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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Managing a unit called Design, Dissemination and Innovation within the Public Health Intelligence and Knowledge Translation Division, where I manage a team of talented creative types to support knowledge translation throughout PHAC's programs. Also administering the Virtual Library of Wider Health Impacts of COVID-19.

Public Health Agency Of Canada

Working in the Public Health Intelligence and Knowledge Translation division, managing the Knowledge Translation Policy and Practice team. Among our responsibilities are:- the development of the infrastructure, governance and processes necessary to ensure PHAC's public health analyses are appropriately shared with the public and those who need to act.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

My role was to facilitate the leadership and management of the African Swine Flu response from a CFIA-lead to Animal Health Canada. This role involved transition of FPT relations, industry relations, and ensuring the relevant legal obligations are met.In addition, in January of 2021, I was also the Project Manager for the Mad Cow (Bovine Spongiform.

Health Canada

Worked in a corporate coordination role for the Controlled Substances and Cannabis Branch. This role involves ensuring that regulatory packages from programs are sent off to our Departmental Regulatory colleagues. In addition, our group performs a horizontal coordination function between programs and senior leadership at Health Canada: our Forward.

Health Canada

In this position, I was responsible for ensuring that Health Canada was ready in October 2019 for the phase 2 legalization of cannabis (edibles, concentrates and topicals.) This meant having regular meetings with our DG and ADM, as well as senior leaders in various branches within Health Canada: compliance and enforcement, promotion, licensing, as well as.

Worked at TBS on a horizontal regulatory review under ADM Neil Bouwer.Key accomplishments included writing an RFI (24062-19-533) and organizing an associated Industry Day for the AI/Regulatory community as well as writing the resulting RFP (24062-19-096). The work carried out as part of the reviews served as the basis for a subsequent TBS RFP, where I.

Heritage Canada

Worked in the Office of the Deputy Minister under the Chief of Staff, on a project regarding cultural influencers. In this role, I liaised with senior management from the Cultural Affairs Branch: books, music, and film & video. One of the important outcomes of this project was to figure out what policy changes should be considered to address digital.

Elections Canada

I was an advisor in the Innovation Branch for the provincial and territorial relations portfolio. This entailed enabling an information management framework (in part supported by GCDOCS) as a means of capturing and documenting any interactions between Elections Canada (EC) and their provincial and territorial partners.I helped manage the organization of.

Strategic Planning & Results, Natural Resources Canada

I worked in corporate planning, during the migration of the Policy on Management, Resources and Results Structures to the Policy on Results. This involved meeting with various senior management from the different sectors of Natural Resources Canada in order to determine whether the reporting structure could be optimized for the corporate planning branch.In.

Public Safety

My first Free Agent Assignment was for the Interdepartmental Circles for Indigenous Representation where I worked in a closely knit team, supporting a circle of Deputy Heads. This was a pan-government initiative that allowed me to interact with senior management from across the government on a very sensitive issue.

The Free Agent program is a modern, agile approach to using knowledge workers in the Public Service based on Deloitte's GovCloud model. I am an indeterminate employee of NRCan, but I go on assignments throughout government, solving problems and innovating along the way. I like to think of it as a management consultant within government. I apply the.

- created a QMS ticketing framework for international examination practice- authored training materials for the EPOQUE suite of patent examination tools- represented the Chemistry discipline in trilateral meetings with the UK and Australia- involved in several pilot projects aimed at optimizing workflow in national phase and international phase.

Gatineau, QC

Acting Section Head for a team of bilingual patent examiners in the organic chemistry discipline while the competition process is underway. Responsibilities include workload management of 10 examiners, close to 300 reports a month, including liaising with the Director of the chemical division.In addition to the managerial duties, this also involves QC/QA.

Hattiesburg, Mississippi Area

- worked as the in-house chemist in a polymer science laboratory- traveled to England and the Netherlands to help negotiate research contracts with industry partners- carried out original research for commercial and military applications- guided research in order to maximize intellectual property holdings

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Activities and Societies: MBA Games - Finance case competition, Team building exerciseSpecific strengths in Statistics and Corporate.

Ph.D., Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Chemistry Graduate Student Association president Union exec

Education record