John Chattoe

Riverdale Collegiate Institute

Class of 1959

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John Chattoe - Class of 1959 - Riverdale Collegiate Institute

First Name	John
Last Name	Chattoe
Graduation Year	Class of 1959
Gender	Male
Current Location	Oakville
About Me	Dr. Chattoe received his BASC- 1964 and MASC degrees -1970 in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (human technology Interaction) in 2008 all from the University of Toronto. From 2004 to 2015 Dr. Chattoe taught in the undergraduate CCIT program at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, where he developed 3rd/4th year courses in Human/ Computer Interaction, Virtual/Augmented Reality Applications and Technology Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation management. As an Engineer in residence, he teaches part time at Port Credit High School covering engineering as a profession, Virtual Reality technology and innovation topics. Dr. Chattoe is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario. He has completed a 3-year term on the Board of Directors of Develcon Corporation leading up to its acquisition. Dr. Chattoe was CEO of HUCEN Technologies Inc from 1998 to 2012. HUCEN is human Factors research and management consultancy. He was President and CEO of the Information Technology Research Centre, ITRC, from October 1992 to December 1997. ITRC, a Provincial Centre of Excellence, initiated world-class, economically targeted IT research from human factors, software engineering to digital wireless, to advanced silicon technology at six Ontario’s involving over 900 researchers. Dr. Chattoe joined Bell-Northern Research (BNR) in 1977 as Technical Assistant to the President, following 13 years with Computing Devices Co., now a subsidiary of General Dynamics. At Computing Devices he performed signal processing analysis, computer systems engineering, major program management, and general management assignments in both military aviation and industrial applications. In 1978, he was appointed Director of Network Product Development at BNR, and was responsible for a 200 person Sl-1 PBX, Sl-10/DPN data-network products and fiber optics R&D team. In 1980 he program managed the deployment of DPN technology into the German DATEX-P network. From 1980 to 1984, as Division General Manager he started up and managed a pioneering packet-switching data networking division at Northern Telecom. Over four years the business grew to $ 50M in sales in Europe and North America and has since grown to over $750 M a year prior to Nortel Network’s acquisition of Bay Networks From 1985 to 1992, Dr. Chattoe held a range of increasingly senior management positions at Northern Telecom including Assistant Vice-President, Strategic Product Line Integration; Assistant Vice-President, ISDN Introduction (He program managed the development and deployment of ISDN on the DMS-100 central office switch throughout North America) and Assistant Vice-President, Switching Product Sales and Marketing Services (while leading switching sales and marketing from 1987 to 1990, he led the growth of order input from $ 600M a year to over $1B annually). In 1990 he was appointed an Officer of the company as Vice-President, Marketing and...(read more)