Alumni spotlights

As a young woman, Josee Tremblay moved from Quebec to attend the University of Calgary, drawn by the university’s recognized mechanical engineering program as well as Alberta’s plentiful job opportunities that would let her work while going to school.  

While the energy sector wasn’t on her radar initially—she thought she’d work in manufacturing back in Quebec—Tremblay spent the better part of three decades in progressively more senior roles in the industry in Calgary, Houston, Jakarta and St. John’s. “I definitely leveraged the foundation I had at the University of Calgary in all of these roles,” she says.