Brandi Walter has over 12 years of experience administering and enforcing provincial legislation including the Conservation Authorities Act. She currently works as an Environmental Planner/Regulations Officer for the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority where she is responsible for administering regulations, reviewing development applications, processing permits, evaluating impacts on ecosystems, and performing site inspections. She has a diploma in Terrain and Water Resource Technology from Sir Sandford Fleming College and knowledge of interpreting natural features, ecosystems, and assessing development impacts.
Global Family Offices Summit_Energy Future Panel_March 24, 2016RJ Abercrombie
The Global Family Offices Summit brings together the executives and decision-makers from family offices, fund investors, and private and public growth companies. Guest speakers from various industries will present their relevant business experiences and knowledge that can assist these Family Offices in their choices for investments, management, and administrative activities.
Environmental Permitting in Indian CountryAshleyTso1
During the Construction in Indian Country 2018 Annual Conference, Eunice Tso led a workshop session on Friday morning called “Environmental Permitting in Indian Country.”
Global Family Offices Summit_Energy Future Panel_March 24, 2016RJ Abercrombie
The Global Family Offices Summit brings together the executives and decision-makers from family offices, fund investors, and private and public growth companies. Guest speakers from various industries will present their relevant business experiences and knowledge that can assist these Family Offices in their choices for investments, management, and administrative activities.
Environmental Permitting in Indian CountryAshleyTso1
During the Construction in Indian Country 2018 Annual Conference, Eunice Tso led a workshop session on Friday morning called “Environmental Permitting in Indian Country.”
The Case for Video Interviewing: The Tesco Bank ExperienceSonru
Rae Ranasinghe, Resourcing Manager - Volume and Graduate Recruitment examines the case for video interviewing in your recruitment process, specifically in relation to the Tesco Bank experience of Sonru Video Interviewing.
50 Shades of Fuzzing by Peter Hlavaty & Marco GrassiShakacon
Graphic drivers and their related code are an essential component in every modern operating system. This particular component involves especially complex logic and a huge amount of code, simply because it must handle equally complex tasks.
As we know from history and experience huge and complex code is often also a security risk. Last but not least, in almost all the popular modern operating system, graphics code and logic is running in a highly privileged context such as the kernel, or even in a higher context, such as VMWare graphics component, which essentially implements your graphic card outside the guest into a host process.
Any mistake made into this highly privileged code can lead to a fatal outcome, especially considering that it is often reachable from interesting sandboxes, such as the browser ones. We will go through the internals for various graphic systems, to show similarities and differences, such as windows heart of graphics aka win32k, then OSX/iOS IOKit, and finally, WMWare emulated GPU graphic subsystem. We can then switch gear and showcase some vulnerabilities in these scenarios, discuss effective fuzzing methodologies both specific to a particular target and generic principles of fuzzing graphic subsystems as well.
Hiring Great People: how we improved our recruiting process to build and grow...Pietro Di Bello
Getting the right people will help create a great team, and will let it grow healthy. Moreover, it will keep it rooted in your company culture, and sustaining that same culture in turn.
Nevertheless, too often recruiting is overlooked or completely delegated to HR or external recruiting agencies.
In this session I’ll share our experience in building our actual recruitment process, how we got to this recruitment workflow, what lessons we’ve learned and what are the key elements of a recruitment process. I’ll also examine some differences compared to a more “traditional” way of selecting and assessing people.
The Case for Video Interviewing: The Tesco Bank ExperienceSonru
Rae Ranasinghe, Resourcing Manager - Volume and Graduate Recruitment examines the case for video interviewing in your recruitment process, specifically in relation to the Tesco Bank experience of Sonru Video Interviewing.
50 Shades of Fuzzing by Peter Hlavaty & Marco GrassiShakacon
Graphic drivers and their related code are an essential component in every modern operating system. This particular component involves especially complex logic and a huge amount of code, simply because it must handle equally complex tasks.
As we know from history and experience huge and complex code is often also a security risk. Last but not least, in almost all the popular modern operating system, graphics code and logic is running in a highly privileged context such as the kernel, or even in a higher context, such as VMWare graphics component, which essentially implements your graphic card outside the guest into a host process.
Any mistake made into this highly privileged code can lead to a fatal outcome, especially considering that it is often reachable from interesting sandboxes, such as the browser ones. We will go through the internals for various graphic systems, to show similarities and differences, such as windows heart of graphics aka win32k, then OSX/iOS IOKit, and finally, WMWare emulated GPU graphic subsystem. We can then switch gear and showcase some vulnerabilities in these scenarios, discuss effective fuzzing methodologies both specific to a particular target and generic principles of fuzzing graphic subsystems as well.
Hiring Great People: how we improved our recruiting process to build and grow...Pietro Di Bello
Getting the right people will help create a great team, and will let it grow healthy. Moreover, it will keep it rooted in your company culture, and sustaining that same culture in turn.
Nevertheless, too often recruiting is overlooked or completely delegated to HR or external recruiting agencies.
In this session I’ll share our experience in building our actual recruitment process, how we got to this recruitment workflow, what lessons we’ve learned and what are the key elements of a recruitment process. I’ll also examine some differences compared to a more “traditional” way of selecting and assessing people.
Gestione del Product Backlog: un decluttering efficaceSusanna Ferrario
Il tema del riordino è di moda. Alcune delle pratiche suggerite per la gestione degli spazi fisici possono risultare efficaci anche nella gestione del Product Backlog, in particolare quelli di grandi dimensioni.
“Riordinare non necessita di complesse classificazioni. Le azioni fondamentali da eseguire sono due: buttare via ciò che non serve e trovare una collocazione a quello che rimane.”
Nella presentazione ripercorriamo alcuni dei problemi più comuni nella gestione di un Product Backlog affollato e vedremo come le pratiche di decluttering possono offrire un valido ausilio per eliminare gli item inutili e riconsiderare quelli con un effettivo valore.
Levels in planning, Functional requirements of water resources projects, steps in
water resources planning, Environmental aspects in water resources planning.
Jennifer Jurado
This session will discuss the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact agreed to by Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties in SE Florida, and their partnering with the
South Florida Water Management District. The 5.6 million residents of the four counties exceed the population of 30 states and represent 30 percent of Florida’s population, and are situated in
one of the nation’s areas most vulnerable to climate change. The session will detail the Regional Climate Change Compact’s objectives,
its accomplishments to date and the ongoing development of a regional climate action plan.
1. BRANDI WALTER
Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Advanced ability to understand and interpret Federal and Provincial legislation acquired through 12 plus
years experience administrating and enforcing various Provincial legislation, including, but not limited
to, the Conservation Authorities Act and associated Conservation Authority regulations.
I have been employed for a total of 8 years in the regulations and planning departments of Conservation
Authorities, including my current position with the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority as the
Environmental Planner / Regulations officer. In this position I am largely responsible for:
• Administering and enforcing the Authority’s Development, Interference with Wetlands
and Alterations to Shorelines and Watercourses Regulation (Ontario Regulation
64/06).
• Responding to violations contrary to the Regulation, including site investigation and
facilitating legal action.
• Reviewing and commenting on Planning Act applications to develop within and
adjacent to hazards lands (floodplains, river valleys, shorelines) and
environmentally significant areas.
• Processing Authority permit applications under O. Regulation 164/06.
• Evaluating development proposals to determine potential impacts on terrestrial and
aquatic ecosystems.
• Performing site inspections, elevation surveys, and attending site meetings for proposal
review.
In order to carry out the above tasks I am knowledgable and experienced in interpretation of natural
features from field observations and air photos and assessing impacts of development on features. I have
knowledge with respect to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems based on my combined career experience
and secondary education.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Environmental Planner / Regulations Officer
Maitland Valley Conservation Authority, August 2010 – present
Regulations Officer
Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority, March 2006 – August 2007
Chief Operatior – Wastewater Treatment/Water Treatment Operator / GIS Coordinator
Municipality of Kincardine, November 2002 – March 2006
2. Brandi Walter CV…page 2
Wastewater Treatment Operator
Municipality of Leamington, August 2000 – November 2002
Environmental Regulations Technician
Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, August 1999 - August 2000
Environmental Technican (Voluntary)
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Three Rivers, California; February 1999
Agricultural Stream Impact Assessment Technologist
Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority, June 1996 – August 1996
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
TERRAIN AND WATER RESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Sir Sandford Fleming College, Lindsay, Ontario, September 1994 – April 1997
Areas of Study:
Earth Sciences
Ecology and
Environment
Watershed Management
Natural Resource
Legislation
Soil and Water Studies
Environmental
Principles
Land Reclamation
Aquatic Biology
Characteristics of
Natural Resources
Hydrology/Hydrogeology
Ecology
Waste Management Approaches
Air Pollution and Environmental
Research Skills
Behavior of Contaminants
Environmental Planning and
Assessment
Surveying
Environmental Issues
Wetlands Evaluation
Water / Wastewater Treatment
Fish and Wildlife
Environmental Measurement
Environmental Sampling and
Analysis
Mapping
Natural Resource Skills
Air Photo Interpretation
Mathematics
Communications
Continuing Education:
Provincial Offences Officer Enforcement Training
Construction Activity and the Impacts on Fish Habitat
Wetland Evaluation