Marthe Bijman has more than 20 years of experience in corporate communications, marketing and business development. She specializes in the Resource Extraction Industries – Mining & Minerals, Oil & Gas, Water & Wastewater. She has worked for tech companies for more than 10 years and for mining and mining engineering companies for more than 15 years. She created Red Pennant Communications in 2006, to provide marketing communications, branding and business development services. In 2019, the company diversified its services to include independent professional Geoscience, led by Michael F. (Mike) O’Brien.
Contact: marthebijman@red-pennant-communications.com
1. Professional Record
| Period | Title | Client/Role |
| Aug. 2014 to present | President & Director | Red Pennant Communications Corp., Vancouver, Canada |
| April 2017 – present | Consultant – Business Development, Marketing, Communications | Clients include mine owners and mining engineering consultancies |
| Consultant/Contractor – Proposal management and writing | Tetra Tech Canada Inc., Vancouver, Canada (Mining, Power, Municipal, Oil & Gas) | |
| April 2018 – Sept. 2018 | Chief Technical Officer – Semantics (Chief Semantics Officer) | Minerva Intelligence Inc., Vancouver, Canada |
| Aug. 2014 – April 2017 | Business Development Consultant | Tetra Tech Canada Inc. (Mining) |
| July 2011 – Aug. 2014 (Canada) | Communications Specialist | Wardrop Engineering / Tetra Tech Inc. – Canadian Mining Practice, Vancouver, Canada |
| Oct. 2010 – June 2011 (South Africa) | Corporate Communications Manager | Anglo American Platinum, Div. of Anglo American plc, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Jan. 2008 – April 2010 | Business Development Consultant, T/A Red Pennant Communications (Pty) Ltd. | Alstom S&E Africa (Pty) Ltd. – Alstom Power, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Aug. 2006 – Oct. 2010 | Owner / Consultant | Red Pennant Communications (Pty) Ltd., Johannesburg, South Africa – technology, engineering and retail clients |
2. Qualification – Registrations – Experience – Languages
- M.A. Applied Linguistics and Literary Sciences
- Accreditation: Association of Proposal Management Professionals APMP-Foundation™ Level, Jan. 2017 to December 2022.
- Chartered Public Relations Professional (CPRP), PRISA, since 2006
- Accredited Public Relations Practitioner (APR), PRISA, since 2007
- Fluent in English, Dutch, German
3. Skills and Knowledge
- Proposal production process, end-to-end
- Business Development cycle
- Public Relations
- Writing, editing, graphic design
- Managing deadlines and working in multi-discipline teams
- Adequate subject-specific understanding of Engineering, Geoscience and Earth Sciences in Mining, and basics of Oil & Gas, and Municipal Water & Wastewater Management
- Understanding of project contracting and financing (Consulting & Studies, EPC, EPCM, Design-Build, partnering, JVs
- Understanding of requirements for communications with Indigenous Peoples in Canada
4. Software skills
| Applications | Programs |
| Microsoft Office: Mac OS/iOS: Apache OpenOffice: Models, graphs, org charts: Pdf formatting and editing: Photo editing: Layout and page design: e-Book publishing: Blogging & Social Media: Video editing/production: Online training development: Presentations: Shared platform: Coding: Blog-to-book publishing: Digital audio production: | Whole suite/all programs up to MS Office 2019 All suites, all apps, Microsoft Project Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, etc. Visio, Apache OpenOffice Draw, Google Chrome Draw.io Adobe Acrobat X Pro, Nuance GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), Adobe Photoshop MS Office, Pages, Adobe InDesign Blurb BookSmart, BookWright WordPress, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram iMovie, Biteable Articulate 360 Prezi 3D, PowerPoint 2D, Keynote 2D, Biteable SharePoint Basic HTML 5 CloudPrinter Global Print API in JSON GarageBand and Logic Pro for Mac OS/iOS |
Geoscience & Communications 