Andy Rogers

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Andrew James Rogers

I was born on August 24th, 1961 in Köln (Cologne), Germany, the son of Charles Frederic Rogers (a Canadian) and Anneke (nee Groot, from the Netherlands). My father was a Canadian Immigration Officer and my mother was a homemaker, although she also worked as a teacher and translator in her lifetime.

My family moved many times as my father was posted to a number of countries as part of his career:

• Cologne and Hamburg, Germany (1961-1966)
• Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (1966-1967)
• Trinidad (1967-1969) - Father: Head of Mission
• Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (1969-1971)
• Vienna, Austria (1971-1973)
• Brussels, Belgium (1973-1974)
• Hong Kong (1974-1976) - Father: Acting High Commissioner
• Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (1976-1979)
• London, England (1979-1980) - Father: Acting High Commissioner
• London, Ontario, Canada (1980-1984) - BA English Literature, University of Western Ontario)
• Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1984-1995)
• Cambridge, Ontario, Canada (1995-2019)
• San Ramon, California, United States (2019-2020)

After university, I moved to Toronto and secured a 6-month contract job with the Facilities Department at IBM Canada Headquarters, 3500 Steels Ave E., Markham, Ontario. During my second 6-month contract, I applied to and secured a permanent position as a security guard in the Security Department. In my second year in the Security Department, I applied to an IBM retraining program that allowed administrative employees to take courses in Computer Programming and Computer Science at Ryerson University in the hopes of turning them into software engineers/programmers.

After graduation from the Ryerson program (1986), I started as a Technical Writer for the IBM Canada Laboratory at 1150 Eglinton Avenue.

13 years total with IBM.

Went freelance in 1997. Worked with the following companies:

• Nortel (Rapport dial-up switches)
• Toronto Stock Exchange (The Marketplace, the TSE multimedia museum)
• MDS/Sciex (mass spectrometers and software)
• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (Forestry Management Program)
• Hewitt Estimating Consultants (EBC Chief Estimator, construction job estimation software)
• Bowne Print Solutions
• Team Leader for the Global Technology Solutions (GTS) Team at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
• Moved from Toronto to Cambridge, Ontario, in order to raise a family.
• Team Leader at Quarry Integrated Communications (marketing/digital product development for FedEx, Phillips Analytical, BlackBerry (RIM), Clarica's website redesign, Cendant Corporation's website design, Maptuit's website architecture).

In 2001, joined Sybase Canada in Waterloo:

• Manager of the technical writing team for the Financial Fusion banking software suite.
• 2007 - Moved to SQL Anywhere.
• 2010 - Sybase acquired by SAP.
• 2015 - Moved to Mobile Services for the SAP Cloud Platform.
• 2019 - Laid off in SAP's global restructuring in Canada. Rehired by SAP in San Ramon, California, USA. iOS and Android SDKs for the SAP Cloud Platform.

Married Heather Williams on June 27, 1994. We met at IBM and she was also a technical writer. We have four children, two boys and two girls.

I have traced my Rogers ancestors back to the 1500s. All of the Rogers came from Devon, UK. They emigrated to London, Ontario circa 1855. Most of the Rogers family at that time were plumbers and they helped build the London Waterworks in the 1880s as part of the Stevens, Turner, and Burns Company (eventually becoming Empire Brass, now EMCO). My grandfather and great-grandfather were salesmen for plumbing companies operating out of Hamilton.

Sources

• WikiTree profile Rogers-4993 created through the import of Rogers Family Tree-Direct Ancestors and Their Descendants_2012-03-12.ged on Mar 12, 2012 by Andy Rogers. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Andy and others.

• Personal knowledge.