Webmaster’s Bio: John C. McKay (Jock)

After a 34-year career in research, Jock retired in 1989. Prior to retirement, he was the Director, Research and Development, for Stelco Inc (Name changed to U. S. Steel Canada). For three years after his retirement, he held the position of Executive Director of Projet Bessemer Inc., a joint-venture research company owned by six leading Canadian steel companies.

During his career at Stelco, he developed and/or led the development of new steelmaking processes that are still employed by the world steel industry, e.g., minimum-cycle time for continuous annealing, direct reduction of iron ore pellets (SL/RN Process), low-slag volume blast furnace practice, and the Hot Strip Mill “Coil-box”.

Jock was a co-founder of the Canadian Steel Industry Research Association (CSIRA/ARISC) and served as its Chairman for nine years. Also, he served on numerous technical advisory boards (partial list):
C-FER, CCPE, IMI, NSERC, WIC, and the Universities of British Columbia, l'Ècole Polytechnique, Ryerson, Toronto and Waterloo.

For these and other activities and achievements, his professional peers, in 1987, voted him as a AIST (formerly ISS ) Distinguished Member. His other honors include CIM’s Airey Award, 1987, Iron and Steel Society’s Robert W. Hunt Silver Medal, 1964 and Honorary Life Member of the CIM Hamilton Branch, 1990.

Positions

• 1989–95: President and Director. Steelnet Inc.
• 1990–93: Executive Director. Projet Bessemer Inc.
• 1990–91: Consultant (Task Force on Intelligent Processing). AISI
• 1990–88: Consultant/Coordinator (Advanced Steels Network of Centres of Excellence). CSIRA/ARISC
• 1988–89: Director, Research & Development. R and D Dept., Steltech Inc.
• 1977–88: Director, Research & Development. R and D Dept., Stelco Inc.
• 1972–77: Assistant Director, Research & Development. R and D Dept., Stelco Inc.
• 1962–72: General Supervisor, Research & Development. R and D Dept., The Steel Company of Canada, Ltd.
• 1960–62: Asst. Div. Metallurgist, Development. Dev. Div. Met. Dept., The Steel Company of Canada, Ltd.
• 1959–60: Metallurgist, Development and Special Duties Div. Met. Dept., The Steel Company of Canada, Ltd.
• 1954–59: Engineer, Development and Special Duties. Metallurgical Dept., The Steel Company of Canada, Ltd.

Interests

• Genealogy: Ann Calder’s Children
• Encyclopedia article contributor: Articles on steelmaking [Enter these keywords: steel john mckay]
• Mentor for small-business entrepreneurs
• Web site author (not-for-profit organizations.)
• Web site editor/contributor: The Open Directory Project

Community Service

• 2007: Made video trailers of Burlington Footnotes Performances and posted them on YouTube
• 2006: Wrote code for Ontario Senior Games Association No longer serves as Webmaster. Code rewritten by a commercial web-design company.
• 2005: Wrote code for Halton Web Connections No londer serves as Webmaster.
• 2004: Wrote code for Middlebury School (Mississauga)(no longer in use)
• 2004 ndash; Wrote code for Burlington Footnotes & Company and is the Webmaster.
• 2003: Wrote code for OSGA District #21 Web site and assists in maintaining it.
• 2002: Community Representative, Burlington Volunteer Firefighters Review Committee (reinstate), City of Burlington.
• 2001–2005: Webmaster, Crime Stoppers of Halton Inc.
• 1999: Community Representative, Burlington Volunteer Firefighters Review Committee, City of Burlington.
• 1998: Member, The Citizens’ Task Force for Efficiencies and Savings (CTF).
• 1998: Member, Ice Option Project Team, City of Burlington.
• 1998–2000: Director, Taxpayers Coalition Halton, Inc.
• 1997–98: Member and Cofounder, Citzens’ Association for the Preservation of Park Lands (CAPPAN).