Project Manager at L'hooskuz Dene Nation (2025-01 – Present)
- Defining project scope, goals, deliverables, and timelines.
- Developing budgets, allocating resources, and supervising project expenses.
- Assembling, mentoring, and leading cross-functional teams.
- Identifying, minimizing, and mitigating potential project risks.
- Oversee project deliverables, ensure compliance with standards, and maintain accurate records.
Project Coordinator at Lakewood Electric Ltd. (2022-03 – 2022-12)
- Understand contractual responsibilities, contract documents and general project communications.
- Understand subcontractor contractual responsibilities.
- Manage all contract document controls ensuring that all applicable project team members receive contract documents in a timely manner, including documentation of all correspondence.
- Prepare costing and assist with the administration of all change orders, processing and assessing cost and schedule impact.
- Maintain most recent contract drawings and records.
- Review specifications and drawings for all required submissions.
- Assist General Manager and Project Manager with progress tracking and schedule updates.
- Participate in quality program including the administrative tracking and documentation in collaboration with the Site Superintendent.
- Involved in project close-out, including archiving of documents, maintenance and warranty manuals, deficiencies and warranty work.
Aboriginal Community Liaison at Artemis Gold (2022-01 – 2022-03)
- Build and maintain relationships and partnerships with Indigenous Peoples and northern communities.
- coordinate and carry out knowledge exchange activities for Indigenous Peoples and northern communities.
- Provide advice and expertise to internal and external colleagues on the ethical engagement of Indigenous peoples and northern communities.
- Prepare documentation, reports and presentations, as needed.
Contracts Administrator at Ledcor Management (2021-05 – 2021-08)
- Negotiated contracts.
- Provide full life cycle, proactive contract and subcontract development and administration to ensure adherence to.
- Processes, procedures, policies, obligations, legal and ethical requirements.
- Provided advice to internal clients regarding legal requirements, customer specifications, and obligations.
- Establish and maintain excellent internal and external client relationships.
- Assisted in the preparation of the approved project bidders list and implement and maintain the electronic contract filing system for each assigned contract.
- With the contract owner, negotiate the terms and conditions of contracts.
- Ensure all internal documentation is in place prior to execution of contracts.
- Coordinate and record meetings with contractors and generate and issue amendments to cover all change to contracts.
- Ensure proper record keeping on all assigned contracts to mitigate any potential contractual claims and commercial risks
- Identified in the contract risk register.
- Ensure proper archiving of all contract documentation at contract close-out
Project Controls at JDS Energy and Mining (2018-06 – 2020-04)
- Coordinate and oversees all aspects of the cost functions and associated reporting.
- Ensures forecasts are prepared and integrated according to project.
- Reviews and verify contractors' cost control and reporting.
- Assist with Scheduling and Progress
- Ensures that suitable procedures and systems for project planning and scheduling are followed.
- Coordinates all aspects of the planning and scheduling functions and ensures the schedules are properly integrated into one master schedule.
- When applicable, reviews and verify contractors' scheduling and progressing systems and reporting.
- Change Management
- Ensures project team members are aware of accountabilities for change notification, mitigation opportunities for adverse changes are maximized and that changes are properly analyzed, reviewed, approved and implemented.
- Supports effective interfacing with other departments such as Construction, Contracts, Procurement and Finance.
- Attends and assists with routine weekly and monthly meetings and associated reporting.
- Maintains an awareness of client requirements and establishes effective working relationships at all levels.
Business Development Officer at Salteaux Consulting and Engineering (2017-06 – 2018-06)
- Innovative processes to implement agreements and developed strong relationships new contractors/business partners.
- Responsible for Participation Agreement commitments and worked with Indigenous communities, governmental agencies and industry venders to exceed expectations.
- Working to ensure we have great working relationships between the contactor and business partner.
- Ensure proper record keeping on all assigned contracts to mitigate any potential contractual claims and commercial risks
- Identified in the contract risk register.
- Ensure proper archiving of all contract documentation at contract close-out
Contracts Administrator at New Gold Inc. (2015-06 – 2017-06)
- Negotiated contracts with Civil works providers resulting in over $500,000 in savings.
- Provide full life cycle, proactive contract and subcontract development and administration to ensure adherence to.
- Processes, procedures, policies, obligations, legal and ethical requirements.
- Provided advice to internal clients regarding legal requirements, customer specifications, and obligations.
- Establish and maintain excellent internal and external client relationships.
- Assisted in the preparation of the approved project bidders list and implement and maintain the electronic contract filing system for each assigned contract.
- With the contract owner, negotiate the terms and conditions of contracts.
- Ensure all internal documentation is in place prior to execution of contracts.
- Coordinate and record meetings with contractors and generate and issue amendments to cover all change to contracts.
- Ensure proper record keeping on all assigned contracts to mitigate any potential contractual claims and commercial risks
- Identified in the contract risk register.
- Ensure proper archiving of all contract documentation at contract close-out
Contracts Administration at Thompson Creek Metals (2013-06 – 2015-12)
- Reported to the Mine Manager for everyday duties including scheduling meetings, preparing reports, took minutes of meeting and made sure all the proper signatures were on the correct financial documents.
- Prepared site man count for daily reports, also the monthly HSE report that was is issued to head of Safety. Inventory was kept up to date for the office and contractors.
- Reviewed monthly invoices for the contracts department to make sure rates and time were correctly invoiced from supplier.
- Wrote Site Instructions for contractor coordination
- Working to ensure we have great working relationships between the contractor and business partner.
