Matthew Gelinas

Project Technical Lead

• Leading the analysis of costs and the standardization of reporting across all organizational sites.
• Collaborating with key finance stakeholders to map cost flows within the organization and implement automated reporting solutions.
• Driving visibility into maintenance costs and hours by ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness in data.
• Designed and implemented a robust Dimension Model to enhance financial insights and support decision-making.
• Implemented automated testing processes for data quality assurance.

Key Achievements:

• Built and implemented financial dimensional model showing costs at a level Suncor has not seen before.
• Saving the company $20 million.

• Lead end-to-end development of ETL pipelines, optimizing data movement and transformation for centralized data warehousing.
• Experience working with structured and un-structured data sets.
• Implement automated data quality checks and proactive monitoring, ensuring data integrity and compliance.
• Drive team efficiency by automating manual tasks and promoting continuous improvement practices.
• Collaborated with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD practices for data pipelines, enhancing deployment speed and reliability.
• Agile and Scrum methodologies, empowering cross-functional teams with actionable insights.

Key Achievements:

• Built and deployed automation scripts that resulted in annual cost savings of $2 million for the company, streamlining processes and improving operational efficiency.
• Presented the automation solutions to senior leadership, effectively communicating the value proposition and technical details, leading to their endorsement and implementation.

• Managed day to day activities by reducing cost, increasing efficiencies, ensuring proper cash flow management and providing payment and receivable options that maximize cash flow usage.
• Automated and expedited business processes.
• Build interactive dashboards using Power BI to visualize complex data and provide actionable insights for informed decision-making.
• Reviewed customer financial data to ascertain level of risk involved for extending credit.
• Help business grow through providing the most diverse methods of financing, marketing and digital transformation.
• Provide proper risk management strategies to help protect business assets and personal net worth.

• Silver Surfers program provided resources and coaching to enhance the abilities of seniors to communicate with loved ones and safely explore the internet.

• Volunteer project through Enactus.
• Designed and implemented a plan to help asses the value of current programs and events to help better allocate resources.
• Utilized formulas to extract data from queries into Excel spreadsheets.
• Interpreted and interrelated research data to develop integrated business analysis and projections.
• Provided solutions and carry out an action plan that stretched across British Columbia.

• Enactus Okanagan College is a non-profit student run organization that develops and implements projects in our communities that improve the quality of life and standard of living across the region.
• My team helped raise money for a local homeless mens shelter. We organized many events to raise money for the shelter and ended up raising $2,000+ for the shelter.

• Semi- professional hockey