Our Team

Emdadul Haque, Manager of Customer Operations and Process

Emdadul Haque holds a Masters Degree in Management of Information Technology from Sunderland University in United Kingdom graduating in 1999. Mr. Haque is a highly skilled and technical individual who possesses excellent academic and practical knowledge of Information Technology and Management methodologies.

After receiving his Masters Degree, Mr. Haque led various major project implementations such as Customer Relation Management (CRM) and Data Warehousing solutions. He has a superb knowledge in management of large scale implementations through full project lifecycles. Mr Haque possesses a deep understanding of how to utilize technology in order to deliver enterprise solutions that meet the requirements for B2B.

Mr. Haque’s mission is to ensure all Flavor Technology’s client implementations are on time, on budget and with maximum customer satisfaction.

Kevin Legallais, Director of Operations

Kevin graduated from Carleton University in 1993. He has worked in project management, as a manager, since day one of his career. Kevin has managed a diversity of major projects for The Home Depot, RE/MAX, the American Dental Association, and DaimlerChrysler.

Kevin is known for a relentless approach, attention to detail, and strong work ethic, along with tried-and-true operations procedures and policies. He combines all of this with innovative thinking to find the most effective and efficient operations solutions. Kevin has a proactive management style, and prides himself in being accessible and accountable at all times. One of his favourite sayings is, “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.”

Ahmed Choukri, IT Technical Leader

Ahmed is an IT Pro, who graduated from Centennial College with a Diploma in Network Professional. Ahmed illustrated his passion for networking and information technology at a young age and decided to pursue a career in the IT field. Since the time he started working with Flavor Technology, he has developed his skills to a professional level and he can take the lead on delivering high quality IT solutions and manage client’s network implementations.

Ahmed led one of Flavor’s large projects in northern Canada, transforming their data network to the leading edge of technology. He reinforced the fact that Flavor Technology’s “world class solutions” are provided by qualified, dedicated people.

David Hutchinson, Enterprise Communications Consultant

Mr. Hutchinson is a Telecommunications/Technology professional with 15 years experience having held consultant and operations roles of increasing responsibility with companies such as TelRoute, Fonorola, Sprint Canada,
Group Telecom and Allstream.

With these companies he was involved developing and providing the most cutting edge Telecommunications solutions including wireless infrastructures, voice, data, internet, network, equipment and services available to Large Enterprise clients and Government. He has provided a full range of consulting services to large Telecommunications and Contact Centre companies, including: product/business development, business planning, strategic planning, carrier relations, network design, RFP evaluations, technology integration, project management and operations reviews.

David has provided consulting services to J.P Morgan, TD Canada Trust, Magna International, EDS, HP, Nortel, Cisco, Bank of Nova Scotia, Fedex and DaimlerChrysler.

Elina Katkova, M.P.M., I.T. Project Manager

Ms. Katkova has been recognized for her commitment to enhancing Project Management methodologies and Information Technology processes. Her areas of expertise include implementing new technology across all areas of project management: configuration and change control, quality control, business analysis, release management, infrastructure, and development.

For the past eight years, Elina has applied her professional principles to a variety of industries, including government sectors and banking. Ms. Katkova has consulted on critical time-to-market projects for large corporations, including TD Canada Trust, CIBC Insurance, Manulife Financial, Clarica, OnX, and Hydro One. She has led projects from under a million dollars to multimillion-dollar corporate initiatives.

Ms. Katkova’s mastery of process development and methodology accounts for her success in project management for large corporate clients. Highlights of her professional experience include implementing project management methodology in synergy with Rational Unified Process.

Elina developed an in-house set of project management “best practices” for a large financial client. She introduced new structured deliverables for each Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phase for internal strategic teams and a US-based vendor.

Ms. Katkova has implemented iterative project management methodology in other organizations, resulting in substantial savings, guaranteed project scope, and preservation of the project’s “go live” date. These improvements were greeted with enthusiasm from the executive teams.

In addition, she has implemented automated test tools at clients of various sizes, allowing tremendous cost cutting in the area of quality control. Elina specializes in proactive risk-based analysis of automated testing methodologies, making companies almost bullet-proof by putting up-to-date traceability matrices in place.

Ms. Katkova has obtained industry certifications in Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Mercury Interactive. She holds a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from the Schulich School of Business, York University, and is currently pursuing a Project Management Professional (PMP) designation from the Project Management Institute.

Stephen Genge, Mobile Technology Specialist

Stephen Genge graduated from Trent University in 2000 with a computer degree specializing in artificial intelligence. Stephen started illustrating his passion for mobile computers and technology from a young age and decided to pursue a career in this field.

For the past decade Stephen has integrated mobile computing into his daily lifestyle. He prides himself in keeping abreast of the latest mobile computing advances in hand held pc’s, tablet pc’s, wi-fi, blue-tooth technology, and integrated devices such as Blackberry and Palm Treo.

If you want to equip your field staff with a mobile computing solution, Stephen will be a great asset in designing the solution that meets your needs as well as training your staff to maximize your investment.