Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Daniel is an enthusiastic Project Manager and Senior Supply Chain Manager currently managing various projects that Wood is executing on the Conoco Phillips Programme, for Kearl Projects and for the COTE Gold Mine Project. Prior to looking after small projects, he was managing Supply Chain on one of the biggest projects in the world (The Kearl Oil Sands Project). Over the span of his career, he has managed both small projects, with a few personnel as a working manager, and also (mostly) large projects with a budget over $4 billion, delivering over 100, 000 main tagged pieces of equipment and managing a team of over 160 people during peak times of the project. Daniel’s background is Chemical Engineering, but he also holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Masters in Project Management. He is fluent in English and Arabic, has a very good working knowledge in French and basic knowledge of Spanish and Italian. He is an experienced World traveler who has managed Business Relationships with over 250 suppliers globally, that stretch from Busan, South Korea to Vernon, California and everything in between whilst on the Kearl Suite of Projects. He has been a Project Engineer, Engineering Manager, Construction Manager and Supply Chain Manager over his 22-year career thus far. He is an Export Control Compliance Subject Matter Expert in Canada and the United Sates. Daniel specializes in critical tag expediting & supplier management. He is mobile with multicultural travel experience.
Senior Supply Chain Manager - COTE Gold Project (Client IAMGOLD)
•Primary contact for all suppliers and sub-suppliers across Kearl (over 200) for the equipment package status, package scheduling, package commercial information and any bottlenecks that arise in the business •Team consisted of 55 expediters (home office and field all over the world) and 10 material controllers managing all their day to day affairs that include assigning them to the appropriate packages, selecting the leads, and managing their overall development both on the project and within AMEC •Managing the receipt of all material and the review of the Procurement Status Report for any receiving delays and working with the Material Controller’s at the various sites to resolve these issues •Managing all Overage, Shortage & Damage issues of materials until resolution •Holding the responsibility of the Kearl Suite of Projects Expert on Export Control Compliance issues
• Managed all Interface matters for the AMEC scope of work on Kearl Expansion Project • Acted as the liaison between AMEC, the project’s other “Tier 1 contractors” interface managers, the Project-Wide Team and the client Interface Manager on all project-related interface matters • Provided the final sign-off for interface agreements prior to being accepted • Created the Interface Management Plan and Procedure and rolled them out to all members of the project team • Verified that Interface Documents were issued according to schedule • Ensured that AMEC completed all their interface agreements owed to the other contractors according to the schedule
• Managed the procurement of all the instrumentation packages on the Kearl Initial Development Project from the early tendering stages all the way until delivery in accordance with the project schedule (budget estimated at $300,000,000) • Was the primary contact point within the project for all instrumentation packages with respect to package status, package schedule and package commercial information • Was the primary contact with the client (Imperial Oil Limited) with regards to any changes and status reporting on any instrumentation packages • Liaised with the instrumentation department discipline lead to ensure that adequate and efficient instrumentation engineers are assigned to work on these packages • Maintained the forecasting for the next milestone completion and the package order placement • Reviewed and approved any technical and/or commercial requisitions and change orders that are placed by the package engineers for the associated packages • Chaired look-ahead meetings to ensure that the delivery of all packages was being done in accordance with the project plan and that all inspections and associated documents were completed prior to shipment
• Assisted in executing the daily operations in the extraction department • Assisted with the troubleshooting of plant instrumentation problems • Suggested and scheduled changes that helped in maximizing the value for money spent in obtaining goods and services • Completed engineering instrument packages and performed various projects on various topics such as Caustic Meter Local Indication, Plant Knock Out Drum Drains, Apron Feeder Lube Pump Demolitions, Refractometer Replacements and Tumbler Assembly Water Pumps • Assisted in the loop-tuning project performed at the new Aurora Plant • Performed operational changes that supported reliable production at minimum cost while maintaining the long-term integrity of the plant and equipment • Assisted in performing the daily operations in the maintenance department during the Extraction Millennium Plant Shutdown which included installing and calibrating temperature transmitters, pressure transmitters, recycle water valves, Refractometer analysers, thermocouples, and vortex flow meters • Built and updated a series of instrument tags for different units of the plant using the computer software IIS
• Assisted in monitoring and optimizing the daily process operations • Helped in maintaining the performance of all equipment used • Planned and scheduled operational changes to meet supply needs and maximize profitability • Assisted in the tests performed on the fluid catalytic cracking regenerator overhead line which included unit start up performance evaluations and the annual catalyst losses testing • Executed a project that studies the performance of all the heat exchangers of the atmospheric and vacuum unit indicating how the economics would improve upon cleaning each of the heat exchangers • Designed a computer graphic system for all the parts of the atmospheric and vacuum unit to be used by the operators and contact engineers to obtain necessary information such as the temperatures, pressures, and flowrates
• Conducted a review on the practical aspects of alternate disinfection methods used in the world, for treating municipal wastewater effluents, such as the use of ozone, ultraviolet • Prepared a report on the findings of alternate disinfection methods and published a number of compliance reports on the World Wide Web • Assisted in the preparation of the amendments of the Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations • Conducted some analysis and established trends of monitoring effluent data conducted by pulp and paper mills