Mr. Wafer has over thirty years experience in the fields of management, project management and management consulting.
Areas of activities have included corporate planning and market analysis, organizational planning and implementation, policy and procedure development, systems planning, computer systems development
and implementation and facilities management.Educated in the United Kingdom, Mr. Wafer spent a number of years with International Computers Ltd. in a variety of positions culminating in
being a Senior Project Manager responsible for a number of development, installation and maintenance projects.
Re-locating to Canada in 1975, he spent a number of years at B.C. Central
Credit Union of Vancouver, B.C. rising to the position of Manager of Systems & Programming, responsible for the supervision and administration of 27 technical staff. He spent seven years at
Geac Computer Corporation in various Project Management positions, and as Development Manager for Canadian Financial Systems.
As Vice-President, Information Systems for Vancouver City
Savings, Mr. Wafer designed and implemented a 'future proof' systems architecture combining legacy, proprietary and client-server systems. Implemented over a period of 6 years, this provided the
support infrastructure allowing VanCity to improve its profitability by a factor of 13 times. He also designed and implemented Canada's first Home Banking system within this architecture. Using these
technologies, Mr. Wafer 'built' and launched Canada's first branchless bank, Citizen's Bank of Canada.
Mr. Wafer regularly provides services to Philip G. Beynon & Associates Inc. as an
Assistant Course Director on that organization's PRACTICAL PROJECT SKILLS TRAINING course and is in frequent demand as a speaker on innovation in applied technology at conferences in Canada and around
the world.
Mr. Wafer achieved State Scholar recognition in both Mathematics and Physics and majored in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College, London University, London, United Kingdom.
