David Willson Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada Area

• Manage the functional team responsible for editorial tool development and workflow reengineering using automation (RPA) and AI solutions. Accomplishments
• Create and maintain the North American Tax and Accounting Editorial team's roadmap for Artificial Intelligence and automation projects.
• After a project had been stuck in development limbo for nearly a year, I was brought in to deliver the project’s content deliverables. Within the span of a month, I had worked with the team to refactor the team’s work.
• Realizing the potential of Generative AI in early 2022, I led a team in an internally hosted hackathon to prove the potential for workflow improvements and significant cost savings using Gen AI. Since then, I have.
• Designed and implemented robust scripts using R and SQL to extract, transform, and load large volumes of search log data. I used these scripts to conduct in-depth analysis of search patterns, user behavior, and keyword.

Toronto, Canada Area

Responsible for taxonomy in the broadest sense of the word. I work with SMEs, content standards and development teams to create and leverage controlled vocabularies, thesauri and knowledge models using Semantic Web and Linked Data In an effort to improve efficiencies of classification, I evaluated more than 80 text analytics tools for use in an automatic.

Toronto, Canada Area

Responsible for managing the team that supported the operations of the Princes Margaret Cancer Centre's Education department, including thePrincessMargaret.ca- In the final stages of the redesign of the Princess Margaret Cancer Program website, I managed more than 12 staff in three locations as we deployed several thousand pages to the site. This included.

Toronto, Canada Area

Responsible for a wide array of web related tasks for the The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre's Education Department.- With a completed build from the vendor and no test plan for version 2 of a cancer-specific Social media platform, I developed Use Cases with a desired focus on ease of use, and coordinated both User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Usability.

Wrote game reviews and technology-related articles- Major client was Evergeek Media Group digital wire services.- Reviewes published online at The Toronto Star, Metro, and other site across the world- Event Coverage included the Montreal Game Festival - Festival Arcadia 2008 and Sony's Dealer's Day 2008.

- Shot, wrote and reported on news segments for First Local News, and York Region Living.- Co-hosted the one-hour call-in show Swap Shop.- Duties included researching items and topics for on-air discussion.- Established an online show-page and archive for the week's activities.

Learned the Audio Visual rope with one of the best AV services providers in the country.- Provided Audio Visual support to Hotels and Conference Centres across the GTA, including Metropolitan, SOHO Metropolitan, Sutton Place, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, and others.- Setup and take down of audio visual equipment used during events. Includes, screens.

Masters Of Information, Information Science

Activities and Societies: University of Toronto Association of Information Science- Specialized in Knowledge Media Design - Completed.

B.A., Communications And Psychology

- Focus on Digital Media Production - Trained to use Final Cut Pro, Adobe Creative Suite (Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe.