Experience

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  Suncor energy

  Jan 2000 - Oct 2010

  - Led a multidisciplinary team providing reliability engineering support to the Tailings and Tailing Reduction Operations (TRO) maintenance groups - Responsible for all preventative and reactive repair scopes of work, drawings, and specifications being complete on time and with the right level of detail to keep the Tailings area equipment operating reliably.- Grew the group from 5 to 10 direct reports.- Led a Zero Based Analysis of the Tailings group that identified the top opportunities for the Tailings Cross Function Team to focus on.- Review and approve capital and sustaining projects.- Supporting the Major Projects Group by providing business unit scope development review and input.- Formed a focused improvement Rapid Results Team that identified bottle necks in one of the ore preparation plants. - Developed solutions, and implemented fixes resulting in a 10% year over year production increase within 6 months and patented an apparatus that solved an industry wide problem of surging feed. Show less

  • Engineering Manager

    Mar 2009 - Oct 2010

  • Project Manager

    Jun 2006 - Mar 2009

  • Mechanical Engineer

    Jan 2000 - Jun 2006
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  Cnrl

  Nov 2010 - now

  Engineering lead

  - Leading a multidisciplinary engineering team that is supporting a suite of projects in the ore preparation and slurry pipeline areas with projects in the engineering and construction phases.- Led a study that conceptualized and evaluated new technology for the ore preparation process with a team made up of industry experts.- Wrote the scopes of work for scoping study, DBM, and EDS stages of the project, evaluated the bids, and selected the consultant.- Supervised a team of programmers and engineers that developed an ARENA production simulation model for the entire oil sands facility. Show less