December

Lots of Christmas parties in December! First, I had my Intern Holiday Party, then a party for New Professional Network Canada (NPNC) and finally, Shell’s Christmas party/100 year Birthday at TELUS Convention Center. It was great to see to all my colleagues J

I also had a “Day of Caring” on Dec 9th along with other interns. This time, we went to Youth Safe House to cook and clean and decorate Christmas trees and gingerbread houses. Some of us stayed longer to play board games with our new friends.

On Dec 14th, we had the project celebration for SAS Induction Center (Pilot) up in Fort McMurray. The Pilot has been successful and I’m looking forward to see the implementation before I finish my internship.

November

In month of November, I experienced a Kaizen event for Shell Albian Sands Induction Center project. “Kaizen is Japanese name for "improvement" or "change for the better" and it refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, game development, and business management.” Kaizen helps to eliminate “waste” (Transportation waste, Waste of Movement, Waste of Waiting time, etc.) by improving standardized activities.

I am also contributing in another project regarding the Heavy Oil Site Access System. This system is a centralized database for all heavy Oil sites that restricts contractors/employees from getting unauthorized access to sites. Currently, each Heavy Oil site has its own database and as a result, if a worker gets banned from one site, they would still be able to get into other Heavy Oil sites. In the new system, if a worker gets banned from any of the Heavy Oil sites, he/she would not be able to get into other sites until the restriction is lifted.