Managing Risk in Safran Risk - 2024-03-05

Trainer

Ian Nicholson

Vice President of Solutions
Emerald Associates

As our Vice President of Solutions and a Lead Risk and Implementation Specialist, Ian leads Emerald’s functional consulting group. With over 15 years of international experience in varied fields and roles from manufacturing, heavy civil construction, pharmaceutical plant construction, hospital projects and oil and gas capital and turnaround projects, Ian brings a wealth of practical project knowledge to the training table.

Ian has worked with Primavera Risk Analysis (formerly Pertmaster) on projects for Agrium, Alcan, AltaLink, Bruce Power, Husky Energy, Iogen Energy, Shell Canada, Suncor Energy, and TransCanada Pipelines. His expertise using Primavera Risk Analysis combined with his engaging and effective training style makes this course an unparalleled opportunity to not only learn the software but to learn from someone who is highly regarded in the industry. Referred to by some of his past students as the “Primavera Guru”, Ian’s course evaluations speak for themselves.

Mary Lynn Backstrom

Implementation Specialist - PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-PBA

Mary Lynn spent many years filling a variety of project controls duties such as planning, scheduling, analyzing, training and continuous improvement in the Aerospace Industry.

Since joining Emerald in 2008, she has been a leader on the Petro Canada project which involved business process redesign; the design of templates as well as customization of Web Updater and Dashboards for use at the Refinery in Edmonton. Mary Lynn has worked an impressive variety of projects with success. She has led sessions for review and troubleshooting of scheduling and reporting at Shell, as well as worked on the Agrium Vault project to produce the Level 3 Owner Schedule with linking to the Master Schedule across numerous disciplines and organizations. Mary Lynn designed and delivered customized training at Vale Inco across their scheduling organization, led the P6 rollout component of the Direct Energy project controls implementation of Contract Management, P6 and Time Control for their Canadian organization, and has also worked at Suncor Firebag as a lead scheduler on three Turnarounds and assisted Alberta EnviroFuels and Imperial (Strathcona) with their turnaround schedules.

Mary Lynn has provided classroom training, onsite scheduling, and project management process training for the Turnaround group at Syncrude as well as onsite assistance on multiple Syncrude Turnarounds. She has provided training at Suncor and schedule assistance to BHP Billiton on their Jansen project. She is one of Emerald's most sought after trainers and has taught in all of the major cities in Canada.

About Emerald Associates Inc.

We are an Oracle Platinum Partner specialized in Primavera and amongst the select few seasoned Oracle Platinum Partners worldwide. Since 1995, our dedicated team of project managers, engineers and programmers have been delivering innovative solutions for clients in project based industries ranging from oil & gas, nuclear, health care, pharmaceutical, engineering, construction and the public sector. We pride ourselves on delivering best-of-breed project management solutions to a diverse client base, building longstanding relationships through quality Primavera implementation, integration, unique enhancement tools and training. With over 7000 students trained, we differentiate ourselves from the competition with excellent trainers that use the tool in practice, allowing them to draw on over 24 years of experience to go above and beyond the out-of-the-box course material with practical tips and tricks.