
Marketing Director - Canada, at WorleyParsons Infrastructure & Environment
Calgary, Canada Area

Marketing Director - Canada, at WorleyParsons Infrastructure & Environment
Calgary, Canada Area
Communications leader with professional interests in strategic marketing, brand consulting, user experience design, and organizational effectiveness
Technology and business process consulting, strategic communications, mentoring, database audits, knowledge management, and brand strategy
(Public Company; Oil & Energy industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Lead a physical and virtual team to design and deliver strategic marketing communications promoting environmental consulting and infrastructure engineering services for one of the world's largest engineering companies; develop and execute strategy; participate in strategic bid proposals and presentations; research potential new business opportunities
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Environmental Services industry)
October 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Design and produce communications materials to promote environmental consulting and infrastructure engineering services; design customer-facing and internal presentations; do corporate executive photography; administer part of local intranet to support collaboration and communications
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2003 — October 2006 (3 years 5 months)
Information technology consulting and support to small-to-medium size organisations, covering technology selection, implementation, and training
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2002 — May 2003 (7 months)
As part of 10-member project team, implemented technology updates on 1500+ Dell and Toshiba desktops and portables to bring these up to new corporate standard; re-imaged and deployed new hardware
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Photography industry)
May 2002 — November 2002 (7 months)
Commercial photography assignments for various clients
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 8 months)
Same as TransCanada (was on long-term assignment there)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TRP; Oil & Energy industry)
October 2000 — February 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Database application support to business units on the main system that managed gas transportation contracts on the Canadian mainline; trained business analysts on how to interpret data extracted from the Sybase database using SQL queries; audited business logic
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
April 2000 — October 2000 (7 months)
Provided classroom instruction and individual tutoring in basic 3D animation, sound editing, digital video editing, and multimedia authoring; reviewed and graded student portfolios
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1996 — April 2000 (3 years 7 months)
Designed and implemented intranet systems to support the Help Desk of Citibank Project Enterprise, a US$500 million IT outsourcing project delivered by Digital Equipment Corporation, later Compaq Canada
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TRP; Utilities industry)
September 1994 — October 1996 (2 years 2 months)
Onsite technical support to desktop and mobile computing users; administered email, calendar, and file servers; wrote user tutorials and taught in-house software courses
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1994 — September 1994 (8 months)
Coordinated beta testing of KeyView software (now owned by Autonomy) at Coca-Cola and Abbott Labs; wrote product documentation; provided third-level technical support
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1988 — February 1994 (5 years 6 months)
In-house consultant on information technology project implementation and support, for projects funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in various countries
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1986 — September 1988 (2 years 1 month)
Supervised computer labs; created tutorials and training materials, taught users
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
March 1986 — May 1986 (3 months)
Edited economic monographs and papers to be published for a nonspecialist audience
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
March 1985 — March 1986 (1 year 1 month)
Managed and reported on field research in biomass and solar energy technologies
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Oil & Energy industry)
March 1983 — February 1985 (2 years)
Supervised the Electrical Engineering Department (11 direct reports) at the Tabangao refinery, Batangas, Philippines
M.A.(c) , Education , 1986 — 1990
Completed course requirements for M.A. in Education, several M.Sc. courses in Mechanical Engineering, and one MBA course in Management of Human Resources
B.Sc. , Mechanical Engineering , 1978 — 1983
Completed five-year program in 4-1/2 years and graduated in top 10% of class; in senior year, led class team designing a large-scale electricity generating plant; wrote small computer models to simulate steam turbine operating characteristics
corporate communications, photography, information technology, brand strategy, knowledge management, web design, the history of ideas, pro-life advocacy
Knights of Columbus (Council 13226)
Natural Family Planning Association of Alberta