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Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Canada

Provide leadership to Contract Logistics business in Western Canada to progress within global operational excellence framework. Coach site managers with focus on culture development, project portfolio management, value generation, and Lean Six Sigma. Oversee CI program for sites in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, and Winnipeg.

United Kingdom

Contract with healthcare consultancy working with a teaching hospital network (NHS Foundation Trust) client in Derbyshire, UK. • Delivered 12-week project for the design of management system across medical specialties with target savings of £2m/yr through opportunities in scheduling, medical capacity, and waiting list reduction. • Led rapid development of capacity and demand study, forming the basis of performance for all operating theatres.

Joffre, Alberta, Canada

NOVA Chemicals is a privately owned petrochemical company primarily producing polyethylene and ethylene. $1bn USD operating profit in 2016. 1000 employees at the Joffre site. Summary: As a process improvement engineer in NOVA’s LLDPE plant facility, I was accountable for production and operational performance in post-reactor (finishing) processes. Two years ago, my role expanded to optimizing our site logistics processes while maintaining my core responsibilities to plant production. • Led site operations assessment and identified constraint to future production valued at $70m gross profits.• Led department leaders and senior managers through process mapping key logistics functions (S&OP, production, and rail), identifying opportunities and threats associated with a major site expansion.• Managed critical product quality issue that resulted in retention of a customer responsible for 5% of sales volume.• Led development of setup time reduction (SMED) site implementation, with continuous mfg considerations. • Initiated process improvement projects to reduce and balance out operator workload; resulted in a re-design of reporting processes and improvements to standard operating procedures.• Identified process hazards capable of causing polyethylene line outages >$1m losses and exceeding tolerable risk.• Prepared business cases for projects $1m -$7m comprised of: facility upgrades increasing production capacity, acquisition of new packaging line, and design changes to resolve customer complaints on product quality.• Coordinated 38 construction projects during major plant outage; completed 1 day ahead of 8 day planned schedule. • Developed metrics and tool to track packaging facility performance and sources of downtime.

Joffre, Alberta, Canada

• Improved maintenance programme through changes to asset data monitoring, reducing unplanned failures by 15%. • Automated communication to pre-emptively notifying stakeholders when asset health is at risk.• Managed $350k project through entire lifecycle: idea, approvals, engineering, construction and commissioning.

Toronto, Canada Area

Syncrude (oil sands company) research centre and University of Toronto collaboration for research in condition monitoring and condition based maintenance, using methodologies based on machine learning and statistical learning.

Toronto, Canada Area

1) Instructor, Engineering Communication ProgramJan 2010 - April 2011Instructor for professional communications to undergraduate students in the Faculty of Engineering, delivering classroom modules and mentoring students. http://ecp.engineering.utoronto.ca• Granted contract extension by 3 academic terms - total of 4 terms taught. 2) Teaching Assistant, multiple courses. 2009-2010• Probability and Statistics: tutorial sessions for minitab• Engineering Systems Design: advisor to 7 student capstone design teams, project management and design process/report writing. • Quality Engineering, Master of Engineering programme

Toronto, Canada Area

Samina-SCI (NASDAQ: SANM) is an electronics manufacturing services provider. The Toronto facility manufactured metal enclosures for major OEMs.• Acted as change agent for Lean transformation programme by coaching manufacturing personnel on lean practices. • Improved efficiency of the metal stamping process (first of the manufacturing value chain) by 50%. • Contributed to value stream mapping of shop floor via tracking of product movement and time study.

Masters Of Science

Bachelors Of Science

Supply Chain Management - Mit Micromasters

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