DENNIS GUY O'BRIEN

7441 M. Santillan St., #203, Makati, PHILIPPINES
Telephone 63-2-7596215 Fax 63-2-7596116
Email dobrien@dataserve.aim.edu.ph

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

Over 22 years of international experience in Canada, Papua New 
Guinea, Zambia and Kenya. Experience is comprised of seven years with a 
leading Canadian consulting engineering firm; and over 14 years in the 
field of international development with governmental and non-governmental 
agencies in a range of implementation and senior management positions 
featuring progressively increasing responsibility.

Key skills include: project design and management; strategic planning; 
feasibility studies; proposal and report writing; negotiating proposals 
into contracts; program management; disaster response management; on-time 
delivery of outputs; and donor/client relations. 

EDUCATION

Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines, 1998-1999 
Candidate for the degree of Master in Development Management


Confederation College of Applied Arts & Technology, Thunder Bay, Ontario, 
Canada, 1974-1976	               
Civil Engineering Technology Diploma

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 CARE International, 1992-present	ZAMBIA, CANADA, KENYA
Deputy Director of CARE Kenya, July 1995 - May 1998 
Kenya:
Responsible for managing a portfolio of humanitarian aid and development 
projects, staffed by approximately 300 Kenyan nationals and expatriates, 
with an annual budget of US$6.25m. Sectors included: savings & credit to 
micro-enterprises; refugee camp operation and management; food & 
livelihood security; drought relief & recovery; small-holder agricultural 
production; and water & sanitation. Principal donors included: United 
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; British Department for 
International Development; Bureau of Population Refugees & Migration of 
the US State Department; USAID; Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance; 
World Food Program; and the Canadian International Development Agency. Mr. 
O'Brien was also responsible for maintaining and renewing funding levels 
of the current portfolio, new program development, overseeing monitoring 
and evaluation, ensuring donor contract compliance, and liaison with 
multilateral agencies, NGO networks and the Government of Kenya. Mr. 
O'Brien initiated and managed CARE's response to the El Nino-induced 
drought and flood disasters in Kenya in 1997/8, securing donor contracts 
worth over US$1m.

Canada: 
Southern Africa desk officer in CARE Canada headquarters, 1994-1995 

Zambia:
Project Manager, then promoted after nine months to Program Coordinator, 
1992-1994 


Proctor and Redfern Consulting Engineers Ltd., Canada, 1976-80; 1989-91

Supervised a range of civil engineering projects including: water supply 
and sewerage, bridges, roads, earthworks and marinas. Project budgets 
ranged from $100,000 to $2.7m. 

Prepared designs, specifications and contract documents; called tenders; 
reviewed bids and recommended award of contracts; managed and administered 
contracts.


Department of Works - Local Government Section, Papua New Guinea, 1980-1989

Responsible for feasibility studies, survey, design, budget preparation, 
materials procurement, logistics and construction of a range of rural, 
community-based, civil engineering projects sponsored by local governments 
and communities. Projects included: water supplies, footbridges, wharves, 
roads, clinics, schools and micro hydro schemes. Provided program planning 
assistance, technical advice and training to local governments, 
non-governmental and community-based organisations.

OTHER INFORMATION

 LANGUAGES:
	Neo-Melanesian (Papua New Guinea) - Fluent
                                                                           
   French - Basic