حسن Dayfallah

Responsible for providing input into several major resource projects that have implications on marine safety, security and navigation. These projects involved oil pipeline expansions and reversals, liquefied natural gas transportation and encompass marine and emergency response components.

• As one of the departmental co-leaders on major resource projects, I attend various conferences regarding major resource projects associated with petroleum and natural gas to identify their quantitative and qualitative implications on the Coast Guard’s mandate.
• Responsible for reviewing the policy on marine spill response and ensuring that our policy was feasible as an assistance tool for proponents and stakeholders to use as a guide for oil clean-ups.
• Provide technical input on environmental assessments issues raised by stakeholder that have implications on the Coast Guard such as marine safety and emergency management response.
• I am the co-lead on a memorandum to cabinet which requests an excess of $20M over 4 years to implement a Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Strategy on major resource project sites in Western and Eastern Canada.
• I am responsible for estimating all levels of effort (e.g.: technical expert capacity at panel hearings, and information requests) associated with major resource project participation in an effort to ensure CCG’s commitment to Responsible Resource Development.
• I am the lead for all briefing material associated with major resource projects. These briefing materials are designed to inform senior management of the issue(s) at hand and provide a comprehensive way forward for senior management consideration and approval.
• Identify impacts of codes such as the Canadian Vessel Pollution and Dangerous Chemicals Regulation on the fleet of vessels Coast Guard operates. These impacts allow me to determine which class of vessels are higher risks than others.

Responsible for various monthly financial analyses relating to operating budgets and expenditures and the delivery of ad-hoc executive reports and presentations for senior management during time of organizational change. Assisted in the implementation of a zero and activity-based budget exercises to align a $500M operating budget with its respective activities while achieving substantial cost savings for the Coast Guard.

• Assisted in the implementation of a zero and activity-based budget exercises to align a $500M operating budget with its respective activities in the Coast Guard.
• Provided business case support to clients to access operating funds to finance program areas in their groups that could not be funded through the original budget allocation.
• Designed a budget and forecast tools for clients to explain quarterly and monthly dollar discrepancies in financial reporting for Coast Guard.

As the Senior Analyst I was responsible for a regulatory vessel inspection file in addition to supporting work for a Student and Junior Economist and other ad-hoc economic analyses.

• Formulated numerous options for a self-regulatory inspection regime of vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard. These options were presented for Senior Management consideration.
• Participated in interdepartmental meetings with Transport Canada to establish comprehensive options that were designed to save Coast Guard $2.7M annually in vessel inspections costs.
• Consulted with stakeholders on levels of inspection services provided by Transport Canada and in order to assess their economic and financial implications under the proposed options.

Responsible for various financial analyses and financial attestations for senior management approval which explained forecasted variances for budgets in excess of $20M while contributing to strategic review implementation which resulted in $15M in savings for the department.

• Assisted in the implementation of a Budget Alignment Strategic Review exercise in an effort to align the organizational changes with operating budgets. This reorganization resulted in $15M in savings for the department.
• Prepared monthly financial attestations for senior management approval which explained forecasted variances for budgets in excess of $20M.
• Reconciled operating and capital expenditures for input into Departmental Performance Report and Report of Plans and Priorities.
• Assisted in the implementation of a Project Complexity Risk Assessment. This assessment is now the serves as the main tool for prioritizing high-risk capital projects.

Responsibilities Included:

• Engaged customers in complete, needs based conversations to simplify the complex, understand our customers’ needs, and guide them with the right options and solutions.

• Attended and actively contribute to daily and weekly branch meetings.

• Completed applications and close sales as part of customer interaction.

• Documented identified opportunities, and changes to customer situations and potential needs.

As part of a 7 month internship, I was responsible for varios financial analyses associated with Comptrollership Business Management actvities at the Department of National Defence.