
Kelly Ciprick
Strategy, Operations Specialist
UpstreamUnited States
1. What is your profession? Or if you are retired, what was your profession?
COO
2. What are your areas of expertise?
Upstream: General Management, Corporate Development, Operations, Executive, Sales, Marketing
Upstream Areas: Offshore, Onshore
3. Current Employer:
Top Secret Information
4. Previous Employers:
Revo Testing Technologies, Pure Energy Services, FMC Technologies, TechnipFMC
5. How did you end up in the Energy Industry?
Was working with a logging company, and was told the next raise would be $2/hour higher. It wasn't, gave my 2 weeks and started flow testing in Grande Prairie Alberta. Had a friend there who kept asking me to come to the patch, so I did.
6. Why do you like working with Start-Ups?
The challenges that are faced, every problem has a solution.
Okay, now for some fun things about Kelly…
7. What are three of your interests outside of work?
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Family
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Cycling
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Golf
8. What are your top 3 accomplishments (personal or professional)? Don’t be shy! Give ‘em to us.
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Raising my kids.
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Being part of the management group that helped build Pure Energy Services to the point of being sold.
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Being able to separate personal and work issues, most of the time.
9. If I were a superhero, my superpower would be .
Speed, the faster one thing is completed, the faster another can start.
10. When I was 5, I was pretty sure I'd be a when I grew up.
Police Officer
11. If I weren't so damn good at what I do now, I'd probably be .
In Construction/heavy equipment operator.
12. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd .
start a "Leave me alone" company.
13. The best piece of advice I've ever been given is .
It isn't where you get to with your career, it is how many did you bring for the ride.