Colin Thomson
Accomplished strategic professional with proficiency in facilitating businesses and volunteer organizations to balance risk and reward. Diverse experience across utility, automotive, military, recreational, insurance, and financial sectors. Create business value and deliver solutions for aerial and underwater inspections, engineering inspections and information technology (IT) services. Leverage entrepreneurial mind set to proficiently manage portfolio of local and outsourced cross-functional resources, direct development of innovation, reorient company culture, support closing of sales, and meet annual targets.
Known for improving customer journey in fast-paced environments, adapting quickly to changes while generating efficient decisions based on data and metrics. Approachable leader who develops rapport with clients. Cultivate and mobilize strong teams through exceptional relationship building, mentoring, coaching, and leading by example. With focus on safety, teamwork, and professionalism, deliver classroom and on-water practical training for marine search and rescue (SAR) volunteers.
Open to contract and fulltime opportunities both in Canada and internationally. Ideally any position will harmonize my interests in location and imaging technology with my military, alliance management & enterprise risk management experiences to support the software development, IT Services, marine and utility industries
Leadership: Facilitative People Leader | C-Suite & Board Communications | Business Strategy & Planning
Business Growth: Account Management | Sales Support | Partner & Alliances | Mergers & Acquisitions
Delivery Oversight: Customer Service | Team Building | Intelligence & Data Management Solutions | Instructor
Sessions in which Colin Thomson attends
miércoles 14 abril, 2021
Join Jonathan Murphy, Chair of GeoIgnite and Canada's Geospatial Career Coach as we welcome our keynote Daniel Schulten, MDA's LaunchPad Director. Keynote: In this discussion, we will look at MDA's past 20 years of success in the Geointelligence and Earth Observation domain and look forward to what the next 20 years holds for us.We will specifically look at Canada's unique Geointelligence requirements and the impact it will have on the industry here in Canada as w...
At Sparkgeo, we create interesting geospatial technology for our partners. In order to continue to build the geospatial web, we need technical project managers.We’re looking for people who have good domain expertise in geospatial and love making those spreadsheets sing. Does this mean micromanaging each step of the project? Nope. It means advising and inspiring those with the talent to develop the required technology.It means professional and honest communication with the cli...
Jonathan Murphy, serial geospatial entrepreneur and career coach explains what it means to go from employee to an independent contractor providing goods, labor or services in Canada.Independent contractors work as individual entities. You are, however, responsible for managing your own payment and taxes. Jon with 20 years experience as a consultant and business owner in the Canadian geospatial sector will explain what it takes to go solo and the pros and cons of being your own...
Jonathan Murphy the Geospatial career coach and GeoIgnite conference chair will discuss some strategies when apllying for jobs online and share some jobs for participants to consider.
Serving the world from our Canadian home and our global offices, MDA is a robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer and an international space mission partner with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. Today, we're leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world and more. We’re fuelled by a pioneering spirit that carries us beyond. And together we enable highly skilled people to continuall...
The GeoIgnite Conference and our sponsors are proud to present the third annual Diversity in Leadership Panel.As the common goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion become even more widespread, organizations have the daunting task of figuring out what works.It is our vision that GeoIgnite will spur the grassroots of a more diverse ecosystem where diversity of thinking and knowledge will ignite innovation and better outcomes for us all.The next generation o...
