Veronica Silva
Public Services and Procurement Canada
Seat: Government and Policy
Veronica has worked in a variety of areas in the field of design, construction and project management. She has extensive experience in managing both significant financial resources and budgets for project and programs of work ranging up to $360 million annually and conducted diverse integrated projects teams as well as interdisciplinary human resource teams reporting under her direction as large as 320 people. Her experience in the Federal Government of Canada has spanned 25 years and includes the delivery of national programs in fit-up, accommodation, interior design, architecture, national accessibility for the disabled programs, extensive work in our Parliamentary Precinct locations and international work in Germany, Japan and China, as the Federal Government’s Technical Authority for the design and construction of Canada’s Pavilions at the World’s International Expos events.
As a senior management executive, she has led transformational exercises to achieve efficiencies, clarify roles and responsibilities, and align the parts of the organization that she became responsible for to effectively meet the broader business objectives and strategic directions of the branch and the department.
She is currently responsible for the National Functional Direction to all of the department’s regional delivery arms for Architecture & Engineering Services ( including Heritage Conservation) all areas of expertise), Environmental and Health & Safety Services, , and Geomatics Services. She is also responsible for the operational project delivery and program delivery support for all the Technical areas. She is also accountable for all Compliance to Health & Safety and code requirements for the departments role as custodian for all of our assets (buildings, sites/lands, engineering assets (bridges and dams), and to develop the oversight framework and ensure continuous improvement processes for the work done by a service providers.