Expertise
Project design and management, especially for international teams.- Marketing of knowledge-intensive products and services to international customers.
- Communication in reports, seminars, websites and promotional materials.
- Design of specialized instrumentation and analytical techniques.
- Research, knowledge and innovation management.
- Building and managing research and innovation networks.
- Design and management of training programs, specialization in e-learning.
- Entrepreneurship – developing concepts into organizational structures, accreting resources, building teams, undertaking startup operations.
Experience
Initiated career in the petroleum industry, in 1974, working on: offshore structures and operations design for East Coast; Arctic field engineering for production sites; environmental management for PetroCanada’s LNG tanker project; PhD thesis on Calgary Arctic offshore petroleum industry as an innovation cluster. After finishing PhD in 1982, undertook: consulting for developing countries and international organizations relating to management of research, technology and innovation in natural resource sectors; research management, strategic management and teaching in business schools; project management for research funding agencies. Lived 11 years outside Canada, in USA, Africa and Latin America. Set up 2 businesses: 1 in Calgary to produce decision-support software to valuate risky technology & project investments; 1 in Chile, an ecotourism resort offering training for corporate creativity. Author of 3 books, 23 academic publications, 1 business case, 1 business magazine column, 52 consulting reports. Languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish. With Canatec since early 2008.
Education
- Ph.D. Technology Management, U de Montreal 1982.
- M.E.Des. Environmental Science, U of Calgary 1978.
- M.Eng. Ocean Engineering, Memorial U of Newfoundland 1974.
- B.A.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, U of Toronto 1971.
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