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“Wayne is a pleasure to work with and is a true expert on Canada’s space program, with unique insight into military and civilian strategies, programs, and downstream applications.  For three years in a row, Wayne has provided useful information and business intelligence as he reviewed Futron’s Space Competitiveness Index.  I look forward to the opportunity to work with Wayne again.” 

~Jay Gullish, Business Development Manager, Futron Corporation

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Wayne A. Ellis has over twenty years of Canadian military experience, including Air Defence tours in North Bay, NATO AWACS in Geilenkirchen, Germany, and the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Studies (CFSAS).  In 1998, he lead a team to research, plan, and build the Canadian Forces' first museum dedicated to the Air Defence mission in North Bay.  Recognizing a deficiency in currency training, Wayne A. Ellis established a focused training strategy for NATO surveillance controllers and operators in 2001.

Wayne A. Ellis completed both a BSc and MSc at the Royal Military College of Canada.  In 1989, he was one of ten cadets to make the leap from engineering to the newly-established space science program, and he graduated top of the space science class in 1991. During this time, he toured Colorado Springs and the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, Falcon Air Force Base (now Shriever Air Force Base), the St Margaret's Baker-Nunn telescope unit near Chatham, New Brunswick and visited the David Florida Lab in Ottawa. Also while in Ottawa, he spent some time at the Directorate of Air Requirements, and wrote a research paper - "Military Space Doctrine, Space Superiority, and Canada."

In 2001, he was selected to undertake graduate studies in space operations at RMC - again, a brand new degree reflecting Canada's increased focus on space and the subsequent requirement for a Canadian-based educational institution with a graduate-level space syllabus.  During his graduate studies, Wayne A. Ellis took a number of 3rd and 4th year space science cadets on a tour of Colorado Springs, the Canadian Space Agency, and the Joint Space Support Project Team in Kingston.  He also completed a major project "The Physical Constraints of Space Weapons."

Upon graduation in 2003, he was posted to the CFSAS where he delivered and directed space applications courses for the Canadianmilitary. He also directed the effort to establish the CF's first Space Operations Course (SOC) designed to support those CF and DND individuals slated for space jobs around the world.  He has designed, developed and delivered space educational content for audiences as diverse as grade school children to senior Government personnel, and has provided space expertise to multiple levels of the Canadian Military.  In 2005, he conducted the first General and Senior Officers' Space Seminar (GSOSS) at the Canadian Space Agency. Wayne took his retirement in 2007 and established AppSpace Solutions, Inc. as a means to increase the general awareness of the Canadian public, civil, military and commercial, of the importance of space systems and their applications.

Since 2007 Wayne has been a proud agent of Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI), servicing the Canadian and European space, defence and geospatial community. AGI provides commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software to national security and space professionals for integrated analysis of land, sea, air, and space assets.

Wayne A. Ellis is also a Board Member of the Canadian Space Society (CSS), and is its Director for Corporate Membership.