I work for Petro-Canada, a large Canadian integrated oil and gas company, which explores for and produces oil and gas and also refines oil into gasoline and diesel for sale. I am the Vice-President of Western Canada Development and Operations in the sector of the company that does the exploration and production component. I have overall business and operational responsibility for this part of our business which generates over $1 billion in revenue and has capital expenditures on wells and facilities of about $400 million per year.

Engineering was not my first choice of career - because I had been very ill and was hospitalized during most of my high school years, I had originally planned on entering medicine. However, after the second year of university, I decided medicine was not for me and started to look at alternatives. I knew very little about engineering but had always enjoyed and excelled at math and physics, so a number of my friends who were in engineering urged me to consider it. I did consider it, enrolled in mechanical engineering and have never looked back or regretted my choice.

Ultimately I would like to put all the cumulative learning I have had in my career and become the President and Chief Executive Officer of a company or start my own company. I think that this would be the ultimate challenge.

Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from Queen's University in Kingston Ontario