project / engineering management

29 years experience managing multi-billion dollar projects and with a background in EPCM contracts engineering, procurement, construction, and management related to oil and petrochemical applications.

Suncor Energy, Calgary 2003-2008
Senior Project Engineer Firebag Project, SAGD Plant
Developed the plot plan, utility and off-sites, regulatory, battery limits, infrastructures and tie-ins of a $7.3 billion project that will produce 250,000 bpd.
Major project Group
developed standards, procedures and workflows applicable to the engineering management of major projects.
Assessed major project’s engineering readiness for the next project’s phase(i.e. from DBM to EDS and from EDS to EPC).

AMEC Calgary 2001-2002
Area Manager, Syncrude
Managed the EDS phase (approximately $200 million) of the Material Handling Facility Area which includes the following facilities: MSE wall, crusher, surge feed conveyor, surge, mix box feed conveyor and the slurry preparation building complete with emergency dump ponds as well as the relocation of an existing extraction plant.
Engineering Manager, Syncrude
Managed the DBM phase (approximately $700 million) Utility & off-sites, co-generation plant, slurry and tailing lines.
Responsible for the quality, cost, schedule of engineering and procurement. Estimated at approx. $120 million.

Bantrel Inc. (Bechtel Canada) Calgary 1997-2001
Senior Project Engineer/Senior Mechanical Lead Design Engineer
Responsible for a fast track and cost driven project, approximately $400 million, for Union Carbide, a Poly-ethylene plant in Alberta.
Managed the Reaction Area Inside Battery Limits of this processing plant. Managed the detailed design,the computer 3D modeling, the procurement and the cost/schedule.
Senior Mechanical Lead, Athabasca Shell Project, Utilities and Off-sites

Saudi Aramco, Yanbu, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1992-1996
Senior Supervisor , Engineering Department / Maintenance Supervisor
Supervised the machine shop: rotating equipment,valve shop,the air conditioning,the chilled water system and the machine tools.
Managed a staff of 43 techs. for the maintenance of a refinery that operated at 200,000 BPSD.
Maintained the crude unit area, the platforming area, the utilities, the tank farm, the truck loading and the marine terminal facility.
Assisted in planning maintenance activities as well as procuring necessary spare parts for regeneration shut downs and major turn-arounds.
Adhered to overall annual operating budget.

Education and Professional Associaitions
Bachelor of Science Degree (Hon.) for Mechanical Engineering 1979
Salford University, England

Certified P. Eng. in Alberta, Canada
Corporate Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Chartered Engineer in England ( M.I.Mec.E. ; C.Eng. ), (eligible to become a Fellow Member of this Institution)

Fluently bilingual in spoken and written French and English.