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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Working within a multidisciplinary team, act as an Automation Technologist to design, retrofit, and troubleshoot electrical controls for various electrical, instrumentation, and automation projects, primarily within the defense and marine industries.• Draft preliminary and detailed hardware designs, including system block diagrams, schematics, and scaled layout drawings, in AutoCAD and AutoCAD Electrical for both new equipment installations and retrofit of existing equipment.• Select and procure project equipment and materials, including motion control systems, sensing, and signal processing, ensuring compatibility with projects’ needs. Generate bills of materials (BOMs) in Excel, incorporating advanced formulas and complex conditional formatting for cost reporting and inventorying.• Build and retrofit industrial control panels per design documentation, program PLCs and motor drives (VFDs), perform applicable electrical/controls testing and troubleshooting.• Manage projects, attending routine meetings with clients while providing project updates, responding to project correspondence and concerns, writing design proposal reports and compiling client deliverables, preparing engineering, labor, and equipment cost estimates, while consulting with colleagues and various vendors.𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹, 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:• Act as the facility electrical capabilities SME, coordinating with project leads as needed to plan lab workspace usage wrt/ electrical requirements, designing lab electrical upgrades, engaging with third party electricians as needed, identifying/resolving lab electrical code deficiencies, and enforcing lab electrical safety practices (lock-out/tag-out).

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Working within a multidisciplinary team, acted as a Control Systems Integrator, designing electrical controls for various electrical, instrumentation, and automation projects, primarily within the industrial manufacturing industry.• Drafted preliminary and detailed hardware designs in AutoCAD for both new equipment installations and modernization of existing equipment, with a focus on functional safety.• Prepared equipment quotation packages, consulting with various vendors, ensuring equipment compatibility with projects’ needs.• Developed and reviewed work packages, instructing electricians/technicians on the install and removal of equipment and interconnections through schematics and scaled panel layout drawings.• Maintained and analyzed project equipment inventories, identifying discrepancies between design- and purchased equipment.• Researched new technologies and interpreted OEM data sheets/engineering documentation.𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹, 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:• Acted as the company's primary information security officer, appointed as an Alternate Company Security Officer (ACSO) for Public Services and Procurement Canada's (PSPC) Contract Security program, and appointed as a Designated Official (DO) for PSPC's Controlled Goods program.• Acted as the company's primary information technology (IT) administrator, managing Microsoft 365 (M365) licensing/deployment/billing and central file storage access (Synology), developing and documenting IT processes, troubleshooting, and designing/executing office IT infrastructure upgrades (hardware & software configuration), including initial migration to M365 and roll-out of Synology file server.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Under subcontract to one of Canada's leading shipbuilders, acted as the primary Electrical Engineering Documentation Change Manager on a major multi-vessel shipbuilding project.• Maintained electrical cable block, connection, instrumentation, and cable arrangement diagrams for all ship systems, reflecting the nominal “class” design. As changes to the electrical system were identified in either the design stage or in production, ensured the applicable engineering documentation was accurately revised and republished to various document repositories in a timely manner, confirming requested changes against alternate data sources.• Issued as-fitted variant drawings (customer deliverables), reflecting the actual electrical configuration on each vessel upon ship delivery. Coordinated with other (non-technical) departments to ensure any revisions required were promptly and effectively communicated; reviewed returned drawing updates for consistency.• Developed and maintained a centralized platform to ensure all electrical engineering documentation changes were thoroughly tracked, identifying varying ship configurations.• Communicated electrical documentation changes to the design agent for incorporation on future vessels.• Coordinated teams and individuals on various documentation review, update, and creation tasks, including mass design information review initiatives to confirm documentation integrity/correct inconsistencies, initiatives to create new drawings from non-visual data sources, such as spreadsheets, and team tasks to issue/peer-review as-fitted variant drawings for the customer.• Reviewed team members’ updates for design conformity and provided constructive feedback.• Instructed team members on the use of AutoCAD.• Created and updated instructional process guides, shared progress-tracking spreadsheets/metrics, and drawing templates, as required.• Communicated with both internal and external parties with respect to engineering documentation and process.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Under subcontract to one of Canada's leading shipbuilders, acted as a Marine Electrical Systems Technologist within the Functional Engineering department on a major multi-vessel shipbuilding project.• Reviewed design of shipwide electrical cable terminations against vendor furnished documentation to confirm design functionality for various ship systems.• Confirmed cable design changes proposed in production by the Field Service Engineering department.• Prepared standardized reports to implement necessary cable changes on multiple vessels while considering varying equipment configurations between vessels and varying stages of construction, minimizing production rework.• Prepared, updated, and reviewed written reports, process guides, and spreadsheets as required.• Investigated and resolved conflicting design information by request for various departments and external parties (customer, design agent, equipment vendors, etc.), consulting with engineers and managers as required.• Met both contractual and sudden project deadlines.

Diploma, Electrical Engineering Technology

Studied the design and safe operation of electrical power systems and industrial automation systems. Excelled in programmable logic.

Diploma, Stagecraft And Event Technology, Dean'S List

Studied all aspects of stagecraft and gained experience in carrying out theatrical productions and live events over the course of two.

High School Diploma, General Studies, Principal'S List

Graduated with a Nova Scotia French Immersion Certificate