Chris Kirney
Building Project Officer at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Kirney is a Building Project Officer at Natural Resources Canada with over a decade of experience managing research and software-related projects across energy, transport safety, and engineering. Trained as a mechanical engineer (MEng, University of Ottawa), he moved from compressible turbulence research to applied work in building energy modelling and rail transport of dangerous goods, blending technical analysis with policy-oriented project delivery. For the past several years he has focused on identifying cost-effective retrofit strategies to cut carbon emissions from commercial, institutional, and large residential buildings. Chris brings a rare mix of hands-on engineering research, long-standing federal program experience, and practical procurement and project management skills that help turn technical studies into implementable, budget-aware solutions. Based in Ottawa, he is adept at bridging multidisciplinary teams to advance low-carbon building initiatives.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechanical Engineering at University of Ottawa
Github Skills (23)
radiance10
energy10
docker-build9
hpc-applications9
renewable-energy9
modeling9
climate-change9
energyplus9
large-scale7
parametric7
cli6
scale6
docker6
cross-platform6
docker-compose5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
canmet-energy/docker-openstudio
Jun 2019 - Dec 2024
automated docker build repo for openstudio
Contributions:8 PRs, 31 pushes, 22 branches in 5 years 6 months
docker-builddocker-automateddockerdocker-composedocker-automated-build
canmet-energy/copy_results_to_s3
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:199 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 1 month
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