Edwin Joseph Ryan

Medals & Honours: Long Service Medal

Pillar Location: Pillar X, Row 8, Column B

Story: 

Apr 74 –Oct 74: Posted to Innisfail Detachment for Recruit Field Training

Nov 74 – Oct 76: Transferred to Red Deer City Detachment – General Duties

Oct 76 – Oct 77: Red Deer City Detachment – assigned to General Investigations Section

Oct 77 – Oct 78: Transferred to Faust Detachment – General Duties in northern Alberta on the south shore of Lesser Slave Lake, 200 miles north of Edmonton

Oct 78 – June 82: Transferred to Edmonton GIS Auto Theft Detail investigating automobile, truck and motorcycle thefts by organized crime gangs

March 7, 1981: married Regimental # S2429 Kathleen Duffy (Special “O”) of Red Deer, Alberta

Jul 82 – Oct 88: Transferred to Edmonton Customs and Excise Section and started taking night school university courses in Business.  Attended University of Alberta full-time sponsored by the Force in the winter of 1984-85

Jun 1988: Graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta

Oct 88: Promoted to Cpl., Edmonton Commercial Crime Section

June 13, 1992: Son Craig was born

Jun 1993: Promoted to Sgt., Edmonton Commercial Crime Section.  Worked on Federal enforcement frauds such as Employment Insurance and Income Tax

Oct 94 – Oct 95: Transferred to “K” Division Complaints and Internal Investigations

Oct 95: – Retired from the Force with 22 years and 2 days service

Oct 95 – Jan 2003: Coopers & Lybrand Chartered Accountants, which eventually became PricewaterhouseCoopers. Worked across Canada, in the US and the Caribbean as a Commercial Bankruptcy Manager, Forensic Accountant and Fraud Investigator. Spent considerable time in the Caribbean assisting the Government of Grenada to liquidate private off-shore banks held by international criminals.

Jan 2003 – Aug 2013: Office of the Auditor General of Alberta – Assistant Auditor General. As a member of the executive management team, I led value-for-money audits and fraud investigations. Conducted international audit work and training in Mexico, Bhutan and Vietnam.

Jun 2003: Completed a Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting from the University of Toronto

Jun 2009: Awarded the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation

Aug 2013 – Feb 2016: Appointed Assistant Deputy Minister, Government of Alberta, Service Alberta.  Led 350 staff in the Motor Vehicle Branch, Vital Statistics and Land Titles administrations

Jul 2015:  Awarded the Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation.

Feb 2016: Feb 2017 – Appointed Senior Advisor – Alberta Corporate Internal Audit Services after downsizing and reorganization at Service Alberta due to budget cuts

Feb 2017:  Retired from the Alberta Public Service

Feb 2017 – Aug 2019:  Executive Director, Auditor General of British Columbia, Victoria. Went back to the basics of fraud investigation and value-for-money audits on beautiful Vancouver Island.

Jun 2017: Son Craig graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta

Aug 2018: I graduated with a Master of Forensic Accounting degree from the University of Toronto.  Proud to be a life-long learner and the oldest student in the class!

Sep 2019 – Retired from BC Public Service, now semi-retired doing forensic accounting contract work. Living part time in Victoria and part time in Edmonton.