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Education
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Volunteer Experience
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Kendra Zilla

Calgary,Canada

Summary

Thoughtful leader with experience in team development and performance management to foster an engaging workplace where people can develop their skills and capabilities while delivering results for the business. Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote an engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings, while making good business decisions.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager, Surface Land Analysts

Cenovus Energy Inc.
01.2021 - Current
  • Re-structured team in 2023 to promote career development and lessen skills gap among team members.
  • Steering committee member for process documentation initiative, resulting in 111 documented procedures and templates, reviewed on cycle.
  • Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
  • Align and integrate legacy teams through merger with Husky by overseeing 10 staff in workload levelling, work-share opportunities, group collaboration, cross-training opportunities.
  • Collaborate with Land partners to build connections and new procedures for new business alignment post-merger.

Manager, Surface Land Administration

Husky Oil Operations Limited
10.2019 - 01.2021
  • Managed 15 permanent employees including area analysts, rentals desk, and surface A&D, located in Calgary and Lloydminster offices.
  • Lead cost savings initiatives, resulting in overall Surface Land cost reduction of $960,280 in 2020.
  • Collaborated with Midstream business and steer-headed transfer of 300+ Midstream surface agreements to their name by deadline.
  • Oversaw Surface Land A&D activity and engaged proper A&D consultants

Team Lead, Surface Land Administration

Husky Oil Operations Limited
10.2016 - 10.2019
  • Supervised team of 4 employees in Lloydminster office, 2 in Calgary office
  • Monitored team performance and provided constructive feedback to increase productivity and maintain quality standards.
  • Oversaw alignment of procedures to ensure consistency between teams across distances.

Process Optimization and Digitization Team Leader

Husky Oil Operations Limited
05.2013 - 10.2016
  • Identify continuous improvement opportunities and create collaborative environment for successful change management within Surface Land
  • Lead and act as SME for special projects such as digitization of 80,000 surface files and process documentation manual

Surface Land Analyst

Husky Oil Operations Limited
05.2006 - 10.2016
  • Execute on project delivery where needed, including AB, BC, SK on Crown and Freehold lands.
  • Took charge of team change management shifting acquisition of surface lands from brokers to in-house, documenting procedures or templates as needed.

Education

Bachelor of Human Resources and Labour Relations -

Athabasca University
12.2025

Certificate for Emerging Leaders -

University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
01.2015

Surface Land Administration Certification -

Olds College
Olds, AB
01.2005

Skills

  • Development Focused
  • Collaborative
  • Results Driven
  • Impactful Communication
  • Process-Oriented
  • Effective Performance Management
  • Enthusiastic and Proactive
  • Responsive

Major Accomplishments

  • Coordinate training and knowledge sharing sessions within Surface Land to support integration of systems for Go-Live
  • Delegate continuous improvement initiatives to subject matter experts and support roll-out of aligned Cenovus Land Admin processes
  • Provide space for collaboration and inclusion among team members
  • Manage strategic planning for staff development and engage in effective development conversations
  • Consistently look for ways to engage staff in alignment of processes and systems management
  • Support business units through staff workload leveling
  • Oversee complicated high volume transition of Surface records from Husky databases to Cenovus databases
  • Support the A&D and Land Services team in divestment activity regarding replacement of Crown expired leases
  • Utilized expertise in digitization of over 80,000 Husky Surface Land records to bring project completion to digitization of ~23,000 Cenovus Surface Land records by year end 2021

Volunteer Experience

  • Children’s Commons Ecological Society, Calgary, AB, Secretary on the Board of Directors, 05/2021, 11/2021, Participate in BoD voting Support society initiatives and execute on deliverable for society take meeting minutes send communications/delegate to Registrar
  • Land JV Mentorship Program Coordinator - Husky Oil Operations Limited, 09/2020, 09/2021, Distribute communications and information about mentoring Match mentors with mentees within Land JV and externally Continue to support relationships
  • Kiddo Productions, DCTC, Calgary, AB, Treasurer on the Board of Directors, 2008, 03/2021, Annual casino volunteer to raise money for this youth theatre program
  • Husky Floor Warden - Husky Oil Operations Limited, 2012, 2016, Organize mobility assistance persons and assistance buddies. Chair monthly Floor Warden meetings. Communicate emergency procedures to 38th floor team.

Timeline

Manager, Surface Land Analysts

Cenovus Energy Inc.
01.2021 - Current

Manager, Surface Land Administration

Husky Oil Operations Limited
10.2019 - 01.2021

Team Lead, Surface Land Administration

Husky Oil Operations Limited
10.2016 - 10.2019

Process Optimization and Digitization Team Leader

Husky Oil Operations Limited
05.2013 - 10.2016

Surface Land Analyst

Husky Oil Operations Limited
05.2006 - 10.2016

Bachelor of Human Resources and Labour Relations -

Athabasca University

Certificate for Emerging Leaders -

University of Calgary

Surface Land Administration Certification -

Olds College
Kendra Zilla