Shane Spraggs, PMO, CSM
Shane loves building businesses and improving how people work. He got his start as an entrepreneur in web development in 1998 when he founded Acro Media with three graphic designers. By 2007, the systems and processes he setup earned Acro Media an award for Mid-Sized Company of the Year from the local Chamber of Commerce.
Shane's interest in project management and process improvement resulted in a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2009 and a role at Disney Interactive in 2010. Starting out as a project manager, he grew his role to oversee studio operations. While at Disney, Shane earned his Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certificate and he led teams to overcome the challenges of multi-studio software development through blending traditional project management and Agile.
Shane is an advocate for understanding "why" and works with organizations to unlock the potential of their teams. As the VP of Product, Shane helped found Minga in 2016. Minga is now a successful social platform across many Canadian schools. In April of 2020, he joined Virtira as VP of Operations, where he oversees the PMO, HR and IT. He continues to find passion in Lean principles and maximizing productivity.
Mel Clifford, MBA, PMP
Mel is a highly experienced professional director of organizational change and project management. Mel has directed and managed small, medium and large organizations for over 30 years, at Senior Management and Director level. Mel has spent most of his career in the retail supermarket sector. Mel as worked across Europe, North America and China.
Mel is a published Author, CEO & Founder of Clifford Robbins Consulting, Co-Founder of Newayz Education, and father to three successful young men. His personal passion is sharing the key philosophy that creating lasting change in any area of your life is impossible without first completely accepting personal responsibility and recognizing that change is in your hands.
Brent Warne, CD, PMP, CCIM
Brent has over 35 years experience in project management and leadership positions. His multi-faceted career has included a positions in the private and public sector leading building projects ranging from $100K to over $130M. He is an acknowledged leader in project procurement and has extensive experience in Public Private Partnerships having led complex projects in the health care and security sectors by P3.
Brent is a graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Civil and Structural Engineering, the CCIM Institute - Chicago Illinois in Commercial Investment Real Estate and has been a PMP since 2004. He is also certified in Prince2 project management methodology.
In addition to his career in the building industry, Brent has also had a 35-year career in the Canadian Army reserve retiring as a Colonel. During his career in the reserves he commanded the army in British Columbia and instructed at the Army Command and Staff College. He served internationally on UN and NATO missions.
Bryan Bates, CET, PMP (retired)
Bryan graduated from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in 1978 with an Electronic Engineering Diploma. After graduation, he worked for Hewlett Packard as a Systems Engineer for 10 years installing and repairing midsize computer systems and peripherals.
After HP, Bryan joined Nova Gas Transmission (now TransCanada Pipelines) where he worked on contract for nine years as a network communications designer and analyst.
In 2002, he joined Anadarko Petroleum where he built and managed IT technologies such as field and corporate network development and operations, data center operations, field IT services and IT security. He worked there for six years until they sold the Canadian operation.
Bryan then joined the University of Calgary as their senior manager of Data Center Operations where he managed 40 staff, three in-place data centers and built two advanced, high security data centers. After four years in that role, he transitioned to the role of IT Architect and Senior Project Manager for IT infrastructure. In this role he designed, built and commissioned numerous IT infrastructure solutions as well as providing project management support for project development, implementation, project portfolio controls and project rescue.
Bryan is currently semi-retired and works as a contract online instructor for the Okanagan College Continuing Studies Project Management Certificate program. He also runs a local senior men's golf club of 120 members with weekly tournaments.
Source: https://www.okanagan.bc.ca/project-management-certificate
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