Program Committee

Faustina Gaffney – Program Committee Chair

Faustina Gaffney is the Marketing Manager for Unified Valve Group and has over 17 years of Marketing experience in Oil and Gas industry. Faustina is currently the Program Chair of IPIEA and has been a part of the Program Committee since 2017 and has held numerous roles within IPEIA.

Doug Brett – Program Committee Lead

Doug Brett, CET, ABSA IBPVI, TSASK Class 1, API 510/570/653. Doug has over 20 years of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry, from the wellhead, through the processing (conventional and SAGD), pipeline systems (gathering and transmission), right through to petrochemicals, including R&D activities and inspections/integrity management. Currently, he is the Asset Integrity Manager for SECURE Energy, overseeing both SECURE’s Pipeline and Static Equipment (Tanks/pressure equipment) integrity management programs, and is a member of the industry group, UCIA.

Jessie Wong

Jessie Wong has attended IPEIA since 2014 and has been active in the Program Committee since 2017. An engineer by training and self-taught artist, Jessie is someone who thrives on being underestimated. Her passion lies in supporting non-profit organizations and finding how to make a unique contribution. Jessie finds great pleasure in continuous improvement and improving efficiency, but at the end of the day, it really comes down to the people who keep her motivated and driven to grow her career. Jessie is precise, cautious, disciplined, painstaking, and conscientious in her work, yet always eager to try something new.

Bastian Zars

Bastian Zars is a recognized leader in asset integrity and reliability with over 15 years of experience driving innovation and excellence across the energy and petrochemical sectors. As a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), and holder of multiple API certifications (510, 570, 580, 1169), he brings a strategic mindset to complex technical challenges, specializing in risk-based inspection (RBI), corrosion management, and integrity program development.

Currently serving as Operations and Training Manager at Vysus Group, Bastian leads high-performing teams, oversees large-scale integrity initiatives, and develops industry-leading training programs. His work is grounded in deep technical expertise, regulatory fluency, and a commitment to advancing best practices in asset performance and safety.

Landi Cheng

Landi is an integrity engineer with Inter Pipeline, with over 10 years of experience in pipeline and facility integrity. He oversees the integrity program for pressure equipments, piping, storage tanks, and PSVs for IPL’s Transportation Business Unit. He is certified in API 510, API 570, and API 580. He has been a member of IPEIA’s Program Committee since 2021.

Steve Bauer – Webinar Series Lead

With over 20 years in the power generation and oil & gas industries, Steve brings deep expertise in pressure equipment integrity. He began his career as a Pressure Welder and has held key roles at TransAlta and Cenovus Energy, where he currently works as a Senior Inspector. Steve holds certifications from ABSA, the National Board, API, CGSB, and AMPP, and specializes in welding, NDT, and remaining life assessments inspections.

Ameen Abougoush

Ameen has over 13 years experience woking in the power generation industry. His career at TransAlta has included day to day operational support, root cause failure analysis investigation, project management, developing major outage scope for pressure equipment, completing inspections and providing repair recommendations during execution, as well as long range technical planning. Ameen is a CET, ABSA ISI-BPVPP and National Board IS Commission inspector.

Ryan Jones

Ryan Jones is a Principal Engineer at CANATUS Engineering Group, Inc. A proven leader with 27+ years of experience in the Oil/Gas/Chemical industry in the areas of risk management, equipment lifecycle, analytical assessments, failure analysis, and asset integrity management. Ryan also brings a wealth of experience leading high performing teams in a technical environment to deliver both technical expertise and insight through various services and products. Combining that with Ryan’s passion for process planning, strategy, operations, and business development, he looks forward to helping clients solve a broad range of problems.

Kallie Heniuk

Ahmad RK Rana

Along with MASc Degree in materials engineering, Ahmad has around 50 publications as peer-reviewed journal papers, magazine articles, and conference papers. Ahmad’s field experience and research focus is on corrosion, metallurgical degradations, cracking, thermal losses, coatings, and risk-based inspection (RBI). Ahmad has invited numerous research grants worth $ 2,000,000 to date. Ahmad has been chairing the technical symposium on CUI for AMPP for the past 4 years. Ahmad received the MP Innovation of the year Awards from AMPP for the year 2023 and 2025 for Innovations aimed at CUI mitigation. Ahmad’s co-worked innovations, namely multi-layered insulation system has received the Project Achievement Award from Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA). Ahmad has also received the most-impactful publication award (for the year 2021) from AMPP and NACE Graduate Student Book award (for year 2019). Ahmad is also recipient of the emerging professional by ASTM G01 (i.e., The standards custodian committee on corrosion of metals) as well as the Engineering Award by Engineers Nova Scotia. Moreover, Ahmad is the recipient of the ‘Best Presentation Award’ at the IPEIA 2025 Annual conference. Recently, Ahmad’s Innovation received the non-metallics innovation award during Middle East Corrosion Conference & Expo (MECOC) 2025. Ahmad holds dual Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) license from APEGA and Engineers Nova Scotia. Finally, Ahmad is a contributing member of standards refining committees with API, ASTM, ASME, and AMPP.