MAURICE SALVADOR, B.E.Sc., P.Eng.

P.O. Box ****1, Meriline

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2E 1B1

Telephone: 613-***-****

eMail: acsmrl@r.postjobfree.com

LANGUAGE: English

SECURITY LEVEL: Gov’t. of Canada SECRET

PROFILE

A versatile Professional Engineer and Consultant with numerous years of responsible, professional & managerial experience [both Project Management and Practice Management] in Engineering, Engineering Technology and mission-critical automated business systems [Reviews, as well as Implementation].

Managed multi-disciplinary teams of up to 25 and interfaced with all levels of management within organizations and across organizational interfaces.

Experience Synopsis

Principal at DCW Systems [present]

Project Manager & General Manager at CANSPECT Corporation [2005 – 2012]

Manager, Computing Facility at Martin Marietta Canada Ltd.; now Lockeed-Martin [1991 – 1994]

President, DINET Consulting Incorporated [1984 – 1991]

V.P., Consulting at S&S Software Ltd. [1980 – 1984]

Project Experience Overview

Below are consulting and professional services project categories, through which I have demonstrated many years of relevant business, managerial, engineering and technical experience.

Engineering Technology

Information Technology

Inspection and Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V)

Reviews, Audits & Evaluations

Procurement

Business Analysis and Systems Development

Training and Coaching

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

B.E.Sc. (Electrical Engineering), University of Western Ontario

Diploma (Engineering Technology), Lakehead University

Supplementary Professional Development (training courses and workshops at various international professional institutions):

-Management and Supervisory Skills

-Project Management

-Professional Selling Skills

-Effective Supervisory Skills

-Marketing On-Line Systems

-Database and Data Communications Systems Analysis and Design

-International Seminars on Comparative Database Management Systems (DMBS)

-Introductory Law

Conducted Expediting Inspections, as well as managed both Expediting and Surveillance Inspections, all entailing multi-disciplines [Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering]

Assisted the City of London (Ontario) Engineering Department in the inspection, validation and verification of services related to property development by Consulting Engineering firms:

-Inspection of drawings received, assuring the presence of various services

-Related field inspections for verification purposes

Participated on operational audit teams for:

-Finance & Accounting Audits in the Government of Canada [at the Office of the Auditor General; the Canadian Transportation Agency; Indian and Northern Affairs Canada]

-Systems Under Development Reviews of automated business systems development [at Transport Canada; Indian and Northern Affairs Canada]

-Technology Procurement [at the Department of National Defence; the Ministry of State for Science & Technology]

Note: all the above were for verification of compliance with the policies, standards,

procedures & guidelines of the Government of Canada Central Agencies

Evaluated the Acquisition Information Service at Public Works & Government Services Canada [in terms of business requirements (including requirements for the retention of data), determination of the exact data required by interfacing data stores and determination of the robustness of the technical architecture to meet both the current and future needs of the client base

Numerous years experience in supporting and collaborating on new business development and contractual initiatives [thereby interacting with Company Legal Counsel on matters of new business formulation and operational exceptions]

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY (cont’d.)

Worked in fast-paced, dynamic environments

Client relations have included:

-interfacing with all levels of management within organizations and across organizational interfaces, due to their primary interest status (OPI) and their contributory interest status (OCI) in funded studies [e.g. Sustainable Development studies for the Health Canada Climate Change Office and its Office of Sustainable Development], mission-critical systems development [e.g. Purification of the Canada Students Loan Database for Programme Re-design at Secretary of State Canada; Accident System Re-design for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation & Communications; and Technology Procurement at Elections Canada for automated systems & related services to facilitate its Event Field Office Services (EFOS) during the 42nd Canadian General Election and subsequent By Elections]

Note: external organizations included the World Health Organization, the Pembina Institute, the Canadian Bankers Association and the Ontario Provincial Police organization

-recording and providing Minutes of Meetings [from interviews in regard to System Design Requirements, Pre-Review / Pre-Inspection meetings for the determination of potential QA / IV&V pitfalls]

Regularly applied communications skills have entailed the following:

-Formulation and management approval of Review / Audit questionnaires in preparation for interviews

-Assessment of fact-finding results [operational, technical, or otherwise]

-Information filtering, summarizing and highlighting

-Information mapping

-Effective delivery [written submissions, oral presentations, question-and-answer sessions, round-table discussions, etc.]

The application of those communications skills have related to:

-Proposals to prospective clients

-Reports to clients from studies, reviews and interviews

-Submissions to Business Funders & Investors

SYNOPSIS OF ATTRIBUTES

Standards & Procedures Implementation

Intra-Organization & Inter-Organization coordination and support

Staff training and coaching

Development of Work Planning tool in accordance with corporate compliance requirements

Work Planning [including SOWs, CDRLs & DIDs], Work Scheduling [including WBS], Performance Monitoring (through techniques such as Earned Value) and Productivity Optimization (including Workload Balancing)

Project Management, including Project Accounting and Management Reporting

Management of multiple priorities and timeliness

Project Management Tools:

-Project Management [ARTEMIS; MicroSoft Project; Timeline; the MicroSoft Office Suite]

-Work Planning, Scheduling, Cost Management & Cost Analysis [ARTEMIS, Project Workbench, MicroSoft Project; the MicroSoft Office Suite, Primavera, Timeline, PROJACS and PROJECT-2]

-Project Accounting and Management Reporting [MicroSoft Project; the MicroSoft Office Suite]

Conduct of project compliance reviews [incl. assessment of shortfalls (resources, costs & schedules)]

Conduct of project monitoring, with a reliance on Key Performance Indicators

Practice Management, including:

-Preparation of business plans [incl. financial forecasts]

-Review and analysis of financial reports

Both proposal preparation and proposal management [incl. data acquisition, conceptualization of operations and gate reviews (red, blue, green)]

Support and participation in business development [both new business opportunities and growth of current business]

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