Keegan Shaw Email & Phone Number

Ladysmith, Bc, Ca

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

I think what Highwood does and wants to achieve is inspirational, which is to help clients realize the very real economic opportunities available in the reduction of Greenhouse Gas emissions. I also think their approach is genuine, in that GHG reduction is a goal of each individual employee, and they just so happen to have the skillsets and knowledge to achieve this. One of the focuses of the company is the Emissions Management Toolkit, a SaaS offering aimed to help companies, calculate… Show more I think what Highwood does and wants to achieve is inspirational, which is to help clients realize the very real economic opportunities available in the reduction of Greenhouse Gas emissions. I also think their approach is genuine, in that GHG reduction is a goal of each individual employee, and they just so happen to have the skillsets and knowledge to achieve this. One of the focuses of the company is the Emissions Management Toolkit, a SaaS offering aimed to help companies, calculate, reconscile, and track emissions from their ever-changing assets, standardize data for reporting purposes, plan emission reducing projects, and reconcile measured date with bottom-up inventory calculated emissions. Building such a software system is difficult, were nuances in standards, inconsistencies in data, unknown uncertainties, and sheer scale of inventories can complicate the process. This is where I come in, and ultimately why I work for Highwood. I get to apply my technical skillset, knowledge of emissions, ingenuity, and desire to learn, to build a modern and useful software solution. Show less

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Mage Networks is a Calgary-based Telecommunications startup. While they do many things, like actually provide internet as an WISP, I would say there bread and peanut butter is fancy firmware for True Mesh routers and wireless access points. This product provides a scaleable solution to one of the biggest tech problems of our day, which is getting internet to people who refuse the confines and comforts of towns, cities and other densely populated areas. City Slickers take note, the struggle of… Show more Mage Networks is a Calgary-based Telecommunications startup. While they do many things, like actually provide internet as an WISP, I would say there bread and peanut butter is fancy firmware for True Mesh routers and wireless access points. This product provides a scaleable solution to one of the biggest tech problems of our day, which is getting internet to people who refuse the confines and comforts of towns, cities and other densely populated areas. City Slickers take note, the struggle of rural internet is real, and there are a lot more country folk then you realize. I got to do a lot of stuff for Mage. I spent most my days building a spatial physical network design web-app; sophisticated mesh networks call for sophisticated network designs. What a cool experience. I worked with a small team who were incredibly clever and pleasant (Ammar and Moein), and although I didn't get to focus on the AI module (Moein), I learned so much about open sourced software, databases, WebDev, Git, Containerization, and a plethora of programming languages. Show less

New Zealand

My partner Lisa and I went on a year long adventure through New Zealand, Fiji, and Australia. We spent most of our time hiking, mountain biking, surfing, and doing online courses. I took on several small GIS Analysis projects when it is raining. Career-wise, We also took on odd jobs in exchange for room and board, which for us, included working on a chicken farm, painting houses and hot-tubes, gardening, stone masonry, floor tiling, excavator operating, and mountain bike trail… Show more My partner Lisa and I went on a year long adventure through New Zealand, Fiji, and Australia. We spent most of our time hiking, mountain biking, surfing, and doing online courses. I took on several small GIS Analysis projects when it is raining. Career-wise, We also took on odd jobs in exchange for room and board, which for us, included working on a chicken farm, painting houses and hot-tubes, gardening, stone masonry, floor tiling, excavator operating, and mountain bike trail building.Highlights were seeing Most of New Zealand's wild along with penguins, koalas, sharks, wild parrots and parakeets, getting way better at biking, living in a van, then getting rid of the van and never talking about it again because van-live is extremely overrated. Show less

Calgary, Canada Area

(Updated Feb, 2018) Tarco specializes in industrial and commercial process and safety control systems. Which means I do too because I worked there forever. Tarco appears to be the remnants of an old cowboy engineering company, eager to take on pretty strange automation jobs and automate on a budget. Seriously, we once specialized in pig barn ventilation systems. Consequently, I would call most, if not all, of the Tarconians "Automation Engineering General Specialists". More formally… Show more (Updated Feb, 2018) Tarco specializes in industrial and commercial process and safety control systems. Which means I do too because I worked there forever. Tarco appears to be the remnants of an old cowboy engineering company, eager to take on pretty strange automation jobs and automate on a budget. Seriously, we once specialized in pig barn ventilation systems. Consequently, I would call most, if not all, of the Tarconians "Automation Engineering General Specialists". More formally, Tarconians are specialists of power turbine, natural gas compression station, and oil storage facility control and safety systems. So Tarconians are "Automation engineering general specialists & specialist specialists" if I were in charge of making the companies business cards. I dealt with Rockwell, GE, Horner, and Siemens PLCs, (and a few others), and Rockwell, Horner, GE, FactoryTalk, and WonderWare HMIs (Graphical interfaces). I worked with oil & gas companies, power plants, wastewater facilities, manufacturing facilities, and various other applications, which require automation. I gained a ton of experience working with various computer systems and PLC programming software packages. I would also say I have learned how to be a pretty good engineer. Which I think first and foremost means being able to work with people, ask questions, answer all questions asked, and take the time to think things through. Secondly, I have learned how to balance customer needs, wants, budget and my own safety or functionality concerns effectively. Show less

Fredericton Nb

(Updated Feb, 2018) I was a member in a design group who chose to design , build and test a 915 MHz Local Positioning System, using an Angle-of-Arrival triangulation. I think its purpose was to save sports teams money by allowing them to automate a process of chalking lines on a sports field. I now realize we could have given it a way better design objective, like as a replacement for GPS in an underground mine, or as a guidance system on a space-ship, but sports; am I right? It was… Show more (Updated Feb, 2018) I was a member in a design group who chose to design , build and test a 915 MHz Local Positioning System, using an Angle-of-Arrival triangulation. I think its purpose was to save sports teams money by allowing them to automate a process of chalking lines on a sports field. I now realize we could have given it a way better design objective, like as a replacement for GPS in an underground mine, or as a guidance system on a space-ship, but sports; am I right? It was actually pretty neat, and we were certainly proud of it. We designed, milled, drilled through-holes into, and then mounted components onto several microwave frequency printed circuit boards ourselves....and it actually worked! Or at least in an anachoic chamber. Which, by the way, if you have never heard of, please google it, because they are pretty spooky. My good friend Donald (still good as of 2018) and I were pretty passionate about the results, and probably cared about it more than anything we had ever cared about. We did most of the early stages of development, PCB board design, and mounting, prototype testing, and pretty much any form of documentation our undergraduate instructors could think of. Donny, for the most part, programmed the Arduino controller, and I mostly replaced the parts we broke because I kept short circuiting the $25 phase detection chip. Those were the days. Show less

North Cape, Pei

(Updated Feb 2018)Working at WEICan was my first real engineering gig, which I was very fortunate to get the opportunity. I had a giant grin on my face the first time I drove up to the facility, which was situated on the extreme northern tip of the island province of PEI. I am a prairie boy, and from the office I could literally throw a stone in most directions and hit the Atlantic Ocean, so I was excited. I think Wind is the future, or at least one of the futures of the energy… Show more (Updated Feb 2018)Working at WEICan was my first real engineering gig, which I was very fortunate to get the opportunity. I had a giant grin on my face the first time I drove up to the facility, which was situated on the extreme northern tip of the island province of PEI. I am a prairie boy, and from the office I could literally throw a stone in most directions and hit the Atlantic Ocean, so I was excited. I think Wind is the future, or at least one of the futures of the energy industry, so being a part of it's research and development was very important to me. My duties involved assisting in small wind turbine performance testing, which was mainly comprised of data-crunching and documentation. I learned how to code in Visual Basic so I could make our data-crunching procedure more efficient and customizable. Additionally, I learned how to setup up turbines and meteorological measurement stations. My coworkers were awesome. They were insightful, helpful, friendly, and dedicated to their work. Outside of work they were also wicked. They took me deep sea fishing and welcomed them into there homes for jam sessions, lobster, and homemade beverages. Show less

Masters In Gis, Remote Sensing

Activities and Societies: Activities? I'm a Grad student. I guess I will sometimes drink a beer while I study? The MGIS program at U of C.

B. Eng, Electrical Engineering 2008 - 2012

Activities and Societies: UNB Rock and Ice

Physics

Activities and Societies: Trolls Rugby Club