I am a seasoned chemical engineering professional with tremendous experience in progressively challenging roles of increasing responsibilities across a broad range of areas such as plant operations support, project support, engineering support and people management.I am an energetic and hardworking individual who can combine vision and strong technical, problem solving, leadership and collaborative skills in the areas of refining and heavy oil recovery to improve safety, reliability, productivity and return on capital employed. A motivated leader that influences both own team members and others in cross functional/matrix teams to achieve the desired goals. Core Competencies:• Troubleshooting and optimization of petroleum refining and heavy oil recovery units (e.g. SAGD - Steam Assisted Gravity Draining - sophisticated water treatment facilities). • Identifying short-and-long-term project opportunities for improving safety, reliability and profitability of process plants.• Applying engineering knowledge, principles, techniques, technology and tools to support all phases of projects from identification, scoping study development, Front End Engineering, Detailed Engineering, and Commissioning and Start-up of process plants.• Liaising between plant site, project group and engineering companies to effectively influence and communicate project decisions and engineering information. • Operator training package development and delivery.• Technical report writing. • Team building and leadership including creation of goals, personal development plans, performance management, team budget management etc. • Championing change management. • Mentoring and coaching younger folks.