Robert Chisholm Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, On, Ca

Researching market, professional accreditation requirements and availability of training in connection with setting up a consulting service geared to renewable energy projects and reducing clients’ utility bills. This will cater to every situation from the individual private homeowner up to the largest commercial and industrial enterprises.Recent engineering-related work: contributed to proposal for services in respect of 359 Terry Fox Drive for the building owners - Kanata Research Parks Inc. This was concerned with reducing utility bills and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Participated in preliminary energy audit – for the same building, wrote up report.Participated in running two surveys: -1. Local clean tech employers to obtain forecasts of personnel requirements to meet business needs – for O.C.R.I.2. OTI members – to gauge level of interest in working in clean tech sector; for those interested, find out about challenges they are facing in transitioning.March 2009: prepared proposal for O.T.I. Clean Tech Task Force concerning a one-day “Clean Tech Awareness Workshop” Current work : For Clean Tech Task Force -preparing technical presentations on ground source heat pump systems and other subjects for Clean Tech general awareness workshops.Other work as noted below under "Programmer – 1998...", item 4Other voluntary work 2007 / 2009 for O.T.I./ Vitesse Re-Skilling in general - see “ADDITIONAL INFORMATION” below

1. Development of a prototype business information system based on Oracle relational database management system. Application: simulation of a video rental store operation. Installed and working on laptop computer, available for demonstration. Uses Personal Oracle 7, running under Windows 952. Development of a management tool for customer management, for an Internet-based real estate advertising service, utilizing Visual Basic 5/MS Access. Installed and working on laptop computer, available for demonstration. Using WebEx PC, it can also be used “as is” over the Internet, by trusted employees or business partners. 3. Engineering citations database application for my own personal use. Mainly used for storing and retrieving Engineering Index citations. Includes search engine for retrieving records based on relevance to search terms selected by the user. Engineering Index citations are entered and stored in an MS Access database for reference later. A duplicate titles search facility allows detection and elimination of duplicate entries for the same item. Search terms include: Ei controlled terms, Inspec and GEOBASE controlled terms. The user can also invent their own search terms, assign them to individual citations and then use the said terms later to retrieve citations that may be relevant to a particular project. This application has potential for development and use within a corporate intranet, as part of a shared “knowledge community” system. Installed and working on laptop computer, available for demonstration. 4. Variant of item 3 above – for storing and retrieving Clean Tech – related information. This information relates to renewable energy technologies and the performance of buildings from an energy consumption standpoint. Electronic documents of miscellaneous formats (e.g, .pdf files, e-mails, MS Word ) stored in MS Access database. Index terms used in this case are all personal.

At GPEKS Construction: Feasibility study, along with 2 partners, for ground source heat pump system for OCM Manufacturing in Ottawa. Used RETScreen software for this.Company web site: http://www.gpeks.com/Before working for GPEKS Construction, I had done the following :-1. Mechanical engineering work for several consulting engineering companies including :-1.1 The SNC Group, Montreal, Quebec. This became SNC-Lavalin from 1995, following Lavalin Inc’s take-over by SNC1.2 I.M.E.G. Ltd., London, U.K.1.3 Constructors John Brown Ltd., Portsmouth, U.K. Most of my work for these three companies involved specifications and bid evaluations for mechanical equipment such as process pumps and compressors.2. Mechanical project engineering work for :-2.1. Kuwait Oil Company – Kuwait – oil field facility modifications.2.2. Whitbread & Co., London, U.K. – mechanical services design.In both cases this involved project design engineering work plus specifications and bid evaluations for mechanical equipment3. Britannia Water Purification Plant, Ottawa. (owned by the R.M.O.C., which became the City of Ottawa in 2000). Analysis of operational problems and subsequent recommendations for solutions relating to 1500 H.P. mains water distribution pump. “Alternate-Vane Cavitation”. 4. Other work :-4.1. Rolls Royce LTD. Bristol, England Performance Development Engineer – ‘’Concorde’’ 4.2. English Editor – Committee Reporting Services, House of Commons, Ottawa4.3. Private mathematics tutoring4.4. Licensed painter and decorator

Senior High School mathematics, including OAC qualifying. Students were assigned to me as clients by Tutorial Services of Ontario. I conducted assessments of students' abilities and then tutored them as needed to help them achieve a higher degree of excellence.

Diploma, Visual Software Developer

B.Sc. Honours, Mechanical Engineering

Concurrent with undergraduate apprenticeship at Rolls-Royce, Bristol. U.K.