Graduate Stories

Ninous Ashraf, BC government PCMP Graduate

Ninous Ashraf, BC government PCMP Graduate

Ninous Ashraf has worked with the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Lands since 2000, and just over half of that time as a financial officer for the farming insurance program. When that program ended in 2005, she moved jobs and cities, growing her abilities as an Administrative Officer in Business Risk Management with the ministry. She graduated from the PCMP in October 2008. We interviewed her in...

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Derek Cockburn, BC government PCMP Graduate

Derek Cockburn, BC government PCMP Graduate

With B.C. government since 1992, Derek Cockburn’s route to contracting was through finance. An October 2008 graduate of the PCMP, he has been Manager, Contracts and Policy Review for the ministries of Community Development and Tourism, Culture and Arts for the last two years. He deals with contracts from $5,000 into the millions for, among others, the municipalities in the province, tourism...

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