Charles (Chuck) MacLennan
Associate Consultant
cmaclennan (at) cfncon.com
Charles (Chuck) MacLennan joined CFN Consultants in September 2008 after 40 years of service to the public as a Canadian Forces officer, RCMP member, and Public Servant.
During a thirty five year career with the Canadian Army, he enjoyed a variety of operational and technical postings as a Communications and Electronics Engineering Officer, retiring at the rank of Colonel in 2002. He was certified as a Project Management Professional in 1995 and has led several DND Major Crown Projects. In his last assignment with DND, he was the Director Land Command Systems Program Management responsible for acquisition, engineering and support of the Canadian Army's deployable information technology infrastructure. He was simultaneously the Project Manager for a transformational 2 Billion-dollar IM/IT project to equip the Army with modern integrated voice and data communications and automated Command and Control.
In September 2002, he joined the RCMP as the first Director General Infrastructure Engineering and Development. In this capacity, he was responsible for the development, acquisition, engineering and availability of the RCMP's extensive computer, radio, and network systems.
In September 2005, he joined Citizenship and Immigration Canada as the Chief Information Officer and the Director General Information Management and Technologies Branch. In three years as CIO, he led several strategic efforts including the revitalization of the Global Case Management System project.
Colonel MacLennan is a graduate of the Royal Military College Kingston, the Canadian Land Force Staff College Kingston, the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College Toronto, and the British Army Technical Staff College Shrivenham U.K. He has also served as a Vice President of the Radio Advisory Board of Canada.
He and his wife Margaret live in Orleans, ON with their two adult children, David and Christopher. He roots enthusiastically for the Toronto Maple Leafs, plays golf badly, and never misses a chance to play Old Timers hockey.