Bringing Creativity and Intelligence Together

Just finished working with members of the Provincial (Alberta) Health Ethics Network to promote the importance of their organization to the delivery of quality health care in Alberta.  At the beginning of March, the Alberta Government was set to pull its funding and close its doors effective April 1, 2010.

Due to the work that I and others did to promote PHEN,  the Ministry of Health and Wellness has agreed to provide PHEN with funding to continue operations for the 2010-11 fiscal year.

The Provincial Health Ethic Network (PHEN) is a group of trained ethicists who provide advice on ethical issues to health professionals, government and the general public.  Given that science is giving us increasing powers over the health, quality of life and the longevity of an individual, while at the same time challenging us with an aging population, the question of ethics has never been more important.

In late February 2010, I was approached by a PHEN member who was determined not to let this organization, of which he was one of the founders, go down without a fight.  We met and mapped out a strategy to get PHEN membership engaged in saving their beloved organization.

There were two thrusts to this strategy: a communication strategy pointing out to Alberta Health decision makers the value of PHEN to Alberta’s health professionals, and an emotional appeal to PHEN members, all of whom have contributed, to a greater or lesser degree, to PHEN’s reputation as an internationally recognized ethical resource.

I’m currently working with a client who has just opened up a computer repair shop as an adjunct to his onsite IT and web design business.  His desire was to combine his need to have a place to meet his clients with a business that would provide regular income.

In addition to having a multi-use location, each of his lines of business also mutually support one another: a small businessman brings his computer in for upgrade, decides to revamp his website and upgrade his office network.

The market for computer repair is growing: computers are becoming obsolete as new and more powerful programs (primarily games) are being demanded by customers and the spread of more complex computer viruses and malware will continue unabated for the forseeable future.

We are currently working together to develop ideas to make his business successful:

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EcoMax Energy Services Ltd. provides a wide range of quality products and services to the oil and gas industry, primarily in western Canada.

They are focused on providing our customers solutions that add value to their businesses by improving their economic and environmental performance.  Their customers include oil and gas production companies, drilling contractors and well service companies, as well as other oilfield supply and service businesses.

Ecomax Energy Services was the first oil and gas service company I worked for.  It provided me an opportunity to take my background in green technology and apply it to a business setting.  During my time there, I acted as their Inside Sales Representative while also coming up with ways to promote their emissions-free pump.

To see a list of projects that I have completed with Ecomax, please click here.

SuperPages was a leading directory services provider of telephone directories across Canada. With approximately 118 different directory titles, SuperPages offered print and Web-based advertising solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses in Canada.

In 2001, SuperPages.ca was created to provide Internet users easy access to a wide range of shopping and directory information, as well as maps, City Pages information and global directory Web site links.

SuperPages was acquired by yellowpages.ca in March 2005.

During my time with SuperPages, I was primarily a Sales Analyst, tracking sales-to-close performance of 118 directories across 4 provinces as well as sales performance of the Sales department — at a division, team and individual level.

To see the projects I completed while with SuperPages, please click here.

The Green Party of Canada (French: Parti vert du Canada) is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983 with 10,000–12,000 registered members as of October 2008.   The Greens advance a broad multi-issue political platform that reflect its core values of ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy and non-violence.

During my time with the Green Party, I have run as a candidate in the 2004 and 2006 Federal Elections, and was employed as their Alberta Organizer and Western Canada Organizer.

“…He is a creative and motivated team player that would make a great asset to any organization.” – Jim Harris, Former Leader of the Green Party of Canada

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CCR Energy Services, formerly Canadian Concentric Rebuilders, is a distributor and rebuilder of cryogenic valves.  In addition, CCR supplies a complete portfolio of standard bronze valves and fluid control technology.

While with CCR, I worked in a variety of capacities: Business Development, VP Sales and Chief Operations Officer.

Working in a small business means that you are not restricted to one job description within an organization; if inventory needs to be completed, or if there are a large number of valves to be shipped, you simply got it done.

“He successfully completed all tasks given him and was a valuable member of my executive team.” – Bob Thompson, President of CCR Energy Services

To see the list of projects that I completed, please click here.

CCR Letter of Reference

Telus (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a national telecommunications company in Canada that provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment, and video.

During my time there, I worked as an analyst in both Residential Services and Small Business Solutions, providing a wide range of reports that tracked their performance in real time.

To see an example of the projects I completed, please click here.

Situation

In December 2005, the New Democratic and Conservative Parties defeated the government and triggered Canada’s second-ever election over Christmas. After fighting a federal, provincial and municipal election in the previous year, the public and media had no appetite for this election.

In addition, the National Campaign Manager for the Green Party of Canada had resigned the week before the election. We were ill prepared and disorganized at the top.

It was necessary for the Green Party of Canada to consolidate its electoral gains from the 2004 election (4.3% or 650,000 votes) and do everything in its power to get youth,  its most supportive demographic to the polls.

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Situation

The Vendor Manager assigned to work with Telus Marketing Services (TMS), an outsourced independent telemarketing firm,  struggled to find a consistent means of evaluating the TMS/Telus relationship.  His instructions were to manage the relationship such that he would extract the maximum benefit for Telus’ investment in the company.  The Telus executive would use his reports as a basis for determining whether or not they would continue this relationship.

Task

Through consultations with the Vendor Manager, I recommended that assessing Return on Investment would the most effective means of evaluating the Telus/TMS relationship.  Simply put, how much revenue did TMS generate on our behalf compared to how much they charged us?
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Here are my Letters of Reference

Green Party Letter of Reference

CCR Letter of Reference