{"id":2515,"date":"2021-01-06T10:24:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2021-04-28T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T17:14:40","slug":"breakfast-meeting-may-15-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-may-15-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Meeting May 15, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Rich Helms<\/strong> is a seasoned software developer with over 35 years of experience in computer Research and Development (R&D). He spent 22 years in various positions at IBM and two years as the Vice President of R&D for Electronics Workbench in Toronto. From 2000 to 2009, Rich created and owned Rume Interactive Canada, which was sold to Verisk<\/a> in 2009 and rebranded as Enabl-u Technologies and then Verisk Crime Analytics Canada. Rich ran the Canadian operation since the transfer of ownership until his retirement.<\/p>\n

His credentials range from deep technical work (five patents in hardware and software<\/a>) to running R&D. Former chair IBM Microelectronics Canada Lab Patent Review Board. Rich has created five generations of e-Learning platforms<\/a>. Designed and wrote full-text search engine including crawling support for large-scale case management system. In 2010 co-authored \u201cAmazon SimpleDB Developer Guide<\/a>\u201d for Packt Publishing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s never been done\u201d is a call to action for Rich. He has built a career on breaking new grounds in the computer field. In 1986 he developed CARES<\/a> (Computer Assisted Recovery Enhancement System) for the Metropolitan Toronto Police. CARES was the first computer system in the world for aging missing children.<\/p>\n

Rich developed an online course and workshops on how to write a book trailer<\/a>. There are many sites on how to create a book trailer with iMovie, Movie Maker, Animoto to name a few but they only discussed the steps in assembling the video, not what goes into a good book trailer. Rich defines the components, approaches and strategies. BookTrailer101.info<\/a> \u2013 More than how to assemble a video, how to create a Book Trailer.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rich Helms is a seasoned software developer with over 35 years of experience in computer Research and Development (R&D). He spent 22 years in various positions at IBM and two years as the Vice President of R&D for Electronics Workbench in Toronto. From 2000 to 2009, Rich created and owned Rume Interactive Canada, which was … Continue reading Breakfast Meeting May 15, 2021<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2021"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t