UOIT graduate on track to success after helping with Grey Cup train tour

Faculty of Business and Information Technology 2011 alumnus Rohan Karamandi (Bachelor of Information Technology) played an important role last fall in helping promote Canada’s national football championship to thousands of people across the country. The Networking and Information Technology Security program graduate was hired by networking giant Cisco Systems and was part of an exciting promotional event the company ran for the Canadian Football League’s (CFL) 100^th Grey Cup Game.

Cisco, in partnership with Rona Inc., the CFL, and a few other sponsors, created the Grey Cup 100 Train Tour. A VIA train was converted into a moving, technology-enriched museum of CFL history and over 70 days it travelled across Canada to over 150 locations. Karamandi was one of the Cisco engineers responsible for managing all of the technology set up on the train for the tour. He travelled on the train across Canada helping to manage the IT infrastructure that made the event a success (link to Cisco Canada feature about the train tour, which includes some of Karamandi’s reflections [between 1:54 and 2:47]). 

The Grey Cup 100 Train Tour kicked off at Vancouver’s Pacific Central Station on September 9, went all the way to the Atlantic coast and ended ten weeks later on November 17 in Toronto to help kick off Grey Cup celebrations.