Kurtis Sprague, Eit, Capm Email & Phone Number

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Currently coordinating the New Major Vessels project, which will build seven vessels that are zero-emissions and have an operational life of 50 years.
• Providing requirements management to develop the technical specification of the vessels.
• Supporting the project through the financial analysis of energy pathways.
• Assisted in the inspection of new build construction and overseeing shipyard work.
• Supporting the Vessel Replacement Program with administrative and communication duties.

British Columbia, Canada

• Applied government policy to assess the eligibility of over 1500 clients to receive subsidy.
• Organized and managed casework using Integrated Case Management (ICM) software.
• Performed financial reviews, transition adjustments, Ministry referred cases, specialty projects, and contacted B.C. clients regarding their queries.
• Through completing these client cases it assisted families during very difficult times.
• After only three months at position, was promoted from General Adjudication to Special Operations Adjudication.

Entwistle, Alberta

• Onsite for eight months to assist coordination of construction of an innovative environmentally friendly pellet production plant from ground break to production.
• Followed standard procedures to make over 200 engineering change orders (CO’s), requests for information (RFI’s), and production plant inspections.
• Determined who/what caused the defect, discuss with plant sub-contractors, determined solutions within project budget parameters, and coordinated the solutions.
• Professional communication with project engineers (internal and external to the production plant), vendor representatives, sub-contractors, and other construction trades.
• Reviewed invoicing information to verify if the correct products and quantities arrived and if not, coordinated the correction with vendor representatives.
• Provided IT and administrative support to the principal, foreman, and skilled tradespeople.

Thailand

• Designed head stack assembly machinery (tooling) to ensure the connection of electrical wiring to the head stack. This design will be integrated in their clean room manufacturing line.
• Performed model simulations in SolidWorks for the improvement of machine design.
• Used the LEAN manufacturing, 5S, and Six Sigma processes to ensure a quality product which was able to align within 0.03 degrees and increase the yield to over 99.7%.
• Created engineering drawings with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) for machining of parts.
• The design will reduce failed products and these savings pay for the cost of the design within five months. These findings were presented to the CEO and approved for prototyping.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Developed a standard operation procedure to identify where the edge preparation for steel ship components is required.
• Programmed VBA software that searched for and marked parts automatically to identify the parts that require edge preparation.
• Constructed and presented a business case on the current cutting process using Excel that would reduce the waste material and save over $300,000.
• Programmed and implemented a VBA program to provide daily progress reports from the IFS data base.
• Consulted with Area Managers on the interim steel product’s they manufactured and then identified which of these interim products should be prioritized to optimize the overall manufacturing process.
• Scheduled meetings with supervisors, tradespeople, and engineers to discuss my projects and seek constructive feedback.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Assisted with the inspection of the draft home plans in comparison to the ongoing home construction.
• Performed general labour, carpentry, plumbing, painting, and numerous other construction projects.