Connie Delisle PhD

• Collected, analyzed and interpreted information, documentation, and physical evidence associated with investigations.
• Completed thorough reviews of case files, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Identified gaps in existing labour relations policy, processes that led to recommendations to improve the overall effectiveness of the investigative process.
• Provided expert assessments of policy and legislation, effectively communicating complex information to non-experts.
• Assisted in government policy development by submitting insights from investigative work into company guidelines and procedures.
• Maintained strict confidentiality throughout all phases of investigations, safeguarding sensitive information at all times.

• Identified emerging health, medical-device and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) supply chain trends and opportunities in the field by maintaining a strong professional network within federal, provincial, municipal (F/P/T) government as well as private industry and academia.
• Analyzed, researched and provided senior level policy advice, as well as engaging in bilateral meetings to strengthen collaboration among the F/P/T governments.
• Provided high quality policy advice, guidance and governance support under pressure and to tight time lines to support the federal COVID-19 Task Force.
• Identified emerging trends and opportunities in the field by maintaining a strong professional network within the industry.
• Analyzed, researched and provided senior level policy advice, as well as engaging in bilateral meetings to strengthen collaboration among the F/P/T governments.
• Negotiated with external partners to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes relating to policy objectives.
• Produced under pressure, high quality policy advice to Deputy Ministers, Ministers and F/P/T Senior Associates.
• Served the Health Minister's Office Secretariat, preparing speaking notes, policy briefings, recommendations on policy changes, taking meeting records and coordinating the effective functioning of bi-lateral and international meetings.

• Collaborated with cross-functional Public Health operations and enforcement teams including Federal Public Servants, Medical Doctors, Registered Nurses, Canadian Border Services Officers, Royal Canadian Mounted Police members collaborating to develop and implement innovative solutions addressing complex COVID-19 policy issues.
• Provided health and border security related policy advice on international post-secondary and K-12 student COVID-19 measures on tight deadlines to address cross-border travel policy in collaboration with Federal/Provincial/Territorial and USA counterparts.
• Conducted Branch-wide HR staffing and hiring of emergency surge-capacity front-line employees for the Agency.
• Screened Canadian and International travelers, travelers quarantine plans in conjunction with border services officers.
• Implemented performance metrics that tracked progress towards specific goals allowed continuous improvement throughout organization.
• Facilitated internal training sessions aimed at building capacity knowledge sharing across different departments within organization.

• Leave of Absence Without Pay from the Government of Canada, Privy Council Office, Security and Intelligence Secretariat to launch "Storyline Associates Incorporated"
• Lead a start-up to build capacity in First Nations and Indigenous communities emergency preparedness, safety, security and community resiliency.
• Employed state-of-the-art digital ethnography tools to engage community participants and test tool parameters.
• Completed two multi-stakeholder Lego Serious Play (r) design workshops to identify requirements for a 1 M$ project to improve safety and security for travelers on the notorious Highway 16 (719 km) partnership building and Coastal Gas Link, LNG Canada, Kitselas First Nation (FN), Carrier Sekani Tribal Council (8 FNs), City of Terrace, MLA North Skeena.
• Prepared two high quality visual final reports and issued media releases.

• Provided policy advice to Corporate Services Senior Officials, Assistant Secretaries to Cabinet, on departmental security, emergency preparedness, response operations to all-hazards (e.,g, fires, floods, bomb threats, terrorist attaches, public health emergencies.
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• Designed solely, the departmental Security, Awareness Training and Exercise Program, including producing and conducting a department-wide pandemic scenario exercise, multiple table-top exercises to improve personnel and physical security.
• Provided policy research, advice, recommendations and re-drafted sections of the federal Government security policy suite under the responsibility of Treasury Board Secretariat.
• Advised Senior government official on matters of Constitutional Governance and National Security, inclusive of conducting with legal council, a risk-based review and assessment of the viability of the Continuity of constitutional emergency Plan for the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary branches of the federal government.
• Designed and drafted, in collaboration with the Canadian Armed Forces, a Concept of Operations fro the execution of the Continuity of Constitutional Government Plan.
• Conducted Executive Branch engagement, in consultation with Treasury Board Secretariat to verified critical functions and services for Executive Branch (911 plan) for the Continuity of Constitutional Government including collaborating on planning and executive scenario exercise within Ottawa and at secret evacuation sites.
• Executed Government Emergency Operation liaison duties as one of two appointed resources for the Departmental Security Officer community capable to perform incident command/ emergency response roles in support of large complex events that impacted federal employees and buildings (e.g., BC Wildfires, Canada 150).
• Conducted policy research and revised procedures for safeguarding sensitive data, limiting unauthorized access and protecting confidential information for those Permanently Bound to Secrecy under the Secrets Act.

• Served as a founding member on an academic-government team to conceptualize, design and develop of the first-of its kind online Professional Master's Program in Terrorism, Risk and Security studies in Canada.
• Designed soley the curriculum, and delivered in collaboration with private and public sector subject matter experts, a 13-week online course, creatively combining theory, threat, risk assessment methodology, and online-incident command based scenario exercises.
• Managed student performance using automated Learning Management System reporting system, leveraging data to identify student learning needs and create action plans to overcome learning deficiencies.
• Prepared an interactive blended threat-based scenario exercise delivered in the Legislative Assembly of BC to an international audience of 150 government, academic and business leaders.
• Built relationships with students, mentoring on personal, professional and academic goals while providing coaching on effective study habits.

• Special Assignment Secondment to the Director General Defense Security Unit, Vice Chief of Defense Staff, Department of National Defense /Canadian Armed Forces
• Assessed departmental security audit reports, performance data and plan implementation outcomes, in collaboration with 21 Director General's heads of sections to prepare a mandatory Management Accountability Framework submission to Treasury Board Secretariat to obtain a passing grade.
• Collaborated with stakeholders across the organization to develop and implement effective policies governing data usage, storage, and handling procedures.
• Conducted a departmental security risk assessment, and established systematic policy program reporting for senior officials as part of developing and also contributing to the drafting of the inaugural Ministry of National Defense Departmental Security Plan.
• Reviewed departmental and Canadian Armed Forces security, emergency and safety policies, analyzed and provided written content for renewing the National Defense Security Orders and Directives policy suite.
• Served as a Subject Matter Expert in security policy, and security risk assessment, assisting in training and supporting Ministry of National e Comm employees, and continuing to the redesign and operation of the Ministry of National Defense Departmental Security Governance.

Special Assignment under the direction of the Assistant Secretary to Cabinet, Security and Intelligence Branch:

July 2013 – Sept 2014

• Led the organizational design and provided recommendations for security staffing, including drafting of generic work descriptions, and creating a professionalization work-stream assessment guide.
• Represented the division at senior executive committees, and performed management duties: prepared and assisted managers with budgets, monitored project finances, advised on resource allocations, organizational design, and prepared employee performance assessments.
• Managed the Personnel Security (PerSec) unit with a staff of 10 personnel and served as the Chief Risk Officer to advise senior officials at PCO, other Dept's on security risks.
• Oversaw safety of guests, employees and and assets by enforcing and regulating security policies and procedures and monitoring and maintaining security systems.

July 2010 – July 2013

• Conceptualized, designed and developed and implemented a cost-neutral coordination community office mandated to galvanize the professional development, operational support and assure alignment of government security policy (currently names the Security Centre for Excellence which serves all federal government departments and agencies as an addition to the Machinery of Government).
• Conceptualized, developed and delivered the first-ever community professional development two-day exercise consisting of 6 tabletop exercises and 2 half/day exercises (100+ people).
• Conceptualization and development of an innovative, first-of-its kind federal geomatics-based tool that provided real-time threat and hazard reporting to impacted identified federal buildings, ministries, and Building Emergency Personnel to coordinated emergency response activities, improving overall healthy-safety and security.

As part of the Clerk of the Privy Council appointed Emergency Planning Project Team, reporting to the Assistant Deputy Minister Corporate Services and the Assistant Secretary to Cabinet, Security and Intelligence:

June 2007 – Nov 2008

• Developed and managed a master schedule and transition work plan, prepared status reports on the restructuring of the Occupational Health and Safety, and Emergency planning and emergency operations functions.
• Engaged Senior officials to re-design the Emergency Management Committee, as well as serving as the Secretariat for the Assistant Deputy Minister Chair.
• Designed a customized Business Impact Analysis, and led a team to assess the readiness, in its role of PCO as a federal department, head of the Executive branch and Purveyor of the the Continuity of Constitutional Government.
• Prepared divisional, Secretariat, and Executive Branch Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), including testing through table top exercises, and training BCP Coordinators.
• Developed the inaugural Department Pandemic Plan, at the direction of the Clerk of the Privy Council and the National Security Advisory, including design and execution of a functional exercise involving pre-training Corporate Services, all PCO Secretariats and the PCO Executive Committee on Incident Commands response.
• Spearheaded defense and security research resulting in the approval to create the Crisis Management Cell for monitoring open source intelligence (OSINT) and coordinating security incident monitoring and Response across the Federal Security and intelligence community.
• Continued to improve emergency management and business continuity governance, instituting Occupational health and Safety committee doctrine, and conducting regulatory compliance checks through diligent monitoring of policies, procedures, documentation requirements.
• Developed strategic plans to achieve organizational goals, ensuring alignment with company''s mission and vision.
• Increased overall efficiency by identifying areas of improvement and implementing necessary changes, ensuring modernized emergency management operation and business continuity were sustained as strategic process improvements.
• Prepared and submitted accurate, timely management and financial reports and project budgets and oversaw project management efforts, ensuring timely completion of projects within allocated budgets and scope.

Special Assignment at direction of the Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Services PCO and the Assistant Deputy Minister Public Safety, Continuity of Constitutional Government (CCG):

Nov 2008 – Feb 2009

• Collaborated in executing a private strategic governance forum on Parliament Hill to discuss interagency commitments for CCG planning and operations.
• Created a interdepartmental project plan to improve the CCG planning, and meet legislative requirements under the the federal Emergency Management Act , in order that all necessary arrangement are made for the CCG.
• Conceptualized and drafted the inaugural CCG Concept of Operations (CONOPS) in collaboration with the Canadian Armed Forces /Ministry of National Defense.
• Collaborated with the Executive, and Judiciary branches of the federal government to improve CCG planning, including selecting and fit up of alternate sites for immediate evacuation
• Designed and executed a functional evacuation and relocation of the Executive Branch, inclusive of a simulated evacuation using the Governor General's challenger jet and conducting a secure transmission at the alternate site.
• Co-developed and executed a multi-stakeholders a large scale exercise (over 20 departments and 100+ participants) of the CCG, simulating evacuation to the collection points.

Feb 2009 – June 2010

• Sabbatical for full time french language training.

Reporting to the Assistant Deputy Minister of Corporate Services:

• Provided strategic policy advice and guidance to the Policy Horizons unit, including planning and hosting a fresh water conference.
• Engaged with Corporate Services directors to prepare a deficit action reduction plan to reduce personnel and functions, for which the Associate Deputy Minister was awarded accolades.
• Managed the Assistant Deputy Minister's Office, and provided bi-weekly Secretariat services to achieve effective functioning of the PCO Executive Committee and support to the Office of the Clerk of the Privy Council.
• Prepared corporate resourcing plans, facilitated corporate planning/risk assessments, as well as prepare corporate business continuity plans, and collaborated with security operations to prepare fire safety as well as all-hazards contingency plans.
• Advised the Assistant Deputy Minister, Assistant Secretary to Cabinet on Security and Intelligence and other senior officials on security and emergency threats, risks and emerging high profile, time and politically sensitive security-related issues.
• Served as the primary point of contact to the Office of the Clerk of the Privy Council Office, fostering strong relationships between corporate teams, PCO and the Office of the Prime Minister.
• Supported the Assistant Deputy Minister in organizational duties through organizing networking events, coordinating workplace charitable giving campaigns, and hosting executive retreats, and holiday functions.
• Maintained a high degree of professionalism at all times, representing the organization with integrity in both internal and external interactions.

• Conducted comprehensive analyses of government client operations to pinpoint areas for improvement and recommend actionable plans and strategies.
• Established long-lasting relationships with key industry stakeholders, expanding the company''s network and influence.
• Negotiated consulting contracts with clients, securing favorable terms beneficial for both parties involved in the engagement process.
• Mentored junior consultants, fostering their professional growth and enhancing overall team productivity.
• Conducted extensive consultations and facilitated workshops on behalf of the federal government with First Nations, Inuit Elders, and organizational partners with Federal Provincial and Territorial governments and advocacy groups in preparing environmental mitigation plans and contributing to the drafting of the Northern Economic Development Strategy
• Conducted risk assessments and provided a report and actionable recommendations (e.g., Sydney Tar Ponds ).
• Prepared sustainable development strategies, conducted environmental assessments (e.g., ISO 14001) and developed remediation plans on behalf of Correctional Services Canada's Federal Contaminated Sites Program management.

• Prepared online curriculum focused on project management (PM) Body of Knowledge Guide, USA.
• Developed grading rubrics and evaluated student progress using both formative and summative assessments to provide targeted feedback for continuous learning.
• Developed innovative on-line teaching methods tailored to diverse learning styles, enhancing student comprehension and course completion success rates.
• Maintained regular office hours to provide students with additional course help.
• Provided students with constructive, encouraging and corrective feedback.
• Strengthened department reputation by presenting at conferences, serving on committees, and participating in professional organizations.
• Identified research opportunities for students, assisting with supervising special projects that were ranked as the top.

Summer Student position:

• Identified efficiencies in environmental auditing and field reporting, and implemented corrective actions.
• Prepared a report recommending options to improve environmental management and knowledge-sharing efficiency between headquarters and field offices.
• Evaluated and documented resources and effects for environmental elements and focused on transportation, land use, recreation, visual quality, wildlife, soils and archaeological considerations.
• Worked with principal consultants and prepared the transition of the company to a team-based structure, to assist with the assembly of the data room for the corporate sale of Home Oil Company to Anderson Oil Inc.

Summer Student Position:

• Reviewed environmental regulations, providing guidance to company leadership on oil and gas flare-pit compliance matters and improvements to the company environmental management program.
• Conducted research to locate flare pits and pipelines as part of remediation planning.
• Assessed the effectiveness of the Environmental Remediation Program, including assisting with field visits and sampling of contaminated sites.
• Reduced environmental risks by implementing comprehensive health and safety plans for site operations.