Charles Blais
IT Manager at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolCharles Blais is an IT manager and specialist with 11 years at Natural Resources Canada leading mission-critical systems for the Canadian Hazard Information Service, including IT leadership for Canada’s Earthquake Early Warning launch and space weather advisories for ICAO. He blends hands-on software development, network/system administration, and data-management expertise to design, implement, and modernize large-scale, high-availability operational services that run 24/7. As chair of INTERMAGNET’s IT working group and a government Secret clearance holder, he’s steered international data-distribution standards and coordinated data-centre consolidations with Shared Services Canada. Colleagues rely on his ability to convert scientific projects into robust operational workflows, introduce fault-tolerant designs, and document disaster-recovery strategies that materially increase system reliability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.C.A. Génie Informatique / Computer Engineering Computer Engineering, B.S.C.A. Génie Informatique / Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at University of Ottawa
French, English
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Github Skills (13)
near-real-time9
near9
javascript8
wcag7
code-library6
multilingual6
metadata6
cordova6
kubernetes1
visualization1
geotools1
pluggable1
spatial-analysis1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
INTERMAGNET/metadata
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
INTERMAGNET metadata display application
Contributions:30 commits, 6 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 years 5 months
specificationsmetadata
INTERMAGNET/intermagnet.github.io
Jul 2018 - Aug 2022
INTERMAGNET organization pages https://intermagnet.github.io/
Contributions:12 reviews, 75 commits, 86 PRs in 4 years 2 months
javascript
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