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Oakville, On, Ca

Oakville, On, Ca

Toronto, Canada Area

Founded Beacon 2020, Inc. to help public sector clients and other management and engineering consultants in Public Works and the Water Industry deliver high value services to their customers. Focus on connecting strategies to day-to-day operations and motivating all levels of organizations as well as their partners to work together to achieve visions, missions and objectives. Specialize in adapting to various business cultures in different cities, regions and countries in the context of global and local trends and influences - to get measurable results.

Toronto, Canada Area

Business Transformation Program - Senior Strategic Advisor

Montreal, Quebec Canada

Various Roles, including Strategic Planning and Development Consultant and facilitator for Montreal Water

Toronto, Canada Area

Business Development Practice Consultant - major engagements and clients - mentoring

Toronto, Canada Area

Provided expertise in water and wastewater business and performance analysis as specialty KPMG sub-consultant to municipal and provincial government clients.

Region Of Peel, Ontario, Canada

Program Director - Strategic Automation Master Plan Development. Project Manager Public Works organization design and transition. Infrastructure asset delivery process optimization , project management software requirements definition. Project delivery performance management and reporting framework. Defined $27M program.

Team with their consultants to provide change management, facilitation, communication and project organization advice for their client, the City of Hamilton, Ontario

Niagara Region, Ontario Canada

Strategic Business Planning and Performance Management consulting advisory services

Strategic Business Partner

Halton Region, Ontario Canada

Strategic planning, change management, public works, facilitation, organization design, change program implementation, coaching, facility planning and preliminary design, wastewater, water, engineering program and service advice and support, enjoy the work with great people

Ottawa, Canada Area

Various Strategic Business Planning, Organization Design and Change Programme Development and Implementation Roles for Public Works, Water, Wastewater, Solid Waste Management and Engineering Design and Construction

Hamilton, Ontario Canada

1) See work with Stantec - prime engineering consultant and BPR-CSO (other sub consultant specializing in applying automation to optimize sewer systems)2) While at EMA Canada, Inc. - Provide facilitation services for Director of Water and Wastewater to clarify the relationship between internally provided engineering services (located within the Roads Department) and the recipient (Water and Wastewater)

Various, United States And Canada

Presented a number of papers at various conferences of the AWWA and associated local associations such as: "Building the Public Trust in our Water Supply" - presented at the Atlantic Canada Waterworks Association (Association Des Services Des Eaux du Canada Atlantique) - in Halifax, Nova Scotia on September 24, 2001 - in the wake of the Walkerton E. coli based water contamination tragedy of May 11, 2000 which killed 7 people, affected 2,500, and shook the very foundation of trust in public water systems across Canada and beyond

1) Team with the prime consultant, Genivar, responsible for organization, work practices and information technology and change management strategy as part of the development of a Strategic Master Plan for Water and Wastewater2) Facilitation services for the Human Resources Department to help them become a more cohesive team as part of their strategic planning process3) Help the Human Resources Department develop their mentorship program with advisory services and a fun workshop matching mentors and mentees in the style of a quick dating service with lots of music and a matching process based on personal affinity as well as preferred skill matching to ensure ultimate responsibility for the relationship was truly shared and implemented

Region Of York, Ontario, Canada

Facilitation services as a team member with ProFe to bring together three communities jointly responsible for the water quality in the community of East Gwillimbury, Ontario - focused on the relationships but also on the development of a technical service delivery framework, agreed principles of engagement and the building of understanding of each of the political and other pressures affecting decisions and motivations of each of the partners

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Transformation Programme Director - created and directed $200 million Works Best Practices Program for Toronto Water. Included automating all water and wastewater facilities and networks, designing and implementing new integrated information technologies, implementing best practices in operations and maintenance, reorganizing and re-skilling all departments and improving competitive service delivery to more than 2 million customers. Resulted in operating budget reduction from $118 million/yr to $82 million/yr. Cumulative cost savings of more than $500 million to date.

Minneapolis, London (Uk), Toronto

Joined to manage business development in the Midwest of the United States - grew business in instrumentation and control system, IT system and operational practices consulting services to customers in the water and pulp and paper industries.Started up office in London, England in 1990 to leverage the privatization of the Water Industry, P&L responsibility - found and delivered EMA services to big 10 water companies including Thames Water, Southen Water and smaller water only companies such as Suffolk and Essex Water.Established EMA Canada Ltd. in 1996 to geographically expand into the Canadian water market. Grew to more than $3 million/yr consulting revenue from most major municipal water and wastewater clients across Canada, including Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal, Regions of Peel, Halton, York and Durham. Created partnerships with key industry players such as CH2M Hill, IBM, Chartwell (now part of KPMG), Hatch Mott McDonald, Thorburn Penny, XCG, Procter and Redfern (now AECOM)

Consultant, helped develop and implement performance management system though facilitated process.Consultant that facilitated the change in focus for the organization from receiving funds for environmental projects to developing value-based business cases to apply for and receive justified funding.

London, United Kingdom

While Managing Director of EMA United Kingdom, Ltd - created and directed delivery of the Instrumentation, Control and Automation System Strategy (ICASS) - which established a strategic planning framework for the categorization and business-based prioritization of more than £1 billion in capital projects - then used the same framework to drive a standards-based approach to automating 389 wastewater facilities and 124 water facilities and associated networks.

Worthing, Sussex, England

Facilitated strategic planning sessions during major change from public to private sector vision, mission and objectives - emphasizing the importance of share price, return on investment and return on assets alongside compliance and customer responsivenessChange agent charged with changing the wastewater sludge management group into a biosolids sales organization selling 17 varieties of biosolids, from wet digested to dry pellets, to a number of clients, including large land holders, farmers, and grocery chains.

Staff consultant involved in 3 major projects - first was the systems analysis and programming of 3 modules of the grain inventory management system for the US Department of Agriculture on an IDMS database using ADS/O - located in Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Second was an internal office automation project for all the North American offices of Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) to ensure optimum use and sharing of technology by office administrative staff located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Third was the conversion of a VSAM-based Hospital Patient Management System (PMS) written for an IBM platform to a Honeywell DPS/8-based database plarform - implemented data dictionary. Hospital group in Norwalk Connecticut.

Mba, Marketing Management

Bachelor Of Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering

Activities and Societies: Treasurer American Society of Civil Engineers (Student Chapter), Field Goal kicker, University of Minnesota.

International Baccalaureate, Physics, Chemistry, Math, Dutch, History, English