Ahsan Upal

Current

• Energy Management Specialist at Enbridge Pipelines

Past

• Project Manager at Enbridge Pipelines
• Project Manager at AltaLink Management Ltd.
• Transformer Design Engineer at Partner Technologies Inc.

• Field Operations Support at TransCanada
• Co-op Student at Newbridge Networks

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Education

• University of Regina
• Association of Professional Engineer Engineers & GeoScientists of Alberta
• Project Management Institute

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Connections

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Industry

Oil & Energy

Ahsan Upal’s Summary

Electrical Utilities
Oil & Gas Piplines

Ahsan Upal’s Experience

• Energy Management Specialist

  Enbridge Pipelines

  (Public Company; Oil & Energy industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Manage Enbridge Pipeline's power T&D infrastructure and manage the interface with the electrical utilities.

• Project Manager

  Enbridge Pipelines

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

  January 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 10 months)

  Manage Canadian electrical and instrumentation portion of Enbridge's $2.4B Southern Access Project to increase crude oil pipeline capacity by 100,000 barrels/day from Alberta to Illinois. Facilities include major power infrastructure and pumping station facility upgrades at 26 sites from Alberta to Wisconsin.

• Project Manager

  AltaLink Management Ltd.

  (Utilities industry)

  August 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 5 months)

  Manage mid size capital projects to build new substation and transmission facilities in Alberta, Canada. Major completed projects include building a 50km long 300kV transmission line and two new 300/25kV substations ($50M); building a province wide digital telecom network to carry SCADA, teleprotection and mobile data ($43M); and building a new 138/25kV substation and 12 km line by Edson ($10M).

• Transformer Design Engineer

  Partner Technologies Inc.

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  February 2001 — August 2004 (3 years 7 months)

  Design new medium voltage electrical transformers and boosters and also retrofit designs for the repair shop.

• Field Operations Support

  TransCanada

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TRP; Oil & Energy industry)

  May 1999 — April 2000 (1 year )

  Lead regional IT support for TransCanada's Assiniboine Region (Saskatchewan and Eastern Alberta). Managed a number of small projects (<$250k) of less than 3 months in length, such as Mac-to-Intel migration of over 100 users in 12 locations, regional telecom upgrade and harmonization of Foothills Pipe Lines’ IT assets to that of TransCanada’s.

• Co-op Student

  Newbridge Networks

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NNC; Telecommunications industry)

  1997 — 1997 (less than a year)

Ahsan Upal’s Education

• University of Regina

  BASc. , Electronic Systems Engineering , 1995 — 1999

• Association of Professional Engineer Engineers & GeoScientists of Alberta

  P.Eng. , Electrical Engineering

• Project Management Institute

  PMP , Project Management

Additional Information

Ahsan Upal’s Interests:

• Chair, Website Committee, IEEE Canada • GOLD Chair, IEEE Southern Alberta Section (2004 – present) • Editor, Aurum, IEEE Canada’s national publication for GOLD (2004 – present) • Member, Discipline Committee, APEGS (2001 – 2004) • Treasurer, Regina Engineering Society (2001 – 2004)

Ahsan Upal’s Honors:

• Nominated to Governing Council to represent Electrical Engineering, Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientist of Saskatchewan (APEGS) – 2004
• Nominated to Board of Directors, Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) – 2004
• Volunteer Service Award, Regina Engineering Society – 2004