Project Manager, Management Consultant
Vancouver, Canada Area
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- Principal at Friuch Consulting
- Past
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- Project Manager at Asia Pacific Gateway Skills Table
- Consulting Partner at Rocket Builders
- Aboriginal Relations Coordinator at BC Hydro
- Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator at BC Hydro
- Research Analyst at Science Council of BC
- Corporate Sponsorship Manager at REALM Magazine
- Communications Officer at Dow Chemical Canada
- Assistant Editor at Natural Resources Canada
- Education
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- Simon Fraser University
- Simon Fraser University
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Aaron Cruikshank’s Summary
Project management, market Intelligence and public policy professional with considerable experience in competitive intelligence, business analysis, science and technology policy, public participation and communications.
Aaron Cruikshank’s Specialties:
Labour market information, competitive intelligence, business analysis, due dilliegence, public policy, public relations, qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis and reporting, consensus building, marketing and communications, survey design and delivery, statistical analysis, documentary research, program review.
Aaron Cruikshank’s Experience
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Principal
Friuch Consulting
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)
Previous and current clients/partners include:
BC Innovation Council
National Research Council*
RTO BC
Terasen Gas*
University of British Columbia*
Clarity Accounting*
Rocket Builders*
(with Rocket Builders: Flowfinity Wireless, Solid Innovation, Razor Technologies, ACETECH, Antarctica Digital, The Level, Acclaro)
Simon Fraser University
The Learning Disabilities Association of BC
The Islands Trust
NanotechBC*
Canadian Plastics Industry Association
JURAT Pty Ltd.
GPT Management*
Salt Spring Coffee Co.
Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Science and Technology
BC Premier's Technology Council
Canadian Homebuilder's Association - BC
BC Construction Assocation
Institute of Chartered Accountants of BC*
Canada25
The BC Industry Training Authority
BCIT
The Canadian Institute for Market Intelligence
Leading Edge BC
Western Economic Diversification*
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Project Manager
Asia Pacific Gateway Skills Table
(Civil Engineering industry)
August 2008 — May 2009 (10 months)
The Asia Pacific Gateway Skills Table is tasked with finding ways to help BC overcome a looming labour shortage in skilled trades related to building and maintaining trasportation infrastructure. As Project Manager, I was responsible for establishing pilot projects and research projects during the startup phase of the organization.
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Consulting Partner
Rocket Builders
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
December 2006 — August 2008 (1 year 9 months)
My primary role with Rocket Builders was market intelligence work in the high tech industry. It's an excellent group to work with because it's a brain trust and a loose framework for top-notch consultants to work within. The expertise I brought to the group was process expertise in qualitative and quantitative research as well as subject matter expertise in the Energy and Nanotechnology sectors.
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Aboriginal Relations Coordinator
BC Hydro
(Government Agency; Utilities industry)
June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)
Worked with internal project teams and departments to help them make more effective policy and planning decisions that factor in public and aboriginal interests. My main contribution to BC Hydro has been strategic thinking, technical skills, and people skills applied to building and maintaining cross-functional working groups within BC Hydro.
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Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator
BC Hydro
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Public Policy industry)
August 2005 — June 2006 (11 months)
I supported internal BC Hydro project teams with their public engagement activities for large capital projects, I piloted and evaluated new software tools, developed web-interfaces for our services and found new ways to glean data from our engagement activities.
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Research Analyst
Science Council of BC
(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Public Policy industry)
September 2002 — May 2004 (1 year 9 months)
My main role was to research policy options for furthering economic development in BC by leveraging science research and commercialization. I wrote a number of white papers, briefing notes and managed a standing committee of Science Council peers.
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Corporate Sponsorship Manager
REALM Magazine
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
October 2001 — September 2002 (1 year)
I was responsible for an advertising sales push to raise $1 million.
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Communications Officer
Dow Chemical Canada
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)
May 2000 — December 2000 (8 months)
I was primarily responsible for internal communications and our community newsletter. I also worked with stakeholders in the community.
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Assistant Editor
Natural Resources Canada
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Public Policy industry)
January 1999 — August 1999 (8 months)
I was a writer for internal communications at NRCan. In addition to writing copy for the ministry's newsletter, I worked on several internal initiatives including a survey of employees designed to review retention policies.
Aaron Cruikshank’s Education
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Simon Fraser University
MPP , Master of Public Policy , 2004 — 2006
Capstone (thesis) focussed on public participation and it's impact on large capital projects undertaken by Canadian Public Electric Utilities. Was a teaching assistant for a 400-level Communications Class with roughly 60 students. Research areas:
- Infanticide
- Post-Tsunami Economic Recovery in Sri Lanka
- Public Participation
- Environmental Impact of Technology
- Labour Policy
- Inter-Governmental Negotiation
- Science and Technology- Activities and Societies:
- Member of winning team in SFU's NetImpact Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility Challenge, sat on SFU's Vancouver Campus Committee as the Grad Student representative.
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Simon Fraser University
BA (Hon) , Communication , 1996 — 2001
- Activities and Societies:
- Co-op accredited, Sociology/PoliSci minor, Honours thesis with the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST).
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Aaron Cruikshank’s Groups:
New Ventures BC, SFU Alumni Association Board of Directors, ProjectWorld, UBC Continuing Studies, Learning Disabilities Association, Vancouver Consultants
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