We provide project management services, primarily related to IT governance and software implementation.
We typically work with the Engineering or IT departments of an organization.
Some of the areas we work on are:
Here are some of the projects in which Dr. Heerema was retained as the Project Manager:
Retained by the Transmission Administrator (TA) for Alberta, as the Project Manager for an initiative to trade electrical reserves on a commodities exchange. This project was successfully completed on time, in the very dynamic business environment of initial electrical deregulation
The initial scope was to identify requirements, and to obtain buy-in from all of the affected companies and departments. Following this, a project was raised, and Mr. Heerema recruited a team to develop systems to support on-line trading, risk management, demand forecasting, compliance monitoring, financial settlement, and asset substitution.
The on-line trading component of the system tracks the TA's real-time position, and ranks incoming bids and offers for the traders, based on price and risk (in this case the risks being managed are cost, the dynamic probability of reserve deployment, and the geographical proximity of assets to the projected demand). The system can communicate with multiple exchange floors via secure XML links that transmit bids, offers, and trades. Dispatch instructions are sent to the System Controller.
The system forecasts demand using past history and a weather forecast feed from Environment Canada, and provides Alberta’s most accurate electrical load forecasts. It also monitors the performance of reserve providers using SCADA telemetry, and allows reserve providers to nominate assets via a secure web interface.
Retained by a major energy company to evaluate and select a product for its regulated and unregulated Energy Trading activities, and to select appropriate risk management tools.
Coordinated vendor presentations, product evaluation, and integration paths with the existing risk management toolset.
Retained as the Integration Coordinator for TransCanada Pipeline's "Best of Breed" Program Management Office (PMO).
This $80M programme replaced SAP with a suite of applications from various vendors, and functionally integrated them. Responsible for setting integration testing standards, identifying test team leaders, coordinating infrastructure development, resolving integration issues, establishing Change Management practices, and acting as the Change Coordinator.
Coordinated a small staff within the PMO, and several dozen test leaders and testers in seven Best of Breed projects. Reported to the PMO and to the programme steering committee. This program was successfully implemented on time.
Acted as a system architect and project manager for integration projects in a second phase of the "Best of Breed" program for TransCanada Pipelines.
Coordinated system integration and acceptance activities for a new COTS measurement system at a large pipeline company.
Acted as the Team Leader responsible for Year-2000 testing of the systems identified as "Mission Critical" for TransCanada Pipelines., focusing on the Gas Measurement & Accounting areas.
Coordinated the activities of over 60 people, to create an isolated network of computer systems, develop test plans, execute them, and resolve issues.
Planned an upgrade to all flow computers in the TransCanada measurement system.
Acted as TransCanada’s technical representative during the development project, responsible for coordinating and approving vendor activities. Developed project execution, and quality assurance standards for the vendor.
Although the vendor was initially reluctant to follow the standards and procedures, they ultimately acknowledged that the system could not have been built on time without them.
Retained by a major flow computer manufacturer to vision and coordinate development of a new generation of flow measurement computers.
Initiated a project for the Yukon Territorial Government to develop practices, policies, and procedures for oil and gas licensing activities in the territory.
Retained by the Pipeline Software Division of Novacorp International to perform a Quality Assurance Audit of one of its major product lines. The major recommendations of the audit were all implemented.
For more details, please refer to Dr. Heerema's personal resume.