Jeffrey De Wit Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Responsible for delivering the monitoring and control strategy for the wastewater and stormwater drainage system in Edmonton. Optimizing and integrating existing and new data sources and control systems to achieve the objectives identified by the Stormwater Integrated Resource Plan (SIRP) and other operational strategies.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

In charge of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system which controls the world's longest and most complex crude oil and liquids pipeline system. Supervised team of 14, including a number of remote employees.• Reduced issues caused by the introduction of new solutions into the SCADA system by innovating a cross-disciplinary peer review process, which significantly contributed to the record system uptime achieved after implementation.• Significantly improved SCADA system stability, increased client confidence and reduced downtime by creating interdisciplinary specialist team to resolve large-scale critical system issues.• Enhanced effectiveness and signal-to-noise ratio of various regulatory-related reporting processes to allow completion of required tasks within the regulatory constraints.• Significantly reduced impact of employee absences on system uptime and maintenance by implementing a primary / backup organizational structure which provided continuous duty coverage.• Increased employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention by providing a safe, inclusive, approachable, and collaborative working environment where employees were encouraged to contribute and freely express their ideas.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Group Leader in the Thermal Qualifications Facilities (TQF) of the David Florida Laboratories (DFL) in Ottawa, Ontario. In charge of SCADA system. Lead team in setup of test facilities for satellites and components.• Specified, awarded, and managed multi-phase, multi-year SCADA replacement project on-time and on-budget, successfully modernizing the SCADA system, increasing system performance and reliability, and reducing Operator workload.• Maintained SCADA system post-project, updating and maintaining both software and hardware to ensure system uptime and security.• Developed “test set” concept for new SCADA system where data points were populated in Excel and then uploaded as one test set, significantly reducing both test set generation time and number of errors.• Liaised with Canadian, NASA, and international (ESA) space programs, and modified and/or enhanced test facilities according to their respective needs as Assembly, Integration, and Testing (AIT) Lead, ensuring successful test program completion.