COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspector, Registration # 23046 - Current
Level III CSA W178.2 Senior Welding Inspector, Registration # 2447 – Current ( Equivalent to AWS CWI)
Level III Industrial Radiography, Registration # 2650 - Current
Level III Industrial Magnetic Particle, Registration # 2650 - Current
Level II Industrial Ultrasonic, Registration # 2650 - Current
Level II Industrial Liquid Penetrant, Registration # 2650 – Current

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, Ontario Association of Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT), Registration No. 53207 Certified Engineering Technologist (CET) Designation

LANGUAGES
English & French fluently

Welding Engineering Technology `80

EXPERIENCE
2008-2009 AMEC Americas, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Senior Quality Surveillance Manager / Lead
Kearl Oil Sands Project Phase 1 (Exxon / IORVL)

Procurement and Quality Surveillance of Equipment fabricated for the construction of a Surface Mine and Plant Facility that will produce clean bitumen for blending, transport and sales (April 2008 – April 2009).
Duties and responsibilities included:
Organizing Quality Surveillance Department
(Procedures, Specs, Personnel, Inspection Agency Contracts)
Leading Quality Department
Coordinating quality surveillance activities through National and International inspections agencies in several countries.
Reviewing and marking up ITPs as well as reviewing Quality Surveillance Progress Reports.

2006 SNC-LAVALIN INC., Calgary Alberta, Canada
Senior Quality Surveillance Manager / Lead
Procurement and Quality Surveillance of Equipment fabricated for the construction of a Water Injection Pump Station (WIPS) Facility for a Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), (December 2006 – April 2008).
Duties and responsibilities included:
Leading Quality Department
Coordinating quality surveillance activities through National and International inspections agencies covering over 13 countries.
Reviewing and marking up ITPs as well as reviewing Quality Surveillance Progress Reports.
Managing report distributions, NCR dispositions and general action items.

2006 ROEVIN TECHNICAL PEOPLE, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Quality Control Specialist
Opti-Canada, Oil Sands Construction Project, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada (August 2006 – November 2006).
Duties and responsibilities included:
Performing general start up and commissioning duties for new equipment such as Pressure Vessels, Columns , Heat Exchangers and Piping.

2004-2006 COLT ENGINEERING CORPORATION., Markham, Ontario, Canada
Quality Assurance Officer, Contract Completion
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) Plant, Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada (October 2004 – June 2006). One of the largest coal fired power plants in North America (4,000 MW).
Duties and responsibilities included:
Setting up a Quality Assurance/Control Department
Training staff personnel in developing inspection and test plans (ITPs) for static and rotating equipment
Assisting maintenance draw down contractors in complying with new plant QA directives
Providing QA/QC technical support during turbine and boiler outages
Reviewing welding procedures for pressure retaining equipment repairs.

2003-2004 COMSTOCK CANADA LTD, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Senior QA/QC Inspector, Contract Completion
Atco Power, New Construction of a 575 MW HRSG Power Plant, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (December 2003 – July 2004).
Duties and responsibilities included:
Reviewing QA documentation from shop and field fabrications from all inspectors
Auditing NDE contractor and reviewing radiographic film as a Level III Radiographic Inspector
Performing welding Inspections, punch listing, marking up P&IDs and witessing hydrostatic tests.

2003 AMEC ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING LTD, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Vendor Surveillance Inspector, Contract Completion
Dupont Canada Ltd., Heat Recovery Project (Cogenex), Chemical Plant Site, Project Location (July 2003 – December 2003).
Duties and responsibilities included:
Providing quality surveillance
Monitoring contractor QA activities and reviewing quality documentation from shop and field fabrication.

2003 IMPERIAL OIL LTD, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Senior Unit Inspector
Imperial Oil Ltd., Mechanical and Metallurgical Integrity Inspections, Nova Scotia (February 2003 – July 2003).
Duties and responsibilities included:
Performing mechanical and metallurgical integrity inspections for static equipment on an oil refinery site
Entering inspection data for the Equipment Reliability Program
Assessing equipment inspection results for future planning of RBI (Risk Based Inspections).

2001-2003 DUPONT CANADA LTD, Maitland, Ontario, Canada
Senior Corporate Reliability Inspector
Dupont Canada Ltd., Assessing 5 Chemical Industrial Sites located in various Locations, Ontario, Canada (March 2001 – February 2003). Duties and responsibilities included:
Assessing metallurgical and mechanical integrity of stationary equipment across all 5 chemical industrial sites
Populating databases with inspection data
Training mechanical engineers in ASME inspection and Welding requirements.

1999-2001 KEL-GOR LTD, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Quality Assurance Manager
Kel-Gor, International Pressure Vessel Fabrication Facility, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada (February 1999 – March 2001).
Duties and responsibilities included:
Interacting with client QA representatives
Liaison with Provincial Authorized Inspectors
Managing and directing work for resident and contract QA inspectors as well as for document control and materials receiving personnel.

1998 ABB (ASEA BROWN BOVERI) CONSTRUCTION, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Supervisor, NDE (Non Destructive Examination)
Coordinating NDE Inspections for outages in the pulp and paper industry.

1996-1997 CANSPEC MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND TESTING, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Support Services Technologist
Construction of a New Recovery Boiler Project, Quevillon, Quebec, Canada.
Duties and responsibilities included:
Performing general QA/QC surveillance
Peforming Welding inspections and approving the general contrators’ welding procedures
Witnessing hydrostatic tests.

1993-1996 FGA CONSULTING ENGINEERS, St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
Inspections Manager/Coordinator
Hibernia, Offshore Oil Development Project, Newfoundland, Canada.
Duties and responsibilities included:
Managing the NDT Inspection team during the construction phases with16 Senior Techs covering inspections in Radiography, Utrasonics, Magnetic Particle Liquid Penetrant and PMI.
Reviewing radiographic film for materials such as carbon steels, 6Mo, Titanium, 300 and 400 series stainless steels.

1992-1993 WELD ARC CONSULTING LTD., Val Caron, Ontario, Canada
General Manager
Managing activities for a welding engineering firm.
Duties and responsibilities included:
Writing welding procedures and qualifying Welder Operators.
Organizing and teaching seminars on the interpretation of Codes

1989-1992 NORTEST NDT SERVICES LTD, Timmins, Ontario, Canada
Owner/Technical Manager
Providing technical support and coordinating work activities for an inspection service company.
Duties and responsibilities included:
Managing technical activities for an NDE staff and providing QA/QC/NDE services for outages in the mining, power and pulp and paper industries.

1981-1989 KIDD CREEK MINES LTD., Timmins, Ontario, Canada
NDE Specialist/QC Supervisor
Performing QA/QC and inspections for a mining & metallurgical plant, Ontario, Canada. Duties and responsibilities included:
Maintaining an equipment reliability program using inspections methods such as Visual, RT, UT, MPI, LPI, and PMI
Maintaining a preventive maintenance program for rotating equipment and performing vibration diagnostics and in-situ multi-plane balancing on impellers ranging from .5 kg to 3000 kg in weight.


EDUCATION
1980 Diploma, Welding Engineering Technology, Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology, Guelph, Ontario, Canada