Portrait of Anders Halvarsson
Anders Halvarsson, PMP, P.Eng.Senior Project Manager & Engineer · Victoria, BC

About

I’ve spent 20 years making technical projects run

I’m an engineer by training and a project manager by trade, and I do my best work where the two meet.

I started in Stockholm in 2006, as a consultant and client-side project manager for renewable energy utilities: feasibility studies, procurement, contracts and plant projects. I founded The Works there in 2013. As a one-person consultancy, I won multi-year project management contracts against Sweden’s leading engineering and PM firms, and led the client-side teams on two biomass power plants worth close to $200M each. In between, I ran the project division of what was then Sweden’s largest solar energy company.

In 2017 I moved my consulting business to BC. Since then I’ve managed large design and implementation projects for engineering consultants, in long-term care homes, seniors residences, schools, universities, hotels and office buildings across BC and Alberta. I also built the project office and quality systems for an engineering consultancy. That work taught me what PMs in a busy firm actually need, and it’s where I started building AI-assisted tools to take routine work off their plates. I became a P.Eng. in 2023, the same year I moved to Victoria.

Now I bring all of that to engineering firms that need an experienced PM, a better way of running projects, or both.

Credentials

  • Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), Engineers and Geoscientists BC, 2023 (view my EGBC registration)
  • Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, first certified 2014
  • Certified Agile Project Manager, IAPM
  • MSc Sustainable Energy Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
  • BSc Vehicle Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Languages

English, Swedish, Norwegian, some Spanish.

Outside client work

In Sweden I mentored engineering students and spoke each year to new engineering undergraduates at my old university.

See selected work →

Have a project, or a process that needs fixing?

Email me a few lines about it and I’ll reply within one business day.

Email
anders@theworks.pro
Phone
+1 604-442-0760