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Internal Audit and Review
By Susan Bowie
From back to front: Anne Lacroix,Vanessa Peppley and Kristina Schwaykowski are the newest IA&R team members. |
Anne Lacroix joined the IA&R team as an internal auditor, bringing 19 years of management, business process improvement, risk management, and insurance underwriting experience to the job. Anne is a Certified Risk Manager, and a Fellow Chartered Insurance Professional with a major in risk management. She holds a BA in Psychology.
Vanessa Peppley recently accepted a one-year secondment as an internal auditor. Vanessa came to us from the RCAF Officers’ Mess (Ottawa), where she excelled as the mess manager. Her 18 years of hospitality industry experience will be of great benefit to our division. Vanessa possesses a Business Administration Diploma and has advanced standing in the Certified General Accountant program.
Kristina Schwaykowski recently joined us for a one-year secondment as an internal auditor. Kristina came from the HR division, where she gained broad experience in HR policy and administration. Her quality customer service and professionalism while engaged with the pension buy-back program earned Kristina the HR Certificate of Merit. Kristina holds a diploma from the University of Guelph, Kemptville College.
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After almost 20 years with CFPSA and its predecessor, the Director General Personnel Services, Norm Mercier is seeking the good life in retirement. Over the years Norm developed such in depth knowledge of NPF rules and regulations that he was frequently referred to as an NPF guru. Indeed, Norm could quote page and paragraph references from the NPF manual from memory. We in the IA&R division shall not only miss Norm, the guru, but we shall miss Norm, the personality. His easy-going nature made him a pleasure to work with, and his knowledge made him a virtual expert on NPF matters. He will be hard to replace.
Norm’s future plans include traveling, working on his genealogy project, and documenting photographs from his travels with the CF and CFPSA. We wish Norm the very best in his retirement.
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Personnel Support Programs
Patrick Gagnon has a three-year term position conducting research for the preparation of the Closed Protection Course, plus the new physical fitness standards for the Military Police.
Kelly Lupton, National Sports Coordinator, will replace Patrick Gagnon as the R&D Manager during this three-year-period.
Bobbi Howard-Muir is the new PSP Manager at 19 Wing Comox.
Mike Doucet, Fitness and Sport Instructor at CFB Borden, will replace Kelly Lupton as the National Sports Coordinator.
Peter Nicol, Physical Educator and Taekwondo coach at RMC, will replace LCol Diana Hope as the International Sports Coordinator. LCol Hope is retiring.
Denis Gaboury, Physical Educator at RMC and CISM volleyball coach, will be acting Physical Education Manager at RMC for a period of six months, replacing Natacha Tremblay who will be deployed in Afghanistan.
Jim Mackenzie, Fitness, Sports and Recreation Director in Shilo, will be starting a 5 year term on 1 April 2006 as Regional Sports Director for the Prairie Region, replacing Al Brazeau