Bill St. Arnaud
Senior Director, Advanced Networks, CANARIE
Bill St. Arnaud is Senior Director Advanced Networks for CANARIE Inc., Canada's Advanced Internet Development Organization. At CANARIE Bill St. Arnaud has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of Canada's next generation optical Internet initiative called CA*net 3 and more recently the world's first customer controlled optical network CA*net 4. He was recently featured in a Time Magazine article as the engineer who is "wiring together advanced Canadian Science".
Previously Bill St. Arnaud was the President and founder of a network and software engineering firm called TSA ProForma Inc. TSA was a LAN/WAN software company that developed wide area network client/server systems for use primarily in the financial and information business fields in the Far East and the United States.
Bill St. Arnaud is a frequent guest speaker at numerous conferences on the Internet and optical networking and is a regular contributor to several networking magazines. He is a graduate of Carleton University School of Engineering.
