“Office 365, and in particular SharePoint, offer great opportunities for organizations and projects. But they also come with a myriad of options and settings. Understanding these settings and using them to the benefit of a customer is as much art as it is science! Lorne was pivotal in getting SharePoint configured to provide optimal value to the Strathcona County Business Transformation Project.Lorne has a very deep knowledge of SharePoint, but even more importantly - a true interest in understanding the needs of his client, helping to educate them, and making sure they get value out of their investment.I would have no reservation in recommending Lorne for other projects in this area.”
Rob Schneider
Strathcona County
“Lorne has a deep understanding of Dynamics CRM and SharePoint which supported the development of our practices and Program over the past months. We all appreciated his ability to apply his knowledge to our projects and willingness to "roll up his sleeves" and dig in to whatever was needed by our stakeholder groups”
“Lorne's deep and wide expertise and attention to detail was of great help to us in standing up our SharePoint Team site and Office 365 Collaboration environment for our team. He guided us in adopting best practices with long term benefits over taking short cuts with short term gains. He helped us grasp difficult to understand concepts with relevant analogies and use cases.Lorne's helped guide us from understanding our requirements to applying best practice design principles and navigating through the relevant options from the vast capabilities of the tool set. He also designed a comprehensive user adoption plan with communication, training and gamification components.Lorne is equally comfortable in high-level strategies and architecture discussions with Management as he is with getting into low-level design and implementation conversations with our technical resources. He has certainly been a valuable resource for our team!”
“I hired Lorne through a trusted recruitment partner after the partner had performed an extensiveinternational search. As I was brand new to my role as Head of the new ECM Office (ECMO) at Cathay, anddid not have the experience in either ECM itself or in the technology, I knew I would need an expert righthand. I chose Lorne very carefully for that trusted role.During the 1 year term Lorne served with Cathay as my ECM Manager he proved extremely valuable inmanaging the small internal office staff of the ECMO, which we built up together, but also was particularlyeffective in dealing with the System Integrator for the project, IBM GBS.During his time here in Hong Kong, Lorne worked tirelessly and with infectious enthusiasm. He clearlydemonstrated his passion for the work and his incessant devotion to doing the "right thing". Of the variousareas he was accountable for, he devoted the most time and energy to working with the IBM ChangeManagement consultants and our internal communications lead on helping to devise and implementhighly successful ways to engage our pilot business units to actually want to adopt the new ways and thenew system.The other aspect he focused considerable effort towards was pushing the organization through thedifficult process of defining, designing, and adopting a new organization structure for our Content (a set ofrelated Taxonomies). While we still have a long way to go, his struggle to educate us on the value isbeginning to bear fruit.Overall, Lorne proved to me I had made the right choice in my selection of him for my ECM Manager.I wish him all the best!”
“It was a pleasure working with Lorne. He is a very detailed, organized, and outcome-oriented (versus “job duties”) person with remarkable out-of-the-box thinking. Lorne has broad experience across major information technology domains including integration design and best practices which we discussed and collaborated on quite a bit. Further, his unusually broad knowledge of Business Domains enables Lorne to quickly understand business challenges and provide unique solution design options/approaches. As well, I was able to experience first-hand Lorne’s strong documentation development skills that is always tailored appropriately to a target audience.I recommend Lorne to all who is looking for seasoned solutions architect with in-depth knowledge and a lot of experience in Applications, Business domain, Integration and more.”
Vladimir Berezovsky
SaskTel
“Lorne is an exceptional resource in the ECM space, highly knowledgeable and knows how life cycle of content needs to be managed from cradle to grave. He is not afraid to challenge the status quo and brings expert ideas to the table.”
“Lorne is an expert on content strategy who is highly motivated and committed to ensuring that his solution is best for the organization. He adapts well and works hard to please even the most difficult stakeholders. Lorne is an asset to any project with both technical expertise as well as stakeholder management.”
“Lorne is an enterprise savvy business partner who went out of his way to ensure that our team's business requirements were understood and enabled when we implemented an enterprise authoring tool for eLearning and desk procedure development. He was extremely helpful and insightful while helping our Training team navigate issues of compliance and governance within our IT infrastructure so that we could meet our internal needs with a quality implementation. I appreciated Lorne's willingness to ensure that we understood all avenues of approaches and his mentorship in key areas - where he helped us understand the impact of some of our potential decisions. I would highly recommend Lorne as a consultant that takes the time to listen and mentor his internal customers”
“Lorne is one of the most knowledgeable people I know in terms of Content Management discipline. The project most definitely benefited from having Lorne offer his expert advice and leadership throughout.”
“Lorne is one of those rare individuals you come across who demonstrate both a wide breadth of knowledge in ECM as well as a deep understanding of the underlying technologies. I had the pleasure of working with Lorne for a year at AltaLink, collaborating on several projects. I was particularly impressed by Lorne's ability to breakdown complex concepts into easy to understand terms for consumption by a business audience.I have no hesitation in recommending Lorne and would enjoy the opportunity to work with him again in the future”
“Lorne knows his stuff. He is professional and personable and gets the job done.”
“Lorne has been hired on as a contract Solution Architect to research, document, and communicate various system solutions to meet specific business needs. He has multi-tasked on numerous initiatives and produces top quality solution architecture designs.”Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, Creative
“I have been consistently impressed with Lorne's ability to get results and to resolve issues. He is skilled at navigating the intricacies of an organization with just the right blend of minding the rules and finding the shortcuts, all with the sense of humour needed to survive the most challenging IT projects.”
Tim Kanzelmeyer
Suncor Energy
“I have been working with Lorne for some time at Suncor and have been connected to some of the projects work he was working with. He works well on projects and seems to like a challenge. He shows a good work ethic and is quick to understand complex parameters regarding scope and deliverables in a project. When he came to Suncor, he hit the ground running and has had some significant successes with project work he has been involved in.”
Terry Brummet
Suncor Energy
“I found Lorne to be a very switched on, knowledgeable and personable solution architect. He continuously maintained a good enough grasp of the details of our project to enable him to help me with any problems I came up against while, at the same time, keeping a clear focus on the high level vision of the programme as a whole (of which my project was but one constituent). I would recommend Lorne to any employer as a solution architect.”
Steven Hines
Suncor Energy
“I worked with Lorne at City of Calgary (CoC) where Lorne was the Senior HP Architect for a multi-million dollar complex project consisting of application development, COTs, Infrastructure and Networks. I was the Senior Project Manager for the City of Calgary, City Online Project.Lorne prepared the conceptual, logical and physical architecture for this project including the technical lead. He is one of the best architects who knowledge is broad in infrastructure, COTs and application development. I highly recommend Lorne for a Senior Architect position.”
Nazir Sunderani
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“I have had an opportunity in the past to work directly with Lorne. I highly recommend doing business with him because of his professionalism, ethics and domain knowledge in wide areas of technology. I will certainly be more than happy to work on another project in future with Lorne.”
Mohit Gauri
Suncor Energy
“Lorne and I worked on a number of projects and clients together while at EDS/HP. He has a breadth of experience for the Business Analysis, Project Management and Architecture roles that makes him a great compliment to any team.”
Alec Blair
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“I worked with Lorne during the requirements analysis and architectural assessment phases at a client in the Government services domain. What impressed me about him was his expertise in different products and his ability to think clearly throughout demanding times. He was instrumental in setting up the stage for a multi-million dollar deal using latest technical tools. I recommend Lorne at any position where in-depth analysis and though leadership is needed.”
Advait Kulkarni
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“Lorne is an excellent management and technical resource - we were in a shared-customer, critical situation and he was able to manage the engagement to a quick and comprehensive solution - I would recommend and work with Lorne any time in the future.”
Jason Kaczor [SharePoint MVP]
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“Lorne is strong technical resource, who works extremely well with client as well as internal resources. He is able to easily communicate and break down a highly technical issue into simple, understandable terms. As a project manager, I feel that it is important to have technical resources on your team that you can rely on, and receive timely updates from. I was able to rely on Lorne for his strong technical expertise, as well as his timely updates, and I would definitely recommend Lorne for a solution architect/design role.”
“Lorne was a consummate professional. He had an excellent understanding of a complex set of processes and systems. He was a definite subject matter expert and I look forward to working with him again.”
Richard Lord
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“Lorne is a well-rounded solution architect/business consultant who is able to view and analyze the solution deep into the technical details without losing sight of the strategic objectives of the solution. I worked with Lorne on a sales pursuit in Calgary. I am impressed with his sound technical knowledge and his ability to focus on the creation of values for the client. I strongly recommend him as a professional consultant.”
Noble Lesmana
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“While working on a project to clean up data and enhance the capabilities of our ERP system, I found him to be easy to work with a very broad knowledge base and capable in many aspects of business management.He is a good communicator who displayed strong technical abilities as well as people skills. He was equally able to clearly communicate the technical requirements of the project to the Senior Management groups and working teams. As well he was able generate and maintain enthusiasm and a sense of ownership amongst all of the key stake holders.He was able to clearly communicate different strategies and help work through a very complex project with multiple, cross functional teams.In short, Lorne is a very business savvy individual with the right skill set to be considered an asset to any company.”
Rand Pitman
Pason Systems
“I had the pleasure of working with Lorne to create and deliver new MOSS services for CP. Lorne demonstrated strong architectural and technical skills, and an awareness of how both clients and providers want to have well-defined services available.”
Keith Roman
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
On behalf of Miles Industries/Valor Fireplaces, I would like to thank you and the team at Aria Consulting & Implementers for providing an exceptional level of service to Miles/Valor since 2002. Your personal commitment to making our ERP system implementation a true success has continuously exceeded our expectations.The Aria Consulting team has become a trusted partner since winning the project in mid-2002 and when you began consulting with us over 1 year ago. Your personal enthusiasm for the Epicor system and dedication to providing Miles/Valor with effective and efficient solutions has unquestionably justified the choice of your firm to guide us through what is always a challenging undertaking - to choose, design and configure, test, and implement a new business backbone system. Most especially a leading-edge solution like Epicor Vantage.The key factors for choosing to work with you and Aria Consulting & Implementers were your in-depth product knowledge (and ability to clearly demonstrate that in our scenarios during selection), your ability to supply Miles/Valor with a reliable and fit-for-purpose solution within the means of our budget, and your genuine dedication to our best interests, even when we didn't at times know what that was ourselves! Through the past year of working together we have come to deeply appreciate the high levels of service and true consulting expertise you and your team provide. A prime example would be your 'encouragement' to re-structure our manufacturing operations flow to avoid doing what would have been a costly customization to fit a process that we, eventually, came to see was sub-optimal.Even though we are now in full production use of the Epicor Vantage system throughout our operation, we look forward to continuing our relationship to enhance our usage of the software as well as your team's expertise and guidance on ways to maximize our operations.We at Miles/Valor are very satisfied and happy to be your client and are looking forward to a long-lasting relationship.
Chris Bond
Miles Industries
“Lorne is a senior architect who helped make the enterprise MOSS design and implementation a success.”
Evelyn Millions
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“Lorne was a highly knowledgeable Enterprise Solutions Architect and Senior Management Consultant specializing in Microsoft Productivity Solutions with particular focus on SharePoint technologies when we worked together at EDS”
Sheila Lenes
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
Universe Machine Corporation has employed the services of Mr. Lorne Rogers through firstly, Systems Personnel Corporation, and later through his own company, Aria Consulting & Implementers Ltd. as our Project Management, Implementation, Training, Technical Architect, Organizational Change Management and Business Process Consultant over an almost 3-year period.He has provided numerous services to us including full Project Management, support and implementation of our Manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software, training, systems technical support, assistance with network technical architecture and support, design of various Methodologies and assistance with strategic and tactical decision-making regarding best practices in Materials Management, Finance and Manufacturing.In addition, Mr. Rogers and his personnel have provided custom application and report development using the industry leading Crystal Reports solution. Extensive development of specifications and parameters for the development of custom applications have also been completed and the resulting programming tested by Mr. Rogers prior to and during actual production usage in our company.Mr. Rogers demonstrated excellent project management skills, and has very good capabilities and knowledge in a wide variety of business and technical areas, as well as an ability to effectively train our staff at all levels of management and operations. One other intangible item that Lorne exhibits is that he cares about the project as if it was his own company. I would not hesitate to recommend him for almost any other senior role at other companies. His ability to learn, adapt, and apply is actually quite remarkable. It will serve any other client, or employer, very well.
Kurt Feigel, Jr.
Universe Machine Corporation
The following is my summation of Lorne Rogers' employment with my firm over the past 2-year period.I found Lorne to be an extraordinarily quick study, with an ability to grasp "the big picture", which contributed greatly to his rapid development and subsequent success. He is very loyal, and demonstrated an almost monomaniacal focus on CUSTOMER DELIGHT.His ability to communicate with eloquence as well as with simplicity was impressive, as was his unbridled enthusiasm. It is this one area with which I remain concerned. This enthusiasm and desire to contribute can easily overwhelm Lorne and his co-workers. I believe however, that understanding management and control of this behavior from an external source is effective in his case, and will enable this to be a contributing, rather than impeding, element.I believe Lorne would do well in future roles which are independent, though supportive, in nature.His energy and desire to succeed and natural inclination towards leadership and responsibility, would be a solid contribution to any future roles Lorne should engage in.As Direction Consulting Group Ltd. is ceasing operations shortly, I am unable to provide a forwarding contact phone number for further inquiries. I therefore trust that this correspondence will suffice.
Alan C. McKenzie
Direction Consulting Group Ltd.
Lorne Rogers worked for our firm for over a year and a half as, initially, a Project Manager. and later as our Practice Manager, for our ERP and CRM Implementation practice as well as providing Analyst services in our other Enterprise product lines including Lotus Notes and custom development projects.Lorne proved to be a very capable individual with a strong work ethic who was always willing to contribute ideas and plans for improvement. In fact, I found him unusually insightful in this regard.I was also quite impressed with his ability to acquire new information and skills very quickly and to effectively apply these in his consulting, implementation and training activities in his projects.As our Practice Manager, he was responsible for all aspects of numerous ERP and CRM projects including management of approximately 16-18 staff. He was also lead consultant for a few RFP developments, and a number of Gap Analysis projects, Lorne was viewed as successful by ourselves and the clients in these projects.Lorne also consistently demonstrated outstanding client relationship skills at all levels as well as a very high degree of integrity and professionalism, and contributed a fair bit to the sales and business development processes.I would not hesitate to fully recommend Lorne to any subsequent employer or client that should choose to utilize his services. It was a pleasure to have worked with Lorne.
Mark Henry
Systems Personnel Corporation
“Office 365, and in particular SharePoint, offer great opportunities for organizations and projects. But they also come with a myriad of options and settings. Understanding these settings and using them to the benefit of a customer is as much art as it is science! Lorne was pivotal in getting SharePoint configured to provide optimal value to ...
Rob Schneider
Strathcona County
“Lorne has a deep understanding of Dynamics CRM and SharePoint which supported the development of our practices and Program over the past months. We all appreciated his ability to apply his knowledge to our projects and willingness to "roll up his sleeves" and dig in to whatever was needed by our stakeholder groups”
“Lorne's deep and wide expertise and attention to detail was of great help to us in standing up our SharePoint Team site and Office 365 Collaboration environment for our team. He guided us in adopting best practices with long term benefits over taking short cuts with short term gains. He helped us grasp difficult to understand concepts with ...
“I hired Lorne through a trusted recruitment partner after the partner had performed an extensiveinternational search. As I was brand new to my role as Head of the new ECM Office (ECMO) at Cathay, anddid not have the experience in either ECM itself or in the technology, I knew I would need an expert righthand. I chose Lorne very carefully for ...
“It was a pleasure working with Lorne. He is a very detailed, organized, and outcome-oriented (versus “job duties”) person with remarkable out-of-the-box thinking. Lorne has broad experience across major information technology domains including integration design and best practices which we discussed and collaborated on quite a bit. Further, ...
Vladimir Berezovsky
SaskTel
“Lorne is an exceptional resource in the ECM space, highly knowledgeable and knows how life cycle of content needs to be managed from cradle to grave. He is not afraid to challenge the status quo and brings expert ideas to the table.”
“Lorne is an expert on content strategy who is highly motivated and committed to ensuring that his solution is best for the organization. He adapts well and works hard to please even the most difficult stakeholders. Lorne is an asset to any project with both technical expertise as well as stakeholder management.”
“Lorne is an enterprise savvy business partner who went out of his way to ensure that our team's business requirements were understood and enabled when we implemented an enterprise authoring tool for eLearning and desk procedure development. He was extremely helpful and insightful while helping our Training team navigate issues of compliance ...
“Lorne is one of the most knowledgeable people I know in terms of Content Management discipline. The project most definitely benefited from having Lorne offer his expert advice and leadership throughout.”
“Lorne is one of those rare individuals you come across who demonstrate both a wide breadth of knowledge in ECM as well as a deep understanding of the underlying technologies. I had the pleasure of working with Lorne for a year at AltaLink, collaborating on several projects. I was particularly impressed by Lorne's ability to breakdown complex ...
“Lorne knows his stuff. He is professional and personable and gets the job done.”
“Lorne has been hired on as a contract Solution Architect to research, document, and communicate various system solutions to meet specific business needs. He has multi-tasked on numerous initiatives and produces top quality solution architecture designs.”Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, Creative
“I have been consistently impressed with Lorne's ability to get results and to resolve issues. He is skilled at navigating the intricacies of an organization with just the right blend of minding the rules and finding the shortcuts, all with the sense of humour needed to survive the most challenging IT projects.”
Tim Kanzelmeyer
Suncor Energy
“I have been working with Lorne for some time at Suncor and have been connected to some of the projects work he was working with. He works well on projects and seems to like a challenge. He shows a good work ethic and is quick to understand complex parameters regarding scope and deliverables in a project. When he came to Suncor, he hit the ...
Terry Brummet
Suncor Energy
“I found Lorne to be a very switched on, knowledgeable and personable solution architect. He continuously maintained a good enough grasp of the details of our project to enable him to help me with any problems I came up against while, at the same time, keeping a clear focus on the high level vision of the programme as a whole (of which my ...
Steven Hines
Suncor Energy
“I worked with Lorne at City of Calgary (CoC) where Lorne was the Senior HP Architect for a multi-million dollar complex project consisting of application development, COTs, Infrastructure and Networks. I was the Senior Project Manager for the City of Calgary, City Online Project.Lorne prepared the conceptual, logical and physical ...
Nazir Sunderani
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“I have had an opportunity in the past to work directly with Lorne. I highly recommend doing business with him because of his professionalism, ethics and domain knowledge in wide areas of technology. I will certainly be more than happy to work on another project in future with Lorne.”
Mohit Gauri
Suncor Energy
“Lorne and I worked on a number of projects and clients together while at EDS/HP. He has a breadth of experience for the Business Analysis, Project Management and Architecture roles that makes him a great compliment to any team.”
Alec Blair
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“I worked with Lorne during the requirements analysis and architectural assessment phases at a client in the Government services domain. What impressed me about him was his expertise in different products and his ability to think clearly throughout demanding times. He was instrumental in setting up the stage for a multi-million dollar deal ...
Advait Kulkarni
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“Lorne is an excellent management and technical resource - we were in a shared-customer, critical situation and he was able to manage the engagement to a quick and comprehensive solution - I would recommend and work with Lorne any time in the future.”
Jason Kaczor [SharePoint MVP]
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“Lorne is strong technical resource, who works extremely well with client as well as internal resources. He is able to easily communicate and break down a highly technical issue into simple, understandable terms. As a project manager, I feel that it is important to have technical resources on your team that you can rely on, and receive timely ...
“Lorne was a consummate professional. He had an excellent understanding of a complex set of processes and systems. He was a definite subject matter expert and I look forward to working with him again.”
Richard Lord
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“Lorne is a well-rounded solution architect/business consultant who is able to view and analyze the solution deep into the technical details without losing sight of the strategic objectives of the solution. I worked with Lorne on a sales pursuit in Calgary. I am impressed with his sound technical knowledge and his ability to focus on the ...
Noble Lesmana
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“While working on a project to clean up data and enhance the capabilities of our ERP system, I found him to be easy to work with a very broad knowledge base and capable in many aspects of business management.He is a good communicator who displayed strong technical abilities as well as people skills. He was equally able to clearly communicate ...
Rand Pitman
Pason Systems
“I had the pleasure of working with Lorne to create and deliver new MOSS services for CP. Lorne demonstrated strong architectural and technical skills, and an awareness of how both clients and providers want to have well-defined services available.”
Keith Roman
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
On behalf of Miles Industries/Valor Fireplaces, I would like to thank you and the team at Aria Consulting & Implementers for providing an exceptional level of service to Miles/Valor since 2002. Your personal commitment to making our ERP system implementation a true success has continuously exceeded our expectations.The Aria Consulting ...
Chris Bond
Miles Industries
“Lorne is a senior architect who helped make the enterprise MOSS design and implementation a success.”
Evelyn Millions
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
“Lorne was a highly knowledgeable Enterprise Solutions Architect and Senior Management Consultant specializing in Microsoft Productivity Solutions with particular focus on SharePoint technologies when we worked together at EDS”
Sheila Lenes
EDS/HP Enterprise Services
Universe Machine Corporation has employed the services of Mr. Lorne Rogers through firstly, Systems Personnel Corporation, and later through his own company, Aria Consulting & Implementers Ltd. as our Project Management, Implementation, Training, Technical Architect, Organizational Change Management and Business Process Consultant over an ...
Kurt Feigel, Jr.
Universe Machine Corporation
The following is my summation of Lorne Rogers' employment with my firm over the past 2-year period.I found Lorne to be an extraordinarily quick study, with an ability to grasp "the big picture", which contributed greatly to his rapid development and subsequent success. He is very loyal, and demonstrated an almost monomaniacal focus on ...
Alan C. McKenzie
Direction Consulting Group Ltd.
Lorne Rogers worked for our firm for over a year and a half as, initially, a Project Manager. and later as our Practice Manager, for our ERP and CRM Implementation practice as well as providing Analyst services in our other Enterprise product lines including Lotus Notes and custom development projects.Lorne proved to be a very capable ...
Mark Henry
Systems Personnel Corporation