Principal Electrial Engineer
Sedgman Canada
Total years of experience :23 years, 4 Months
Leading, growing the Electrical and Instrumentation team. Mineral projects, advisory role for strategy.
Owners Engineer to Freeport McMoRan. Stationed at the Vancouver office. Standards adherence and technical oversight for projects.
Build, Maintain an Electrical department to serve mainly the Hydrocarbons and Chemicals customers in the Region.
Expertly led and developed an electrical team of 30 and consequently met or exceeded customer project
expectations.
• Carefully positioned and developed area leads to ensure local and remote projects success
• Heartily embraced Canadian work and social culture achieving alignment within 12 months
• Often exceeded the required project performance factor, with factors of over 0.9 for most projects
• Steadily restored key customer confidence by stabilizing the electrical department outputs
Established, led and developed an electrical and instrumentation team of 30 for Oil & gas customer project
needs
• Exceptional value provided to vital engineering management and contractual activity to recover 30, 000
man-hours
• Demonstrated tenacity and agility in multiple simultaneous roles across a 30 month period
• Actively targeted growth of the business by acquisition target identification and pursuit of at least one
company
• Systematically prepared 3 proposals for projects in and out of country
• Strategically identified and recruited 3 strategic technical resources to launch the department
• Demonstrated visionary strategy & direction for the fledgling group
Organically expanded, developed and led an electrical 50 man team for Mining, Metals, Minerals and
Infrastructure projects .
• Effectively and courageously managed a concept study for the 100 year Exploitation study of an ore body
for an international mining customer
• Visionary strategic talent identification and on-boarding across disciplines for company market growth
• Innovative and empowering leadership on 5 large projects
Demonstrated delicate project leadership skill for a process normalization project in the Mining, Metals &
Minerals processing space in sensitive personnel transitioning
• Enthusiastically led an Infrastructure feasibility study
LEAN thinking projects lead to Mining & Minerals processing projects with 3 innovations
• Effective delivery of 2 fast track mechanized incline mine projects, on time and on budget
Tenacious leadership from concept engineering to operations handover
• Financially added value by innovating, saving at least 100, 000 dollars and setting new technical
benchmarks
• Routinely prepared successful Capital committee and Technical committee presentations
Lead Project Engineer for the Substation and Powerlines projects at the region for the Utility
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• Energetic technical support Instrumentation in the construction and commissioning phases of a new
concentrator plant
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Completed an MEng in Project Management.
MEng (Project Management) - 2016 BEng (Electrical) - 1994
Completed a 3 year Diploma in Instrumentation and Control