OTTAWA - The Ottawa Redblacks hired Jaime Elizondo as their offensive coordinator on Thursday.

Elizondo was the receivers coach for the Toronto Argonauts last season.

Elizondo worked with the Montreal Alouettes as receivers and assistant special teams coach in 2008 before moving to Syracuse to work as the receivers coach for the Orangemen in 2009.

He rejoined the Canadian Football League in 2010 and 2011 as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Argonauts. Elizondo was also previously the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Columbia University.

In 2007, Elizondo worked as a special teams and receivers assistant for the New Orleans Saints under the Bill Walsh NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship program.

Elizondo attended the University of Maryland where he was a physiology and neurobiology major before completing law school at the Washington College of Law at American University where he was a Dean's Fellow.