Born and raised in rural Saskatchewan, Kyle is a Professional Civil / Environmental Engineer with 20 years of professional experience. His first work experiences were on the family farm and working construction with his father’s excavation company; He later graduated and moved to Edmonton to work in the oilsands industry where through a progressive career of technical design, field engineering and construction management, learned how to evaluate and make decisions that would provide the best project value.
Kyle loves seeing a project from start to finish and always puts himself in the shoes of the Client, the Operator, the Regulator, and commits to providing solutions that are fair and reasonable for all. He will not be satisfied until he fully understands your challenges after which he will study and craft a workable plan that will be delivered openly and diligently. You can be confident that what is said will be done.
Kyle has a mission to create a positive business environment and foster a culture that will attract and promote the most accountable and creative talents in the industry. He co-founded ARKK Engineering, and currently provides leadership and direction to the organization through his role as President.
Frederico is a professional engineer with more than eighteen years of technical and management experience of small and large infrastructure projects within EPC and EPCM environments. He sees problems as just something to figure out how to solve; the bigger and complex they are, the more interesting it is. He believes that there is a solution for every problem, one just needs to think smart, know the facts and employ creative problem solving.
Frederico has a very diverse professional career, spanning both with domestic and globally-dispersed projects. His experience led him to co-found ARKK Engineering with his partners – a specialized infrastructure engineering consultancy business that values the relationships with clients, and places quality and service before fees.
He has been recognized as an ethical, tenacious and organized professional who is determined to be and to make others successful. Frederico is able to deal with change or difficult situations easily using a collaborative leadership style.
Nicky comes to ARKK Engineering with over 15 years of professional office experience. Her dedication and passion to be a part of a growing and dynamic team is what has lead her to join us. Nicky is resilient and a self start who believes in fostering a happy and healthy work environment.
Her diverse experience includes Human Resources management, payables administration and most recently, Health, Safety and Environment coordination. Nicky is a dedicated and persistent individual who strives for success in everything she does both professionally and personally.
Rob is a professional civil / environmental Engineer with nearly 15 years of experience. He is a specialist in the field of water resources and hydrotechnical engineering. Rob joined ARKK because he believes it is the ideal place to build a team focused on what is important to him – exceeding client’s expectations by delivering high-value technical services.
He has had a life-long fascination with dirt and water. Growing up in rural Saskatchewan provided many opportunities to get stuck in the mud and experience droughts and floods, first hand. He never passes up an opportunity to get outside, preferably near a river or lake.
His passion is understanding the client’s needs, wants, and constraints and then working collaboratively to solve problems in a creative, cost-effective manner. He loves working in team environment to take a challenging project from concept to operation.
Chris is a professional Process Engineer. He has multifaceted experience ranging from a green field multi-billion-dollar oil sand mega project to specialized MFT dredge design. With a wide range of experience, Chris brings practical solutions to the complex technical problems that clients need. Leveraging his experience working with the Syncrude Froth Treatment R&D team and on site at Keyera AFE, where coordination between operations and technical teams is the key to success, Chris thrives working in a strong team environment.
From an early age, Chris has always had a passion to figure out how things work. Particularly from the big picture, 10,000-foot view. Chris believes that this is important to understanding engineering and the impacts of the applied solution.
Sang is a professional engineer with over 27 years of experience in engineering design, engineering management, and project management within the EPC environment. Immigrated from Vietnam, Sang made Edmonton his home since he first landed in Edmonton back in summer of 1979.
Sang’s career has taken him through various leadership roles, stemming from the very beginning completing as-building work to becoming an engineering lead on projects, to department management, and to engineering management of a team size which consisted of 360+ team members. Adept in both greenfield and brownfield projects, work opportunities included scoping study, front-end, and detail engineering for the oil & gas refining, oilsands, and pipeline facilities.
As a department manager, Sang prides himself on creating high performing teams by selecting, stewarding, and mentoring strong team members with excellent technical and leadership skills. Sang places quality as the utmost importance as he believes high-quality work will not only satisfy our customers but will also help build great relationships and confidence with our customers and in return help bring repeat work for our company.
Marion is a professional mechanical engineer with 15 years of experience in Alberta and Saskatchewan. She has worked with industries such as fertilizer production, oil sands tailings management, and oil & gas transportation and refining. Marion’s diverse project experience means that she can learn unfamiliar equipment or processes quickly and produce high quality deliverables for all phases of engineering projects. Extensive work in the field on replacement and repair projects (such as replacing large fired heaters) has taught Marion to prioritize practical solutions to complex problems and ensure projects have as little downtime as possible.
Interaction with many professions and trades over the years has demonstrated that Marion consistently creates good relationships with new clients while collaborating to find the best solutions. Her strong technical writing, organization, and communication skills have led to the successful execution of numerous large, multi-discipline equipment requisitions.
Marion has worked with pressure equipment regulators such as ABSA and TSASK her entire career and understands the technical requirements and documentation to ensure approvals go smoothly.
Kevin is a Piping Designer with over 27 years’ experience. With a father as a welder in Lloydminster’s heavy oil patch, his early exposure was to pipe fitting techniques and how a fabrication shop works. Summer jobs involved helping pipe fitters and welders fitting up their spools. It was an easy to transition to NAIT’s EDDT program to learn the ins and outs of being a piping designer. After graduation, Kevin was able to dabble in many local Edmonton industries from Pharmaceutical, Power, Chemical, and Breweries, eventually settling in a career supporting primarily the Oilsands industry.
Known for being a collaborative team member, Kevin works closely with Operations to ensure designs are ergonomic and effective to meet their needs as well as safe, constructible, and cost effective. Kevin works synergistically with all team members to help drive all aspects of his projects to successful completion.
Shelly is a professional engineer with over 12 years of geotechnical engineering experience and is a front-runner in public relations. Her project experience is largely based in central and northern Alberta with some projects in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon. Her experiences have resulted in the development of strong project and client management skills, along with design and construction related geotechnical capabilities.
Shelly sees clear communication with coworkers, clients, and contractors alike as a key component of successful project delivery. She believes there is always a solution to the challenges at hand, and they are often derived in settings which foster open and honest communication. Shelly is cost-conscious and strives for cost-efficient and practical designs.
She was born and raised of a farm in rural Alberta which provided unlimited opportunity to play in dirt, water, and mud and all the experiences that go along with it. Shelly enjoys participating in many sports and being outdoors, camping, and spending time at the family farm.
Gustavo Padros is a Senior Geotechnical and Structural Engineer with more than 25 years’ experience. He was born and raised in Mexico City, where the soft subsurface conditions and strong earthquakes are a constant challenge for geotechnical engineering projects. He has extensive professional experience in consulting projects, designing and implementing engineering solutions for highway and bridge infrastructure, power transmission and linear pipeline projects.
Gustavo has published 13 technical articles and was Professor Assistant of Foundation Engineering and Structural Engineering courses at the Universidad Iberoamericana and Universidad Marista in Mexico for 5 years. Delivering a safe, reliable and cost-effective engineering design has always been his work priority. Gustavo believes that if the work is carried out by a group of people working together, sharing the same vision, that any goal is achievable.
Jeff thrives at delivering successful projects within whatever constraints are presented. He is someone who carefully listens to what a client wants and ensures they will get what they need. He has a diplomatic and respectful leadership style that fosters independent thinking and growth for all of his team members.
Jeff believes in investing in the people he works with and fostering collaboration to create results. His ability to adapt to find common ground with everyone he meets can be attributed to his very positive and patient behaviour. His professional experience and attitude brought him to partner and co-found ARKK Engineering.
Born and raised in northern Alberta, Jeff has over 14 years of industry experience ranging from large civil earthworks projects to structural detailing of commercial buildings and everything in between. His diverse work experience includes projects from all around the globe.
Rob is a serial learner whose experience brings different perspectives and skills to solving complex problems. Born to deaf parents, Rob grew up in a world of social activism and developed a strong affinity for the underdog. His natural writing skills led him early in his career to journalism, where he excelled but grew restless as the industry struggled to adapt to a world with an internet. After several years developing his management skills in the restaurant industry in B.C., Rob moved to Edmonton and found tremendous satisfaction learning new skills working on service rigs. In 2004, Rob moved to Montreal to work with his musician wife-to-be, and soon they were touring her show around the middle east and Asia. Dissatisfied with his inability to answer the question “Is Climate Change real?”, Rob returned to school to study science, and he hasn’t looked back. He now lives in Edmonton with his wife and their two kids.
Rob enjoys solving difficult problems and finding efficiencies. He sees his role on a team as one of an interpreter who helps connect people to ideas. He excels at synthesizing and distilling complicated material into a form that any audience can understand. He takes tremendous pride in accomplishing whatever task is put in front of him, and in holding himself to the highest standards.
Rob’s overall mission is to leave the world a better place than he found it, and to help others who share that mission. His longstanding interest is in the protection of water resources.
