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Dave Smith
Years of Experience46Dave Smith has been an Industrial Maintenance Electrician since 1975. He has taught maintenance, troubleshooting and safety courses to thousands of electricians in mines, mills, refineries, factories, plants, power stations and offshore platforms throughout North America and the Middle East. Dave is a hands-on guy and teaches from a field perspective with his intended audience being his utmost concern...
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Taylor Lush, Syncrude Canada"I thought Dave did a very good job of presenting the course material. He was also very thorough."
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Jeff Simmons, Syncrude Canada"Dave did a good job during the presentation, stopping to talk about each area of discussion to make sure we understood everything."
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Abdullahi Ali, Syncrude Canada"Dave is very experienced, interesting, friendly and most of all a very engaging instructor."
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Joe Kiceniuk
Years of Experience53Joe Kiceniuk was educated at University of Alberta and University of British Columbia and has technical training in electronics with over 40 years experience in electronic circuit construction, troubleshooting and service. Joe has a working knowledge of multiple programming languages and extensive experience with quality control in analytical systems. He has designed and built equipment and is the...
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Colwyn Meredith, Suncor“Joe Kiceniuk left lots of time to review all the classroom material. He was very helpful in answering any questions. Also, was effective in explaining what troubleshooting techniques work best for each particular problem. The course will improve your way of approaching future problems in your job...
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James Larsen, City of Red Deer"Joe Kiceniuk was well prepared and managed time and learning perfectly, good read on when people were getting tired. Good job!! He also went above and beyond to help me with a manual and extra foundation work as I'm not an electrician."
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Stephen Young, Shell Canada"Joe Kiceniuk is very knowledgeable and very personable. He is a very good instructor."
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Peter Waugh
Years of Experience42Peter Waugh brings 42 years of experience in fields of maintenance and human resources management. Peter graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick. He started his career with Westinghouse Industrial Field Service servicing power distribution equipment. He then moved to the Pulp & Paper industry where he worked for three companies over the next 30 years working in...
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Greg Hogg, Pretium Resources"These 2 days of training have been by far the best training sessions I have been apart of. Peter did a great job of delivering information and aiming it to our needs here with Pretium. Thank you Peter."
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Alex McKay, Department of National DefensePeter was a great instructor who was very attentive to detail and was thoroughly prepared to teach this course.
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Jarod Hubert, Mount MilliganPeter did a great job teaching this course. He was very clear and thorough in explaining everything.
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Daniel Chartier
Years of Experience30Daniel Chartier travaille comme ingénieur électrique depuis près de 30 ans, et est spécialisé en automatisation et contrôles. Il a travaillé dans des fonderies d'aluminium et les mines, dans l'emballage, les stations de pompage et dans la construction d'usines thermiques (District Cooling) au cours des ans. Il a été responsable du développement de formations de sécurité dans...
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Cameron Dennis, Capital Power CorperationDaniel was an excellent instructor and knew what things to go into more detail about.
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Jean-Marc Dallaire, Broder ElectricDaniel was very thorough with the course material. He was also good about answering questions during the course.
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Gene Wallis, EnbridgeDaniel was great, very informative, and I appreciated all the real-world applications he took us through.
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Julio Bonilla
Years of Experience34Julio Bonilla has been in the Oil and Gas Industry for the past 34 years. He graduated from Saskatchewan Polytechnic majoring in Mechanical Engineering Technology in 1987. Julio then started his career as an estimator for a pressure treating package equipment, vessel, and tank manufacturer in Lloydminster AB/SK’s Oil Industry. In 2000, Julio continued his work in Oil and Gas and went on to work...
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Mathieu Morais, HOVEYJulio was very friendly, and I enjoyed learning from him.
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Kailan T Parsons, Hovey IndustryThe instructor was well educated on the subject. He was patient as well as polite.
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Doug Baker
Years of Experience45Doug brings over forty five years experience in the electrical industry, working for utility, utility contractors, engineering firm, and educational institute. Most recently finishing a career at NAIT as an instructor/academic chair (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology) in Power Lineman, Power System Electrician, Electrician and Electrical Engineering Technology programs. He has constructed and...
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Kevin Reid, West FraserDoug did a fantastic job and explained all material as required. Very helpful and answered all questions.
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Paul Sherwood
Years of Experience4444 years as an Industrial Maintenance Electrician in the U.K. And CanadaExperience in the engineering and manufacturing industries maintaining a wide variety of electrical equipmentWorked primarily in the Potash mining industry in Saskatchewan (32 years) At Potash held various roles, worked underground maintaining Electrical systems and equipment.Mill maintenance Electrician working on high, medium...
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Wayne Jeffrey
Years of Experience39Wayne brings 39 years of experience in the electrical and instrumentation industry. He is a master electrician and a journeyman instrument mechanic. He started in the early 80’s with a petroleum company in the Lloydminster area preforming maintenance duties. He then started and ran his own contracting company for 15 yrs. in Lloydminster. After he sold the company, he started working with a local...
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Jonathon Martel, Total PowerWayne was a great instructor, he was clear in his description of scenarios and answered questions thoroughly.
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Johnathan Gamble, Total PowerWayne did an awesome job making everything easy to understand, as the knowledge level for guys on the course varied greatly.
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Dave Winsor
Years of Experience45I'm a graduate of the Canadian Coast Guard College with over 40 years' experience as Marine Engineer. I worked as a Junior Engineering Officer in the Coast Guard Fleet including Heavy Ice Breakers, Fishing Trawlers, and Offshore supply vessels, along with 30+ years as Chief Engineering Officer on Petroleum Tankers and Great Lakes Bulk Carriers. I hold a 1st. Class Motor & 4th Class Steam Vessel...
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Dave Cox
Years of Experience41Dave began his career in commercial high rises in Calgary. He then spent time working industrial oilfield maintenance electrical in Alberta followed by General Motors in Oshawa Ontario, Koch fertilizer and Husky Oil in Manitoba, Baffin Island at an iron ore mine and commissioning in the Alberta oildsands sector.Dave is also an avid whitewater rafting professional, and has served as a guide in Ontario...
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Dave Neal
Years of Experience48With 33 years of on the job experience at Hydro One, doing consulting work for McGregor Allsop, Trow Engineering Consultants and Dillion and Associates, Dave has acquired extensive knowledge of electrical equipment, installations and legislative requirements. While with Hydro One, Dave was involved with many projects including: - Held the lead role in the implementation of the new Training Development...
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John Wallbank, Custom Foam Systems“Dave Neal presented a lot of information in one day. The subject matter is serious and potentially lifesaving.”
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Bero Balaban, Nortown Electrical Contractors“This course was very informative. Dave Neal made it very interesting and interactive. Stressed the importance on how to avoid arc flash and what was needed to survive an arc flash. He did a great job.”
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Steven Brown, Koch Fertilizer“Dave Neal was enthusiastic and provided a wealth of knowledge and experience in the subject. He was able to make the course interesting and informative.”
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Edward Rideout
Years of Experience52Ed Rideout has been involved with the electrical field in many ways for nearly 52 years. His electrical experience started when he was just out of vocational school and was hired as the sole electrician at a local fish plant in charge of six fishing trawlers, a power house and a fish plant facility. In 1975 Ed went on to work with Nova Scotia Power, first as an apprentice electrician in a generating...
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Pat Onions, Syncrude Canada"Good natured, easy to understand. Ed was very knowledgeable and practical."
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Jordan Higgins, Alliance Energy"Ed was very knowledgeable and approachable. For guys like me who are in the field and on the tools, it's so valuable to have someone who has been there & knows how it really is."
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Greg Brataschuk, Schulte Industries Ltd."Excellent, Ed totally makes the course (PLC course) He makes the course very interesting. Thank You."
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Jim Roberts
Years of Experience41Jim Roberts brings over 41 years of experience in the electrical field. A graduate from the Georgian College Electrical Engineering program, he started his career at Toronto Hydro Electrical Systems as a High Voltage Underground Cable Fault Technician then proceeded to Toronto Transit Commission where he obtained his red seal 309A electrical license and became a Maintenance/Construction Electrician...
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Kevin Archambault, Canadian Coast Guard“Jim was very informative. He also brought a lot of experience to the course. He was able to relate with what we do on a regular basis.”
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Brian Ethier, Enbridge"Jim is an experienced electrician with VFD's in the field. He has good knowledge of the VFD's we've worked with this week. He was able to help us with troubleshooting that we couldn't figure out. He also has good knowledge of the electrical field of VFD's and the motors which are being driven.
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Mario DiDonato, SofSurfacesGood information for getting a good base knowledge of arc flash and hazards.
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Alain Tremblay
Years of Experience54Alain Tremblay is an electrical engineer with over 54 years of experience. He is fluent in both French and English and can instruct courses in both languages. He is a consultant on electrical power systems and preventative maintenance such as infrared thermography, transformer oil and gas analysis, electrical course and job supervision. Alain graduated from Laval University in Quebec with a Bachelor...
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Terry Yonkheym
Years of Experience59Terry Yonkheym brings over 59 years experience in training and practical electrical maintenance to Canada Training Group's electrical, safety and high voltage programs. Terry's extensive service record for Ontario Hydro began as a Power Maintenance Electrician Apprentice, progressing through attaining the Inter-Provincial Construction and Maintenance Electrician's license, Journeyperson status and...
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Anthony Moore, Syncrude Canada"Terry is knowledgeable and clear speaking. He is very approachable with questions."
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Ben Jansen, Syncrude Canada Ltd.“I found the instructor, Terry Yonkheym to be very knowledgeable in the trade and explained everything very clearly.”
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Teuvo Tuohimaa, Technical Director, General Electric"Excellent Presentation"
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Tim Dacey
Years of Experience39Tim brings 39 years of experience in operations at various public and private utility companies starting with SaskPower in the late 70’s where he apprenticed as an electrician earning his Interprovincial Journeyman’s Electrician certification in the early 80’s. He continued to work as a Station Electrician for the next decade prior to moving into natural gas compression and transmission...
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Dennis Stog, Crown metal packagingTim did very well in spreading his knowledge and making sure everyone understood the topic. Top notch.
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Philip Friesen, Capital PowerTim was easy to listen to, and he had lots of real-world experience with arc flash safety.
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David Stojkovic, simpson strong tieTim knows what he's talking about and knows how to share that information.
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