Tom Cockwell
Retired at TG Cockwell & Associates Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Cockwell is a seasoned IT and program delivery leader with nearly four decades of senior leadership across federal and provincial public sectors, large private enterprises and startups, culminating in advisory and executive roles at CBSA and his own consultancy. He combines strategic portfolio and product management with hands-on program delivery, supply management and process re‑engineering, consistently recognized for top-tier performance and steady, clear-sighted leadership under complexity. Tom has repeatedly led high-impact transformations—from Nortel senior program leadership to executive program roles in multiple federal departments—bringing both tactical rigor and an ability to align technical, business and stakeholder objectives. Based in Ottawa, he leverages deep experience in service delivery and change management to advise organizations on scalable, auditable solutions, and his career reflects a rare blend of public-sector governance and private-sector execution.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BaSc, BaSc at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (28)
bioinformatics10
genomics10
rapid10
uploader9
galaxy9
twine9
sequence9
perl7
sequencing7
command-line-tool6
modification6
cli6
bioconda6
uploading6
delta5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
phac-nml/irida-miseq-uploader
May 2017 - Mar 2019
A GUI tool for uploading sequencing data from the Illumina MiSeq instrument to IRIDA
Contributions:1 release, 12 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 9 months
servicenowgui-toolsequencing-datairidabioconda
phac-nml/irida-linker
Nov 2015 - Sep 2021
A command-line tool for exporting data from IRIDA to the command line
Contributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years 10 months
command-line-tooltwinesingeriridaperl
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