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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Canada

Provided leadership on management of all corporate information (physical and electronic) and Facilities Management function including; * Design, deploy, market and support enterprise wide Records and Information Management program to ensure that all information meets business and regulatory requirements * Design and support to protect vital, personal information * Provided project management support for design & construction of 8th Ave. Place * Provided leadership to staff involved with Corporate Services and Facilities Management

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Responsible for development of corporate information management policies, governance and management of all information (physical and electronic) including; * Deploy and support, SharePoint and OmniRim software to manage all corporate information * Provide consulting on elimination of paper intensive processes to electronic work-flows  * Manage corporate records Centre facility housing active files and semi-active records * Develop processes to protect vital, personal records and ensure that all records are managed to satisfy business and regulatory requirements * Market and implement records management program and best practices * Provide leadership to supervisors on day to day operations * Designed, implemented and supported technical library management software for several departmental libraries to facilitate timely retrieval of required information. * Prepared and managed corporate records management budget  * Provided training and marketed document handling practices and procedures

Calgary, Canada Area

Manage Records / Document Management department (with staff of over twenty five employees) responsible to;* Implement Livelink software to migrate existing records management applications * Provide Records Management guidance and support to Livelink project team to onboard new users to manage their electronic and physical content* Participate in ECM planning, implementation and support strategies* Manage development and maintenance of enterprise wide taxonomy and associated record retentions* Provide tools and processes to all file room staff containing oil and gas and corporate records* Manage off-site records center containing over 80,000 cubic feet of semi-active records* Manage commercial storage (physical and electronic) accounts with all vendors* Develop and manage corporate vital, personal and archival records management program* Develop document scanning projects and provide corporate scanning service to all departments* Coordinate all corporate records management initiatives with US head office * Handle merger and acquisition records and consolidate them to Devon’s standards* Develop and implement records management business contingency strategy* Contribute records management expertise to several IT projects (web content management, electronic work-flow, e-invoicing, electronic well information management etc. etc.) * Provide consulting and training to all departments in Calgary and US operations

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Provide consulting and project management services to clients in the following areas:* Document Management (software selection, implementation and support, library systems, retention periods, records management policy etc.)* Alternate technologies to paper (Scanning, electronic capture and management of electronic documents, electronic forms, microfilm etc.) to manage records in a cost-effective manner.* Records / document management training to clients and assist them in migration from paper records to the electronic documents* Strategies to reduce creation of physical records to achieve better access to information * Serve as a resident subject matter expert for all records management outsourcing contracts Electronic work-flow and virtual file room design

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Lead Records & Information Management function to ensure that information is managed and protected to satisfy current and future business and regulatory requirements and; * Designed, implemented and managed corporate records management program *Developed corporate document management policies for senior management endorsement * Implemented & supported corporate Electronic Document Management System * Recommended, designed and converted hard copy workflow processes to electronic forms * Implemented and supported electronic imaging and other document management technologies to achieve improved customer service and to reduce document handling costs and access to right information to employees * Managed critical records protection, corporate archives and forms management programsManaged records retention approval process to ensure legal complianceDesigned, implemented and supported technical library management software for several departmental libraries to facilitate timely retrieval of required information.Prepared and managed corporate records management budget Provided training and marketed document handling practices and procedures Designed, implemented and supported technical library management software for several departmental libraries to facilitate timely retrieval of required information.Prepared and managed corporate records management budget Provided training and marketed document handling practices and procedures

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Records Management Consultant - (1991-1994)Provided records management consulting services involving cost benefit analysis, document work-flow design, post-project implementation support, marketing records management concepts and; * Developed and supported centralized and decentralized filing system software * Designed, implementation and supported corporate record retention program * Implemented source document electronic imaging and microfilm systems * Implemented Computer Output on Laser Disk and Computer Output Microfilm systems * Converted conventional paper based processes to electronic and intelligent form systems * Implemented and supported records / document management software Supervisor, Records & Information Management (1981 - 1990)Managed an annual budget of $1.5 million with staff complement of 12 including two work-leaders involved with the operation of the, corporate records Centre, forms and records management consulting, micrographics production, printing services functions and; * Managed Electronic and conventional Printing 24 hours Operations with the view of migration to electronic records  * Prepared cost benefit analysis for records management projects  * Served as an internal consultant for all aspects of records management including document scanning, COLD, micrographics, forms management, electronic and conventional printing  * Prepared annual capital & operating budgets and reported budget variances

Applied Information Management, Records And Information Management

Activities and Societies: Association of Records Managers and Administrators (A.R.M.A.) Association of Information & Image Management

Education record

2003 PIPA and PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection) workshop and presentations 2003 Employee Performance Review Workshops 2003.