Gordon Peter Lane
Okotoks,Canada
Summary
Facilities Manager with extensive experience at CBRE, specializing in budget management and stakeholder engagement. Demonstrated ability to oversee operations and manage vendors, consistently delivering projects under budget while improving service quality. Skilled in strategic planning and building strong client relationships, ensuring compliance and operational excellence across various locations.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Property Manager
Walia Group of Companies
01.2024 - 01.2025
- Manages 5 story business office of approximately 300,000 square feet and a small shopping center with 30 tenants.
- Manages two maintenance 5th class operators, schedule maintenance tasks, tenant repair requirements.
- Manage Security and cleaning contracts and on-site staff.
- Manages vendors for all facility relates services including emergency generators, life safety system, elevators.
- Writes leases, and assignment agreements for new tenants and tenant renewals along with negotiating leases.
- Capital and Operational budgets projection and on-going management, issuing POs and approving invoices for all vendors.
- Working with Yardi to provide an online presence for tenants, including lease extraction for monies due and managing tenant complaints via Yardi.
- Uses AutoCAD for floor plans management and space planning.
Facilities Manager
CBRE (contract to DXC Technology)
01.2017 - 01.2023
- Directed the Facility Infrastructure and Office Services across nine sites in Canada and the USA, totalling just under 500,00 square feet.
- Supervised preventative and corrective maintenance work for major properties including site equipment, plumbing, ventilation, and electrical using a proactive approach to mitigate downtime.
- Scheduled and monitored tasks related to the proper maintenance of tenant-related equipment and general maintenance services, including janitorial, waste removal, snow removal, landscaping, and refreshment services.
- Supervised several direct reports remotely, coaching, mentoring, and training staff to provide quick solutions for clients while ensuring offerings were within the scope of work.
- Sourced vendors, ensuring providers delivered quality work on time while achieving the best price point.
- Worked with stakeholders to gather requirements for the Canadian headquarters move. Generated scope documents, worked with pre-qualified general contractors to obtain quotes, approved sub-vendors, issued purchase orders (POs), and matched invoices against POs. Transitioned staff to the new location, minimizing the impact on the business.
- Carried out annual budget planning and management using historic costs and forecast repair costs.
- Managed facility operations for a data centre, including electrical, UPS, HVAC, security systems, fire and life safety systems, service scheduling, and incident management.
- Led weekly Health and Safety meetings for North America with up to 14 staff participating and within client silos.
- Supervised site relocations and refurbishments across Canada, including scope documents, stakeholder, and vendor meetings. Developed budget costs, reconciled invoices to POs, and came in on time and under budget.
Facilities Manager – Western Canada
ISS (contract to HPE)
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Oversaw the office services and facility infrastructure across six sites in Western Canada with six remote staff.
- Ensured compliance with service level agreements (SLAs) and maintenance requirements.
- Managed maintenance budgets of up to $500K and $250K repair budgets, ensuring they were on or under budget at year-end.
- Sourced vendors and managed relationships.
- Managed facility operations for the data center, including electrical, UPS, HVAC, security systems, fire and life safety systems, service scheduling, and incident management.
Data Centre Facilities Manager
Suncor Energy (Prior Petro-Canada)
01.2001 - 01.2014
- Team Lead Data Centre Analyst – responsible for data centers worldwide.
- The following projects were accomplished with no outages to the data centers.
- Built a new UPS room and replaced the UPS in a primary data center.
- Replaced twenty air conditioning units in a primary data center.
- Complete rebuild of two 1.3 MW in a primary data center.
- Replaced fourteen floor power distribution units and mitigated impact on single power sourced devices.
- Replaced air conditioning units at three regional sites.
- Added new UPS to two sites for capacity requirements and to give the ability to replace the older UPS as they become life expired.
Service Centre Analyst
EDS Canada (on contract to Petro-Canada)
01.2001 - 01.2014
- Reduced footprint of a primary data center by 50%.
- Selected and replaced data center monitoring system.
- Relocated NOC with no interruption to monitoring.
- Removed Halon fire extinguishing system prior to legislation as a cost avoidance strategy.
- Replaced emergency cooling system valves for risk avoidance.
- Introduced leading edge cooling system to enhance data center capacity and as an independent emergency system.
Education
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate - How to Overcome Unconscious Bias
University of South Florida
Calgary, AB01.2021
Facility Manager Certificate -
CBRE
Calgary, AB01.2020
Data Center Design Professional, BTEC Level 5 Qualification - equivalent to bachelor’s degree
CNET (UK)
Calgary, AB01.2017
Data Center Energy Practitioner Certificate - for Department of Energy (USA)
CNET (UK)
Calgary, AB01.2014
Data Center Energy Professional, BTEC Level 5 Qualification - equivalent to bachelor’s degree
CNET (UK)
Calgary, AB01.2014
Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Certificate -
Suncor Energy, Kepner Tregoe
Calgary, AB01.2011
Skills
- Leadership and strategic planning
- Stakeholder engagement
- Client and vendor management
- Operations oversight
- Technical compliance
- Change management
- Analytical skills
- Capacity management
- Project management
- Scope definition and execution
- Microsoft 365 proficiency
- Facilities management
- Lease negotiation and administration
- Budget management
- Space planning and occupancy management
- Property operations coordination
- Effective communication skills
- Team leadership and staff management
- Problem solving and critical thinking
- Attention to detail and time management
- Customer relationship management
- Tenant relations and property inspections
- Vendor management
- Maintenance
- Property management expertise
Volunteer Experience
- President, Alberta Family Histories Society
- Treasurer, Bahai’s of Okotoks
Professional Development And Education
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate (How to Overcome Unconscious Bias), University of South Florida, 2021
- Facility Manager Certificate, CBRE, 2020
- Data Center Energy Practitioner Certificate, CNET (UK) for Department of Energy (USA), 2014
- Data Center Design Professional, BTEC Level 5 Qualification (equivalent to bachelor’s degree), CNET (UK), 2017
- Data Center Energy Professional, BTEC Level 5 Qualification (equivalent to bachelor’s degree), CNET (UK), 2014
- Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Certificate, Suncor Energy, Kepner Tregoe, 2011
Timeline
Property Manager
Walia Group of Companies
01.2024 - 01.2025
Facilities Manager
CBRE (contract to DXC Technology)
01.2017 - 01.2023
Facilities Manager – Western Canada
ISS (contract to HPE)
01.2014 - 01.2017
Data Centre Facilities Manager
Suncor Energy (Prior Petro-Canada)
01.2001 - 01.2014
Service Centre Analyst
EDS Canada (on contract to Petro-Canada)
01.2001 - 01.2014
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate - How to Overcome Unconscious Bias
University of South Florida
Facility Manager Certificate -
CBRE
Data Center Design Professional, BTEC Level 5 Qualification - equivalent to bachelor’s degree
CNET (UK)
Data Center Energy Practitioner Certificate - for Department of Energy (USA)
CNET (UK)
Data Center Energy Professional, BTEC Level 5 Qualification - equivalent to bachelor’s degree
CNET (UK)
Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Certificate -
Suncor Energy, Kepner Tregoe