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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Proposed and implemented process improvement initiatives through implementing step by step solutions to existing manufacturing processes. Increased safety and equipment reliability through comprehensive condition assessment and subsequent implementation of effective operating and maintenance programs across all sites. Troubleshoot equipment to determine.

Pickering, Ontario, Canada

Carried out responsibilities of a Subject Matter Expert (SME) over staff assigned to perform inspection and maintenance activities on major components utilizing various NDE methods and analyzing examination results. Reviewed and/or prepared NDE and maintenance repair procedures. Maintained stewardship of assigned tools, work equipment, and facilities..

Courtice, Ontario, Canada

• I served in multiple, consecutive roles of increasing responsibility for leading Canadian energy provider. Delivered continuous improvement initiatives and led organization-wide, full cycle projects - supervised.
• Effectively executed multi-million dollars business case summaries that were approved upon initial delivery.
• Consistently meet project deliverables; resulted in extending operating life with a net profit of $+1B.
• Enhanced communication, created visual reporting mechanism to capture key performance indicators (KPIs) of project progress to internal and external stakeholders.
• Created QA/QC pre-approved supplier list to accelerate supply chain long lead material acquisitions.
• Authored high to low level governance to clarify departmental interface and work groups responsibilities within the major project organization.

Pickering, Ontario, Canada

• Directed assigned operations teams - developed long-range corrective action plans for operations and maintenance and resolved day-to-day operations - maintenance, work management, and chemistry issues. I supervised.
• Replaced reheaters pump motors with a different type that has resolved persisting reliability issue — $17K/day/unit.
• Cut costs of a component replacement project by $6M through contract change negotiations with vendor.
• Recommended and implemented new way of work package assembly solution to optimize resource requirements that led to reduced length of planned outages by 4.3 days — savings of $1M/day/unit for four units every three.
• Conducted root cause investigation that corrected an outage strategy, which led to frequently failures — savings of $4M per event.
• Increased station production efficiency through reconfiguring system and operational procedures — $14.4K per day.

Pickering, Ontario, Canada

Led assigned Operations and Maintenance crews — optimized maintenance strategies and implemented life cycle management initiatives— resolved day-to-day Operations and Maintenance issues and provided engineering support to work management, station chemistry, minor modification projects and other engineering groups. Acted as the engineering lead for.

Chemical Engineering Technologist, Chemical Engineering

Thunder Bay, ON

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Chemical Process Engineering

Thunder Bay, ON

Masters Of Engineering, Engineering Physics

Hamilton, ON