Kelly Arychuk is the VP - Mine Support Services for Victoria Gold Corp. She was raised in the north and has been
involved in the mining industry for several years. Prior to this, Kelly worked
for almost 20 years with the City of Yellowknife as Human Resource Manager.
Kelly is an active volunteer in the community and has contributed to many
successful territorial events, including past Arctic Winter Games. Kelly holds
a certificate in Human Resource Management from Queen’s University and
represents Victoria Gold Corp
on various boards including Skills Canada. She
served on the board from September 2005 to December 2006 and rejoined the board
in August 2007 until present and in 2009 to present became the
President.
Greg Skauge
David Connelly
Krystal Shaben was raised in the North and has been involved with
the Skills movement is some shape or form since 2003. After completing University Krystal joined
the Skills NWT Board of Directors in 2010. Krystal’s primary involvement with
Skills NWT is in the Try-a-Trade event which was hosted for the first time in
the NWT last year at our territorial competition. Krystal’s hope is that her
involvement and presence on the board will help continue to grow this event as
well as promote the trades to the youth of the North.
Larry Connolly is the Coordinator of the Kimberlite Career &
Technical Centre, the primary trades training centre for the Yellowknife
Catholic School District as well as the home of Skills Canada NWT. Larry has
been with KCTC for over 4 years and brings with him many years experience as a
high school teacher, high school administrator, government consultant and post
secondary administrator. Larry is also the Information and Communication
Technologies coordinator for Yellowknife Catholic Schools.
Larry joined the Skills Canada NWT Board in 2010, reinforcing the
existing partnership between SC-NWT and Yellowknife Catholic Schools. Larry
lives in Yellowknife most of the year, making trips home to visit family in
Newfoundland when school is out; Larry and his wife recently welcomed the birth
of their first grandchild. Current hobbies include reading and learning new
technologies and how they can be used effectively in instruction.
Roger Nendsa was born and raised in Yellowknife and he knows
the importance of getting Yellowknife youth involved in the trades. He is
a Journeyman Cabinetmaker with Dovetail Contracting in Yellowknife. He has
competed at Skills Canada at the territorial level (2009) and national level
(2009/2010).
In 2010 after completing his schooling at the Southern Alberta Institute of
Technology (SAIT) and receiving his inter-provincial red seal, he joined the
Skills NWT board of directors.
Roger brings a trades-person perspective to the board, he hopes to be a role
model for students wanting to start a career in skilled trades.
Kerry Robinson, a resident
of the NWT for almost 30 years, joined the Skills NWT Board in June of 2011.
Kerry lives in Fort Smith and is the Manager of Program Development for Aurora
College, a position he has held for the past 16 years. Kerry’s interest in
becoming a Board member for Skills Canada NWT was both professional and
personal. In his role at Aurora College his work centres on labour force development,
much of which is in the industrial area. Many of the training partnerships and
programs he is involved with fall into the trades and technology area, and he
has a definite interest in the success of these programs and seeing individuals
connect training to employment. On the personal front, Kerry’s father worked
for 35 years in the trades as a Tool and Die Maker, Machinist, Instrument
Technician and Pneumatic Engineer. Kerry’s son Kevin is also product of the
kind of training and programming advocated by Skills Canada NWT. Kevin is a
Journeyman Power Systems Electrician for ATCO Electric.
Sébastien Goyer
Dale
Johnson is a northern boy through and through. While born in B.C he moved
to the Territories at age 5 and hasn’t looked back. First in Inuvik
then Whitehorse and then settling in Yellowknife.
He was involved in the trades right away starting with getting his
diploma first in Automotive Service Technology from S.A.I.T College in Calgary,
AB. Then moving straight into the Carpentry Apprenticeship program.
He has since received his red-seal journeyperson status in Carpentry/operated
his own contracting company in Yellowknife/ and is currently employed with a
long time employer Clark Builders.
Dale was a past participant in skills Canada and represented the N.WT.
at the national event in Winnipeg, MB. The great memories as well as the
obvious need to promote the trades are the main reasons for wanting to be
involved at the board level.
Martin Laundry lived in
Inuvik for 6 years and work for a northern general contracting company that made
him travelling through the NWT & Nunavut regularly. Originally born
in Cape Town (South Africa) but lived and worked in Pakistan, Holland,
Belgium, Papua New Guinea & Bangladesh. He studied at Queen’s
University in Kingston Ontario.
He is interested in supporting youth develop skills
for next steps; also relevant as a Northern Contractor to help support the next
generation of our workforce.
He was
the former Chair of the Inuvik Youth
Centre, and started and ran the “Arctic
Youth Leadership program” (www.arcticyouthleadership.ca) as part of Inuvialuit
Development Corporations corporate social responsibility program.
Steve Petersen:
I have lived in the NT since 1980
prior to that I resided in Ottawa.
My goal is to get a
Unionized presence in the Skills Canada forum.
Rob Prasad
Rob joined the Skills Canada NWT Board in 2011.