Employee Spotlights THE VOICES OF SPARK
“[I] got to do a lot of fun stuff and meet cool people. We have an amazing boss, Dr. Ginger Grant, who basically allows us to experiment with ideas. If the ideas work, good. If they don’t, we’ll try again.”
Barath Roy Michel, MSW, IMGB™, Senior Project Manager BARATH ROY MICHEL HOLDS A Bachelor of Science in Physics from Periyar University, India, and a Master of Social Work, specializing in Human Resources from Mar Gregorious College, India. After being persuaded to come to Canada by family, he applied to the Graduate Certificate program in Project Management in 2018 at Humber College. Soon after completing the one-year program, Michel was hired by Humber’s Applied Research & Innovation department and immediately played an integral part in a Hotel Implementation Plan student capstone project at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation. Now, Michel is responsible for enabling data transparency in the office. He has improved the process flow of grants, and trains student research assistants on basic data analysis tools,
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including introductions to Tableau and Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI). Michel is now a Project Manager with the department and is working on building a predictive model to assess the success rate of grant applications. He is also developing an Online Ideation Platform to help researchers bring their ideas to life. Michel is a Certified Innovation 360 Licensed Practitioner (IMGB™)—Innovation Management Green Belt, issued by the Innovation 360 Group AB; a certification that can only be attempted upon completing IMBA Innovation Management Basic and IMYB Innovation Management Yellow Belt Accreditation™.
