Over his 20 year career spanning the oil & gas, utility, manufacturing, telecommunication, and computer and consulting industries, Mr. Smith has held many senior posts, from Senior Engineer, to CIO/Vice President at TransCanada Pipelines.

Mr. Smith has considerable experience transforming IT organizations to meet the complex business needs of a geographically distributed business. From 2000 to 2003, Art led the transformation of an IT organization from a high cost, low quality, and risky service provider into a low cost, high quality, responsive and reliable service provider. This transformation was accomplished by focusing on business requirements and results, standardizing technologies and solutions, and eliminating unnecessary redundancy and complexity.