Executive Profiles
Charles Randell, Ph.D., P.Eng.
President & Chief Executive Officer
As President of C‑CORE, Charles’ primary responsibilities include business development, strategic planning, policy development, and the management and implementation of corporate systems at C‑CORE. Charles has developed and implemented multi-million dollar, multi-participant programs at C‑CORE that have contributed to the corporation’s growth nationally and internationally.
Charles began his career in 1981 with the offshore oil and gas industry, then worked in telecommunications, and ultimately in engineering technology development. His technical expertise spans a broad spectrum of remote sensing including synthetic aperture radar, satellite remote sensing and terrestrial radar systems, and underwater optical and acoustic sensing. Charles has designed numerous international collaborations for industry and government and managed programs comprising over 30 international participants with values of up to $20M. He is well versed in international business development, negotiation, and management.
Susan Kennedy, B.Comm., CMA
Vice President Operations
Susan is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) with over 20 years of corporate and project level business management experience. Susan became C-CORE’s Chief Financial Officer responsible for the corporation’s financial performance, intellectual property management, human resource strategies and operational policies in 2001. In 2005 Susan became Vice-President. Susan works with C-CORE’s talented team of engineers, scientists and business experts to develop corporate strategies to continue to grow and position C-CORE as Newfoundland and Labrador ’s premier corporation delivering innovative engineering solutions to clients worldwide.
Desmond Power, M.Eng., P.Eng.
Director, Radar & Vision Systems
Desmond has been working with Radar and Vision systems for over 15 years. He has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering in acoustical imaging systems and first joined C-CORE in 1991. He became an integral part of a research team that developed the Northern Radar surface wave radar facility at Cape Race Newfoundland. He has considerable expertise with applications of satellite and shore based radar, including high frequency, ultra-high frequency and microwave-based systems.
Desmond's experience includes antenna system design and development, receiver design, and radar signal processing. Desmond has been leading the development of advanced methods for iceberg detection including shore based radar and satellite based synthetic aperture radar. He is currently leading several projects on ground movement monitoring with satellite-based interferometry. He is also leading the development of encroachment monitoring systems and techniques using radar and high-resolution optical satellites. Desmond's considerable expertise, in hardware, software and signal processing techniques, significantly contributes to C-CORE's radar and vision systems activities.
Freeman Ralph, M. Eng., P.Eng.
Director, Ice Engineering
Freeman has a Masters Degree in Ocean and Naval Architecture and joined C-CORE’s ice engineering team in 1999. The primary focus of his team is working with oil and gas industry clients addressing challenges associated with developments in harsh ice prone environments. Recent projects (among others) include the White Rose, Sakhalin Island , Terra Nova and Hebron (ongoing) developments. His expertise includes risk of ice occurrence, ice design loads, ice management, ice structure interaction, ice mechanics, structural analysis, numerical and finite element modeling, risk and reliability assessment and field experiments. He was part of the team involved in the recent joint industry initiative to measure collision forces between the CCGS Terry Fox and bergy bits. Freeman has coordinated C‑CORE’s Ice Management R&D program for the last five years being intimately involved in the physical management work relating to ice deflection, towing system design/fabrication/ testing and simulation of ice management operations. Freeman also serves on the Canadian MetOcean group of the Harmonized Canadian Advisory Committee ISOTC67/SC7.
Christopher Fowler, M.Eng., P. Eng.
Deputy Director, Radar & Vision Systems
Chris has a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and has been with C-CORE since 2001. His previous experience includes monitoring and analyzing existing processes and recommending appropriate technological improvements. Much of this work involved adaptation and implementation of existing technology for use in demanding production environments. Recently this experience has been moved into intelligent sensors applications including image processing, intelligent control and robotics projects directed toward the natural resource industries.
Ryan Phillips, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Principal Consultant
Ryan has over 30 years of geotechnical engineering experience. He has been involved in a wide range of industrial research projects including soil - pipeline interaction and performance of offshore foundations, performance of production platforms, thaw-induced settlement of pipelines in permafrost, and wave action on submerged causeways. Ryan is an expert in geotechnical physical modeling and has carried out numerous applied research programs for industry.
Ian
Jordaan FCAE, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Principal Consultant
Ian Jordaan became a principal consultant to C-CORE. Ian is President of Ian Jordaan and Associates Inc., St John’s. He is an Honorary Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Until 2005 he was University Research Professor, and for the period 1986 - 1996 was NSERC-MOBIL Industrial Research Professor of Ocean Engineering, at the same university. Previously he served as Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, at the University of Calgary, and worked for several years at Det norske Veritas (Canada) Ltd., ending as Vice-President (Research and Development) in 1986. He has been involved extensively in developing methodology for engineering design criteria, and in the use of probability theory and risk analysis applied to engineering problems.
Ian has acted as a consultant in many studies, including determination of the design loads for the Confederation Bridge, and studies for the Terra Nova design, the West Bonne Bay prospect, the AMEC gravity based concept, the White Rose project and the Hebron prospect. He has received the Horst Leipholz Medal for contributions to mechanics, and the P.L. Pratley Award for the best paper on bridge engineering, both from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. Recently he served on an Expert Panel of the Royal Society of Canada, advising the Minister of Natural Resources Canada on science issues related to oil and gas activities offshore British Columbia. In 2005 he was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Paul Adlakha P.Eng.
Director, Marketing
Paul Adlakha who joins C-CORE as Director of Marketing, managing
C-CORE’s new office in Nova Scotia .
Paul has a degree in Electrical Engineering and has spent most of
his career in marketing and business development of technology
oriented companies - both in the manufacturing and the services
sectors. Prior to coming to C-CORE he was V.P. Marketing and Sales
at SEIMAC Ltd.
Originally from India, Paul has lived in the U.K., U.S. and Canada.
Paul now lives in Fall River, just outside Halifax , with his
fiancée. He has 4 daughters also living in Nova Scotia.
Arash Zakeri Ph.D., P.Eng.
Director, Geotechnical Engineering
Arash has 10 years of national and international experience on
numerous large-scale civil engineering, mine waste management and
offshore projects in Canada, USA, Australia, New Caledonia, Norway,
Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Greenland (Denmark) and Vietnam. As a
researcher in the field of offshore geosciences, Arash has
expertise in estimation of drag forces on pipelines and seafloor
installations caused by a submarine debris flow and turbidity
current impact. Further expertise include offshore geohazards
study, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, earth dam
classification and design, dam break analysis, tailings basin
siting, planning, and management, specialized geotechnical /
foundation analysis and modelling including stability of natural
and embankment slopes, settlement estimation and foundation (deep
and shallow) design, liquefaction potential evaluation, earthquake
effects and seismic/dynamic stability of earth dams, cost tracking,
drawing preparation, assimilation of geotechnical data /
information and site characterization.
The primary focus of Arash’s team is to work with the oil and
gas, mining and government authorities in addressing their offshore
and on-shore geotechnical challenges and to provide innovative
and/or effective solutions.
Stephen Churchill, M.Eng, P.Eng.
Director of Operations, Ottawa
Stephen joined C-CORE In 2001 from the telecom industry. Stephen
began work with C-CORE as a research scientist in the Remote
Sensing group before taking on team lead and senior manager roles
in 2003, and 2006. Stephen’s early involvement included
algorithms development for data fusion and tracking systems for
improved iceberg detection for the joint-industry Integrated Ice
Management Initiative. Subsequently he managed and contributed to a
series of aerospace hardware developments for several scientific
research satellite flights with the Canadian and European Space
Agencies.
Stephen currently oversees the strategic and daily operations of
C-CORE’s Ottawa branch office which began operation in June
of 2008. Stephen has experience in team leadership, mulit-million
dollar project management and marketing. Stephen’s broad
range of project management experience includes aerospace and
remote sensing applications with Canadian and International
partners. His technical background includes remote sensing and EO
data applications, and risk assessment and data fusion systems; an
area in which he holds a Masters of Engineering Degree.
Stephen’s broad skill set compliments the wide scope of
C-CORE’s activities and contributes to the on-going success
of the organization.
Joseph Chamberland B.Eng.
Deputy Director of Operations, Ottawa
Joseph joined the C-CORE team in June of 2008 at the new Ottawa
office as the Deputy Director of Operations. He has a bachelor
degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in
Montréal, Québec. At his previous position as VP of
Engineering at Vantage Point International Inc. he led several
large scale system development projects in remote sensing,
including services to deliver near real-time SAR imagery and SAR
derived wind-field.
Joseph has experience in research and development of emerging radar
applications that focus on digital signal processing. His project
experience covers a wide range of applications including tracking,
data fusion techniques, SAR image encoding and covert encryption.
His DSP experience combined with his experience in remote sensing
has allowed him to lead research projects on emerging space borne
SAR technologies such as polarimetry and interferometry.
