Bill O’Toole, P.Eng, MBA VP of Engineering & Senior Project Manager A versatile, decisive, and energized Senior Manager of engineering and construction projects, Mr. O’Toole brings with him 40+ years of Engineering and Project Management experience. With an established record of success leading all phases of complex, multiphase, and high-profile projects, his career encompasses a diverse project portfolio across many industries. His professional experience includes over 275 projects throughout Canada, and participation on international projects in South America, West Africa, and Kazakhstan. For the past 15 years, Mr. O’Toole has specialized predominantly in projects for the oil and gas/energy sector. He has managed projects such as oil batteries; compressor stations; asphalt/oil rail, truck, and marine terminals; gathering systems; ASP facilities; and Asset Integrity Management Systems. During this time Mr. O’Toole has also honed his Business Development skills, achieving success in growing a start-up Engineering Company from the ground up. Through his success in developing and implementing growth opportunities, building long-lasting client relationships, and utilizing effective marketing strategies, Mr. O’Toole has had previous experience as a key player in expanding the company from 2 people to over 200 personnel, and in creating sustained revenue improvements of 40% to 100% per year. Whether he is acting as Engineer, Project Manager, or Business Developer, Mr. O’Toole delivers results. He is recognized as a strong and respected leader with an adaptive leadership style. He is able to engage teams and achieve the intended goals by providing clear guidance and using the right leadership style for changing situations and the people being lead. He excels in collaborating with clients and contractors to meet or exceed design, quality, timeline, and budget expectations. Mr. O’Toole has a reputation for delivering projects to the highest standards and client satisfaction, by effectively organizing, managing, and utilizing all necessary resources.

Jim Grant, P.Eng. Senior Project Manager Jim Grant is a professional engineer with over 30 years of experience executing upstream oil and gas, pipeline, refinery and petrochemical projects in Canada and internationally. He has managed multi-discipline engineering projects through all phases in the project life cycle. He has an extensive background in facility and pipeline design developed while working on a wide range of projects in both large and multi-project environments. Mr. Grant has the ability to prioritize and complete tasks in deadline sensitive settings and is adept at managing the work processes required to successfully complete challenging projects. Mr. Grant is committed to delivering cost effective solutions that are aligned with project requirements. Mr. Grant’s education includes a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta, and he is a Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA).

Senior Technical Advisor Mr. Davies is a Professional Engineer with over 37 years of combined engineering and management experience in an engineering, procurement, and construction management environment. He has also played a role as a resource owner in the Oil and Gas Industry. Prior to joining Atlas, Mr. Davies was a Senior Process Engineer and Project Manager responsible for drilling and completion operations, oil & gas processing facilities and engineering design. He has had extensive exposure in operations from a range of small to large oil and gas processing facilities. In addition, he has been involved with gas/liquid separation technologies in gas plants, oil batteries, well site facilities, water flood plants, compressor facilities, glycol dehydration units, molecular sieve units and natural gas deep cut facilities (cryogenic facilities). Mr. Davies earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta and is a Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA). He is also a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Piping Designer, Checker and Lead Society of Piping Engineers and Designers Level IV certification Mr. Leitch has participated in an extensive portfolio of oil and gas projects in the above roles. He has applied his key values to each of those projects. Values such as honesty, good work ethic, team work and a positive attitude, there’s always a way to succeed in any endeavor. With a technical background that includes natural gas processing, conventional crude oil processing and associated field facilities, Mr. Hochhausen is able to readily identify pragmatic facility configuration options, and optimize a safe process design. His technical know-how includes design and operation of field and plant inlet separation, gas and liquid amine treating, sulfur recovery, tail gas clean-up, dehydration, refrigeration, cryogenic gas processing, liquid fractionation, and product treating. His hands-on operations experience comes from several years on-site at gas gathering and processing facilities handling sour, hydrocarbon rich gas. He is always ready to bring his skills to any new project, the more challenging the better. While he has accumulated a great deal of technical knowledge throughout his career, he realizes he only knows a fraction of all he could possibly learn.

Cathy Le, P.Eng Senior Project Engineer Mrs. Le is a Senior Process Engineer with over 13 years of experience in heavy oil, natural gas and chemical process units ranging from Pre-FEED, FEED, Detailed Design phase, HAZOP study through to construction turnover. Mrs. Le is a team player and has extensive experience in the development of Process Design Basis, Design Basis Memorandum, SOW, PFD & HMB, P&ID, and various other engineering reports and documents. She is proficient with HYSYS, FLARENET, VMGSim, and various other engineering software. With producing companies, she has provided technical support to Facilities Engineers, Production Engineers, Field Operations, Vessel Integrity, and Environmental teams as well as provided support to the superintendent areas year to year. The process support includes, project scoping and evaluation, Facility project and management of change (MOC) support, Annual DEOS work (Dehydrator, Engineering, and Operations Sheets), PSV replacement, and D39 Compliance scoping, reporting and corrective engineering support (Benzene). Mrs. Le is highly adaptable and with her strong work ethic and technical background, she is able to complete projects on time and on budget, while still delivering high quality work.