Ryan Baker Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Leading NRC's efforts in the Canada Germany 3+2 collaboration "Hydrogen and Climate Partnership" (H2CliP) to assess the potential for Green Hydrogen in Canada and Germany, as well as trade between them.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Leading TEA and TDM tool development across two sites, and managing west coast stakeholder relationships in industry, academia, government Carbon Capture Utilization (CCU) R&D program.
• Led second of three pillars across three sites for $1.25M Energy Storage (ES) technical roadmap for Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). My pillar evaluated ES technical and financial performance using TEA and modelling..
• Led a team to evaluate novel NRC biogas technology using TEA. Made IP strategy recommendation that increased potential Net Present Value (NPV) by 900%. NRC implemented our recommendation.
• Promoted by Senior Management to Research Council Officer. Less than 2% per year are promoted.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Led TEA team of five for startup Sigma Energy Storage. Our report played a key role in Sigma gaining $2.4M government funding plus additional industry collaborations for their next phase.
• Discovered $3M potential profit using cost-benefit analysis and modeling by monetizing hidden revenue streams for BC Hydro’s ES demo project.
• Helped build NRC’s new TEA capabilities post re-org by leading project teams of three to five in data interpretation, financial analysis, market assessment, and decision modeling for electricity generation and ES.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Closely managed technical activity of a cross functional team of fifteen across four sites to integrate advanced catalyst materials basic research into applied research to decrease product cost and increase performance.
• Partnered with NRC project leadership to identify and solidify additional opportunities for client needs in continuing catalyst R&D, resulting in $250K project, increased client scale up expertise, and recognition of.
• Tapped by management during company-wide re-org to moderate a cross functional focus group. Helped map R&D competencies and capabilities to new organizational structure. Supported creation of new TDM, CBA capabilities.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Co-led new catalyst development and testing benchmark for $10M national industry program above. Increased accuracy and reproducibility of clients’ catalyst performance benchmark from 47% to 80% by adapting best.
• Created custom Excel based tool in place of error prone OEM instrument software to accurately calculate benchmarking results. Collaborated with team and reduced benchmarking time by 15 hours, freeing up 10% of their.
• Formed volunteer team and co led creation of value proposition then solution to head office’s requested cuts to our in house information services. Head office implemented team’s solution that met their requests while.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• First of five staff tapped to attend grad school F/T under Tier 1 Canada Research Chair while continuing to work F/T at NRC.
• Exceeded performance expectations. Presented catalyst research at three international conferences with attendance levels of 1000-3500. Published five international peer reviewed journal papers, bringing NRC’s and UBC’s.
• Developed frameworks and strategies to balance F/T work and F/T grad school, then successfully convinced NRC management to adopt them for other five staff. Resulted in those staff completing the degree on time at or.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Fabricated, assembled, operated and assessed performance of new gas compression technology: NRC’s and Stuart’s non-mechanical H2 compressor proof-of-concept. Reached compression goal of 2K psi or 140 bar, which led to.
• Achieved a world’s first in H2 compression R&D: next phase prototype of NRC’s multi stage non-mechanical compressor reached 10K psi or 700 bar. Resulted in filing Form 1 patent and bringing a compressor OEM into.

Palm Springs, CA; Vancouver, BC

• Co led product development and demonstration for Stuart’s $1.25M fuel cell bus and vehicle H2 refueling prototype at US DOE test site in California for SunLine Transit and Ballard. Assessed performance, and achieved.
• Led installation, operation, and assessed performance of Stuart’s resulting $0.75M commercial unit at NRC in Vancouver, BC. Completed installation and start up on time. Successfully field tested improved technology and.

Calgary, Canada Area

UVic Coop at Nova Research and Technology Center

Coquitlam, BC

UVic Coop at Stuart's demo plant for hydrogen generation and bus refuelling

Richmond, BC

UVic Coop at Cominco Engineering Services Limited (CESL) copper hydrometallurgy pilot plant

Vancouver, Canada Area

UVic Coop at Canfor's pulp and paper R&D lab

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Focus on energy, strategy, and finance

Masc, Chemical Engineering

Master’s of Applied Science (MASc) Chemical Engineering · Balanced full time work at NRC and full time graduate studies at UBC · Presented.

Bsc, Chemistry (Coop)

· Accepted into Chemistry Department’s competitive Co-op (work study) specialization · Two NSERC Industrial undergraduate research awards.

High School Diploma