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Toronto, Ca

• The Northpine Foundation is a startup philanthropic organization with a growing team aimed to support communities that encounter economic and social limitations. We achieve this initiative by designing, funding, and partnering on initiatives that improve community flourishing. We combine best practices to invest in bold, new, and untried approaches. The Northpine Foundation’s resources and annual giving capacity rank it as one of Canada's top private foundations. The Northpine Foundation’s core value of kindness is exhibited through acting as a professional, innovative, reflective, aggressive, and impactful force of good. We aim to enable Canada’s most marginalized populations to thrive.

• Writer, Speaker, and Documentary Producer• In 3 months, wrote story on Facebook, delivered speaking tour across 7 towns in Newfoundland over 11 days, and crowdfunded $15,000 from 230 donors from 19 countries to produce short documentary film. Also recorded a radio documentary that aired nationally on CBC The Sunday Edition.• 50+ screenings in 29 cities globally. Officially selected for 19 film festivals, won 5 awards, including Best Documentary at Canadian Diversity Film Festival and one of two Muslim-Canadian films selected for United Nations Global Migration Film Festival. Also won Inspirit Foundation grant for 2019 Creating Communities of Kindness Tour across Canada hosting screenings and discussion with local leaders on social inclusion and innovation.• Developed Educator’s Guide (English/French) with education experts and designers. Downloaded by 100+ schools in first 2 days of release, including partnerships with Toronto District School Board and Newfoundland & Labrador English School District, and continually scaling.• Developed website (www.salaamby.ca), social media, lead operations & planning and co-lead strategy.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

The Energy Futures Lab (EFL) is an Alberta-based, multi-disciplinary collaboration designed to accelerate the development of a sustainable​ energy system for Alberta. The EFL brings together influential leaders to address current and emerging energy challenges, and generate opportunities to identify, test and scale new initiatives and collaborations. It serves as a:• Network to share lessons and knowledge among participating organizations and their stakeholders.• Channel to spark a new energy future narrative that inspires dialogue and action on key issues and challenges.• Platform for ongoing experimentation, innovation, and collaboration.

Edmonton, Ab, Ca

At Startup Edmonton, we reduce friction for aspiring & current startup founders to go from inspiration to idea to launch through connecting them with community, skills and space.

Montréal, Québec, Ca

The Action Canada Fellowship is a 10-month national leadership development and policy engagement program. This program brings together emerging leaders from across the country. Together, fellows learn about and experience different parts of Canada, our history, and ultimately, work together to make good policy for a better Canada.Fellows meet with senior leaders from all sectors, including government, industry, the media and NGOs. They participate in Action Canada’s leadership-skills development sessions and hone their writing, speaking and media skills.

Edmonton, Alberta, Ca

• Lead research, strategy development and alignment for 2030 Utility of the Future Innovation Roadmap, product management of associated new product offerings, and design commercialization initiatives for $28M portfolio. New products include: energy orchestration platform; smart home energy system; electric vehicle infrastructure and smart charging; commercial/industrial/community microgrids; smart cities; and advanced data analytics and IoT.• Identify internal ideas and recruit, train & advise diverse teams to develop and de-risk product roadmaps and new business initiatives through lean approaches.• Lead team’s social impact research, including energy poverty and Indigenous relations.• Conduct company-wide training on innovation tools and mechanisms to develop innovation culture and skills.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Launched a social innovation lab for the Calgary STEM community for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to develop systemic innovation to evolve the engineering profession through collaborative ventures.• Wrote the “Calgary SDGs”, the “Truth & Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action SDGs” and led Kumvana Gala on gender equity.• Established partnerships with diverse groups to assist in venture development, including government, local development agencies, business associations, major consultancies, Indigenous and NGO associations.• Piloted ventures focused on basic income, gender equity in STEM, and data insights approaches for the SDGs.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

• Managed client portfolio of 4-6 SME and large technology companies to accelerate their product commercialization, including value proposition and business model design, customer discovery, market assessment, and lean strategy.• Developed new consulting packages to access new client markets.• Connected client product & business development plans to a resourcing and funding strategy.• Conducted external engagement with market for needs assessment to design new services.

London, Gb

• Managed projects, programs, and operations for UK science, innovation, and energy portfolio in Canada.• Recruited & managed staff and partners, and worked closely with trade, investment, media and policy teams.• Designed and managed UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) Carbon Capture and Sequestration International Knowledge Exchange & Commercialization Project ($300k invested, $1M+ leveraged) to accelerate commercialization through research, policy and business initiatives involving multi-sector partners in over 15 countries including Canada, USA, Mexico, China, South Korea, South Africa, Australia, and EU nations.• Designed project and acquired funding to develop a digital collaboration platform between Public Health England and Public Health Agency of Canada to share and jointly analyze critical antimicrobial resistance data.• Science & Innovation Network Country Lead for energy and antimicrobial resistance; Regional Manager for Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba; Co-lead of FCO Global Energy Program; and Canada Business Plan Fund Board Member.• Conducted review of FCO Conflict Management Plan and developed action plan proposal.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

• Identified project partners, facilitated comprehensive research panel discussions, and conducted research with international multi-sector experts to solve emerging innovation policy issues of federal Canadian departments.• Proposed new systems-based project evaluation forecasting methodology for organization.• Policy Publications sponsored by Environment Canada and Library & Archives Canada include: - “Enabling Sustainability in an Interconnected World” - Team Lead for smart interconnected utilities (energy & water) and user adoption research. - “Leading in the Digital World: Opportunities for Canada’s Memory Institutions” - Team Lead for policy and opportunities research.

Burlington, Ma, Us

• Researched EU RoHS & REACH environmental manufacturing regulations and analyzed full product line supply chain within 3 months for EU market compliance, along with managing product BOM document database and supplier contact.• Assisted with product hardware schematic design, product manufacturing quality issue reviews, and HALT test planning.

• Facilitated discussion and media relations for “Religious Minorities and Human Rights” 2-week intensive international summer course, in collaboration with McGill University.

• Achieved project goal 2 months ahead of schedule for social innovation project to educate over 600,000 people (10% population) on malaria prevention and engaged over 1 million people nationally through other activities.• Team recruited, trained, managed, and monitored 234 local project managers who similarly recruited, trained, and managed over 6000 field volunteers. Directly managed 84 regionally distributed managers.• Managed relationships with community stakeholders and local/national government partners including Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Inter-Religious Council, universities, NGOs, and religious authorities.• As Project IT Lead, developed monitoring and reporting records database for KPIs.• Led the Performance Research & Evaluation Team to deliver a project evaluation research to determine effectiveness including training contract researchers and developing manager training facilitation advancements.• Developed sustainability business plan, funding forecasting, and policies for project exit strategy.

• Conducted socio-economic and ethnographic research on Fair Trade certification business governance policies.• Designed a database with Arabic interface for managing facility’s storage warehouse inventory.• Traveled to West Bank, Palestine meeting with various local organizations and withstanding local insecurities.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Designed, analyzed, and verified various electrical systems and wrote key technical reports for major projects.• Team Lead for coordinating project test planning and monitoring team progress including owning tests.• Identified system issues, researched causes, and developed solutions on multiple occasions.• Exercised significant IT expertise through the development of automation tools and lab testing.• Researched new materials, including supplier engagement, for feasibility, effectiveness, and costing.• Board member of Community Charity Committee; reviewing and selecting corporate charitable donations.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Power and battery systems analysis and verification with extensive lab use, including programming automated test environments for various sequences and writing technical procedures/reports. Also discovered new automation functions of key instruments.• Developed an inclusive IEEE1725 Certification Test Bench.• Programmed with: NI Labview, TestStand, Visual Basic, and BugDisp.• Submitted four patent proposals, with one reaching second round review.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

• Designed instrumentation and control system modernization for bitumen plant in Cold Lake, AB.• Prepared for installation of new Honeywell HMI control system and layout programming, including designing wiring, I/O mapping, and physical specification for new PLC layouts and replacements.

• CAD design, assisted project management, procurement, and supervised technicians' and sub-contractor’s safe installation of 2 MCCs, 4 PLCs, and control room front panel for Crusher system in multiple locations of facility. Main components include: large and extended conveyor belts; junction boxes, wiring and buttons/switches; PLC cabinets, modules, and wiring; and LV/MV starters.

Saint John, Nb, Ca

• Designed integration layout and procurement of new instruments inside the processing zone, including writing technical procedures, updating P&ID layouts/ wiring diagrams (using CAD and Visio), monitoring installations, and reviewing performance.• Programmed macros-coded data extraction and comparison program for updating Process History Database (PHD) utilizing Microsoft Access and Excel.

Come By Chance, Newfoundland, Ca

• Controls layout and programming of Heat Trace OPC Communications Network with Honeywell’s Experion PKS Server.• Researched Allan-Bradley/Rockwell RSView32, RSLinx Gateway, DeviceNet, and KEPWare KEPServerEX Modbus OPC Server Suite. Presented detailed evaluation and recommendations of both Honeywell & Allan-Bradley/Rockwell OPC solutions for DCS.• Developed facility-wide power measurement solution for heat trace instrumentation system.

• Designed and presented CAD layout of building surroundings and interior, optimizing limited space and following site standards, including: road/street alignment, parking, storage areas etc.• Back office administration of reviewing and organizing all residential land ownership records managed by city hall.

Master Of Technology Management, Engineering Management

M. Sc., Social Policy And Development

B. Eng, Electrical Engineering