
Sherry Lipp, PMP
Helping organizations create strong business foundations.




Experience -- Key Projects:
BCAHC (BC Academic Health Council), Vancouver, BC
Goal: Launch a Provincial non-profit society, creating a collaborative
forum for linking healthcare and advanced education in preparing
tomorrow's health care workforce.
My Key Activities:
- provided management and coordination through a corporate
transition
- led an office relocation and asset procurement;
- designed/implemented the set up of the business operation infra-
structure
- acted as HR manager, Finance Manager, planner, project manager,
systems designer and network trouble- shooter.
Coaching: Acted as business counsel to senior leader; Trained and
coached team members, hired administrative staff, created
performance guidance model.
Finance: Managed and monitored all finances and investment for an
organization growing from a $300k to a $7.1 million budget over 4 years
Project: Practice Education Innovation Fund (PEIF)
Goal: To fund opportunities for health care organizations to create
new work placements and for post-secondary institutions to develop
lab simulations and make curriculum revisions.
My Key Activities: fund manager for a $6.0 million grant, including
coordinating the RFP process and coordinating with 58 approved
projects over 2.5 years.
Project: Electronic Health Library Resources (EHLBC)
Goal: To initiate a province-wide strategy for electronic health
resource licensing.
My Key Activities: point of contact and facilitator for the $5.4 million
/3-year e-health library strategy, including financial management,
business planning, drafting a business case, and facilitation/
coordination for the 40-member committee.
Golf Course Launch, Kelowna, BC
Goal: To launch a championship golf course operation in Kelowna, BC.
My Key Activities:
- Setting up a temporary administration office
- Coordinating the outfit and procurement for the clubhouse kitchen
- Procuring capital assets and services, and operating and capital
- budgets
- Managing human resources
- Writing operational policy
- Overseeing marketing and membership recruitment campaigns
- Building systems infrastructures, including server network, point
- of sales systems
- Overseeing launch events
TBC Teletheatre BC Ltd., Vancouver, BC
Goal: To launch a Provincial operation and network of off-track
horse racing centers.
My Key Activities:
- Set up all systems, policies, communications and practices for a new Vancouver head office.
- Managed the day-to-day operations, including all budgets, finance, monitoring and reporting (budget responsibilities in excess of $4M).
- Introduce and present orientation seminars to hotel operators for site openings.
- Successfully applied for Order-in-Council to increase the number of horse race centers from 19 to 26.
Sheralegal Services Ltd., Vancouver BC
Goal: To build a boutique company offering administrative, corporate
securities compliance and paralegal services to Vancouver Stock
Exchange companies and corporate securities lawyers.
My Key Activities:
- established business structure and Vancouver office
- built clientele and handled all marketing/advertising programs
- hired and trained all administrative staff
- business development activities
- provided all paralegal services and freelancing for corporate securities law firms
- handled all accounting, for business and for clients: including Quarterly Reports