Program Manager

Zylog delivers top jobs to top talent. We are currently seeking experienced professionals for exciting new opportunities and career advancement.

Zylog represents hundreds of client companies for both contract and permanent positions. New jobs are being filled every day and our experienced professional resource managers are waiting to help you screen the top jobs that match your skills and experience.

You don’t have time to search long lists of postings repeated on multiple web sites, so let our trained and experienced resource managers do the work for you. We review top jobs and will be the first to alert you when the right opportunity arises.

About the Job

Our client has a requirement for an Program Manager for a 3 Month Contract opportunity.  The position is located in Toronto, ON.

What makes this Special

Our client is one of the largest Banks in North America. With exponential growth and millions of customers and clients who are served through our various businesses: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. Being part of this company is being part of a better Canadian service.

Role

We are looking for a Senior Program Manager to help set up a portfolio management function in the newly formed Technology Enterprise Services (TES) group. This individual will need to have worked with putting together governance rules and establishing guidelines. The portfolio of projects will be related to the creation of a central intake function. The central intake function will manage all projects that make requests of TES and the portfolio management candidate will coordinate the financial, governance and reporting aspects of management across the entire portfolio. 

Responsbilities

• Provide the Technology Management oversight for large, complex initiatives that present as multiple initiatives across the TES teams 
• Establish Program and Project level reporting for a new multi team group (TES) with an aim to improving visibility of the performance and health of the group's initiatives 
• Identify and establish new governance processes with an aim to ensuring adherence to SDLC methodology and conformity to EPMO standards and measures 
• Identify opportunities for tools and aids to support TES project managers to be more effective/efficient at their jobs while facilitating collection of metrics for reporting and governance 
• Work within existing financial project governance constructs to assemble and enter information into the Enterprise Project Management portal (Clarity) 

Key Accountabilities 

• Sets direction at an operational level, works autonomously in the management of the unit and collaborates with other business heads to establish and execute on common goals. 
• Direct or manages large-scale applications, programs or projects across multiple product lines, involving significant scope and complexity. Ensures delivery of projects to the business partner, meeting the approved scope/cost/schedule/quality for the project. 
• Perform a governing role 
• Performs risk identification and mitigation activities, escalating unresolved issues to the Executive and / or Steering Committee where appropriate to secure their timely decisions/support. 
• Reviews the budgeting and forecasting for all projects covered by Program by working with the Project Managers 
• Ensures client satisfaction with the project process and project team by effective and timely communication including status reporting, continual risk/issue assessment/management and escalation, and resolution of issues as they arise. 
• The successful candidate will be required to work with and influence senior level leaders and partner with other IT Managers. 

Skills and Qualifications

• Senior Program Manager experience who have worked with similar types of projects
• Worked with large programs experience and in particular IT projects 
• Dashboard expertise, report writing and change management experience
• Solid SDLC/PMLC experience and vendor management experience 

Additional skills /experience

• Filenet 
• Kofax 
• Content Manager on Demand 
• Ab Initio ETL 
• ESB
• PMP experience 

Other Skills /Experience must have 

• Proven leadership skills and experience managing large and complex IT projects 
• Full life cycle development experience 
• Experience with proven project methodology tools 
• Expertise in MS Project, Excel, Visio and Powerpoint 
• Experience on large programs with multiple applications with multiple interfaces and/or 3rd parties

Hands on experience with the following

• High Impact or Business Risk Uncertain Business Requirements 
• Project Plan development & management 
• Work breakdown structure 
• Task based plans 
• Assumption & risk based plans 
• Base-lining & scheduling 
• Waterfall and iterative methodologies 
• Project metrics creation and trend analysis 
• Program Plan and metrics 
• Program Governance Risk Assessment & quantification methodologies 
• Issues escalation and resolution 
• Facilitation Skills 
• Scope change management 
• Budgeting, project costs management 
• Quality Controls
• Procurement 
• Communication management & plans 
• Vendor Management

How to Apply

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To apply for this and other suitable exciting opportunities with Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd., you can register and apply online at www.ZylogCanada.com

Programmer/Developer

Zylog delivers top jobs to top talent. We are currently seeking experienced professionals for exciting new opportunities and career advancement.

Zylog represents hundreds of client companies for both contract and permanent positions. New jobs are being filled every day and our experienced professional resource managers are waiting to help you screen the top jobs that match your skills and experience.

You don’t have time to search long lists of postings repeated on multiple web sites, so let our trained and experienced resource managers do the work for you. We review top jobs and will be the first to alert you when the right opportunity arises.

Job Description

Our client has a requirement for Programmer/Developer for a 1 year contract opportunity.  The position is located in Toronto.

What makes this Special

Our client has a prestigious reputation and excellent work environment. This position offers an opportunity for personal learning and to contribute to important initiatives that make a difference. Our client is actively screening resumes and scheduling interviews to fill this position, so let one our professional resource managers represent you to the client, promote your skills, and help you prepare.

Role

The Programmer/Developer will specialize in application packaging and certification to develop Microsoft System Installer (MSIs) while following standard process and procedure activities that contribute to the day to day application certification service deliverables. The Programmer/Developer ensures components for the creation of MSIs are received, provides updates to tracking and reporting metrics. The Programmer/Developer will follow established processes, standard procedures to deliver in a timely fashion, MSIs under the guidance of the application certification team process and technical leads. Works in a team environment support the team’s goals of desktop application certification service.

The Programmer/Developer will collectively be responsible and accountable for the preparation, development, review and submission of all project artefacts. The overall project tasks/activities may include but not limited to the following:

• Review, analyze and modify product installation scripts including encoding, testing, debugging and ensuring application certification services follow standard process and procedures for the installation of applications on desktops
• Prepare scripts and MSI packages for an automated update toolset “Radia”
• Convert business specifications into scripting instructions, design and code programs, create and execute test scenarios
• Review and understanding source files, readme files to understand application scripting requirements
• Launch application and test to ensure successful operation
• Install applications using manual methods and recording requirements for automation
• Uninstall application ensuring complete removal of all components from the system
• Assist in quality insurance activities ensuring scripts operating as expected
• Where required, assist with UAT session for clients to test packaged desktop applications
• Creat uninstall scripts for Multi environments Windows 2000, and XP
• Work with QA to resolve install, and uninstall issues
• Provide timely feedback to team members on matters that could delay the project implementation schedule
• Act as the subject matter expert for the creation and support of the MSI packages created under the standard desktop application certification service
• Directly following up with requestors for any missing information ex. Documentation, special instructions, etc.
• The Consultant's responsibilities will also include some or all of the following development tasks:
• assist with unit, system, acceptance and performance testing;
• support systems implementation;
• ensure development documentation requirements are met
• investigate and resolving system problems, and
• post-implementation support.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and understand of Operating System Windows XP and Windows 7.
• Understanding of the registry
• Knowledge of using VMware, Desktop and know how to create a VMware session.
• Knowledge of AD and Group Policies.
• 5+ years of experience creating MSIs specifically for a RADIA deployment environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of HP’s Radia tool.
• Knowledge of Networks, IP addressing.
• Knowledge of how to re-image a PC.
• Detailed knowledge and skill levels to specific technology and techniques outlined in the attached skill matrix. The level for each item is appropriate for this role.
• The Consultant must be able to demonstrate the ability to deal tactfully with people and have excellent interpersonal communication and writing skills

Keywords: Radia, programmer, MSI Packages

 

How to Apply

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Senior WebFocus BI Developer

Zylog delivers top jobs to top talent. We are currently seeking experienced professionals for exciting new opportunities and career advancement.

Zylog represents hundreds of client companies for both contract and permanent positions. New jobs are being filled every day and our experienced professional resource managers are waiting to help you screen the top jobs that match your skills and experience.

You don’t have time to search long lists of postings repeated on multiple web sites, so let our trained and experienced resource managers do the work for you. We review top jobs and will be the first to alert you when the right opportunity arises.

Job Description

Our client has a requirement for Senior WebFocus BI Developers for a 12 months contract opportunity. The position is located in Montreal.

What makes this Special

Our client has a prestigious reputation and excellent work environment. This position offers an opportunity for personal learning and to contribute to important initiatives that make a difference. Our client is actively screening resumes and scheduling interviews to fill this position, so let one our professional resource managers represent you to the client, promote your skills, and help you prepare.

Summary

To provide business intelligence knowledge and support linked to advertisers and consumers analytics. The BI sr. developer is expected to help designing and delivering a brand new UI for the new Analytics web and mobile platforms which is used by customers.

Responsibilities

• Take part in business intelligence projects. Responsibilities include acting as subject matter expert to assist in delivering business intelligence solutions that will help decision-makers to reach the best solution.
• Become familiar with the company's IS/IT in order to maximise effectiveness.
• Develop BI clients and reports to be visualized on multiple platforms (Ipad, web, mobile devices, etc.) connected and disconnected.
• Use the Information Builders suite of products to capture what-if scenarios, persisting data, calling or offering data services/applications services and creating OLAP and non-OLAP based reports.
• Be able to extract, analyze and interpret system's data in order to respond to various queries.
• Responsible for the implementation of the Information Builders capabilities (mainly software).
• Become familiar with various data sources and their applications in order to define the data needs and brainstorm technical solutions with the rest of the IT team.
• Reverse engineer code to specification (we are insourcing the platform)
• Participate in QA for the technical flows and the data validation.
• Provide estimates and statuses in a timely manner.
• Might be asked to help in the ETL field using SSIS, Datastage or Java
• Might be helped to help on Analytics platforms issues (data issues, problems, etc.)

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business intelligence, Management Information Systems or equivalent.
• 5 to 8 years of related experience in data analysis, decision-making support and business intelligence.
• Strong experience with Webfocus.
• Familiar with mobile application interfaces.
• Highly familiar with database tools such as TOAD.
• Experience with SQLServer and MySQL.
• Experience in Java, .net, C# (an asset).
• Knowledge of HTML5 (an asset).
• Experience in XML, XSD (an asset).
• Experience of Hadoop (an asset).
• Knowledge of Infobright database (an asset).
• Knowledge of Tibco SpotFire (an asset).
• Experience in cube development with Microsoft SSAS and SSIS (an asset).
• Results-oriented.
• Customer focused.
• Ability to make decisions and justify them.
• Open-minded.
• Open to change.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Bilingualism (French and English) preferred.

Keywords:   Webfocus, SQL, Database, HTML5, XML, XSD

How to Apply:

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To apply for this and other suitable exciting opportunities with Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd., you can register and apply online at www.ZylogCanada.com

WebFocus BI Developer - Senior

Zylog delivers top jobs to top talent. We are currently seeking experienced professionals for exciting new opportunities and career advancement.

Zylog represents hundreds of client companies for both contract and permanent positions. New jobs are being filled every day and our experienced professional resource managers are waiting to help you screen the top jobs that match your skills and experience.

You don’t have time to search long lists of postings repeated on multiple web sites, so let our trained and experienced resource managers do the work for you. We review top jobs and will be the first to alert you when the right opportunity arises.

Job Description

Our client has a requirement for Senior WebFocus BI Developers for a 12 months contract opportunity. The position is located in Montreal.

What makes this Special

Our client has a prestigious reputation and excellent work environment. This position offers an opportunity for personal learning and to contribute to important initiatives that make a difference. Our client is actively screening resumes and scheduling interviews to fill this position, so let one our professional resource managers represent you to the client, promote your skills, and help you prepare.

Summary

To provide business intelligence knowledge and support linked to advertisers and consumers analytics. The BI sr. developer is expected to help designing and delivering a brand new UI for the new Analytics web and mobile platforms which is used by customers.

Responsibilities

• Take part in business intelligence projects. Responsibilities include acting as subject matter expert to assist in delivering business intelligence solutions that will help decision-makers to reach the best solution.
• Become familiar with the company's IS/IT in order to maximise effectiveness.
• Develop BI clients and reports to be visualized on multiple platforms (Ipad, web, mobile devices, etc.) connected and disconnected.
• Use the Information Builders suite of products to capture what-if scenarios, persisting data, calling or offering data services/applications services and creating OLAP and non-OLAP based reports.
• Be able to extract, analyze and interpret system's data in order to respond to various queries.
• Responsible for the implementation of the Information Builders capabilities (mainly software).
• Become familiar with various data sources and their applications in order to define the data needs and brainstorm technical solutions with the rest of the IT team.
• Reverse engineer code to specification (we are insourcing the platform)
• Participate in QA for the technical flows and the data validation.
• Provide estimates and statuses in a timely manner.
• Might be asked to help in the ETL field using SSIS, Datastage or Java
• Might be helped to help on Analytics platforms issues (data issues, problems, etc.)

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business intelligence, Management Information Systems or equivalent.
• 5 to 8 years of related experience in data analysis, decision-making support and business intelligence.
• Strong experience with Webfocus.
• Familiar with mobile application interfaces.
• Highly familiar with database tools such as TOAD.
• Experience with SQLServer and MySQL.
• Experience in Java, .net, C# (an asset).
• Knowledge of HTML5 (an asset).
• Experience in XML, XSD (an asset).
• Experience of Hadoop (an asset).
• Knowledge of Infobright database (an asset).
• Knowledge of Tibco SpotFire (an asset).
• Experience in cube development with Microsoft SSAS and SSIS (an asset).
• Results-oriented.
• Customer focused.
• Ability to make decisions and justify them.
• Open-minded.
• Open to change.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Bilingualism (French and English) preferred.

Keywords:   Webfocus, SQL, Database, HTML5, XML, XSD

How to Apply

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To apply for this and other suitable exciting opportunities with Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd., you can register and apply online at www.ZylogCanada.com

Seneca’s HR Classes Feature HR Professional from Zylog on March 28, 2013

HR Professional from Zylog will be a guest speaker in several HR Classes at Seneca at the Newnham Campus.

Salina Rajani HR Professional from Zylog will speak about her work experience and accomplishments at Zylog on Thursday, March 28^th, 2013 at Seneca College, room B3090 from 8:50 AM to 11:35 AM, room E2403 from 11:40 AM to 1:25 PM, and room E2401 from 1:30 PM to 3:15 PM, Newnham Campus, 1750 Finch Avenue East, Toronto, ON, M2J 2X5.

Salina Rajani is a professional recruiter at Zylog for financial services, Telecom, and IT. She is actively involved in guest visits at Seneca College. In 2012 and 2013, Salina has been a panel member in Seneca College’s HR Symposium as well as participating in Seneca’s annual HR Meet and Greet Event. Salina has guest-lectured in several Recruitment and Selection, as well as Training and Development classes. Through the sharing of her professional experiences, Salina brings practical knowledge to the classroom, allowing for learning outside of the textbook for Seneca’s HR Students.

Salina will be discussing her work experience at Zylog with Training and Development, Recruitment and Selection practices at Zylog, including personal rewards and challenges related to being a professional recruiter.

Seneca College gives students the advantage of partnerships with industry leaders, the latest in hands-on computer technology, a variety of class sizes, and full-time, part-time and continuing education options. Newnham Campus is one of the largest college campuses in Canada. It is home to full and part-time programs in the areas of Business, Applied Arts, Applied Science and Engineering Technology.

Zylog is a leading provider of IT, Engineering and Professional recruiting services and solutions with global delivery capability. Being actively engaged in the career path development of qualified professionals enables Zylog to maintain prestigious status as a top ranked human capital management, recruiting, and placement organization.

Interested job seekers can search for Jobs on the go, any time and any place with Brainhunter Job Search App for iPhone.  Brainhunter.com (Zylog’s Social Media Career Site) increases its exceptional advantages and helps its members to effectively jump start their career with its free app for all job seekers.

In addressing the needs of the professional community, Brainhunter.com also provides access to relevant benefits, exclusive corporate discounts, discounts on courses and certifications and much more.


About Zylog

Zylog provides professional services and solutions with local delivery teams. Zylog proudly represents top talent in IT, Engineering, Health Care, Government, and Retail positions. As an application designer and developer, Zylog has introduced an Enterprise Social Media CRM to empower consultants, contractors, and employers with powerful HRIS supported by highly skilled recruiting and customer care representatives. Brainhunter.com by Zylog provides contractors with unparalleled services, benefits, training and personal development previously reserved for employees of Fortune 500 organizations. Zylog recruiters take a personal interest in independent consultants and the community.
For more information, visit www.Zylog.ca and www.Brainhunter.com

Infrastucture Architect

Zylog delivers top jobs to top talent. We are currently seeking experienced professionals for exciting new opportunities and career advancement.

Zylog represents hundreds of client companies for both contract and permanent positions. New jobs are being filled every day and our experienced professional resource managers are waiting to help you screen the top jobs that match your skills and experience.

You don’t have time to search long lists of postings repeated on multiple web sites, so let our trained and experienced resource managers do the work for you. We review top jobs and will be the first to alert you when the right opportunity arises.

Job Description

Our client has a requirement for a Storage and Infrastructure Solutions Architect based in New York City, less than one mile south of Central Park. This is a permanent placement opportunity with an exceptional employer. 

What makes this Special

Our client has a prestigious reputation as a major systems integrator and this position will support their clients in pre-sales support and analysis in enterprise level architecture and solutions. The position offers the right candidate an opportunity to contribute to important IT infrastructure initiatives that make a difference. Our client is actively screening resumes and scheduling interviews to fill this position, so let one our professional resource managers represent you to the client, promote your skills, and help you prepare.

The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to leverage your prior experience in IT infrastructure and storage management in a consultative role.

Requirement or Qualifications

Ideal candidate should possess:

• extensive experience supporting HP Hardware and Software with an emphasis on Enterprise Level Architecture and Solutions. 
• Strong pre-sales technical support, evaluation, sizing, configuration and design are a must.
• Candidate must be technically adept with a variety of competitive SAN hardware and software platforms, especially storage connectivity and storage from HP (EVA, 3PAR, P4000, D2D, Storage Server and X9000).

Responsibilities Include

• Conduct Hardware & Software Assessments.
• Supported the sales team in solution identification, system sizing, and competitive research in configuring SANS, Blade, Storage Connectivity, Virtualization, Disaster      Recovery, Data Migration and Data Center Infrastructure.
• Digital Storage and Server Pre-Sales, SAN architecture, Information disaster recovery.
• Perform consulting, engineering, and implementation for high-availability, 24/7 production environments as well as mission-critical command and control operations.

Required Skills Include

• Well-developed interpersonal skills, political acumen, maturity, credibility, confidence and unquestioned integrity. 
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills working with diverse technical audiences.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• A record of complete integrity and strong personal character, leading by example.
• Diplomatic and able to reach common ground and build alliances without compromising the organization’s interests.
• Flexibility to adapt to a dynamic, changing industry and marketplace.
• Collaborative, with strong focus on teamwork.
• Confident and comfortable making decisions.
• Creative, capable of generating ideas, establishing direction and obtaining commitment.
• Strategic thinker with excellent strategic planning and organizational abilities; and Strong problem solving skills.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Possess a comprehensive understanding of the TCP/IP protocol suite and the inherent vulnerabilities
• Possess an encompassing knowledge of server based communication and OS vulnerabilities over multiple platforms (windows/Unix/Linux)

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• MS Office Product Experience
• In depth specialized knowledge of concerts, processes and activities
• Advanced and specialized expertise in multiple technologies developed through training and experience
• Subject Matter Expert in area of Active Directory and Red Hat directory server
• Applies advanced analytical interpretation and problem solving

Required Experience Includes

• HP Storage Master ASE Certification
• HP Server Master ASE Certification
• 10+ years experience in complex storage solutions design and installation management.
• Proficient use of Windows, Unix, Linux operating systems
• Strong knowledge of virtualized computing and virtualized storage
  • Pre-Sales Planning and Support
  • Client Whiteboard Sessions
  • Employee and Client Training & Workshops
  • Client Presentations
  • Staff Mentoring & Training
  • Sound business acumen and strong analytical skills combined with the ability to execute a plan and allocate resources appropriately.
  • Proven experience in strategic planning skills and a solid understanding of business relationships.
  • Ability to interface and communicate with all levels of management, both internally and outside of the company, on complex issues in both oral and written form.

  
Preferred Experience Includes

• Converged Infrastructure Integration
• Strong Presentation, Sales, Negotiation and Influencing Skills
• Organized Team Approach
• Customer Management
• Customer Interface & Site Visits
• Customer Organization Hierarchy
• Product Demonstrations, Customer Training and Product Installation
• Strategic Sales Account Experience
• Working with external partners to deliver solution sales
• Project Management
• Business Plan Development

Keywords:   Infrastructure, Storage, ASE, HP, Enterprise      

How to Apply

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To apply for this and other suitable exciting opportunities with Zylog Systems Ltd., you can register and apply online at www.ZylogCanada.com

Java Developer

Zylog delivers top jobs to top talent. We are currently seeking experienced professionals for exciting new opportunities and career advancement.

Zylog represents hundreds of client companies for both contract and permanent positions. New jobs are being filled every day and our experienced professional resource managers are waiting to help you screen the top jobs that match your skills and experience.

You don’t have time to search long lists of postings repeated on multiple web sites, so let our trained and experienced resource managers do the work for you. We review top jobs and will be the first to alert you when the right opportunity arises.

About the Job

Our client has a requirement for a Java Develoepr for a 6 Month Contract opportunity.  The person can work out of Mississaugau OR London, ON.

What makes this Special

Our client is one of the largest Banks in North America. With exponential growth and millions of customers and clients who are served through our various businesses: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. Being part of this company is being part of a better Canadian service.

 Role

• Develop and host web enabled and database driven applications in Java.
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver solutions.
• Design and develop quality solutions for systems issues consistent with project objectives.
• Develop, implement and maintain solutions that maximize system availability.
• Periodic scope assistance.
• Oversee other developers.
• Troubleshoot coding issues.
• Ensure coding continuity.
• Develop detailed design specifications, create and review code and assess impact on other applications.
• Role will work closely with other team members to ensure consistency in coding standards and approaches and to optimize any synergy and re-use opportunities.
• Responsible for leading technical aspects of project from inception through to deployment.
• Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions.
• Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology. Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions. Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues. Active participation in issue resolution.
• Provide detailed development estimates to Project Manager for development effort as well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting.
• Configuration management for the sub projects within the release.
• Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments.
• May lead code reviews.
• Work closely with System Test Environment Management Team (STEMT) to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly deployed.
• Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code).
• Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases. Track defects, defect triage and resolution.
• Data set up and environment shake down.
• Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term

Requirements

• Java 
• Webservices 
• HTML 
• Experience working with large complex projects or have worked with large companies 

Nice to Have
SQL; OracleUNIX; Design Pattern Certification in Java ; Prior TD experience - strong asset 


Soft Skills 
Strong Communication and organizational skills; Team Player 

How to Apply

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To apply for this and other suitable exciting opportunities with Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd., you can register and apply online at www.ZylogCanada.com.