PhD student helps evaluate mobile technology implementation at Ottawa Hospital

PhD student David Hudson had planned to work for a couple of years after completing his masters, and then pursue a doctoral degree.

But a couple of years turned into about 20 years with Nortel where Hudson ended up supervising about 600 employees as Chief Technology Officer.

During his final years at Nortel, he was responsible for its external research program.

“This program had me working with grad students and professors at several schools, including Carleton, on a number of exciting research activities and reminded me of my plan,” says Hudson. “When I decided to go back to my original plan, I found that I was now more interested in how technology gets used, often in surprising ways, by people. So the Sprott School of Business made perfect sense to me and CITOP (Sprott’s Centre for Information Technology, Organizations,and People) was a great fit too.”