proforma - software and LAN company that developed networked trading systems for brokers and traders which was sold to Eastern Datacomm and ABC Communications (Hong Kong) in 1988, consultant for a number of high tech start ups, and Project Director for Vision 2000.

Mr. St. Arnaud is a member of the editorial board of Optical Networking Magazine, is a member of the STAR TAP advisory committee, a Glocom Fellow of the Center for Global Communications, Steering Committee for the SPIE Technical Group on Optical Networks. He is a frequent guest speaker at conferences on the Internet and optical networking and a regular contributor to several networking magazines.

He obtained his B.Eng from Carleton University.