Board of Directors

Brian Down
Chief Technologist and Principal Engineer
Sun Microsystems Canada Inc.

Brian Down currently serves as the Chief Technologist for Sun Canada. Over the past nine years he has held Chief Architect positions in both Sun's Global and Americas Data Center Practices, focusing on Enterprise migration and legacy transformation. Working with Sun's largest clients around the globe he has developed best practices that allow business and government to rationalize their application portfolio and, in a phased approach, virtualize, redeploy and manage the new environment on a modern, cost effective hardware platform.

  Brian is a published author, a recognized expert on migration to the Solaris operating system and currently holds the title of Principal Engineer within Sun's global technology organization. He has a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in computer science from Memorial University. Brian currently serves as a member of the research board for the Nortel Network Institute at the Univeristy of Waterloo and serves as the Chair for the Board of Directors for the Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER).

Officially, Brian is based out of Sun's Markham office, near Toronto, where he lives. However, if asked, his wife will say he lives and works at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.