Kufre Silas

Experienced Canada Land Surveyor with extensive expertise in land surveying across remote areas of Northern Ontario, Northern British Columbia, Northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northwest Territories. Demonstrated project management, leadership, and technical skills in surveying operations, boundary establishment, and crown land management.

Active Project Management

Professional and member of the Project Management Institute. Proficient in planning, executing, monitoring, and documenting complex survey projects with crew supervision.

Senior Crown Surveyor - Ministry of Natural Resources - Peterborough, Ontario

(2025-05 - 2026-03)

• Preparation and issuance of survey instructions for the survey and disposition of crown land
• Review of Land Titles Absolute application
• Research and provision of survey and boundary opinions
• Crown Land Plan Review

Survey Party Chief (ETT1) - City of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario

(2021-01 - 2025-05)

Land & Property Surveys - Engr. & Constr. Serv. Division. Projects Achievement includes but not limited to review of Engineering design to better assess surveys requirements for survey of Easements, verification of encroachments around the station/station Infrastructures, and establishment/reestablishment of boundaries. With deliverables being SRPR, Reference Plans, Topography, and Property line stakeout.

• Identifying key stakeholders and reviewing available documentation. Clarification of project scope. Identification, documentation and addressing of high-level risks, assumptions and constraints such as accessibility to certain areas of site, as well as other safety concerns
• Identified sequence of activities, created the work breakdown structure and developed the project schedule, informed survey technicians of project tasks and responsibilities
• Managed project resources (nails, stakes, spray paints and other materials required for completion of the project), and providing the supervision required by the team
• Executed tasks defined in the project plan include carrying out survey for a topographic plan as well as survey for a PLAN of Survey POS, implementing the quality management plan of keeping my traverse loops and errors between each station within acceptable industry standards
• Updating of CAD files and submission of project report after closing of project
• Review Engineering design plan and then prepare a Plan of Surveys (POS), Easement Plans, and verify possible encroachments

Supervision of Geomatics as ETT1 – Association of Ontario Articling Student 'Surveyor in Training' - City of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario

(2022-06 - 2023-11)

• Worked in the capacity of my functional Supervisor for Beecroft Road survey proj
• Supervised road survey projects for Land and Property Surveys while simultaneously serving as an Articling student of the Association of Ontario Land Surveyor at the City of Toronto, deputizing for Articling Supervisor in the capacity of project surveyor
• Supervised the design and the establishment of control points (both field and office)
• Specified to the survey field crews the evidence to be collected on the field and ensure that same was collected by examining the collected field data in CAD software
• As the supervisor-ensured that fieldnotes were prepared comprehensively by each crew and that they complied with the industry standards providing sufficient information for draughting and for future retracement of the Beecroft Road, a survey project aimed at Surveying Beecroft Road to produce a reference plan for the transfer of title of the acquired properties to the City of Toronto for road dedication

Engineering Technologist Technician 3 (ETT3) - City of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario

(2019-09 - 2021-01)

Engr. & Constr. Serv. Division. Engineering Surveys – September 2019 – June 2020. June 2020 – January 2021

Geomatics Technologist - IBI Group - Waterloo, Ontario

(2018-06 - 2019-08)

Servicing clients within the ranges of the GTA and London. Key Project: Finished Lot Grades for 'Explorers Walk' subdivision.

• Clarified high level scope of the project with Fusion Homes Representatives
• Worked with the stakeholders to estimate supposed activity durations and develop a schedule. Developed a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Identified and managed fieldwork supplies
• Carried out of AsBuilt Surveys around several housing blocks in several phases of the project, such that the derived elevations be along the areas of design interest
• Prepared a quality management plan for accuracy in compliance with industry standards
• CAD sketch detailing finished grade elevations and brief project reports as deliverables

Survey Party Chief/Survey Technologist - Ollerhead & Associates Canada Land Surveyors & Engineers - Yellowknife, Canada

(2017-08 - 2017-12)

Crew Chief or Instrument person on several projects

• Providing grades stakes at mine sites and other sites (Assistant)
• Road & earthwork As built on Daivik Diamond mine sites
• Construction layout and As built in the city Yellowknife (Assistant)
• Deformation monitoring using Leica DNA, Leica LS15, and Trimble robotic TS
• SRPR's and topographic surveys

Project Surveyor - Fiddes Clipsham Inc. (Engineering Consultants & Surveyors) - Halton Hills, Ontario

(2016-08 - 2017-07)

Surveys to produce topographic plan of survey and plan of survey. Objective: To produce printed and CAD ready format of both topographic plan as well Plan of Survey (POS).

• Clarified the scope of the projects
• Identified key stakeholders, review the project charter
• Prepared Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Identified and managed field supplies
• Implemented a quality management plan of keeping my traverse loops and errors between each station within least and industry acceptable industry standards
• Performed quality control audits on the data that were collected on the field on a daily and weekly basis, with emphasis on the feature codes
• Project CAD files, documents, and databases were updated and archived

Geomatics Assistant - Monteith & Sutherland Ltd - Toronto, Ontario

(2016-05 - 2016-08)

High Precision Surveying

• Setting Azimuth for tunnel boring Machine (TBM)
• Topographic surveys of road, bridges, buildings and other road side structures
• Traverse & establishment of 3D Controls for topographic surveys and monitoring
• Staking out proposed pipeline running line and tie-in of surface monitoring points for subsequent deformation monitoring surveys, Deformation Monitoring Surveys

Survey Assistant - Altus Geomatics - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

(2014-08 - 2015-09)

August – December 2014, June 2015-Sept 2015

• Legal surveys which include boundary retracement, re-establishment and subdivision surveys, RPRs and Layouts
• Construction Surveys ranging from power line route Surveys to pipeline right of way Surveys & staking, utility locating & staking. Topographic, & Control Surveys

Writer/Marketer - Mirara Corporate Sdn. Bhd. Malaysia - Malaysia

(2007-01 - 2007-12)

Official publishers of Focus IMT-GT Magazine. Communicating with high profile business firm and government departments in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand (IMT) region of Southeast Asia with effort geared towards developing articles and publications that outlay the investment and tourism potentials of the IMT-GT region. Providing leads and support for marketing.

Bachelor of Technology - Engineering & Applied Sciences - Memorial University of Newfoundland (2019 - 2020)

Diploma - Geomatics Engineering Technology - Nova Scotia Community College Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) (2015 - 2015)

Certificate of Completion - Laser Scanning Short Course - CANSEL Regina (2014-07 - 2014-07)

Certificate - Entrepreneurship - Praxis School of Entrepreneurship (2014 - 2014)

Certificate - Survey Technician - Nova Scotia Community College Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) (2011-05 - 2011-05)

Diploma - Computer Studies with Major in Computer Programming - Systematic Institute of Information Technology (2005 - 2005)