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Advancing Peer Publishing
The Team
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Collective experience in both software development and healthcare.
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Steve Cohen, CEO and Founder
Steve has over 20 years experience as a software developer/designer/entrepreneur and is currently deploying data driven EE-Collaborate enterprise healthcare communities, which focus on contagious diseases and wound care. The EE-Collaborate communities support peer to peer and peer to patient interaction and engagement. Technologies include: .NET, JEE, Angular JS, LAMP, CSS3, HTML5, Responsive Web, jQuery, and Bootstrap

As the founder of Electric Effect, Steve has personally envisioned and managed the development and deployment of each product, including EE-Collaborate Community platform, SMART Site, SMART HUB, SMART Cloud applications, and the associated machine learning processes. During his 20 years managing enterprise portal application analysis, development, deployment and maintenance, he has worked with a range of companies such as Best Life Rewarded, Wounds Canada, Welsh Wound Initiative, the YellowPages Group (Yellow Media), Government of Ontario (Ministry of Health), Cogeco Cable, Quebecor, and Bell ActiMedia.

Steve is an avid runner, road cyclist, mountain biker, erg rower, swimmer, weightlifter, Trappist beer enthusiast and fisherman, has been married for over 30 years, and has 3 very active adult children who all work out with him. And he has a Bengal cat, Ginger, who is essentially a mooch for body heat at night.
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Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Stevco
or LinkedIn profile: ​https://www.linkedin.com/in/electriceffect/ 

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Douglas Queen, BSc, MBA, PhD  ​
President

​Dr. Queen is an integral member of the Electric Effect Management team. Providing a unique academic and business background in HealthCare, Douglas provides key strategic business advisement and product refinement for Electric Effect. He is also responsible for developing global marketing & sales.

With over 25 years of expertise Dr. Queen, received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering studying Wound Care Dressings in 1986 from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, and also earned his MBA from Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK in 1996. Douglas also spent 13 years working for ConvaTec both in Research and Development & in Sales and Marketing in North America & Europe.

In addition to his consultancy work, Dr. Queen is an Honorary Research Fellow of Cardiff University and throughout his research career. Dr. Queen has worked with leading biomaterial scientists and clinicians around the world.


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Madis Saks, COO
Madis Saks currently serves as the COO of Electric Effect, and is a successful experienced technology entrepreneur, having worked in the tech field since 1996 on various ventures, which he sold out of, including content syndication and an online payments start-up. He has worked in enterprise software as a senior systems analyst, software developer and as a sales engineer, and founded a software company that garnered customers such as, Apple, Eli Lilly, Nissan and Hoffmann La Roche and HR.com.
 
Madis has served as the CTO of InHealth, an automated insurance claims processing provider and developed a passion for security auditing of web and other IT systems, and is actively involved in R&D financing, which led to senior consulting positions with BDO, Ryan, Deloitte and ultimately PwC. This led to studying leading edge and emerging technologies being produced by companies while providing regulatory expertise in order to secure them financing and remuneration for these efforts.
 
Madis' role at Electric Effect focuses on emerging technologies, managing teams, assisting with corporate security, auditing and managing the range of information systems, and managing investment and finacing opportunities. He is also well versed in R&D financing, which includes government regulations.
 
Madis has a degree from the University of Toronto in Business and Commerce.
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Zuhua Luo, PhD

VP of IT, and Lead Application Architect and Developer

Zuhua is the senior analyst and lead application developer for Electric Effect. As the application development manager for Electric Effect, Zuhua directs the core application design and architecture for EE-Collaborate Community Portal, SMART Site, SMART HUB, and SMART Cloud, leading the development team in Canada. He leads all new product R&D, including machine learning processes.

Zuhua is an IT professional specializing in software application solution architecture, development,  design, analysis, implementation and deployment as well as project management. Zuhua is a Java/J2EE/JEE guru, and has extensive working experience in multi-tier enterprise system design and development by using Java/J2EE/JEE/Spring/Seam/Hibernate frameworks and technologies under Unix and Windows environment.

Zuhua is skilled with various modeling/IDE tools, application servers, databases, design patterns and frameworks, including Eclipse, RUP, Jbuilder, RAD, Websphere AS, JBoss AS, Weblogic AS, Borland AS, Apache Web server, Oracle DB, MySQL, NoSQL. He is also trained in database design and development, data modeling, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, SQL Loader, Data Migration, ETL, Replication and Data Warehouse.

To complement his 16 years experience in application development, Zuhua has a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computing from the University of Leicester, England, Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA), Business Component Developer (SCBCD) and Java Programmer (SCJP), Oracle Certified Professional (OCP DBA for 9i), and is a Software Engineering Project Management Certified Professional.


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