Tancred Thomas

Experience

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  Real Canadian Superstore

  Feb 2008 - Apr 2014

  - increasing sales- placing warehouse orders- reviewing and counting inventory- delegating jobs to fellow employees - providing good customer service - customer service- organizing display cases- promoting sales

  • Deli Clerk

    Dec 2008 - Apr 2014

  • Deli Clerk

    Feb 2008 - Nov 2008
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  Laurentian University

  Apr 2011 - Dec 2011

  Data Analyst

  Used MATLAB to collect and filter out data collected for the cognitive psychology lab.

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  TeleTech

  Jul 2011 - Sept 2011

  Customer Service Representative

  Troubleshooting computers, phones and modems.

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  Laurentian University

  May 2012 - Dec 2012

  - marking midterms- invigilating exams- marking assignments Researching the movement of Red Blood Cells in the veins of a human body which includes research of a two-dimensional lattice Boltzmann model for uniform channel flows. Running simulations for various cases with different parameters.

  • Teaching Assistant | Engineering Materials

    Sept 2012 - Dec 2012

  • Research Assistant

    May 2012 - Sept 2012
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  Tutor Doctor

  Sept 2012 - Aug 2014

  Tutor

  Tutored students in physics, chemistry and calculus at high school and university levels.

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  Husky Energy

  Jan 2013 - Aug 2013

  CO-OP Student - Reliability & Maintenance | Technical Services

  I worked for the reliability and maintenance group within the technical services department. The technical services group provides specialist skills and experience for problem solving, modification/upgrade recommendations, drawing on leading-edge knowledge, technical equipment and tools, fit-for-purpose engineering standards, specifications and practices.- provided technical support in the upstream equipment standardization process, aimed at improving the asset integrity and reliability by reducing the variation and identification of bad-actors. - gathered and organized information extracted from the Computer Maintenance Management System (SAP) and other technical applications relevant for the engineering tasks of reliability and integrity.- generated tabular and graphical representations of the data to enable the statistical characterization of the information to support decision making in the identification of bad actors and root cause analysis of poor performance equipment.- assisted in determining bad actors, pinpointing areas where operational performance can be improved by proper equipment selection based on reliability and operational parameters.- assisted the procurement team with the technical information required by the bidding process for corporate contracts of certain equipment. - used problem resolution methodologies like A3 (Toyota's approach) Show less

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  Laurentian University

  Sept 2013 - Dec 2013

  Teaching Assistant | Engineering Materials

  - marking assignments and midterms- answering questions related to the subject posed by students- tutoring students

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  Husky Energy

  May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Summer Student - Corporate Responsibility - UEO | Air Issues Management

  The Air Issues Management team provides services to advance air quality management in various areas including regulatory advocacy and policy development, facility permits and approvals as well as emission estimation and reporting.- document handling and transfers in order to stay aligned with corporate practices- developing and implementing a process to capture AIM Expenses periodically in order to actively analyze the teams expenses and make them traceable.- incorporate excel dashboards for a more interactive experience for end-user analysis. - using various SAP transaction codes to collect the data and then use microsoft excel to analyze expenses and determine strategies to better understand the data in a simplified form at a future time on a continuous basis.- create and modify equipment inventories for existing operations and new ones in order to stay compliant with government regulations with the new release of legislations such as BLIERs (MSAPR), Alberta Energy Regulator Directive 060 etc.- creating air contaminant regulation documents for quick-access purposes- reviewing Oil and Gas proposals for gravity drainage projects, sulphur emission management projects and other documents similar in nature- calculation of emissions and determining performance characteristics of emission releasing equipment- benzene trending for high-risk facilities based on Directive 39 Benzene Limits. - update small facilities QAP documents to allow for proper information retention and communication between the field and the corporate office. Show less

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  Real Canadian Superstore

  Sept 2014 - Apr 2015

  Deli Clerk

  - increasing sales- placing warehouse orders- reviewing and counting inventory- delegating jobs to fellow employees - providing good customer service

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  Laurentian University

  Sept 2014 - Apr 2015

  - evaluating labs, quizzes, assignments and midterms- answering questions related to the subject posed by students- tutoring students - marking assignments- tutoring students- marking midterms

  • Teaching Assistant | Occupational Health - Engineering

    Jan 2015 - Apr 2015

  • Teaching Assistant | Engineering Materials

    Sept 2014 - Dec 2014
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  Husky Oil Operations Ltd.

  May 2015 - Aug 2015

  Corrosion Services Summer Student | Maintenance & Tech. Engineering

  - use ArcMap 10 to create individual-specific maps, customize and group different pipeline systems based on the groups needs.- create and maintain a pipeline management database by collecting data from various software, organizing the information in a common format in order to build a working inventory- creating excel dashboards to track KPIs and tracking progress- writing VBA code for macros in excel to automate common filtering, sorting and informing processes to create a functional database that is easy to analyze for corrosion services personnel- create and maintain templates to track projects internally for the corrosion services group- pipeline corrosion failure analysis involving root cause analysis based on requests from operations and creating failure reports including further recommendations- daily assistance to the corrosion services group- ensuring data validation on excel sheets to limit alteration of crucial functions in the spreadsheets for the created database- writing reports of current department status based on information gathered from the database created.- creating user manuals on how to use the different software for specific purposes that the database was designed for in order to allow for succession planning. - chairing safety meetings as well as conducting skill enhancement sessions. Show less

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  Husky Energy

  Jul 2016 - Jan 2021

  - taking ownership of project planning, resource allocation, change management, risk management, progress reporting and active communication of gap closures post audits to ensure management is kept up to date of project hurdles and gaps while outlining a plan to manage gaps.- using the Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM) framework, identify the changes, needs, solutions, value, stakeholders and contexts that require management in order to efficiently release new procedures, technology, and ability to access information. - develop work instructions, procedures and swim-lane diagrams to help operations and other groups understand their roles and responsibilities. Conduct training sessions with operations and integrity staff on use of new technology and share best practices to access pipeline information- design tools for various departments to facilitate workflow management and ensure efficiency is realized across varying stages of action task management, documentation control, data validation and information / knowledge management- collaborate with IS and other identified stakeholders to pilot and implement new technologies for data retention, collection and analysis. Facilitate required changes with GIS, Regulatory, Pipeline Integrity, Operations Engineering and operations to improve quality of data including modifying business processes to prevent redundancies and ensuring modifications to existing software are in adherence with high reliability organization principles. Show less - develop an implementation strategy to close all gaps identified during assessments of Husky's Pipeline Operations and Maintenance Manual- develop project charters for thirteen separate categories of gaps and developing Gantt charts recording timelines and providing project management tools to over ten various departments / stakeholders- create and manage a Pipeline Integrity Management SharePoint site to assist operations with managing integrity information, accessing procedures, work instructions and maps in order to maintain their pipeline integrity data in an accessible and standardized manner- contribute during risk assessments regarding new pipeline constructions during bow-tie development exercises- coordinate data cleansing and management efforts regarding information for pipelines in Husky's heavy oil business unit- identify and improve emergency preparedness processes within the pipeline integrity department to ensure higher efficiencies during exercises where maps and pipeline integrity data needs to be accessed / created- develop site specific ROW Inspection Management Procedures, and a governing ROW Inspection management program specific to the Business Unit- contribute towards change management initiatives and communication to support the implementation of the POMM- conduct elicitation and collaboration sessions in order to develop new business processes with multiple stakeholders- integrate new technologies into proposed solutions including trialing out Drone Technology for ROW Inspections, and new technology to improve data management practices including solutions for action task management Show less - create failure reports and conditional assessment reports for licensed pipelines and tubing- conduct risk based inspections on salt water and oil emulsion headers and conduct integrity assessments on identified assets- complete annual pipeline integrity reviews and develop integrity assurance programs for locations in HOG by co-ordinating reviews on corrosion monitoring and mitigating strategies for pipelines- verifying completion of action items identified in the past to prevent duplication of work- assist in daily activities including writing procedures, templates, instructional documents for software including GIS, Excel, SAP etc.- using GIS to track and maintain updates to pipeline information within HOG, determine elevation profiles, accuracy of static data, improving integrity of information- providing training in Word, Excel, SAP and ArcMap10- presenting for the pipeline integrity review network- create corrosion manuals for EOR systems in HOG- provide methods to track progress of tasks assigned to individuals each quarter to promote accountability and timely responses as required by management- create and maintain an accurate pipeline management database by collecting data from various software, organizing the information in a common format in order to build a working inventory, updating information after annual pipeline integrity reviews, identifying pipelines for CP surveys for vendors.- daily use of Abadata, ArcGIS, WellView, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, VBA, Accumap.- create efficient methods to extract and analyze big data, develop improved ways of reviewing, recommending and tracking action items by employing the use of Microsoft Excel and providing tutorials to colleagues on its uses.- revising the teams methods of addressing cathodic protection deficiencies leading to improved timed completion of action items. Show less - provide the technical work study group with summarized results in requested formats- provide the water sampling team with trends on data being collected to influence decisions to alter the water sampling program (frequency/location)- provide data summaries to CTEH as part of the Risk Assessment provided to the Water Security Agency (Saskatchewan) and other respective external organizations on behalf of Husky- QA/QC results from vendors regarding sampling summaries and threshold exceedance using Microsoft Excel- lead data trending, coordination and interpretation of the SODDs sampling program, providing daily reports to the technical study working group- Interim lead for the data group while rotation was on days off (~1 week, Group of 3-4)- complete and follow up with samples and data requests from Matrix Inc, Maxxam, Chemistry Matters, Water sampling team, CTEH, TWG and the environmental leads for the daily executive summary meetings with Incident Command for Water data.- provided excel templates for common requests that came to the data team when my role with them was being transitioned out to a different person. 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  • Implementation Engineer - P. Eng - Pipeline Integrity Management | Thermal Offstream Engineering

    Aug 2020 - Jan 2021

  • Pipeline Integrity Engineer - EIT - Pipeline Integrity Management | Maintenance & Tech. Engineering

    Sept 2018 - Aug 2020

  • Corrosion Engineer - EIT - Corrosion Services | Maintenance & Tech. Engineering

    Sept 2015 - Sept 2018

  • Technical Study Working Group - Data Analyst / Interim Data Lead

    Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
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  Cenovus Energy

  Jan 2021 - Nov 2022

  - coordinate change management programs for various asset integrity programs including Pipelines, Pressure Equipment, Storage Equipment.- assess, improve and coordinate integrity programs (Aerial Surveillance, Cathodic Protection)- develop business processes, tools to support data integrity improvement initiatives.- implement SAP and MyGIS solutions within Upstream Pipeline Integrity.- train, onboard, and educate staff through large scale business integration changes.

  • Integrity Engineer P. Eng

    Apr 2022 - Nov 2022

  • Implementation Engineer - P. Eng | Pipeline Integrity & Corrosion Management

    Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
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  Actenum Corporation

  Nov 2022 - now

  Product Implementation Specialist

  - hands-on product configuration and data integration- customer relationship management- workshop facilitation, end-user training and collaboration- project planning and implementation