WHO WE ARE - Leadership


Brian Donaldson

Executive Technical Director

Brian Donaldson is Executive Technical Director of Quadrus Development Inc. Brian co-founded Quadrus in 1993 and continues his active role as a member of the Quadrus executive, with particular responsibility for leading the Quadrus teams charged with ensuring the success of our IT projects and client relationships. With Brian's leadership, Quadrus has delivered hundreds of successful IT solutions to real business problems on-time and budget, and has won several global awards including Microsoft’s worldwide award for Global Solution of the Year and awards from Agile organizations.

Brian brings to his role a 20-year track record of success as an IT industry leader with an uncommonly wide breadth of skills and experiences. Brian began his career as a software architect, moved into project management, and then progressed to overall IT business strategy and ultimately to executive business management. This helps make Brian a highly effective interface to the CEOs, CTOs and CIOs of our most valued clients and leader within our own business.

Brian has served as a member of Microsoft’s Partner Advisory Council and has also worked with many other IT industry leaders including Sun, Oracle, IBM, Sybase, Business Objects and the Agile Alliance. He has been a speaker at industry events and published articles in leading journals including the IEEE. Brian has particular expertise in project estimation & planning and is co-authoring a manuscript on this topic.

Brian holds a B.Sc. (honours) degree in digital system design from Simon Fraser University and a Masters degree in computer and electrical engineering from the University of Calgary. His hobbies include skiing, mountain biking and yoga.