A  2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics Photo Journal

Working at Whistler Olympic Park

Curt Imanse, Atos Origin    

 
 

 


      My campaign to become the poster model for the Olympics has so far been unsuccessful.
As I just recently returned from the Paralympics, this site is still under construction.  Just a few little details left, such as basic functionality and content.   I'll be adding more throughout April, including a section for my fellow Whistler Olympic Park folks to download pictures I took of them.

   This website is intended to provide my friends, family, and coworkers a glimpse into my experience of working at the Olympics.  Ironically, you will not find any pictures of me actually working. 

  My employer, Atos Origin, is an international IT company with over 50,00 employees in over 40 countries—making it particularly difficult to remember my coworkers' names.

   Atos Origin is particularly good at managing large, complex, and time critical technology projects, which explains their propensity for repeatedly winning the largest sports-related IT contracts in history—the Olympics.  Already contracted for the Sochi, Russia Winter Olympics in 2014, and the Rio, Brazil, Summer Games in 2016, Atos Origin's involvement in the Olympics dates back to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.  Next in line is the London 2012 Summer Olympics. 

   My "normal" job with Atos Origin is based out of our Great Lakes Division in Cincinnati, Ohio.  I am a Manufacturing Execution Systems Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Industry Consultant, a title intended to baffle anyone I meet so they are discouraged from asking questions I cannot answer. 

  At the Olympics, my role was Help Desk Supervisor for Whistler Olympic Park, an area comprised of three Nordic sports venues:  Biathlon, Cross Country Skiing, and Ski Jumping.  I primarily managed a team of international techies from the UK, New Zealand, Philippines, Canada, Austria, Russia, South Africa, and the USA. 

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 "Atos Origin, the Worldwide Information Technology Partner, leads the technology effort for the staging of the Olympic Games. Atos Origin manages and integrates the contributions of all technology partners and suppliers to deliver seamless and secure technology operations and services that provide instant communications to athletes, spectators, organizers, officials, media, television viewers and Internet users worldwide."

 ---International Olympic Committee