Ryan Olde Email & Phone Number

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Distribution Capital and Maintenance Programs• Manage the engineering of the distribution capital portfolio and the engineering of the distribution maintenance program• Led the growth of the engineering contract workforce of 2.5X in design capacity• Transitioned team from a functional to matrix organizational structure to improve capital portfolio delivery. This was done by defining 6 new out-of-scope engineering roles with a dotted line report to Project Delivery Office project managers. Successfully recruited and onboarded internal and external employees into these roles.• Led the procurement of 6-5 year multi-million dollar Master Engineering Service Agreements. This included substantial changes to the MESA template, the negotiation of rates, the negotiation of terms & conditions and resetting expectations. • Enabled rapid scaling through changes to the designer onboarding and training process. This was accomplished by directing the creation of a self-training portal, streamlining the onboarding process and the modernization and creation of training content.• Manage a team of 18 internal direct reports and a significant contract work force

Saskatchewan, Canada

• Responsible for management of Drafting (GIS) and Operations & Maintenance Support which includes power quality, power system studies, and substation automation retrofits.• Created a customer driven culture within Drafting to provide a great product (accurate mapping) and service (map corrections) for users of our GIS mapping systems.• Formed and chaired the Regina Reliability Committee, a cross-functional group which succeeded in improving the reliability of the distribution system in Regina.• Regularly met and communicated with customers on their power quality issues. Led cross-functional investigations and provided solutions.• Managed of 16 direct reports including I/S and OOS staff

Saskatoon

Seconded to BHP Billiton as Project Engineer

Saskatoon

Electrical Equipment Replacement Project - Detailed Design

Saskatoon

Electrical Equipment Replacement Project - Scoping, Pre-Feasibility and Feasibility Studies

Responsible for project controls of two large sustaining capital programs

- Aided in the creation of large, multi-discipline contract packages for greenfield potash solution mine- Aided in the management of addenda for aforementioned contract packages

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

• Managed instrumentation procurement as the Instrumentation Procurement Coordinator for PCS Rocanville West New Mill Project• Executed arc flash, equipment replacement and load flow studies as an electrical engineer for Mosaic Esterhazy Power Systems Study

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

• Lead firmware developer for 5 major broadband content delivery projects• Adopted new project management methods and standards to significantly benefit the efficiency of vital projects• Communicated regularly with international customers regarding project requirements and debugging efforts • Innovated and debugged advanced firmware logic and control systems for world leading communication systems

Regina, Saskatchewan

• Transmission line design and retrofits• Collaborated with linesman as project co-manager for design and construction of 72KV transmission line slack spans