Experience

Spartan Controls

• Canada
• Industrial Automation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Process Solutions Team Lead, P.Eng.

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Leading a team of Process Control Engineers that assess, design, implement, and commission regulatory and advanced control applications to achieve sustainable process and control performance improvements for our customers. Day-to-day team leadership, coaching, and mentoring of our technical team for performance improvement, training, and development.Work with clients to identify high-value opportunities, improve control performance, and develop solutions to achieve reduced variability and increased yield.Assess, design, and implement regulatory and advanced control applications to achieve sustainable process performance improvements.Collaborate with other Team Leads, team members, and Project Managers across Spartan to ensure execution excellence with all customer requirements is being met.Manage Schedule, Cost, and Quality of Process Solutions projects and service engagements in a Win/Win (Spartan/Customer) manner.Support business development & sales activities including technical presentation, technical content writing and services estimating for proposal development.Maintain strong connections between the Sales and Project team to understand current workloads, skill sets, and training, as well as forecasted team utilization, resource assignment, and scheduling.Support Manager with performance reviews of team members; set and measure performance objectives and goals Show less

• Advanced Process Control Engineer, P.Eng.

  • Jan 2015 - Dec 2019

  Member of a team of Process Control Engineers that assess, design, implement, and commission regulatory and advanced control applications to achieve sustainable process and control performance improvements for our customers.• Practiced in Advanced Process Control strategies (APC) to improve customer’s operation and performance.Produced detailed design documents including SAMA drawings, P&IDs, Shutdown Keys, Control Narratives, Functional Spec documents, etc.Regulatory control loop testing, tuning, modeling, and optimization.Worked directly with customers to identify opportunities for control performance and developed solutions around their wants/needs.Provide Project Management leadership for the team by tracking hours, performing cost management, scheduling, and maintaining customer relations and expectations.Provide project technical leadership and coaching. Show less

• Control System Specialist

  • May 2012 - Jan 2015

  Experience in the design and configuration of Basic Process Control Systems (BPCS). Commissioned plants and gained process experience by performing loop and function checks. Assisted operations and customers by troubleshooting logic, faulty hardware, and controls. Training in advanced process control, tuning, and equipment characterization.Configuration, installation, support, migration, expansion, and upgrading services for DeltaV Control Systems.Asset Management Services (AMS) support including the use of Alert Monitor and AMS ValveLink Snap-on. Training in DeltaV Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS). Configuration and support of OPC and PLC interfaces.Familiar with Honeywell Experion programming and DeltaV Connect for Honeywell. Show less



Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc.

• Canada
• Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Process Engineer, Summer Student

  • May 2010 - Aug 2010

  Gathered data for projects by collecting samples, running tests on the process, performing calculations, and reporting all findings. Tested techniques on simulated processes to try and prevent future carbon build up in equipment. Took on a leadership role in the laboratory by helping to mentor new summer employees. Gathered data for projects by collecting samples, running tests on the process, performing calculations, and reporting all findings. Tested techniques on simulated processes to try and prevent future carbon build up in equipment. Took on a leadership role in the laboratory by helping to mentor new summer employees.



In Receivership since the 29th of September 2017

• Canada
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Instrumentation Technician

  • Oct 2007 - Aug 2008

  Installed, calibrated, and commissioned new instrumentation in compliance with industry, operations, and company standards. Troubleshooting instruments which developed knowledge and understanding of processes and control strategies. Performed maintenance and repairs on a large variety of instrumentation in various oil and gas settings. Installed, calibrated, and commissioned new instrumentation in compliance with industry, operations, and company standards. Troubleshooting instruments which developed knowledge and understanding of processes and control strategies. Performed maintenance and repairs on a large variety of instrumentation in various oil and gas settings.