Innovative Projects Realized

New Future Creative Growth Strategy Project

New Future Creative is a creative agency striving to help clients by creating custom-designed Augmented Reality experiences, GIFs, and other animation assets that capitalize on new trends in technology and social media. Their technologies enable brands to better connect with their customers by stimulating organic interactions, especially currently when in-person interactions are so limited. As an intern, I will be focused on sales and business development. One of my activities will be prospecting clients and researching their business strategies to offer services with a tailored approach. I will also nurture and retain relationships with clients that extend beyond the original sale to establish long-term strategic partnerships. Secondly, I will assist with NFC’s marketing strategy, involving executing a marketing campaign to drive website visits and increase brand visibility. Moreover, I will spearhead the management of NFC’s marketing channels, including working with content calendars, developing promotional materials, and updating their website periodically. My last key objective is to launch the Brighter Future Initiative, a community service project dedicated to helping mission-driven companies by providing our custom-designed filters and other digital assets for free. The main goal of this initiative is to help those most impacted by the pandemic who cannot rely on their traditional marketing methods. In summary, this research project will allow NFC to grow their operations, better market their brand, review and streamline their services and processes, increase their client base, and engage in service-oriented activities that will help Canadian brands and artists by offering free digital assets during COVID-19.

Project Coordinator, Finance

This app is especially important in the current climate. An app that is revolutionary enough to change the traditional ways of conducting business will help improve ordering and paying in a contactless restaurant/ hotel environment. Covid-19 has made changed the way that people dine around the world. A platform that makes contactless service easier is needed now more than ever. A survey by Restaurants Canada shows that 1 in 10 restaurants have permanently closed due to Covid-19. The ones that survived now rely heavily on delivery/ contactless dining. Contactless service is the new normal in the hospitality industry, and businesses are looking for ways to make this mode more convenient for customers.

Any company hoping to provide an app that helps these restaurants/ hotels offer contactless service must be able to enhance services that these businesses are already providing. Being able to communicate the revolutionary aspects of a product is often challenging. The best way to overcome this challenge is to provide a product that understates but over-delivers. uSuite believes that the product they are offering these establishments is revolutionary, this project will help the company communicate the innovative product using research, technology and various financial models.

WWiKY BioSciences Inc. – Business Development Intern

At this point we are in need of an update to our business plan in order to expand our options to find financial support within the current economic climate.
We need to expand our list of government support options, explore multiple markets to widen our net of potential investors, to explore multiple international markets, explore additional potential partnership options.
We also need to explore and potentially modify the commercialization plan for our current research product as there is potential for use of hypoxia-detection in tissues potentially damaged by COVID infection. Like all start-ups we face the challenge of needing to find funding to being on staff and yet need personnel to do the work to make the money…. Growing Canadian start-ups require these types of bridging and growth support opportunities.

Microstructure Evolution and Thermomechanical Fatigue of Service-Exposed Coke Drum Materials

There is a growing demand when it comes to the repairing of the coke drum since most of the current in-use coke drums has been in service for decades. This study will develop a new methodology to assess the microstructure evolution and thermal mechanical properties of service-exposed coke drums. The focus of experiments of this project involves high temperature fatigue test to evaluate the fatigue life of the material. Through the studying, the evolution of microstructure evolution will be better identified and understood, providing the foundation of the analysis in the future. Finally, an optimized heat treatment procedure to help in repairing of the coke drum is to be developed, which will greatly benefit Suncor in the quality of repairing and reduce the cost.

Effects of Geomagnetic Disturbances on Power Transformers

Explosive eruptions on the sun’s surface eject charged particles that may travel the earth path. They cause disturbances in earth’s magnetic field and as a result, a low frequency current is induced in electrical power system transmission lines. The induced current increases operating temperature of power transformers. This overheating reduces lifetime of the transformer and may even lead to a catastrophic failure of the transformer. In this project, the overheating is evaluated by measuring amount of byproducts generated in oil insulation of the transformer including dissolved gases and bubbles. These byproducts are indicators of insulation deterioration. The measurements are performed under various conditions, and novel contactless measuring techniques are developed in this regard. Results of this project provide power system operators with critical limits on operating temperature of power transformers to increase their lifespan and prevent catastrophic failures during a geomagnetic disturbance.

Nonlinear Projection Methods for Prediction of Trends in Cancer Incidence and Mortality

Main aim of this project is to develop a prediction model for cancer projection, with detailed information regarding incidence, mortality and other measures of cancer burden for the most common types of cancer, presented by age, sex, time and geographic locations. These data can help stimulatenew research as well as assist decision-making and priority-setting at the individual, community, provincial/territorial and national levels. This prediction Model can be implemented by using historical data to model trends of cancer risk, and extrapolating the trends into the future to project the rates and numbers. Monitoring cancer incidence and mortality time trends is essential for cancer research and health-care planning.

ESD Simulation Training

I will analyze the position of ESD relative to the oil and gas industry to gain insight on how best to approach the reconfiguring of the business. I will assess how ESD’s customers are handling the COVID-19 crisis in order to suit business operations to the new climate. After figuring out how to best continue operations while the crisis is ongoing, I will work with ESD to create a plan for a post pandemic world.

Marketing Coordinator Intern

Recognizing the difficulty of the hospitality and restaurant industries under the effect of COVID-19, uSuite is going to launch new products that ease customers’ ordering and paying processes. These are mobile ordering solutions to improve health, safety and customer service efficiency. The products will enable settings to permit customers to utilize their smartphones to control their experiences.
The candidate will be responsible for creating a marketing plan as well as designing uSuite branded materials, managing the social media strategy and posts, assisting with special marketing projects and supporting event and sponsorship strategies. Moreover, the candidate will also create creative platforms using writing skills. Market research will be also be conducted. As uSuite is a start-up, the candidate will contribute to the developing and growing stage of the company. The candidate will also be required to work effectively as a team with other members and be self-motivated to work individually based on the tasks’ nature.
As a Marketing Coordinator, the candidate will observe the market and engage in research to determine the latest trends and customers’ habits. This will enhance the candidate’s knowledge about the marketplace and the technology industry. By working with the founders of the company and preparing reports for weekly meetings during the project, the candidate can focus and practice their presentation and communication skills to communicate effectively at work.

Operation Management & Process development of partner organization

This pandemic has become a global challenge & lasted long enough to be described as new normal. In post pandemic world, contactless businesses will have a prospect of thrive once we live through this pandemic. Keeping that in mind, u-Suite is trying to become the pioneer in providing contactless ordering and paying services in hospitality (hotel and restaurant) sector. This project will enable getting their product in the market. Simultaneously, the project will also cover app development on the ground level and help to launch it in the post COVID world.
Seeing a need in hospitality that is currently underserved, uSuite was launched to make transacting in a COVID world safer and more efficient. The firm is currently developing workflows and procedures as it relates to operations, both in the functioning of the software applications to be deployed as well as internal company procedures. They do not have anyone dedicated to operations and are looking for an operations management student to help fill that void.

Project proposal Key Assets Nl

Key Assets has been in operation in the province since 2009 and is affiliated with an international network operated by the Martin James Foundation which provides services to children, youth and families. In this province they offer an array of services from individual and family therapy to residential support for children in care. Currently, with a staff of over 300 they provide services to over 200 young people. The Child and Youth Advocacy Centre (CAYAC) is supported by Key Assets but stands as an independent registered charity with a goal of advocacy of services, public policy, research and professional learning for vulnerable youth. The board is moving toward an interdisciplinary research project that will inform the broader community of the evolving needs of these children and families. This internship will help develop a plan to both design a research model as well as engage various community partners and link them with university faculties and researchers to establish a research cluster.

Conatix Finance and Marketing Internship

Due to the nature of the start-up technology organization, Conatix works in agile sprints. Project responsibilities will be diverse and change almost daily between improving, iterating, and implementing various deliverables. Some projects that the Conatix team have outlined for my term with the team are:

o Creating a fundraising plan and implementing the respective campaign. This project will require development of investor deck presentations that provides a full corporate outline on financial projections, market size and capture capabilities.
o Continuous maintenance and improvement of the contact (CRM) database. This project will be ongoing and require diligence in client contact and information vetting.
o The team would also like to see a brief final report summarizing what has been completed over the period of employment to prevent loss and ensure continuation of any implemented activities.

This project will allow me to help Conatix cover as much ground for general data analysis and business development as possible. With a team that is already stretched for ensuing deadlines and on a limited budget the ability for me to apply my skill set to the partner organization’s activities will lessen the burden of the pandemic and its affect on start-up fund raising capabilities.

Business Strategy Internship- Impact Kitchen

Impact Kitchen has four locations in Toronto, built on the belief that food has the power to shape our daily lives. Their mission is to empower the community to eat healthy, nutritionally-dense foods with a focus on quality and sustainability. I will be given the opportunity to work in both their strategic partnership department, as well as conduct some research as to how Covid 19 has affected their business, and what can be expected in the reopening phase of restaurants. One of my roles will be to research their most popular products, determine how often they are purchased and at what locations. One of the other roles will be looking to create more strategic partnerships within Toronto as well as maintaining existing partnerships. This project will allow Impact Kitchen to gain another member on their team without the financial burden of having to hire a full-time member during these difficult times. It will help them to navigate this stressful time with a new fresh minded individual who can bring ideas to the table. With the opening of locations, and the team being extremely busy ensuring all customers are feeling safe and health TOBECONT’.