Movers & Shakers
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APEGA MEMBERS RISE TO TOP AVENUE ’S TOP 40 UNDER 40 Rising stars, movers and shakers, champions of industry. The doers within the APEGA professions are labelled in many ways. And in Avenue magazine, it is this: the Top 40 Under 40. Each year, the magazine curates a list of the top 40 young professionals in each of its cities, Calgary and Edmonton. Those so named are chosen for their ages (the under 40 part), along with their contributions to their city and community, and their other accomplishments. The combined Edmonton and Calgary Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2018 includes four hardworking APEGA members—one professional geoscientist and three professional engineers. Are we surprised? Not one bit. Jil Macdonald, P.Geo. , of the Alberta Energy Regulator, is her employer’s youngest-ever vice- president. The Calgary geophysicist joined the regulator as Director of Operations before being promoted in 2015 to Vice-President of Closure and Liability. In that position, she oversaw the closing of abandoned or decommissioned energy infrastructure, including nine oil sands mines, 800 gas-processing plants, 430,000 kilometres of pipelines, and more than 450,000 oil and natural gas wells. Coming back from an eight- month break after welcoming her son to the world, Ms. Macdonald jumped right into the thick of things and was appointed the Vice-President of Science and Evaluation, her current position. Ms. Macdonald and her team plan the
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EARLY RISERS Some of us are just getting started by the age of 40. But as Avenue magazine in Edmonton and Calgary demonstrates every year, that isn’t always the case. Making the two lists of Top 40 Under 40s this year are, from left, Peter Oliver, P.Eng. and Tim Coldwell, P.Eng., plus two more members on the following page.
development and export of coal, oil, and natural gas reserves in Alberta. Alberta’s future is firmly in her sights, as she leads 75 fellow scientists in data analysis and com- puter modelling to approximate the province’s future energy reserves. From there, the team develops plans to bring resources to market. Ms. Macdonald also uses data to in- crease the regulator’s transparency, educating the public and informing industry and the government about the condition of Alberta’s energy resources. And after all that, she finds time to volunteer with the Bridgeland Riverside Community Association, helping plan what the community hall is used for and where money goes. Edmonton’s Tim Coldwell, P.Eng. , joined Chandos Construction
as a project coordinator during his first year of engineering at the University of Alberta. With its philosophy of innovation and collaboration and its people-driven focus, the company was a good fit for a professional who believes business has a responsibility to serve its community. Twenty years later, the job has become a career, the company has become home—and Mr. Coldwell has become its President. In 2015, as Mr. Coldwell was moving up the company’s ranks and the Alberta construction industry was in flux, Chandos had to find a way to stay afloat. Rather than squeezing margins and laying off staff, the management team opened offices in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa, and relocated many employees.
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