February 2018 Speaker's Evening

Our guest speaker for February will be Commodore Simon Page, OMM, CD, Director General Maritime Equipment Program Management at DND providing an:

"Update from the Engine Room" 

Commodore Page enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1984 as a Maritime Engineer and graduated from the Royal Military College in 1989 with a Bachelor in Computer Engineering.

He achieved his Head of Department qualification onboard HMCS Nipigon in July 1992 and then commenced a four year tour at the Canadian Forces Naval Engineering School. In 1996, he joined HMCS Athabaskan as the Combat Systems Engineering Officer and participated in his second STANAVFORLANT deployment. Commodore Page then worked as the Division Commander for the Officer Training Division of the Naval Engineering School and the Combat Systems Engineering Officer of Sea Training Atlantic.

In 2004, Commodore Page moved to the Chief of the Maritime Staff organization in Ottawa as a Halifax-Class Modernization Project Director. One year later, he completed the Command and Staff Course and a Master in Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto.

After two years in the Directorate General Maritime Equipment Program Management as Section Head for Materiel Acquisition and Support, in June 2008, he was appointed Commandant of the Canadian Forces Naval Engineering School in Halifax. On completion of this Command tour, he returned to Toronto and completed the National Security Program at the Canadian Forces College. Upon graduation in June 2011, he assumed the duties and responsibilities of the Director Maritime Training and Education. In December 2012, Commodore Page became the Chief of Staff for the Maritime Equipment Programme Management Division of the Materiel Group. On 23 June 2015, he was promoted to his current rank and was appointed as Director General Maritime Equipment Program Management.