CONSULTING PROJECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE:
- Gentle Care meal service experience for Heritage Lane special care unit, Pioneer Manor, Sudbury, Ontario.
- Parsons Pantry, Oakville, Ontario, innovative eatery shops for retailing in healthcare featuring cashless payment system. Project won HFM 2000 Spotlight on innovation Award.
- Feasibility study, concept design and implementation guidance for regionalized foodservices for the 12 site Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation in Saint John, New Brunswick. Project won the 1998 Excellence and Best In Category Canadian Information Productivity Award.
- NACUFS Award winning "Brubaker’s" fresh food marketplace at the University of Waterloo.
- Advanced Foodservices System for the Headwaters Healthcare Centre, Orangeville, Ontario.
- Winning In-House Management Contract for CFB Trenton.
- “By Request” Patient Meal Experiences at Hamilton Health Sciences Center.
- Lead consulting team who wrote “Success with Prepared Food”, 1999, Dietitians of Canada.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Info Access Inc.
Vice President and Director
Co-founder of a computerized foodservices information service bureau firm providing recipe and menu costing and nutrient analysis on a service bureau and contract basis. Represented The CBORD Group, the world's largest food services application software developer based in Ithaca, New York.
Bernard and Associates, Ontario
Food Service Consultants and Designers
Vice President
Provided health care, educational, leisure, cultural, and business and industry clients with master planning, market feasibility, systems analysis, operational review, facility design, start-up and short term management services. Managed Toronto office.
Arvak Management Inc./Beaver Foods Limited
Executive Nutritionist
Food service management position, responsible for development of computerized food costing information system, menus, recipes, product specification, and nutritional policies and programs. Conducted internal operational reviews to insure contract compliance. Participated in marketing surveys, proposal formulations and start-up planning. (1977-1981)
New Brunswick Department of Health
Director of Public Health Nutrition Services
Senior policy advisor and departmental spokesperson on matters of nutritional health. Dietetic consultant to provincial hospitals and nursing homes, including staff responsibility for dietary department budgets and quality of care including operational assessments. (1972-1977)
EDUCATION
M.Sc. University of Toronto
B.Sc. Mount Allison University
Certificate Business Administration, University of New Brunswick,Fredericton, N.B.
2nd Lt. - Reserve Canadian Armed Forces, Food Services
MEMBERSHIPS
| Charter Fellow |
Canadian Dietetic Association - FCDA (1989) |
| President/Member |
Canadian Dietetic Association (1992-1993)/Dietitians of Canada |
| President |
Ontario Dietetic Association (1981-1982) |
| Member |
College of Dietitians of Ontario |
| Member |
Professional Member of Foodservice Consultants |
| Society |
International (FCSI) |
| Member |
National Society Healthcare Food Service Management |
| Member |
American Dietetic Association |
| Volunteer |
Board of Directors, Canadian Foundation for
Dietetic Research
Board of Management
The Guild Inn, Scarborough, Ontario
Chairman, Personnel and Operations Committee
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International
- Temporary Advisor, WHO/PAHO, Foodservices Consultant for Redevelopment of St. Michael's District Hospital, Bridgetown, Barbados.
- Temporary Advisor, WHO/PAHO, Foodservices Consultant for Operational Review of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown, Barbados.
SESSIONAL LECTURER
Ryerson Polytechnical University
Advanced Food Systems Management FND-400
Spring Semester 1998
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