Stanley Dzuba, Broadcast and CATV Engineer in the Pacific
Regional Office,
has retired
after 38 years of service.
(Communications Express November 1988)
After leaving High School in
1950, Stanley joined the RCAF as a radar technician spending four years as a
radar instructor on the Pine Tree radar chain. He applied to go to university
but, because he was color blind, the RCAF would not accept him. So he
transferred to the Army who put him through university (University of
Saskatchewan) . After graduating in engineering, he spent three years with the
Army in the Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
In 1961 he transferred to the public service, the
Telecommunications Branch of the Department of Transport in Ottawa.
In 1964 he won a competition as the Superintendent of
Radio Engineering, DoT, in Vancouver. In 1975 he was appointed as the Regional
Systems Engineer, in what was then the Dept. of Communications, then in 1983 he
became the Regional Broadcasting Engineer until his retirement in 1988.
During his stay in the public service he was very active
in the community. He served in the Militia from 1964 to 1977 where he commanded
a Service Battalion at the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel. He served four years on the B.C. Parole Board
interviewing inmates for parole eligibility. Served a number of years as
National President of the RCEME (Army) Association and Provincial President of
the Military Order of St Lazarus.
He was awarded many Awards and Decorations some of which
are Knight Commander Military Order of St Lazarus, Knight in the Order of Saint
John, Queens Silver Jubilee Medal, NATO Special Service Medal, Canadian Forces
Decoration and Canadian Commemorative Medal.
Where are they now?
Here is the volunteer work
I have been doing recently with CESO in underdeveloped countries.
My first assignment was the most interesting and
longest. In the late '90s I got an assignment in Armenia to design a Radio
Monitoring system for the country. Armenia is a bit larger than Vancouver
Island and very mountainous, which involved many stations. This was a six
month assignment. I had to design the system, go out to tender and make a
recommendation to the Minister of Communications as to the successful bidder.Aerosystems from Montreal was the successful bidder over an English and
a German firm. The Armenian government did'nt have the money to pay for the
system and they could not get a loan from any financial institution so the
system was delayed until last year when to my knowledge they got some
financing and proceeded with the project. I was very grateful to Tom Batts
from the Vancouver office who supplied me with alot of information regarding
Canada's Monitoring facilities.
Next I spent several weeks with the UN (food bank)
doing a telecomm survey in south east Asia to determine what facilities they
actually had there and how they could be streamline and made more efficient.
Because telecommunication is not associated with
underdeveloped countries I was'nt getting any more assignments, but I noticed
that ISO 9000 was in demand especially in eastern European countries. I
studied up on ISO 9000 and my first assignment was three years ago in Russia
in a city of Izhevesk, at the base of the Ural mountains next to Siberia. This
was a milk processing company who wanted to get ISO certified and to export
their dairy products to the European Common Market. I spent the months of
November and December there and was it cold!! I showed them what was to be
done and then left them to their own devices and sure enough six months later
I received an invitation to attend their ISO certificate presentation
ceremony. They were one of the first firms in Russia to become ISO certified.
Since then I had two other ISO assignments since one to Moldova at a carpet
weaving factory and in Kazakstan at a medical equipment manufacturing firm.
Recently I could not take on any assignments
because of my wife's illness but when circumstances change I will resume my
travels. To keep current with ISO 9000 I am presently doing the paper work to
have a local company ISO certified, this firm is a water treatment operation.
It presently has sales in China and Europe but wants to expand its market to
countries which demand ISO certification before they buy his products.
