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Dale Alleyne, P.Eng.
Chief Rotating Equipment Engineer
North West Redwater Partnership
Dale is Chief Rotating Equipment Engineer with North West Redwater Partnership, in Calgary, Alberta. He has worked in Rotating Equipment for the last 34 years, 25 of which were with Shell Canada Ltd. In his career, Mr. Alleyne has been involved with machinery maintenance and operation in both refineries and chemical plants and alse in EP surface facilities. He has also been involved in the selection, installation and start-up of machinery for major projects, including the Shell Upgrader in Ft. Saskatchewan, Alberta, and most recently, the NWR upgrader in Redwater Alberta.
Mr. Alleyne holds a Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Western Ontario and is a registered professional engineer in the provinces of Ontario and Alberta. |
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Tom Atkinson, P.Eng.
Technical Director - Mechanical Engineering
IMV Projects
Tom Atkinson has more than 20 years experience as a lead and rotating equipment engineer in the EPC oil and gas industry including continental US and overseas work in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. OEM and operations/maintenance operating plant experience plus several hands-on plant startups. |
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Peter Berghs, P.Eng.
Senior Staff Engineer - Rotating Equipment
Husky Energy
Peter has a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calgary. He has worked for Husky Energy for 26 years in a variety of roles including operations, vibration analysis, rotating equipment reliability, production engineering, and reservoir engineering. As the Technical Services Rotating Equipment Engineer he currently provides project, maintenance, and analysis support for most of Husky's Western Canadian assets. |
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Brad Cassolato, P.Eng.
Senior Rotating Equipment Specialist
WCI Ltd.
Brad has over 30 years of rotating equipment experience with manufacturers and end users. Most of that time with Imperial Oil in reliability, maintenance, and capital projects roles. He has published and presented numerous papers on turbo machinery topics, and trained engineers, operators, and maintenance personnel. |
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Cam Donaldson, C.E.T.
District Sales Manager
Flowserve Canada Corp.
Cam has a diploma in Mechanical Engineering Technology and Journeyman Millwright ticket from SAIT. He has worked for Flowserve Canada for 14 years in a variety of roles including application engineering, project management, sales and sales management. Prior to Flowserve, Cam worked at Nova Chemical and various compressor packaging and service companies. He is currently a District Sales Manager in Flowserve's end user sales group focused on aftermarket services and solutions. |
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Sergio Fraino, MSc
Project Specialist
CNRL
Sergio has a Mechanical Engineering degree with an MSc in Rotating Equipment. He has more than 20 years experience, specifically in the petrochemical industry (PDVSA - Venezuela), extra heavy oil production in upstream facilities (SINCOR - Total, Statoil and PDVSA - Venezuela), EPC (Wood Group/IMV Projects - Canada), downstream projects (Total EP Canada), oil production (Saudi Aramco - Saudi Arabia) and downstream projects (CNRL - Canada). He has occupied different lead positions as a rotating equipment specialist including engineering, design, maintenance, operation, construction, commissioning and start-up. He has also participated 4 times as a speaker in the Multiphase Pump User Roundtable (MPUR). Sergio is currently working in CNRL Horizon Major Projects as a Project Specialist. |
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Chris Gilmour, P.Eng.
Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer
North West Redwater Partnership
Chris is a 1985 graduate from Queen's University with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, and has worked at NOVA Gas Transmission (12 years), Fluor Canada Ltd (nine years), Shell Canada (five years), and currently works at North West Redwater Partnership.
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John Henderson, P.Eng.
Rotating Equipment Consultant
John is a rotating equipment specialist with 35 years of experience with owners, engineering contractors and manufacturers. He has experience with design, application, specifying, selecting and starting up rotating equipment projects. In addition, has operations and maintenance engineering experience in a world class petrochemical facility. Prepared and presented numerous pump seminars, member of API 612 5th edition committee, presented a paper at the 13th Pump Symposium, Organized Sarnia Reliability Workshop, acted as expert witness for several legal firms. |
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Myron Hildebrand, P.Eng.
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Westpower Equipment Ltd.
Myron graduated from the University of Manitoba with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. After starting his career with Chevron, he spent ten years in applications and sales for Flowserve and Ingersoll-Dresser Pumps in Calgary, Houston and Denver. He spent a year with the rotating equipment group at Colt Engineering, then went back into sales for Westpower.
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John Hogan, P.Eng.
Mechanical Engineering
Fluor Canada
John has worked in engineering for 29 years. Eight of these years were spent in maintenance and 19 years in EPC companies. His role in Fluor Canada has included specifying, evaluating and purchasing rotating equipment, developing technical practices and training resources as well as engineering management.
John holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Alberta.
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Warren Janzen, C.E.T.
Area Sales Manager
ClydeUnion Canada Limited
Warren is a 1983 graduate from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering Technology. He has over 25 years of sales experience in the pump industry with centrifugal and positive displacement pumps. Warren has been with the ClydeUnion organization since 1995 after positions with Wheatley Canada, Robbins & Myers and other pump distributors.
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Russell Mackie, P.Eng.
General Manager
Weir Canada
Russell graduated from the University of Calgary with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. Started his career with Dresser Pumps (now Flowserve Pumps) in 1989 as an Application Engineer, progressing to the position of Sales Engineer in 1993. Joined Weir Canada in 1995 as Area Manager. |
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Mati Kaert, P.Eng.
Director of Projects
John Crane Canada Inc.
Upon graduation from the University of Waterloo in 1977, Mati joined John Crane Canada and has subsequently held numerous positions with the company both at the head office in Ontario and here in Alberta. In Mati's present position as Director of Projects, he is responsible for mechanical seal and support systems activity for John Crane for all OEM / Project activity in Western Canada. |
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Andrew Mathias
District Sales Manager
Western North America
Flowserve
Andrew has worked for Flowserve and heritage companies for 31 years. Andrew has held positions in sales, field service, and operations in the UK, Saudi Arabia and more recently in North America. Andrew transferred to Calgary in 2005 with Flowserve FSD's OEM-Projects Group and is presently District Sales Manager for Western North America. |
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Walt Miazga, P.Eng.
Area Sales Manager Western Canada
Westpower Eqiupment Ltd.
Walt has recently joined Westpower Equipment as the Area Sales Manager for Western Canada. Walt has 20 years experience in pump sales with Sulzer Pumps and a previous 10 years with Worthington Pumps. |
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Pedro Ocana
Rotating Equipment Specialist
CNRL
Pedro has a Mechanical Engineering degree and an MSC in Rotating Equipment. He has worked for various end users including Eni, Conoco, and PDVSA in Venezuela. Currently, he is working with CNRL, here in Canada. Pedro is applying his experience in construction, commissioning & start-up, maintenance and operations to major projects upstream supporting the expansion plans of the Horizon Oil Sands. |
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John A. Sharpe, P.Eng.
President
J.A.S. Solutions Ltd.
John Sharpe is an independent consultant with 43 years experience. He has worked on the extraction of oil from the Alberta oil sands for the last 28 years including the design and development of Syncrude's Aurora Mine and Albian Sands Muskeg River Mine, Canadian Natural's Horizon Project, as well as studies on several other oil sand leases that are at various stages of development. In particular he has been involved with the specification and design of hydrotransport and tailings systems for oil sands operations.
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Sterling Street, P.Eng.
Lead Mechanical / Senior Rotating Equipment Engineer
Equinox Engineering Ltd.
Sterling graduated from the University of Manitoba with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. He has 14 years experience, having worked as a sales engineer with both Flowserve and Goulds and also in the EPC oil and gas industry with Equinox, AMEC, Colt and SNC Lavalin. |
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Sandy Sutherland, M.E.T.
Sales Manager, Canada
Sundyne Corporation
Sandy has over 35 years of industry wide pump application, sales and technical services experience throughout Canada. He joined Sundyne in 2002 as the Calgary based Canadian Sales Manager for pumps and compressors after years with the Sulzer, Ahlstrom and Smart Turner organizations. |
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Rob Wallace
Area Sales Manager, Western Canada
ClydeUnion
Rob has over 25 years experience with Rotating Equipment and is presently an Area Sales Manager for ClydeUnion Pumps in Calgary. Prior to joining ClydeUnion, Rob worked with Flowserve - Pump Division and John Crane in Alberta and Ontario. |
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John Whittaker BA, MET, AET
Sales Representative
Sulzer
John has over 20 years of sales experience in the pump industry with centrifugal and positive displacement pumps.
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Dave Goddard, P.Eng.
President/Owner
Westpower Equipment Ltd.
Dave graduated from Queen's University in 1985 with a degree in Applied Science (Mechanical Engineering) and has been employed in various positions relating to pump manufacturing and applications in the oil and gas industry. Currently owner and General Manager of Westpower Equipment Ltd., and owner of Mabre Pump Inc., both located in Calgary, Alberta. |
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Conrad Horvath
Corporate Rotating Machinery Specialist
Suncor Energy
Conrad has over 20 years of experience in rotating machinery, specifically in Oilsands applications. He was located in Fort McMurray for 19 years at Syncrude in various mechanical and machinery engineering roles, acted as the leader of the machinery teams at Syncrude and Petro Canada Fort Hills and is now a corporate rotating machinery specialist with Suncor. |
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