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Ervin, Michael J.Image Name: Ervin_Michael.jpg - image file missing or name mis-spelled |
| Title | Lieutenant-Commander (NR) |
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| Birth | 00/00/1954 | Death | (nk) |
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| Place | Montreal | Place | (nk) |
| Area | QC | Area | (nk) |
| Country | Canada | Country | (nk) |
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| Awards | AdC; |
| Qualifications | BSc; |
| Biography |
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| As the son of a Canadian Army officer, he resided in a number of military communities across Canada during his childhood years. He attended Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he attained his Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Biology. In his civilian life, he is Senior Vice-president of Kent Group Ltd, a Canadian-based consulting firm providing data, analytics, consulting and strategic insights relating to the downstream (refining and marketing) petroleum sector. His successful and varied career in this field spans over thirty-five years, from 1978 as a manager and executive, and since 1990 as a specialist consultant, initially with a firm he founded and led, and then merged with Kent Group in 2009. His firms’ national and international clients have included federal and state/provincial governments, industry associations, and petroleum refiners and marketers, from major national firms to regional non-refiner marketers. |
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| He was appointed as an Officer Cadet (ROUTP) (NR). Having joined the military in 1970 as a militia signalman, he transferred to the Naval Reserve as a Naval Cadet in the ROUTP program in 1972, and commenced his naval officer training in earnest as part of the ROUTP 73 class in Esquimalt BC. Having been selected for the MARS classification, he was awarded his Bridge Watchkeeping Certificate in 1976. He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant (NR). He was appointed as a Lieutenant (N) (NR). He served as a Canadian liaison and observer to a US Naval Harbour Defence Unit during Exercise Rimpac 96, in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. He served as Executive Officer, HMCS Porte de la Reine, during her decommissioning cruise in December 1996. He was appointed as a Lieutenant-Commander (NR) 1995. He served as the Executive Officer of HMCS Tecumseh in 1998. He served in HMCS Tecumseh as Commanding Officer 2000-2003. He was promoted to Commander (WSE). From 2004 to 2009, Mike served as Alberta Liaison Officer to the Canadian Forces Liaison Council (CFLC). In 2008, he was appointed as Canada’s Defence and Security representative to the Inter-allied Confederation of Reserve Officers (CIOR), a multinational NATO advisory organization on issues relating to military reserve service, for a term of three years. Subsequently, Commander Ervin was Canada’s Head of Delegation to the CIOR, and also served on CIOR’s governing Executive Council, positions he held until his release from the Canadian Forces in 2012. (He was released 2012.) |
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| He also served as Aide De Camp to the Honourable “Bud” Olsen, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, for four years. From 2010 to 2014, Michael was appointed to the Calgary Police Commission. As one of eleven police commissioners for Calgary, Michael participated in the oversight of the Calgary Police Service, and served on each of its core committees during his tenure, including a two-year term as Chair of the Police Complaints Oversight Committee. Michael moved from Calgary to North Saanich BC in early 2015. He served on the Sidney/North Saanich RCMP Community Consultative Committee from January 2016 to March 2017. |
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| http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/cms_images/navres_images/e-link/1999-12-link.pdf; |
| Last update |
| 2011-02-21 00:00:00 |