PROFILE

I have spent the last 12 years in the Confidential Engineers and have obtained the rank of Major. I have held a variety of roles ranging from Troop Commander, Squadron Operations Officer, Base Construction Engineer Officer, Project Manager, Staff Officer, and Base Engineer. I have been deployed on domestic and international operations and have experience working in austere and hostile environments with local nationals, contractors, military and civilian personnel. I am looking to transfer my skills to the private sector specifically in the oil and gas industry within the project management/engineering field. My background is in civil engineering with an emphasis on project management in recent years. I have obtained my Professional Engineering License in the Province of Ontario as well as the Project Management Professional credential from the Project Management Institute.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Base Engineer

Confidential

• Responsible for all infrastructure at confidential Base Shilo including water/wastewater treatment plants, central heating plant, utilities, roads/grounds, buildings, and works.
• Responsible for managing a multi-million dollar maintenance and repair budget ensuring the base remains compliant with appropriate codes as required by the Department of National Defence, provincial, and municipal governments.
• Responsible for managing a multi-million dollar recapitalization budget for betterment of infrastructure, new construction, and recapitalization of existing infrastructure.
• Responsible for numerous contracts on base including waste disposal and janitorial contracts as well as the management of utilities.
• Maintain constant communication with the chain of command, project stakeholders, local government officials, appropriate technical authorities, Public Works and Government Services, Defence Construction Canada, public affairs, base units, and local newspapers.
• Manages a diverse staff including salaries of approximately 165 military and civilian personnel within the Base Engineering organization through subordinate supervisors. Staff consists of professional engineers, draftsmen, tradesmen plumbers, carpenters, electricians, painters, power engineers, water and wastewater treatment engineers , firefighters, administration staff, environmental officers, planners, HAZMAT and safety personnel.
• Responsible for addressing staffing shortages and hiring through internal and external hiring processes.
• Manages yearly and multi-year maintenance and recapitalization programs ensuring short term needs are addressed as well as long term goals.
• Responsible for long term infrastructure planning for the base including developing a five, ten and twenty fiver year plan.
• Provide ongoing project management to major capital projects such as construction of a new central heating plant, new dining hall, and new underground utilities.
• Continuously look for opportunities to make best use of limited financial and human resources through new technologies, green products, and advances in technology.
• Review drawings and specification packages produced by engineering staff and consultants for compliance to local codes and regulations as well as federal/provincial regulations.
• Responsible to conduct field reviews and inspections on all projects.
• Provide on site supervision of work, ensuring safe work practices are being enforced, and that project timelines are being met on the various active projects within the fiscal year.
• Develop solutions to problems as they occur, including technical issues, dealing with stakeholders and internal staff conflicts.
• Continually conduct professional development training, including: contracting/procurement, managing human resources, financial management, project management, and engineering.

Staff Officer/Headquarters Adjutant

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• Served as the senior staff officer to the Director General Real Property and the Commander of the confidential
• Responsible for the management and organization of a strategic level headquarters.
• Responsible for ensuring personnel readiness, overseas replacement management, manpower allocation, and personnel accounting.
• Advised commander of directives and policy guidance from higher headquarters, and informed on unit capabilities, limitations, requirements, availability, and employment of resources.
• Prepared, updated, and maintained staff estimates in order to inform and advise the commander on possible courses of action and mitigation measures for each action.
• Prepared formal orders and correspondence on behalf of the commander for national distribution.
• Conducted research related to policies, directives and regulations that impacted current and future operations.
• Managed corporate awards programs.
• Responsible for business/financial planning of the organization including modifications to internal policies related travel and information management.
• Responsible for managing Director General Real Property annual corporate budget.
• Managed and administered human resource requirements and annual performance reports for the group, including military and civilian staff.

Base Construction Engineering Officer

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• Responsible for a multi-million dollar budget in order to ensure the base and training centre are compliant with DND standards as well as consistent with departmental scales of accommodations with respect to construction and maintenance of infrastructure.
• Responsible to produce and verify cost and material estimates for all projects.
• Provide project management expertise in all phases of projects from initiation to close-out.
• Manage over fifteen projects at any given time with varying degrees of complexity and range in cost from 50k to 1.3 million.
• Manage a staff of six, including clerical, environmental, GIS, and military personnel.
• Manage and supervise the Base environmental staff in the production of environmental assessments/exemptions, and local environmental policies, including spill response, Base environmental policy/direction, and HAZMAT response.
• Review drawings and specification packages produced by engineering firms for compliance to local codes and regulations as well as federal/provincial environmental regulations.
• Manage/supervise base and training area infrastructure including water and waste water treatment plants , utilities, preventative/corrective maintenance plans, new building construction, as well as recapitalization of existing infrastructure.
• Coordinate with tradesmen, designers, architects, and fire officials in order to develop solutions to potential design problems and/or omissions to existing designs.
• Responsible to conduct field reviews and inspections on all projects.
• Required to have knowledge in various codes including building codes, electrical codes and fire codes.
• Provide on site supervision of work, ensuring safe work practices are being enforced, and that project timelines are being met on the various active projects within the fiscal year.
• Develop solutions to problems as they occur, including technical issues, dealing with stakeholders, and internal staff conflicts.
• Continually conduct professional development training, including: contracting/procurement, managing human resources, financial management, project management, and engineering.

Field Squadron Operations Officer

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• Planned and forecasted the activities of the Engineer Field Squadron both in garrison and while deployed to Afghanistan on Operation Athena Rotation 6.
• Provided engineer advice to the supported Battle Group Headquarters staff as required.
• Produced squadron level written communications including: operation orders, move orders, and training instructions.
• Produced orders for subordinate Engineer troops within the Battle Group Headquarters. Also, provided technical Engineering advice to the Battle Group Commander, Sub-Unit Commanders, and the Battle Group planning staff.
• Articulated plans and orders in a clear, concise and accurate fashion, to audiences ranging from the laymen to technical experts.
• Made oral reports to both my immediate supervisor, the Battle Group Commander, the Task Force Engineer and to the subordinate troops. These reports included: ground briefings, delivery of orders, and articulation of engineer intents and plans.
• Planned, scheduled and budgeted all squadron level training/operations. This included ordering supplies and equipment, reviewing technical designs and managing resources.
• Produced task schedules and allocated military and engineer resources.
• Maintained accurate records of cost expenditures.
• Reviewed technical designs produced by the engineer troop commanders in the squadron, and ensured that they were within military design templates.
• While deployed in Afghanistan, I managed the infrastructure at the various pieces of tactical infrastructure that coalition forces were occupying. I continually had to review and update designs due to a variety of reasons, including: troop surges, changes in security requirements, and remediation of battle damage.
• Enforced safe working methods and conducted risk assessments produced safety distance templates that safeguarded soldiers from the dangers of explosive training, and assessed risk involved in engineer tasks conducted while on deployed operations .
• Ensured department environmental policies were adhered to while on both domestic and international operations. As well as produced environmental assessments for operations.

Engineer Field Troop Commander

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• Developed appropriate training plans for the engineer troop of forty field engineers and provided opportunities for their professional development.
• Prepared written reports to include troop level engineer orders and training instructions.
• Planned engineer tasks including: demolitions, building defensive positions, bridging, and various construction projects.
• Conducted risk/environmental assessments for engineer tasks.
• Developed work tables and task schedules for engineer related tasks and resources.
• Exercised application of theory through design and synthesis by supervising the construction of bunkers and field defence obstacles. For many tasks, I was responsible for vehicle mechanics, boat operators, medics, heavy equipment operators, and combat engineers.
• Addressed environmental issues by preparing equipment to respond to fuel spills and supervising site remediation activities.
• Gained practical experience on the significance of time in the engineering process. Difficulties in work flow, scheduling, and equipment wear-out all required active participation on my behalf to ensure that tasks were completed on time, and on budget.
• Dealt with the limitations of equipment and personnel, time restrictions and the difficulties in working on a tight schedule.
• Supervised heavy equipment operators and the employment of the Regiment's heavy equipment including: dump trucks, bulldozers, front-end loaders, graders, excavators, and cranes.
• Commanded the Regiment's Disaster Assistance Response Team or DART during my time as a Troop Commander. As the Troop Commander it was my job to ensure that all members possessed the necessary qualifications in order to deploy on short notice as well as maintaining a certain degree of physical fitness to ensure that individual soldiers could deal with the physical and mental strains of the job.

Field Squadron Operations Officer

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Engineer Officer Training

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Trials Officer

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• Conducted various trials testing new equipment being procured, equipment being retrofitted, and commercially available equipment that would be modified for military use.
• Completed and planned environmental assessments and spills response plans for the various trials executed.
• Initiated, planned, executed, monitored/controlled, and closed-out various trials.