Experience

SaskCentral

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager - Strategic Support

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  Partnering with executive management team, senior leadership team and external stakeholders at the provincial regulator and credit unions, I lead the initiation, planning, execution and closing of complex project identified as critical to the achievement of strategic corporate goals such as the deployment of a first of its kind lending facility backed by the Bank of Canada.Lead and manage the PMO process required to facilitate the wholistic view of the health of the portfolio. Facilitate monthly conversation with project owners and executive sponsors; the intentional and structured collection of project information is a critical component to ensure an accurate comparison and understanding of how the initiative supports or impacts the overall health of the portfolio and achievement of corporate scorecard measures. I consolidate and evaluate project details against the portfolio risk metrics which is used to identify the level of portfolio risk. This wholistic view of the initiatives and portfolio enables our executive team to make reprioritization decisions or approval of additional resources such as internal resource capacity and/or budget.



Directwest

• Canada
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Project Manager

  • Oct 2017 - Jun 2019

  Lead, facilitate and manage project initiation, planning, budgeting, and scheduling, and execution of technology deployments, product releases and process improvement initiatives while building strong relationships with project teams, critical resources, senior leadership and stakeholders. Monitor, track and report the status of project deliverables with special attention to schedule and budget tolerances to ensure opportunity to mitigate risk to the project’s status and impacts to the overall portfolio of projects.



EVRAZ North America

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Customer Service Manager - Distribution, OCTG & Linepipe

  • Sep 2013 - Apr 2017

  Managing a team for four inside sales representatives, and working with cross-functional teams, manage and lead customer production forecasting and production scheduling, and delivery of $600 million of tubular goods per quarter to customers across western Canada. To support the successful delivery I Initiate, coordinate, facilitate and lead pre-production engagement with customers, mills, operations, finance, and logistics teams to ensure all stakeholders at every level of the process are aligned. Manage stakeholders' expectations with progress updates and evaluate impacts, risks and spin-off opportunities of potential production changes

• Customer Service Rep

  • Feb 2011 - Jan 2013

  - Responsible for inside sales activiities of OCTG and tubular premium connection in the Canadian and US market - Represent the company as first point of contact for our customers; preparing price and delivery quotations, answering all inquiries, customer request, forecasting and order tracking - Working with production planners to ensure the scheduled production meets our customers’ needs and delivery requirements - Develop and maintain relationships with distributors and end users at all levels - Engage and communicate with pipe yards and third party hauling companies to ensure inventory, material transfers and customer deliveries are accurate and in accordance to