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Edmonton, Ab, Ca

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

- Assessing regulatory and environmental policy changes, informing cross-functional teams of potential impact to commercial, plant, legal, reporting, and environmental operations. - Leading engagement and advocacy for legislative and rule changes with a strategic and balanced approach to ensure whole enterprise implications are considered. - Supporting development of key messages and positioning for engagement and consultation opportunities, providing guidance for internal process changes where needed. - Founding Co-Chair of inaugural Employee Resource Group (ERG), WE Lead, focused on empowerment and leadership development for women in the workplace. - Serving on the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Council (EDI), leading initiatives to create a more accessible and inclusive environment for all.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

- Provided real-time remote operational support, compliance monitoring, and risk mitigation for over 4000MW of potential power from 24 generation facilities across North America on 24/7 team. - Effectively coordinated information amongst plant operators, balancing authorities, grid operators, transmission operators, and customers to schedule plant outages, testing, or to manage unplanned operational events.- Led process improvement projects to streamline real-time response efforts, inclusive of Industrial Control Systems flowcharts and supporting a management of change (MOC) roll-out. - Supported Engineering Capital Planning through 2024 Budget Prep delivery, business case development, project justification assignments, and Oracle forecast updates for Sustaining Capital/O&M projects.- Knowledgeable in operational and reliability rules across various market jurisdictions including AESO, IESO, BC Hydro, MISO, SPP, and more for both thermal and renewable assets.

Kelowna, Bc

As a volunteer-led NGO, Green Okanagan (GO) ignites community-based climate action by increasing accessibility to educational resources and progressing sustainability literacy.Through grassroots community engagement, local events and educational workshops, the GO Team advocates for environmental stewardship while equipping the Okanagan community with solutions-focused tools they can implement to lessen their impact. As Assistant Director I lead content creation, social media and web-platform management, event planning as well as curating GO's Shop Local Directory.www.greenokanagan.org

Edmonton, Ab

Streamlined multidisciplinary projects to ensure high-quality results. Supported client relations, project planning, permitting, document control, technical writing and deliverable management.My role entailed supporting projects from various sectors such as Oil & Gas, Cannabis Micro-grows, Product/Patent Development, as well as Industrial/Commercial. Took on additional responsibilities including creating a new company website, developing refreshed marketing materials such as Line Cards and Business Cards, and managing the organization's digital platforms. www.stampedengineering.com

Alberta, Canada

Hands-on with the implementation of a new city-wide residential waste and source-sorted organics program. Developed strong knowledge of public engagement, creating educational resources, and increasing community environmental awareness. Working on adaption strategies at the municipal level deepened my desired to develop innovative solutions to prepare communities for the climate crisis.In this role, participated in a full waste composition audit, identifying key factors that were impeding the success of the new program and developed educational resources as a solution.

St. Albert Ab, Canada

Developed, constructed and formatted the graphical user interface for nephrology-based medical software. Implemented functionality by electronically illustrating over 600 varying application frames using Netbeans, followed by initiating the conversion of pre-existing code from OpenRoad to Java. Improved quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care for the company's wide client base.

St. Albert Ab, Canada

Tested the quality and accuracy of existing company software, and provided innovative suggestions which improved user feasibility and software aesthetics.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Women in Engineering (WiE), Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE); Environment & Sustainability ClubPossess.

Exchange Student, Transportation And Highway Engineering

Participated in the University of British Columbia's first exchange with TU Delft in the Netherlands. Studied the safety.