Paul McDowell
Toronto, ON
Tel 212.896.1871
Email paul.mcdowell@bearingpoint.com
Paul McDowell is Managing Director and Country Leader of BearingPoint Canada. He has more than 25 years of experience within the information systems and human resources fields. His credentials include leadership roles and experience in IT architectures, data warehousing, large systems integration, software engineering, and program delivery. He has held positions in virtually every IT role, from systems programmer to VP and Chief Information Officer. He has done organizational design at the executive level for Canadian Top 500 firms. The industries in which McDowell has specific experience include financial services, publishing, logistics, pharmaceutical and human resources.
Some of his achievements include leading the re-engineering of the retail and commercial lending systems of a major Canadian Bank; leading the technology project to launch the first non-bank MasterCard in the world; the integration of the first TSYS Canadian implementation; designed and implemented the first large scale computer/telephony mainframe/client server integration efforts for a major call centre; driving the first EDI implementation in Canada; delivering large scale enterprise strategies and architectures for global financial organizations.
Paul lectures in colleges and in professional circles on enterprise architectures, systems integration and technology, managerial leadership and organization design. He graduated from the University of Toronto with studies in mathematics and astrophysics; he graduated from Ryerson Polytechnic in computer systems technology, and he earned the Certified Computing Professional designation in software engineering and IT management from the Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals.
McDowell is an avid film-maker, currently producing a documentary on organization design and the work-levels method.
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