As entrepreneurs go, Shahram Yousefi is a paradox 카지노 게임 컬렉션� a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�black sheep,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says. 

Most entrepreneurs seek to strike it rich. First and foremost, the professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s is looking for solutions to problems. Entrepreneurs are single-minded. Once they have an idea, they clamp on like an angry pit bull, to the exclusion of everything else. He has not one but two seemingly different ideas, both of which he is passionate about. And, in a world where new ideas and products are hailed for their 카지노 게임 컬렉션�disruptive카지노 게임 컬렉션� potential, he says that at the root of what he does is 카지노 게임 컬렉션�my passion for harmony.카지노 게임 컬렉션�  

Innovation Park is helping him realize it.

Arriving at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s in 2003 (drawn, he says, by the university카지노 게임 컬렉션�s generous policies towards the intellectual property its professors develop and  students who 카지노 게임 컬렉션�are strong on the technical but understand the social and business aspects of what they do카지노 게임 컬렉션�), he spent his 2008 sabbatical at Switzerland카지노 게임 컬렉션�s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s a very entrepreneurial school,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�And when I got back I decided I wanted to concentrate more on entrepreneurial projects.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

To that end he has developed a new entrepreneurial stream within electrical and computer engineering programs dubbed ECE innovation or ECEi. Dr. Yousefi praises Kim Woodhouse, Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Michael Greenspan, his department head, and Greg Bavington, Executive Director of the Dunin-Deshpande Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Innovation Centre, for fostering a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. 

Out for a meal with a medical resident friend one evening in 2012 he was shocked when she told him that a young mother and her twins had died because a scheduling mistake meant that a needed specialist was not on duty. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I couldn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t believe what I was hearing and could not get it out of my head for days,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says.

Talking to other health care professionals, he learned that medical scheduling was incredibly complicated, but usually done with very simple, and inappropriate, tools like spreadsheets and emails. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�And communications between the scheduler and the team were very spotty and extremely rudimentary,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Dr. Yousefi says. 

A chief resident of cardiology might spend an entire weekend trying to schedule his or her first-, second- and third-year residents. Add in trying to juggle sick days and holidays and other variables, and there were many possibilities for errors.\

카지노 게임 컬렉션�Because I come from an algorithm background, I knew that these were the hardest problems to deal with in computer science. Difficult but not impossible,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Dr. Yousefi says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Here was a great chance to create a system that would harmonize doctors카지노 게임 컬렉션� and other healthcare professionals카지노 게임 컬렉션� work schedules.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

He started working on it in 2013, and in 2014 he and his co-founder, Dr. Mohsen Omrani, a medical doctor and neuroscientist, incorporated Canarmony (as in Canadian Harmony 카지노 게임 컬렉션� there카지노 게임 컬렉션�s that idea again). 

Yousefi카지노 게임 컬렉션�s solution is a cloud-based scheduling tool called MESH (which combines the initials of the four developers카지노 게임 컬렉션� first names and says succinctly what the tool does). 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�It meshes staff schedules seamlessly,  at the push of a button,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�You identify whom you need, say so many E.R. nurses and so many residents and with what skills.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

MESH can even incorporate who wants to work with whom and what shifts they prefer. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�When the schedule is done, it gets pushed along to everyone in the pool,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says.

They can access it through iOS and Android mobile apps on their phones, tablets, or via any web browser on any computer. If anything changes, because of sickness or an accident, everybody gets informed in real time. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�The other thing MESH does is allow people to swap shifts really easily,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Dr. Yousefi says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Life does not happen on schedule. Just send out a swap request on your phone and someone can take your shift.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

A self-described perfectionist, Yousefi and partners have taken their time developing MESH. Today the company is trialing the app with medical users, including Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu, and plans to launch a new version of the app featuring an 카지노 게임 컬렉션�improved Canarmonizer카지노 게임 컬렉션� (as he terms the algorithm) and a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�more user-friendly and attractive version of the interface.카지노 게임 컬렉션� Monetization comes next.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�What got us where we are has been the move to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Innovation Park,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Yousefi. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�We카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve received lots of help. There are so many examples. We카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve made connections through IRAP and OCE, we카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve had so many networking and learning opportunities in the last six months.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�Not only has it been good for the company as a whole, but our people have benefited individually.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

With a mission-focused startup like Canarmony, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�it is extra important to make sure the team is highly motivated.카지노 게임 컬렉션� Thanks to Canarmony카지노 게임 컬렉션�s involvement in GrindSpaceXL (Innovation Park카지노 게임 컬렉션�s acceleration program for startups that offers them work space and expert advice), 카지노 게임 컬렉션�they understood a lot better what we were doing and why. We also worked out where we were not doing things optimally. The amazing team at the Innovation Park harmonized Canarmony even further.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

MESH would be enough to keep most entrepreneurs busy. Not Dr. Yousefi. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I teach my students you want to be the sharpest knife 카지노 게임 컬렉션� you do one thing and you do it the best. So I am seemingly violating that by launching a second product카지노 게임 컬렉션� called OPTT (for Online Psychotherapy Tool). Many people seek psychotherapy help, but for various reasons 카지노 게임 컬렉션� geographic isolation,  personal schedules, cultural or language barriers or  stigma 카지노 게임 컬렉션� cannot get it. OPTT lets them access help over the web, connecting them with mental health professionals, and offering tests, cognitive behaviour therapies and exercises, completely confidentially. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�OPTT creates a clinic-in-the-cloud delivering the latest clinically proven methods of therapy through our proprietary modules,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says. Still in its early stages, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�We want to get hospitals and governments involved. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s a challenging feat, but I am not here to do something easy.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

Currently on sabbatical, as well as researching fifth-generation wireless telecommunication systems (5G) at the 카지노게임사이트 of California, Santa Cruz, he is working with his PhD students at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s on mass cloud-based data storage and transmission technologies for high-rate applications such as video. They have one recent U.S. patent filed with one more under review by PARTEQ Innovations (Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s commercialization arm) also located at Innovation Park. Dr. Yousefi is also busy 카지노 게임 컬렉션�growing a Canarmony subsidiary in the Bay Area, to benefit from, the rich high-tech ecosystem around San Francisco.카지노 게임 컬렉션� 

Dean Woodhouse has also appointed Yousefi faculty liaison to C100, a non-profit association of Canadian business leaders based in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to helping Canadian high-tech start-ups and our  next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션�One thing I hear again and again from entrepreneurs and investors is that Canada is the place to be. Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston. They are it. Down here (in the Bay Area), people are not going to offer you the kind of support we have received at Innovation Park, and are still receiving,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Dr. Yousefi says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�So kudos to Janice and the teams at Innovation Park. Deciding to move there has been the single most important decision we have made since Canarmony카지노 게임 컬렉션�s inception."