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• Creates new innovations in library service though community-led R & D
• Works across silos to find opportunities and areas for collaboration
• Nurtures community connections and listens for potential project opportunities crafted from the best available technologies

• An acting opportunity where I coordinated the work of three different teams, totaling 20 employees.
• Navigated contract negotiations with vendors and coordinated tech. purchases
• Wrapped up two new digital initiative projects that were in process
• Handled human resource matters and resolved disputes

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Led the branch team and increased sense of cohesion while resolving HR concerns
• Maintained physical collections to make them responsive to patron demand within complicated spatial restrictions
• Created a patron loyalty program to reduce barriers for patrons struggling with returning items
• Led the branch team and increased sense of cohesion while resolving HR issues
• Maintained physical collections to make them responsive to patron demand and complicated spatial… Show more
• Maintained physical collections to make them responsive to patron demand and complicated spatial restrictions

Vancouver, BC

• Lead a team of librarians, designers, and technicians to constantly innovate new ways to engage the public online with the host of services VPL has to offer
• Conducted user experience tests and pollinated UX thinking across the organization to provide constant evaluation of library experience
• Drupal power user with experience working with JavaScript, SASS, CSS, and Python to collaborate with my team towards amazing results
• Ignited collaboration with forward-thinking approaches… Show more
• Ignited collaboration with forward-thinking approaches to team-building to make sure that there is always room at the table for the best possible solution Show less

• Help connect community members with creative technology and each other
• Design information repositories and structures
• Promote digital creativity hubs like VPL's Inspiration LabMy job lets me collect a whole new kind of resource to share in our library's collection: human stories. Citizens possess lived experiences that are as rich and.
• Promote digital creativity hubs like VPL's Inspiration LabMy job lets me collect a whole new kind of resource to share in our library's collection: human stories. Citizens possess lived experiences that are as rich and.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Manage project milestones and objectives
• Manage vendor relations and conduct UX quality assurance tests on the module
• Assign tasks to a team of three to collect and curate user's cultural content via interviews/community eventsI worked as the project lead for the cultural and technological content of the Vancouver Public Library's.
• Assign tasks to a team of three to collect and curate user's cultural content via interviews/community eventsI worked as the project lead for the cultural and technological content of the Vancouver Public Library's.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Create connections in my community with a focus on middle-years children (ages 6-12)
• Design new programs like the Parents Night Out: Best Books for Reluctant Readers
• Create a program to help children learn to code using raspberry pi microcomputers

Central / Outreach (Community School)

• Develop programming using iPads, laptops, visual arts projects, and Minecraft
• Collaborate with the Vancouver School Board to create an immersive experience
• Produce new programming models that can be replicated in the future by Vancouver Public Library
• Create evaluations that get to the heart of the story using e-surveys and video interviews

Vancouver

• Educate and facilitate skill sharing with community groups through outreach programming and collaboration
• Assist in change management to leverage the strengths of an information service based model
• Use a research oriented approach to measure success and help make the right choices with the help of my community

Vancouver, BC

Surrey, BC

UBC Vancouver

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Co-taught pilot advanced poetry course where the UBC students also volunteer to teach poetry to K-6

616 Macleod Trail Southeast, Calgary, AB T2G 2M2

• Spearheaded what is now ongoing community partnerships
• Coordinated 100+ public programs system wide each year
• Organized a Budget Travel Fair across 3 branches

616 Macleod Trail Southeast, Calgary, AB T2G 2M2

Master Of Information And Library Studies, Library And Information Science

Master Of Arts (M.A.), English Literature

Activities and Societies: Communication Coordinator -- Play Chthonics Poetry Reading Series Coordinator -- End Notes, English Lit Grad.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English (Honours)