Tori Pehkonen
Document Control Team Lead at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada
Can you tell us a bit about you?
My name is Tori Pehkonen. I am 30 years old, married, and a mother of two young daughters.
I was born and raised in the Ottawa Valley in Ontario, Canada.
I attended Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, and graduated with an HBA in Sociology.
On the weekends, I enjoy spending time in my kitchen cooking/baking, and playing competitive volleyball in our local co-ed league.
What is your current role?
I am the Team Lead of 12 document control staff at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada.
Currently, I am assisting with revising our control of information procedure, and preparing for the transition/migration to our new EDMRS, Content Suite by OpenText in December.
Can you describe your professional experience?
As a university student, I worked three summers in the Records/IM Department at Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (now Canadian Nuclear Laboratories).
As I was enrolled in schooling unrelated to this field, it was my first exposure to records and information management. I began as a full time document controller at CNL in January 2012, and became the Team Lead in 2016.
Which Consepsys course did you attend and when?
I attended two courses back-to-back in Houston, Texas in December 2016: “Certified Document Controller” and “Certified Lead Document Controller”.
What did you think about the Consepsys course? How did it help you in your current role and career development?
I was thoroughly impressed with both courses!
The Document Controller course provided me with concrete assurance of the best practices we were currently upholding at CNL, and also helped me to identify areas that we could improve in. As all of my document control expertise had been accumulated on the job, and in the context of one company, it was greatly beneficial to have formalized education to back it up. It was wonderful to network with other document controllers from across the US who could relate to the unique daily challenges faced in this profession.
The Lead Document Controller course helped to prepare me for my new leadership role. The hands-on and intimate setting contributed to an environment of sharing, which in turn fostered an atmosphere of troubleshooting and guidance from the instructors and more experienced Lead Document Controllers who attended the course. Not only was I introduced to valuable formulas and methods used to plan document control work and budgets, the informal discussions I participated in with those present became the highlight of my experience.
