2021 RES Executive Nominations

Nominations

The RES Executive Council is a volunteer group with seven elected positions (further described below) that serve a two-year term.

1. President

To be eligible for the office of president, one must have attended at least three meetings in the previous council year.

Duties include but are not limited to:

Chairing meetings
Attending events
Answering emails
Running elections
Signing cheques
Serving on subcommittees
Setting the direction of the group

Nominee(s):

Chantel Kryzanowski

Chantel is currently a Water Technologist with the City of Regina. She moved to Regina in high school, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Systems Engineering in 2019. She has been active with the Regina Engineering Society since she graduated from university and has held the role of Secretary. In her free time, she enjoys travelling and spending time with friends, family and her dog. She also enjoys crafting new projects and photography at an amateur level.

2. Vice – President

Duties include but are not limited to:

Planning the annual Horizons Dinner gala
Coordinating judging for the U of R Capstone Awards
Coordinating the annual RES Awards

Nominee(s):

Geoff Pollock

Geoff is a registered P.Eng. with APEGS since 2009 and is a construction project manager with Quorex Construction Services Ltd. with 15-years experience including having been employed with 3-previous construction companies. Geoff’s background is primarily in building and institutional building construction but also has a wide variety of experience in civil and heavy civil construction projects.

Geoff’s recent volunteer experience has included being a member and director of the local parent counsel committee at an elementary school in Regina, SK, he assists his wife in working at a major community event that she is president of every late fall in the north central area of Regina, and is a volunteer hockey head coach with Saskatchewan Minor Hockey Association which has primarily kept me busy through a lot of the last 6-7 years.

Over my work history, Geoff has regularly been involved with social committee and planning of events including award events as well and have planned or assisted in planning a variety of different social and events.

Geoff is definitely looking for some more industry specific boards and governing bodies and this is the reason for my interest in RES.

Yasser Morgan

Dr. Morgan is a known researcher with diverse research interests and an active member in the IEEE. He received his Ph.D. from Carleton University and is currently teaching at University of Regina. His research interests cover the areas of intelligent data networks, antonymous vehicle, security, deep learning, and intrusion detection.

During the late 1990s Dr. Morgan built a system of document scanning and document security with a small enterprise called AIT. The system was adopted to protect the Canadian passport and moved to become the DeFacto standard for state travel documents. Dr. Morgan is also known for his contribution to the IEEE 802.11p standards group and the IEEE 1609.0/.1/.2/.3/.4/.5 WAVE groups as well. He authored and co-authored many research papers in addition to contributions to standards like 3GPP, IETF, IEEE, and IEEE-SA.

Dr. Morgan’s continuous contribution to the standards and the development of the modern vehicular safety methods is aligned with his interest in secure intelligent communications. Recently, Dr. Morgan founded the BRiC Laboratories to investigate, research, and build intelligent solutions for modern public safety challenges.

3. Secretary

Duties include but are not limited to:

Creating an agenda and taking minutes at meetings
Coordinating food and drink for in-person meetings

Nominee(s):

Avneet Kaur

Avneet has a bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India and completed his Masters in Electronics Systems Engineering from the University of Regina. He started my career as a Technical Analyst with SLGA (Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority) in 2018. and moved to the Ministry of Integrated Justice Services (serving both ministries Corrections. Policing and Public Safety and Ministry of Justice Attorney and General) in April 2019 as a Technical Coordinator and then got promoted to work as Business Data Analyst in December 2019.

In his current role, he has to work with a lot of stakeholders which gives him a chance to learn a lot about business analysis, building relationships, and presenting to stakeholders. Based on his current role, he hopes he can be a great asset to RES.

Brittany Sippola

Brit served as President of the RES from 2019-2021 and was the acting secretary from 2018-2019.

They are an Engineer-in-Training and work for the Ministry of SaskBuilds and Procurement as an Assessment Engineer. In their free time, they sew and make art, love to get outdoors, and have a great cat. They also volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters Regina.

They have a wealth of experience in local volunteer organizations large and small. Some of the improvements Brit has helped usher with their team include improved meeting organization and record-keeping, clearer budgeting, and some awesome soft-skill presentations.

4. Treasurer

Duties include but are not limited to:

Issuing and signing cheques
Tracking all spending
Generating a monthly financial report
Creating and maintaining our annual budget

Nominee(s):

Kelsey Wells

Kelsey Wells is an Environmental Engineer-in-Training at KGS Group. She specializes in Environmental Site Assessments, groundwater monitoring programs, and Landfill Site Assessments. Kelsey joined KGS Group shortly after graduating from the University of Regina in 2017 with a degree in Environmental Systems Engineering.

Kelsey has served one term with the RES as the Treasurer and Merchandise Manager. In her spare time she enjoys training at a local gym, cross stitching, and getting outdoors.

5. Communication & Social Media Officer

Duties include but are not limited to:

Maintaining our website and social media presence
Drafting emails to send to our members
Advertising events

Nominee(s):

Olagoke Rufai

Olagoke is a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) and Project Management Professional working in a Project Engineer role with AECOM. He attended the University of Regina and the University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelors of Applied Science degree in Industrial Systems Engineering in 2014 from the former and completed a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2018 at the latter.

Olagoke volunteered in the past year as the Communications Executive for the RES. He would like to continue on in this position for the next term. During the last term, he helped revamp and launch a new website for the RES.

6. Technical Presentations Officer

Duties include but are not limited to:

Hosting several technical presentations, over Zoom or in-person

Topics should be a mix of:

Technical topics reaching a variety of engineering disciplines
Soft skills that apply to all disciplines

Nominee(s):

Jordan Alberton

Jordan graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in 2012. She is currently working as a Systems Manager for Prairie Lithium, a company working towards creating the first commercial lithium brine extraction facility. Prior to that she has worked as a field engineer in production enhancement for a well servicing company and in the quality and project management departments at the Regina Bypass.

She has previously volunteered with the Chemical Engineering Student’s Society (ChESS) at the U of S and at the Regina Y Judo club.

Over the past year and a half she has been enjoying watching the DiscoverE Persist series that focuses on telling stories from women around the world and how they persevered in their engineering and tech careers. In the technical presentations role she would be interested in bringing something similar to RES, that would include stories from not just women but all groups of people. In addition to that she would like to be able to bring in presentations on specific niche industries within Saskatchewan so that we can have a chance to learn more about everything going on in this province not just the typical industries that everyone knows about.

Geoff Pollock

Geoff is definitely looking for some more industry specific boards and governing bodies and this is the reason for my interest in RES.

Md. Saiful Arif Khan

Saiful currently works as a research assistant in the lab of resilient infrastructure asset management at the University of Regina, SK, where he is involved in conducting research on Infrastructure Asset Management. Saiful obtained his Master of Civil Engineering degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, in August 2020. After graduation, he moved to Regina, SK, and called it home.

After admitting myself into UofR, because of the restriction due to the pandemic, he could not attend any class in person or connect with the people physically. Thus, he tried to connect with people virtually. Hence, he got involved as a member of the Regina Geotechnical Group. Here, he performed as a Mentor in the Soil Rocks Competition (2020-21).

Recently, he was assigned for mentoring a Mitacs Globalink Research Intern who is an undergrad student from Mexico for 16 weeks.

Saiful was also engaged in different volunteer activities in his graduate studies at the UAB, USA. Due to his performance and passion for doing good for the student community, he has been elected as a Senator (2019-2020) in the Graduate Students Government (GSG) of UAB as a Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department representative. Apart from the UAB GSG, he was also elected as a Treasurer for the UAB Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) student chapter (2019-2020) and the Bangladeshi Student Association (BSA) of UAB as well.

Saiful believes his dedication, analytical capacity and self-improvement abilities sets him apart from other candidates for this position.

Labib Zawra

Labib has completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Engineering. He is a registered Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS), CPEng by engineers New Zealand (IPENZ), and licensed master trainer by NCCER (USA). He has 15 years of experience in the industry, academia, consultation & training, and professional development.

He can communicate in Arabic, English, French.

Volunteer Activities:

Accreditation external reviewer with ACCET (USA)
olunteer interpreter with the Saskatchewan Safety Council (CANADA)
Expert reviewer with the Academic Exchange information Center(AEIC), China.

Avneet Kaur

Barot Bhavesh

Barot has never did volunteer work here in Canada. He is interested to apply for the said role, so as to serve the engineering community as a whole. Also, he wants to make connections with more engineers to expand his professional connect to a wide community.

7. Social Events Officer

Duties include but are not limited to:

Planning the following events:
Beer & Billiards
Christmas Mixer
A family event such as bowling or Imax movie
Annual General Meeting
Golf Tournament
Any other events as needed