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Spencer Durant

Vancouver,BC

Summary

T: 604-446-5302

Email: spencer.durant@outlook.com http://ca.linkedin.com/in/spencerdurant/ SUMMARY Results-driven


Sr. Business Analyst with over 10 years of experience in managing and coordinating complex initiatives across healthcare, government and mining sectors. Proven expertise in stakeholder engagement, change management, and process improvement. Skilled in project documentation, scheduling, and executive reporting. Holds certifications in Lean Six Sigma, Prosci Change Management, and Communications & Negotiations, as well as a Master's degree in Environment & Society. Proficient in the use of Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project and JIRA. Additionally, I have various published articles.

Overview

2024
2024
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead

Creekview Coop, Membership Comittee
01.2019 - Current
  • Lead the Parking Sub-committee to develop and align existing policies and develop new ones
  • Interview potential new members and participate in monthly committee meetings.
  • Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks.

Sr. Business Analyst

PROVINCIAL HEALTH SERVICES AUTHORITY, CST
11.2017 - Current
  • Devices Team: Managing the Device Process Improvement initiative for the purpose of supporting the device implementation and sustainment aspects of the CST project; Coordinating the Cerner Help Website Update - Working Group; Responsible for managing the validation, assessment, procurement and deployment and scheduling of the 724 Downtime technical device systems (over 600 devices) across dozens of project sites for multiple health authorities; Coordinate with vendors and other CST teams to achieve 724 Downtime activation objectives.
  • Providence Health Care Implementation Team: Developed and maintained MS Project plans, conducted gap analysis research and supported project implementation of CST for Providence Healthcare; Regularly generated project documentation such as, briefing notes, project charters, action logs, presentations, and status reports for executive leadership and while involved with various project related working groups; Developed and implemented the change management initiative across Province Health Care facilities in 2018.
  • Sustainment Team: Regularly generated briefing notes and process support workflows, facilitated various working groups and delivered weekly status reports to the organization’s executive leadership.

Team Manager

Brewery Creek Mashers
08.2019 - 09.2022
  • Produced the Mashers team brand/logos; Manage and coach team or 14 players; As league Executive I developed the EVBL’s Return 2 Play policy in 2020. I was responsible for league scheduling each season and executive level decision making.
  • Coach team members during games and and design training plans for practices with the goal of increasing the skill level of each player and improving motivation.

Association for Mineral Exploration (AME) BC
05.2014 - 12.2017
  • Led the Policy and Guidance Tools Working Group, Participated on the Publications Working Group and published articles for the AME monthly magazine; and volunteered with Round Up Conference, 2017 Short Course Working Group.

Business Analyst

BC Children’s & Women’s Hospital
1 1 - 11.2017
  • Coordinated the establishment of the C&W Database Collection & Solutions Steering Committee; Responsible for drafting the Terms of Reference, Goals & Objectives and other relevant documentation;
  • Generated the committee’s SharePoint teamsite; Organized and led biweekly committee meetings for senior management and facilitated various working groups.

Project Coordinator

Children’s & Women’s Hospital Redevelopment
03.2017 - 09.2017
  • Responsible for registration and participate completion tracking of C&W staff for the new TACC building.

SEF Canada Ltd
05.2015 - 03.2017
  • Partnered with Mining Shared Value and Global Affairs Canada, to produce a report focused on the relationship between local procurement strategies of mining companies and their regulatory environments in Namibia and South Africa
  • Responsible for leading and managing the stakeholder mapping and engagement, policy research and analysis
  • This complex project directly engaged with over 40 mining company executives, government officials and international development agencies.

Owner and Principal Consultant

GRAYDON STRATEGIES CONSULTING
11.2013 - 03.2017
  • Consulting Offerings: Project Management and Coordination, Stakeholder Mapping and Engagement, Policy Development and Alignment, Report and Publication Writing, Sustainability Assessments, Workshop Facilitation and Business Development
  • Major projects include, but were not limited to:

Nevsun Resources Ltd
10.2016 - 02.2017
  • Responsible for planning, implementing and delivering the Sustainability Assessment, intended to support Nevsun’s 2016 Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) report and the company’s Social Responsibility policy framework; Engaged directly with 80 internal and external stakeholders (Vancouver, Serbia and Eritrea) to determine emerging issues and priorities of importance to stakeholders and the company itself;

New Gold Inc
06.2015 - 09.2015
  • Carried out an industry wide policy analysis study of corporate-level stakeholder advisory panels throughout the extractives sector, which contributed to the alignment of internal company policy; Developed and delivered a 36-page internal report based on interviews with over two dozen industry experts and relevant government and private sector policy experts; Published a blog based on report with Business for Social Responsibility (BSR).

MySquare

11.2013 - 02.2014
  • Developed the Corporate Social Responsibility (, ) policy document and the business development strategy documentation for CSR programming; Facilitated partnership opportunities and outreach with private / government / multilateral sectors throughout Myanmar and Canada.

Program Coordinator

High Commission of Canada
12.2011 - 08.2013
  • Led government relations and communications with military contacts covering five African nations.
  • Coordinated and drafted weekly diplomatic course offerings; Booked and modified international flights and travel arrangements and arranged visas applications for course participants through the Military Training Cooperation Program; Created and maintained excel spreadsheets for tracking course participant records and applications.

Education

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt - Project Management

Six Sigma Global Institute
07.2023

PROSCI Certified Change Practitioner – PROSCI, Canada - Change Management

Prosci
02.2023

Authorized On-demand PMP Exam Prep Certificate – - Project Management

Project Management Institute (PMI)
02.2023

Core Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) Training, San’Yas Certificate -

San’Yas
02.2018

Executive Certificate Courses, Communications & Negotiations - Communications And Negotations

Sauder Business School
Vancouver, BC
06.2015

Masters Degree - Environment & Society

University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
11.2012

Honours - Peace & Conflict Studies, Environmental Geography and Political Science

University of Toronto, St. Michaels College
11.2009

Skills

  • Project Management and Stakeholder Engagement
  • Business and Technical Analysis
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Process Mapping and Performance Improvement
  • Assessment of Project Rsik
  • Excel, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Word, Gdocs, MS Project, JIRA and Confluence

Timeline

Team Manager

Brewery Creek Mashers
08.2019 - 09.2022

Lead

Creekview Coop, Membership Comittee
01.2019 - Current

Sr. Business Analyst

PROVINCIAL HEALTH SERVICES AUTHORITY, CST
11.2017 - Current

Project Coordinator

Children’s & Women’s Hospital Redevelopment
03.2017 - 09.2017

Nevsun Resources Ltd
10.2016 - 02.2017

New Gold Inc
06.2015 - 09.2015

SEF Canada Ltd
05.2015 - 03.2017

Association for Mineral Exploration (AME) BC
05.2014 - 12.2017

Owner and Principal Consultant

GRAYDON STRATEGIES CONSULTING
11.2013 - 03.2017

MySquare

11.2013 - 02.2014

Program Coordinator

High Commission of Canada
12.2011 - 08.2013

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt - Project Management

Six Sigma Global Institute

PROSCI Certified Change Practitioner – PROSCI, Canada - Change Management

Prosci

Authorized On-demand PMP Exam Prep Certificate – - Project Management

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Core Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) Training, San’Yas Certificate -

San’Yas

Executive Certificate Courses, Communications & Negotiations - Communications And Negotations

Sauder Business School

Masters Degree - Environment & Society

University of Pretoria

Honours - Peace & Conflict Studies, Environmental Geography and Political Science

University of Toronto, St. Michaels College

Business Analyst

BC Children’s & Women’s Hospital
1 1 - 11.2017

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