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Vancouver, BC, CA

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Information services
• Acts as a resource to students, faculty, and staff to inform, guide, and clarify the use of library tools and resources; recommends, interprets and evaluates information resources across all disciplines and formats
• Demonstrates and explains how to access resources.
• Refers complex questions about citation and style to the Writing Centre.
• Responds to questions in the use of library computers/network which may include document set-up, printing, and… Show more Information services
• Responds to questions in the use of library computers/network which may include document set-up, printing, and authentication. Refers complex questions to IT or AV staff.

Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

 Cataloged and circulation services for physical and e-resources using Librarika as the Integrated Library System (ILS). Worked with publishers & vendors of e-databases: Pearson, SAGE, EBSCO, ProQuest, Oxford Press, BC ELN, etc. Evaluated e-databases from vendors through phone calls, virtual meetings, product demos, and trial access. Created course.

Infrastructure Development, UBC

*Organization and daily maintenance of campus building records and drawings as required by Capital Planning, Infrastructure Development, and Building Operations. *Compliance and interpretation of records regulations and procedures.*Coordination of record conversion work, both electronic and paper, within specific record project workgroups with a.

Digital Initiatives, UBC Library Digitisation Center

• Preservation Preparation, Metadata & Quality Control - BC Historical Books Digitized books using ATIZ Book Drive for upload, open access, and preservation purposes. Prepared/entered metadata and processed documents.
• Experience with institutional repository systems (e.g., CONTENTdm, DSpace ) for Metadata preparation/quality control.
• Experience working with library systems and metadata tools for the preservation of BC Historical books using Archivematica with formatting using Open refine Show less

UBC Ischool

• (DFP) Designing for people specialization
• Project work - on Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) Data presentation Tool (DPT) interface redesign based on user study with Clinicians / Nurse Practitioners in BC.
• Augustine, B., Abdulai A.F., Shakeri, H., Lebedeva, N., Gibb, A., White, D., Warren, A., & Wong, S.T. Streamlining and Redesigning the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network Data Presentation Tool.
• Augustine, B., Abdulai A.F., Shakeri, H., Lebedeva, N., Gibb, A., White, D., Warren, A., & Wong, S.T. Streamlining and Redesigning the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network Data Presentation Tool.
• Master’s Thesis work - on “Design of a geographical visualization-based interface for a community academic knowledge exchange” with focus on providing access to Vancouver’s DTES-based community research. Show less

UBC Grad School

Data Management*Digitizing hard copy forms and looking up user records to find identifiers for each record and correctly storing relationships between those users

Salalah, Sultanate Of Oman

• Taught courses in Civil Engg. to students at Bachelor and Diploma level (approx. 20 hours / week).
• Coordinator in the section to service students in On-the-Job Training (approx. 20 students each semester).
• Developed a brand new course material for the course ‘Highway & Transportation Engineering’ and also laboratory for the Bachelors programme in Transportation Engg.
• Trained students in the use of the digital surveying equipment ‘Total Station’.
• Mentored student… Show more
• Mentored student projects in data collection and analysis.

Muscat, Oman

• Served as the programme leader for the Quantity Surveying and Measurement and Cost Engineering.
• Taught quantity surveying courses such as Measurement and Practice I & II, Construction materials and measurement, Construction and property contracts etc.
• Prepared lectures and field trips for diploma level students focussing on the area of study to enable them to better appreciate the onsite demands and requirements of the rapidly changing construction industry.
• Integrated… Show more
• Integrated modern audio-visual teaching aids in the classroom for better understanding of concepts and principles by the students.
• Prepared class quizzes, individual assignments, mid and end-term question papers and conducted assessment examinations.

Coimbatore Area, India

• Taught courses such as Transportation Engineering I &II, Construction management, Traffic Engineering, Engineering geology, Highways and Railways Engineering, Airports Docks and Harbours, Elements of Architecture and.
• Coordinated Industry-Placement for UG students for five years with good placement records.
• Class advisor and student mentor to help solve student problems… Show more
• Class advisor and student mentor to help solve student problems.
• Created and graded course assessments ensuring students understood material and stayed on track.
• External examiner and question paper setter for government educational Institutions.

Oddanchatram, India

• Taught courses such as Construction Management, Estimating and Costing, Engineering Drawing, Surveying & Levelling and Transportation Engineering.

Oddanchatram, India

• Taught courses such as Construction Management, Estimating and Costing, Engineering Drawing, Surveying & Levelling and Transportation Engineering.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCENature of work; Supervision / Structural design – Residential and Hospital buildings

Master Of Library & Information Science - Mlis, Human Computer Interaction - Dfp

• Designing for people specialization (DFP) project on Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) Data presentation Tool.

M.E, Transportation Engineering And Management, First Class

Studied towards my Masters in Transportation Engineering and Management

B.E, Civil Engineering, First Class

Activities and Societies: College choir, Singing and Guitar playing Studied towards Bachelors in Civil Engineering