Cap College instructor receives IT award

CAPILANO College Business Administration instructor Stephen Ibaraki was recently named this year's winner of the prestigious Gary Hadford Professional Achievement Award.

Ibaraki is the first recipient from B.C., the first community college instructor chosen and the first Asian Canadian winner in the award's 13-year history. This honour is for an IT (information technology) professional recognized by his or her peers for having integrity and expertise, outstanding achievements in fields related to information processing, and a high degree of competence in their field.

Ibaraki is also a newly-inducted member of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) Hall of Fame. The institution was created in 1997 to honour those people who have made an outstanding contribution to the CIPS and the Canadian IT profession as a whole.

Recently inducted into Lexington's Who's Who under the category, Computing for the Millennium, Ibaraki is a recognized information technology world expert. He writes regularly for high-end international professional journals and is often asked to appear worldwide as a keynote speaker. The CIPS lists him as their official internationally-ranked media contact/IT expert in 12 areas.

In the multi-billion dollar IT certification industry, he is amongst the world's elite as a certification exam author.

He is also the chairman and chief architect of iGEN, a world-renowned company which offers expertise in Internet database technology and distributed business solutions. Joining him in this e-business venture is the college's Dave O'Leary (CEO), Richard Longworth (CIO) and John Wilson (CFO).

Ibaraki is an instructor of two programs at Capilano College: the Computer Specialist program, and the Business Computing Co-operative diploma program.