Josh Gray
Co-Founder | Strategic Director at gogglesoc- Claim this Profile
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Marie-Josée Legault
Josh has the rare combination of strategic planning and visionary skills along with the ability to actually develop and execute plans flawlessly. Working alongside him at Protect Our Winters gave me a strong sense of his leadership skills, his values-driven professional approach and high emotional intelligence. I will continue to look for ways to work alongside Josh as I always learn something from our exchanges and value his input.
Alfredo Palomo Verduras
I worked with Josh just after he completed his university studies. Even as a young engineer, he was always very oriented to organizational and managerial tasks. To the point that he led, successfully, since very early in the project, one of the most important and critical sections. Not only from the scheduling and resourcing point of view, but also dealing with stakeholders. From organizing several subcontractors to dealing in meetings with the Final Client, passing through operation presentations to the affected general public. I would gladly work again with Josh, and blindly recommend him to anyone who requests it.
Marie-Josée Legault
Josh has the rare combination of strategic planning and visionary skills along with the ability to actually develop and execute plans flawlessly. Working alongside him at Protect Our Winters gave me a strong sense of his leadership skills, his values-driven professional approach and high emotional intelligence. I will continue to look for ways to work alongside Josh as I always learn something from our exchanges and value his input.
Alfredo Palomo Verduras
I worked with Josh just after he completed his university studies. Even as a young engineer, he was always very oriented to organizational and managerial tasks. To the point that he led, successfully, since very early in the project, one of the most important and critical sections. Not only from the scheduling and resourcing point of view, but also dealing with stakeholders. From organizing several subcontractors to dealing in meetings with the Final Client, passing through operation presentations to the affected general public. I would gladly work again with Josh, and blindly recommend him to anyone who requests it.
Marie-Josée Legault
Josh has the rare combination of strategic planning and visionary skills along with the ability to actually develop and execute plans flawlessly. Working alongside him at Protect Our Winters gave me a strong sense of his leadership skills, his values-driven professional approach and high emotional intelligence. I will continue to look for ways to work alongside Josh as I always learn something from our exchanges and value his input.
Alfredo Palomo Verduras
I worked with Josh just after he completed his university studies. Even as a young engineer, he was always very oriented to organizational and managerial tasks. To the point that he led, successfully, since very early in the project, one of the most important and critical sections. Not only from the scheduling and resourcing point of view, but also dealing with stakeholders. From organizing several subcontractors to dealing in meetings with the Final Client, passing through operation presentations to the affected general public. I would gladly work again with Josh, and blindly recommend him to anyone who requests it.
Marie-Josée Legault
Josh has the rare combination of strategic planning and visionary skills along with the ability to actually develop and execute plans flawlessly. Working alongside him at Protect Our Winters gave me a strong sense of his leadership skills, his values-driven professional approach and high emotional intelligence. I will continue to look for ways to work alongside Josh as I always learn something from our exchanges and value his input.
Alfredo Palomo Verduras
I worked with Josh just after he completed his university studies. Even as a young engineer, he was always very oriented to organizational and managerial tasks. To the point that he led, successfully, since very early in the project, one of the most important and critical sections. Not only from the scheduling and resourcing point of view, but also dealing with stakeholders. From organizing several subcontractors to dealing in meetings with the Final Client, passing through operation presentations to the affected general public. I would gladly work again with Josh, and blindly recommend him to anyone who requests it.
Experience
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gogglesoc
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Canada
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Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder | Strategic Director
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May 2022 - Present
Responsible for overseeing the company's strategic and long-range goal planning. I work alongside the Managing Director to drive strategic initiatives, international brand collaborations and take lead on financial projections while also deepening our product development capabilities and operating systems.
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Co-Founder | Brand, Digital + Marketing
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Oct 2016 - Apr 2022
Co-Founder of gogglesoc, a first-to-market concept that became an international success story in the outdoor industry. With sales in 22 counties and thousands of retailers alongside a successful e-commerce presence. We came up with a practical solution to a real problem and created a new product category. Today, gogglesoc is an eyewear accessory brand reinventing an overlooked product category.
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Cenovus Energy
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Canada
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Oil and Gas
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700 & Above Employee
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Contract Engineer
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Aug 2013 - Jul 2014
I worked as a contract engineer at Canovus' Foster Creek oil sands site. The Foster Creek project site is in a remote part of Northern Canada on an active air force base. We weathered temperatures of -45C in the winter and muskeg (swamp), horseflies, bears and wolves in the summer. The site covered 1.6 million acres, larger than the inside of the M25 in London. Most of the oil sands exploration work we did was by helicopter or argo (semi-amphibious ATV) or via the network of ice roads we built to access drilling pads in the winter. Cenovus employs a method of oil extraction called SAGD, or Steam-Assisted Gravity Drain, which is a relatively new technology to access oil sands deposits that can be hundreds of metres deep. They have no mining assets, tailings ponds or megaprojects. SAGD technology, allows access to large underground oil sands reservoirs with a small surface footprint. Show less
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ACCIONA
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Spain
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Utilities
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Engineer
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Jul 2011 - Aug 2013
Project Engineer responsible for completing package of works approximately $20M in value on time and on budget whilst coordinating with other departments and activities. The SEST project is worth $769 million in 2010 dollars, and is the largest single highway project in Alberta’s history, and its largest P3 road infrastructure project. The project consists of the construction and maintenance of 25 kilometres of six-lane roadway, 9 interchanges, 1 road flyover, 2 rail flyovers and 27 bridge structures. Show less
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Student Engineer
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Jul 2010 - Aug 2010
Spent the summer between 3rd and 4th year of University working on site for Acciona on their South East Stoney Trail Project. Spent the summer between 3rd and 4th year of University working on site for Acciona on their South East Stoney Trail Project.
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Education
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2007 - 2011
University of Nottingham
Master of Engineering (MEng) -
2004 - 2006
Charterhouse School
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1999 - 2004
Tiffin School
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2023 -
University of Alberta
Indigenous Canada, 89.83%
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