Henry Troup:
CLASS OF 1977
Applewood Heights High SchoolClass of 1977
Mississauga, ON
University of Toronto - EngineeringClass of 1982
Toronto, ON
University of Toronto - Computer ScienceClass of 1982
Toronto, ON
Glen Haven Senior Public SchoolClass of 1973
Mississauga, ON
Havenwood Public SchoolClass of 1970
Mississauga, ON
Henry's Story
Life
I was with BNR and then Nortel in Ottawa from 1982 to January 2001. Then I went to a software company called Watchfire. In summer 2004, I was in Israel on business, an amazing trip.
Now I've with an email marketing company, the legitimate kind. We send mail, mostly customer newsletters, for small and medium companies. It's a big database system with real-time performance.
I'm married, over 20 years, no kids, living on the edges of Ottawa.
When not being a propellor-head, I'm pursuing swimming, bicycling, and deepening my Christian faith. In winter, cross-country skiing is right at the office door. These days I'm a church warden at Christ Church, Ashton, in the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa.
At the age of 35, I finally learned to ride a bike!
My vices include dark chocolate, spider solitaire, and the Ship of Fools website.
College
U of T - Engineering Science (Eng Sci), Computer Science ...Expand for more
option. Geeks, every one of us.
Beginning of third year, I had an argument over right-of-way with a car. So I took an extra year, graduating in 1982.
Workplace
Right after U of T, I started at Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa, doing VM Systems. I spent eighteen years in BNR and Nortel, and the trajectory was something like: VM Systems, Documentation Support, Program Library Support, Interactive TV, Internet Telephony. Ask me about the day the mainframe really froze!
Then the wheels fell off Nortel, and I went to Watchfire, doing website security. Now it's commercial email. Along the way, I learned thousands of acronynms and took a bunch of first aid courses. In 2004, I got to visit Israel on business.
I've managed teams and projects of up to ten people. Virtually everything I learned in University is now totally obsolete. O'Reilly and WROX Press are my favorite technical book publishers.
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