Experience

Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada

• Canada
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Environmental Research

  • Feb 1997 - Present

  Provide support to many of PTAC's programs and projects including directing and managing PTAC's Alberta Upstream Petroleum Research Fund (AUPRF). The AUPRF Program is a unique collaborative platform between the Government of Alberta , the Alberta Energy Regulator, and industry, and is led by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada (EPAC), and managed by PTAC. AUPRF was launched with the idea that through innovation and collaborative R&D, we can minimize the environmental impact of our industry economically. Since inception, 270 applied research projects have been completed through the AUPRF program. Each project launched provides practical science based studies to address knowledge gaps in the understanding and management of high priority environmental and social matters related to oil and gas exploration and development in Alberta, and assists in the development of smart policies, regulations and best practices for the sustainable development of Alberta’s world class hydrocarbon resources. The program has resulted in significant contributions in the areas of cost reduction, ease of operations, social license, regulatory impact on risk influenced by science based choice, fast tracking development activities, avoiding unnecessary cost/adversarial hearings, and helping the regulator understand the environmental impact of hydrocarbon development. In addition, the AUPRF program has proven against the conventional wisdom of economics that there is a trade-off between social and economic performance. Business can indeed make profit while solving social and environmental problems.AUPRF is one of many initiatives run through PTAC that has helped the oil and gas industry through periods of both prosperity and regression.



Shell Energy North America (Canada) Inc.

• Human Resources Administrative Assistant

  • Oct 1996 - May 1997



The Image Brokers

• United Kingdom

• Advertising Account Executive

  • Sep 1994 - May 1995



FWJ Communications

• Advertising Account Executive

  • Feb 1989 - Sep 1994