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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Responsible for project planning and development across multiple projects with a focus on enhancedstakeholder engagement and effective vendor relationship management.• Use of project management software including MS Project and monday.com to track progress andallocate resources to projects while developing detailed risk assessments and mitigation strategies toensure project success.• Managing a comprehensive website redevelopment project by ensuring smooth execution… Show more • Responsible for project planning and development across multiple projects with a focus on enhancedstakeholder engagement and effective vendor relationship management.• Use of project management software including MS Project and monday.com to track progress andallocate resources to projects while developing detailed risk assessments and mitigation strategies toensure project success.• Managing a comprehensive website redevelopment project by ensuring smooth execution andadherence to WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards for optimized user experience and compliance.• Support the growth and capacity of the Project Management Office (PMO) by conducting projectevaluations and identifying opportunities to improve current practices. Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Managed full-cycle implementation of the ImpAct Climate program, the Pre-Apprenticeship Program, and the Beyond Salt Project while undertaking comprehensive project oversight, ensuring successful delivery and alignment with objectives.• Fostered relationships with member institutions, government funding partners, and internal stakeholders, enhancing project impact and scopes through effective stakeholder management.• Developed and implemented outreach strategies, including stakeholder… Show more • Managed full-cycle implementation of the ImpAct Climate program, the Pre-Apprenticeship Program, and the Beyond Salt Project while undertaking comprehensive project oversight, ensuring successful delivery and alignment with objectives.• Fostered relationships with member institutions, government funding partners, and internal stakeholders, enhancing project impact and scopes through effective stakeholder management.• Developed and implemented outreach strategies, including stakeholder database maintenance and prospect mapping, to establish and sustain connections with key stakeholders, fostering greater engagement in Canadian Partnerships’ projects and programs. • Spearheaded the development of dynamic monitoring and reporting systems, fueling transparency by crafting impactful reports and harnessing project progress data to drive informed decisions. • Liaised with CICan Funding department to track the department budget on a monthly basis Show less

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Lead for the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification (RHFAC) Registry, and the Environmental Product Disclosure (EPD) Program. • Managing relationships between the Registry services team and internal and external stakeholders including end user clients, the Rick Hansen Foundation, the Ministry of Environment and Parks of Alberta, as well as various CSA departments. • A strong focus in this role includes ensuring that business development activities and strategic planning… Show more • Lead for the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification (RHFAC) Registry, and the Environmental Product Disclosure (EPD) Program. • Managing relationships between the Registry services team and internal and external stakeholders including end user clients, the Rick Hansen Foundation, the Ministry of Environment and Parks of Alberta, as well as various CSA departments. • A strong focus in this role includes ensuring that business development activities and strategic planning are ever present.• Actively managing both the TC/MC to ISO TC 262 Risk Management committee as well as the Process Safety Management (Z767) committee. • Collaborating with committee members and leadership to maintain committee operations and day-to-day committee activities Show less

• Part of a Registry services team where responsibilities lied in undertaking all registry support across the Alberta Emissions Offset Registry (AEOR) and the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification (RHFAC) registry.• Actively handling project processing and ensuring that they abide by their schedules while also meeting CSA’s requirements• Acted as the link between the Registry team and the Accounting department to find solutions to overdue Registry accounts• Wrote the… Show more • Part of a Registry services team where responsibilities lied in undertaking all registry support across the Alberta Emissions Offset Registry (AEOR) and the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification (RHFAC) registry.• Actively handling project processing and ensuring that they abide by their schedules while also meeting CSA’s requirements• Acted as the link between the Registry team and the Accounting department to find solutions to overdue Registry accounts• Wrote the CSA Group Annual Conference Greenhouse Gas Report for the 2019 Year Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

• Provided support to the Home Finance team through a variety of tasks designed to increase the revenue of the department. • Collaborating with internal staff, external vendors and clients to ensure accuracy of documentation• Undertaking research and strategy building to further the organization’s objectives.• Guiding and training new hires through the process systems

Toronto, Ontario

• Responsible for evaluating proposals from regional renal programs as well as conducting an internal audit to determine infrastructure and capacity funding requirements for the 2015 fiscal year. • Liaised with external Regional Program Directors to provide additional funding for incremental home and in-facility hemodialysis machines.• Reviewed capacities to ensure departments met resource requirements (costs, quality and risk.)

Toronto, Ontario

• Reviewed Greenhouse Gas project plans and verification reports to ensure they met ISO and Alberta government requirements• Undertook and provided research support regarding carbon market trends. • Tasked with developing a ten year internal strategy forecast for the Sustainability group to ensure the Climate Change department continued to be profitable.

Hanoi, Vietnam

• Developed policy recommendations to integrate international standards for localimprovement of sustainable practices• Undertook proposal writing to potential donors in order to acquire funding to further theorganization’s mission• Engaged and empowered marginalized Vietnamese youth and ethnic minorities throughdeveloping and promoting community initiatives