Vitaliy Opryshchenko

Highly accomplished Senior Engineering & IT Infrastructure Leader with over 25 years of verifiable success driving large-scale capital projects across power distribution, automation, and industrial networks. A designated Professional Engineer (P.Eng) and Project Management Professional (PMP) with a rare combination of advanced core networking expertise (CCNP) and technical risk governance. Proven track record managing multidisciplinary engineering teams, controlling project budgets, and overseeing complex system deployments.

Specializes in strategic infrastructure lifecycle management, vendor oversight, and technical risk mitigation without requiring daily hands-on configuration or software programming.

Senior Electrical Project Manager - COTE-GOLD INC. - Laval, QC

(2025-02 - 2026-05)

• Capital Design Leadership: Led the high-level engineering design and structural execution blueprints of plant-wide electrical systems for large-scale, multi-site industrial projects.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Collaborated with multi-disciplinary stakeholders and engineering teams to optimize project execution timelines, manage resource bottlenecks, and secure critical capital deliverables.
• Product Lifecycle Governance: Governed the comprehensive product development and infrastructure lifecycle, ensuring total alignment with corporate roadmaps and international technical standards.
• System Deployment Oversight: Directed the installation, functional configuration policies, and commissioning phases of electrical, instrumentation, and advanced automation assets including VFDs, hydraulic/pneumatic systems, SCADA/PCS architectures, Schneider/Siemens PLCs, and enterprise IoT sensor arrays.
• Technical Regulatory Compliance: Conducted formal engineering inspections and technical audits to validate that all automated infrastructure configurations strictly complied with Canadian and international technical standards, including CSA and UL regulations.
• HSE & Safety Governance: Engineered and enforced facility-wide operational safety frameworks, collaborating with electrical and mechanical team leads to ensure absolute compliance with health, safety, and environmental (HSE) codes.

Senior Electrical Project Manager - GUILLEVIN INC. - Concord, ON

(2022-02 - 2024-12)

• Project & Schedule Management: Directed the end-to-end engineering project lifecycle, ensuring absolute alignment with cost, quality, and aggressive schedule baselines via PMP methodologies.
• Team & Resource Leadership: Supervised and mentored cross-functional engineering squads of up to 15 electrical, design, and systems engineers to successfully execute multi-site power distribution deployments.
• Technical Design Oversight: Governed the technical estimation, architectural design blueprints, and strategic commissioning from scratch for major Schneider Power System projects (including QED2, MDS, NQ, and FlexSet).
• Vendor & Supply Chain Coordination: Conducted material take-offs from blueprint specifications, controlled procurement pricing structures, and managed high-level negotiations with primary industrial suppliers.

Electrical & Application Engineering Manager - BLUEWRIST INC. - Markham, ON

(2018-03 - 2022-01)

• Technology & R&D Governance: Directed the strategic development and delivery of novel automation algorithms and advanced robotic technology platforms across diverse industrial applications.
• Project Lifecycle Management: Prepared comprehensive engineering scopes, project budgets, technical specifications, and Requests for Proposal (RFPs) utilizing PMP frameworks.
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Oversaw and coordinated a multi-disciplinary team of 15 engineers and technical specialists, optimizing workflows to ensure the execution of time-sensitive, critical deployments.
• Stakeholder & Vendor Liaison: Served as the strategic interface between internal engineering teams, corporate consultants, third-party contractors, and major automation vendors (ABB, Fanuc, General Electric).
• Process & Cost Optimization: Managed process optimization programs, developed customized labor standards, and negotiated strategic material procurement to drive corporate cost savings.

Cybersecurity & Control Engineering Manager - NUSPARK INC. - Toronto, ON

(2016-04 - 2018-01)

• Multi-Project Capital Governance: Directed multi-disciplinary engineering crews and optimized manpower allocation for multiple concurrent, complex PLC (Omron) and industrial automation initiatives.
• Operational Workforce Scheduling: Managed day-to-day and week-to-week workforce deployment, orchestrating scheduling duties for teams of industrial electricians, apprentices, and automation specialists to consistently achieve aggressive delivery milestones.
• Scope & Change Management: Spearheaded formal communication regarding engineering project changes and scope adjustments to enterprise clients, successfully realigning project resources to preserve critical deadlines.
• Strategic Procurement Oversight: Governed material take-offs from blueprint specifications, generated comprehensive Bills of Materials (BOM), and negotiated supplier pricing agreements to protect project budgets.
• SCADA Cybersecurity Governance: Orchestrated the design, risk assessment, and implementation of security hardening protocols across plant-wide SCADA infrastructures to safeguard operational technology (OT) from external network vulnerabilities.
• Industrial Installation & Programming Oversight: Supervised large-scale industrial electrical installations, validated vendor logic code for PLC architectures, and directed commissioning phases without requiring daily field programming or hands-on wiring.

Cybersecurity Lead Engineer - ASH SOC INC. - Toronto, ON

(2011-09 - 2016-03)

• Security Architecture & Design: Engineered high-level network security controls and structural defense blueprints across integrated enterprise and Operational Technology (OT) infrastructures without requiring manual firewall rule configuration.
• Threat Modeling & Risk Analysis: Led structural threat modeling exercises and risk assessments for new infrastructure deployments, identifying digital vulnerabilities and specifying formal mitigation controls for engineering teams.
• Compliance & Framework Alignment: Governed the technical alignment of complex network topographies with NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS critical security controls, ensuring total regulatory compliance across all business units.
• Vulnerability Management Governance: Directed automated vulnerability scanning programs, evaluated structural risk vectors, and formulated prioritization roadmaps for deployment crews handling patch remediation.
• Incident Playbook Engineering: Authored and optimized comprehensive incident response playbooks and disaster recovery strategies, establishing the logical frameworks utilized by active SOC analyst teams.
• Vendor & Product Evaluation: Spearheaded the technical evaluation and strategic selection of enterprise-grade security tools (SIEM, EDR, Identity Management), validating vendor compliance against corporate risk standards.

Master of Science - Radio physics and Electronics and Computer's Science - Donetsk State University (1994 - 1999)

Associate of Applied Science - Electrical Engineering Technology - College of Occupational & Trade Education (1987 - 1991)

Advanced Professional Development Courses - Power System Analysis, Engineering Law & Professional Communication, Electrical Circuit - Toronto Metropolitan University (2015 - 2015)