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Kleanza Consulting Ltd.

250.650.2162 | info@kleanza.com

  • Home
  • Archaeology & heritage
  • Education & Capacity
  • Stories & Outreach
  • DIG THIS PODCAST
  • About Us
    • People
    • Philosophy
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Jenny Botica, PhD, RPCA, RPA, CAHP

Principal

Based at Kleanza's Vancouver Island (Bowser) office, Jenny is co-owner of Kleanza, oversees quality assurance, quality control, senior review, and stakeholder engagement for all projects. She is a Permit Holder and Field Director for coastal and interior BC. Jenny directs Kleanza's education, training, communication, and heritage permitting and policy initiatives, and is a RISC Instructor. She is also Faculty in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Island College.


Experience

Years: 19

Regions: coastal BC; interior BC; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Arizona; Jordan; Belize

Specializations: education and training; permitting and policy; heritage sovereignty; public archaeology; anthropological archaeology; applied archaeology; wet sites; field skills; ethics; "looting"/collecting; site formation processes


Education

Provincial Instructor Diploma Program (2020), Vancouver Community College

PhD Archaeology (2017), Simon Fraser University 

MA Archaeology (2005), Universiteit Leiden, NL

BA Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (2004), University of British Columbia


Professional affiliations

BC Association of Professional Archaeologists (RPCA — Registered Professional Consulting Archaeologist)

Register of Professional Archaeologists

Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (Board of Directors)

Archaeological Society of BC

Society for American Archaeology

Society for Applied Anthropology

Corrie Boucher, BA

Administrator

Corrie is Kleanza's Administrator and is based out of our Bowser office. Her focus will be on the communication and operational systems of the company, with an aim to help support the continued growth of Kleanza. Her background is in a variety of sectors, including government and non-profit. Corrie maintains a human-focused approach to administration, which has been beneficial in her supporting role to the Kleanza team. 


Experience

Years: 14

Regions: Across BC, Scotland


Education

Project Management Certification; Robert Gordon University 

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology/Criminology; Simon Fraser University

Gary Brewer, MA, MEd

Project Manager

Gary is a Project Manager and Field Director based on Vancouver Island (Sooke).  He has experience on the south coast, interior plateau and the northeast/subarctic, where he is a Field Director.


Experience

Years: 40

Regions: coastal, interior/plateau, and boreal forest/subarctic BC; interior/plateau Idaho; Plains of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Wyoming; eastern Ontario; southeast United States (South Carolina and Louisiana)

Specializations: Cultural Resource Management; Geographic Information Systems; Predictive Modelling; Wet site archaeology; Artificial Inundation (reservoir archaeology); Historic (Post Contact) Archaeology; Lithic analysis; Data Management and Analysis, Education


Education

Master of Education; Gonzaga University 

Master of Arts, Public Service Archaeology; University of South Carolina

Bachelor of Arts, Archaeology; University of Calgary 

Curt Carbonell

Archaeologist

Based out of Kleanza’s Bowser, Vancouver Island office, Curt is an archaeologist gaining experience in BC Coastal and Interior archaeology. He is currently enrolled in the BA (Honours) Anthropology program through Vancouver Island University.


Experience
Years: 1.5

Regions: Coastal BC

Interests:  Landscape archaeology; archaeology of food and foodways; provisioning and subsistence strategies; lithics; CMTs; community archaeology. 


Education
BA (Hons) Anthropology, Vancouver Island University (Spring 2024 expected). 


Professional affiliations

BC Association of Professional Archaeologists (Student)
Society for American Archaeology (Student)
Canadian Archaeological Association (Student) 

Suzy Carruthers, BSc

Archaeologist

 Suzy is a supervisor, based in our Terrace office, supervising crews in the field, laboratory and office. Suzy has experience working in the coastal, interior, and subarctic-boreal regions of BC. 


Experience

Years: 9

Regions: coastal BC; interior BC; Sub-boreal BC and the South Pacific

Specializations: Large and small-scale infrastructure, commercial, and residential, and industrial projects with special interests in analysis and data management; museology/repository/inventory; public education and training; wet site archaeology; traditional use studies; historical and ethnographic studies. 


Education

BSc Environmental Science, Archaeology, Anthropology (2015), Simon Fraser University 

Certificate Cultural Resource Management (2015), Simon Fraser University

Jordan Eng, BA

Project Manager

Jordan is based in Kleanza's Vancouver office and oversees all aspects of projects from inception to closure. His duties include developing proposals and cost estimates, obtaining HCA and First Nation heritage permits, liaising with clients and First Nations, conducting a wide range of fieldwork, carrying out lab analyses and cataloguing, and report production. Jordan has Field Director status for both coastal and interior regions of BC and is a Permit Holder. 


Experience

Years: 15

Regions: coastal BC; interior BC

Specializations: lithics; mapping; photography


Education

BA Archaeology (2010), Simon Fraser University

Kevin Haugrud, BA

Project Manager

Based at Kleanza's Prince Rupert office as a Field Director (interior, northwest coast and coastal regions), Permit Holder and Project Manager, Kevin is responsible for managing field crews, liaising with clients and First Nations, and reporting and analysis. He has undertaken fieldwork in coastal, sub-boreal (northeastern), and interior BC.


Experience

Years: 12

Regions: interior BC; sub-boreal (northeastern) BC; coastal BC; Saskatchewan; Alberta

Specializations: large and small scale infrastructure, commercial, residential, and industrial projects; wetsites; artifact analysis


Education

Additional archaeology coursework (ongoing)

BA Anthropology (2011), University of Alberta


Professional affiliations

BC Association of Professional Archaeologists (Associate)

Sheriff Hossain, BA

Project Manager

Based out of our Vancouver office, as a Field Director and Project Manager, Sheriff is responsible for managing field crews, liaising with clients and First Nations, as well as reporting and analysis. He's undertaken fieldwork across BC, as well as the Northwest Territories, and Ontario. 


Experience

Years: 10

Regions: interior BC; sub-boreal (northeastern) BC; coastal BC; sub-boreal (northeastern) BC; Ontario

Specializations: large- and small-scale infrastructure, commercial, residential, and industrial projects, with a special interest in the use of GIS in archaeology, and for data collection and management  


Education

BA Archaeology and Anthropology (2008), Simon Fraser University

Diploma, Computer Analyst and Programmer (2000), CDI College

Kay Jollymore, MA, RPCA

Senior Archaeology Manager

Based in Kleanza’s Vancouver office, Kay oversees quality assurance, quality control, senior review, client and First Nations liaison, reporting, analysis, budgets and timelines. She is a Permit Holder and Field Director for northwestern BC (subarctic/boreal forest), Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan. Kay is an approved RISC Instructor.


Experience

Years: 20+
Regions: Northwestern British Columbia (subarctic/boreal), Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Canadian Prairies
Specializations: Large and small scale infrastructure, mineral exploration, mine-site developments, linear developments, working with stakeholders (Aboriginal communities, public, developers, and government), Environmental Assessment applications, permitting and policy, ethics, education and training, field skills, alpine archaeology, obsidian lithics, prairie archaeology, ethnobotany, CMTs, archival research, museum curation.


Education
MA Archaeology (2016), University of Saskatchewan
BA Archaeology (2001), Simon Fraser University


Professional Affiliations
BC Association of Professional Archaeologists (RPCA – Registered Professional Consulting Archaeologist)

Joseph LeBrun, BA

Archaeologist

Based out of Kleanza's Vancouver Office, Joey is a Field Supervisor with experience in coastal and subarctic/boreal, BC. His duties include fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and reporting. He is working towards field director status in coastal BC.


Experience: 3 year

Regions: Coastal BC, Northwestern BC (subarctic/boreal) 

Interests: specialization, including: large and small scale residential and industrial projects; artifact analysis; historical and ethnographic research.


Education: BA in Anthropology UBC (2016), UVic/BMSC Archaeological Field School (2017)

Amanda Marshall, MA, RPCA

Principal

Based at Kleanza's Terrace office, Amanda is co-owner and founder of Kleanza, oversees quality assurance, quality control, senior review, and stakeholder engagement for all projects. She is a Permit Holder and Field Director for coastal, interior, and sub-boreal (northeastern) BC. Amanda directs Kleanza's contracts, heritage permitting and policy initiatives, and is a RISC Instructor.


Experience

Years: 22

Regions: coastal BC; interior BC; sub-boreal (northeastern) BC; Yukon

Specializations: education and training; permitting and policy; dendrochronology; CMTs 


Education

Dendrochronology (2010), University of Arizona

MA Archaeology (2002), Simon Fraser University

BA Archaeology (1998), University of Northern BC


Professional affiliations

BC Association of Professional Archaeologists (RPCA — Registered Professional Consulting Archaeologist)

Archaeological Society of BC

Society for American Archaeology

Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine Heritage Advisory Committee

Brady McBride

Archaeologist

Based in Kleanza's Terrace office, Brady is developing field experience in coastal BC. 


Experience

Years: 1

Regions: Coastal BC

Interests: CMTs; Indigenous archaeology; intertidal archaeology; late-pleistocene archaeology; lithics; mapping,  palaeontology 


Education

Undergraduate Student Research Award, NSERC (2022) University of Victoria

AA Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management (2020 - present) Coast Mountain College

Certificate, Cultural and Natural Resource Assessment (2019) Royal Roads University

Mirjana McIntyre, BSc, Adv. Dip. GIS

Archaeologist and Project Coordinator

Working out of Kleanza's Vancouver Island (Bowser) office, Mirjana supports all staff and company operations with the Operations Manager in her role as Project Coordinator, and supports all field projects as Archaeologist. Previously, she worked at the Archaeology Branch, and has experience managing archaeological data, reports, logistics.


Experience

Years: 5

Regions: Coastal BC

Interests: environmental science; sedimentology and stratigraphy; museums; biological anthropology


Education

BSc Geoscience (2019), Vancouver Island University

Advanced Diploma in GIS (2021), Vancouver Island University


Professional affiliations

Engineers and Geoscientists of BC (student)




Farha Naz

Accounting Clerk

Based in Vancouver, BC, Farha processes and monitors the accounting for the Kleanza Team. Her background experience includes administration, customer service, payroll and financial report writing.


Experience

Years: 6

Regions: Fiji; Vancouver, BC


Education 

Diploma in Payroll Education, (2022) Sprott Shaw College 

BA, Accounting and Economics, (2016) University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Manda Palmer, MA

Archaeologist/Administrative Assistant

Based at Kleanza's Terrace office, Manda has field experience in coastal and interior BC. She currently assists with proposals, reporting, administrative tasks, field work and lab work.


Experience

Years: 10

Regions: coastal BC; interior BC

Specializations: lithics; household archaeology; CMTs, community archaeology


Education

MA, Anthropology (2007), University of Toronto 

BA, Archaeology (2006), Simon Fraser University

Wendy Rolston

GIS Technician — Magellan Digital Mapping

Wendy is a GIS Technician at Magellan Digital Mapping, based in Terrace. She supplies map drafting and GIS modelling for Kleanza, including modelling for archaeological potential and creating detailed site maps. GIS and modelling can vary depending on the type and scope of a specific project. Wendy is adept in the usage of ArcGIS to create complex, multi-component predictive models from vector and raster data sets, including LiDAR DEMs.


Experience

Years: 20

Regions: BC

Specializations: silviculture; GIS; modelling, predictive models; LiDAR


Education

ArcInfo GIS Certificate, Okanagan University

Fish, Wildlife, and Recreation Land Management Diploma, BCIT

Kelly Steele

Creative Director

Kelly is the Creative Director of our Stories & Outreach Division and her focus will be on documenting stories of truth and reconciliation, language reclamation and sovereignty in the areas of conservation, environment, heritage and culture. For over 25 years, Kelly has produced documentary films and developed social media impact campaigns to tackle issues of social injustice, food security, access to medicine, youth mental health, environmental protection, conservation and human rights. 


Experience

Years: 28

Regions: Across Canada


Professional Affiliations:

Documentary Organization of Canada 

International Documentary Association 

WIFT (Women in Film and Television)

The Film Production Network

Cause Marketing Professionals 

Doc Society 

Tannis Wilson

Archaeologist

Based in Kleanza's Terrace office, Tannis is developing field experience in coastal BC.


Experience 

Years: 4 

Regions: Coastal BC Interests: ethnobotany; community archaeology, and wet sites, especially working with fish weirs and finding test holes.   


Education 

Certificate, Cultural and Natural Resource Assessment (2019, 2021) Royal Roads University 


 

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