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Canada

Huntsville, Ontario, Canada

• Key roles in development of Ontario’s virtual/hybrid court capabilities since COVID-19
• Supporting Ontario’s courts, detention centres, and OPP with custom videoconferencing, evidence presentation, audio-video, accessibility, and technology reporting solutions
• Developing provincial-level technology progress and forecasting reports for senior officials
• Providing informational, best practice, and Q&A sessions for court managers and IT staff

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Supporting video conferencing, audio-visual, and converged communication services (private WAN, Internet, satellite) for Courts, Corrections, Police, Coroners, and others by
• Leading and participating in consultation, analysis, and development of solutions
• Roll-out of tools, methods, processes, and performance indicators.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Analyzing, risk-assessing, and administering provincial tax-credit applications submitted by cultural industry entrepreneurs (e.g., film and television producers).
• Ontario Creates, an agency of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport is the central catalyst for the province’s cultural media cluster including book publishing, film and television, interactive digital media.

Old City Hall, 60 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario

• Independently developing and administering a semi-annual audit program to help assure the quality of the work performed by approx. 130 Court Reporters in the Toronto region
• Leading meetings with staff and Supervisors to identify performance improvement opportunities
• Troubleshooting in-court recording systems, often in live court, and tracking issue resolutions
• Advising management about emerging technical and/or staff performance trends
• Training groups of new Court Reporters in the Toronto region

60 Queen Street West, Toronto

• Reconciling and checking quality standards of dozens of court recordings daily
• Processing orders placed by Accredited Court Transcriptionists for restricted court recordings
• Updating and improving systems (e.g., Excel grids) for more efficient departmental workflow
• Assisting and advising staff and management to solve technical problems

Old City Hall, 60 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario

• Annotating court proceedings, capturing all key substantive and procedural information
• Ensuring security of court recordings, safeguarding against unauthorized access
• Public speaking during court to seek clarification and/or ensure audio is being recorded clearly
• Ensuring effective operation of audio-recording technology used in court

Toronto, Canada Area

RENAISSANCE RAMBLERS (2016-2018) is a performance project bringing together bluegrass and classical musicians to play repertoire from long before bluegrass. A new approach with deep roots, it's conceived for wedding, corporate, and cultural events as well as acoustic / historic music audiences. Skills as Producer and Artistic Director: band-building.

439 University Ave #500, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Y8

• GLINT provides corporate innovation and team-assessment tools.
• Providing language and structural analysis at key points in product development
• Authoring GUI, help-system and marketing copy (e.g., in-app help text)
• Performing sales and training presentations online over multiple continents simultaneously
• Scripting and producing videos for training and marketing

Ontario Court Of Justice (Family), 47 Sheppard Avenue East, Toronto, ON M2N 5N1

• A FANTASTIC experience learning how things proceed in front of judges and behind the scenes at the busiest FAMILY COURT in Canada!
• Job-shadowing court clerks; approx. 100 hrs. in hearings
• Assisting and observing in the First Appearance Office under Mme. Registrar Elise Cattani
• Observing and learning from numerous duty counsel, mediators, and Children’s Aid workers
• Locating and consolidating court files in preparation for upcoming court appearances

Huntsville, Ontario | Toronto, Ontario

Cared for a terminally ill parent; managed end-of-life, home, and estate matters.

17 Carlaw Avenue Unit 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• During temporary co-management position, originated use of a free cloud-based work order tracking system to help transition from traditional paper-based operations
• Front-line consultant to customers seeking advice, maintenance, purchase and/or consignment of vintage (1950s-1980s) consumer hi-fi (stereo) equipment
• Troubleshooting and treating audio amplifiers, loudspeakers, turntables, cassette decks, tuners
• Processing work orders and handling customers in this east Toronto specialty shop

283 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 1N2

• International Shipping, Courier, and Digital Printing Services
• Processed hundreds of international and domestic courier shipments
• Front-line customer service in a fast-paced neighbourhood retail environment serving numerous local small businesses and residents including legal professionals
• Digital image and document printing, incl. special formats, binding, and other finishing

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Technician during complete stage sound system overhaul, incl. RTA (real-time analysis), at Toronto bar and live music venue The Cadillac Lounge
• Performed 70V system upgrades at The Badminton & Racquet Club of Toronto
• Set up and mixed (engineered) musicals at Toronto area private schools

5460 Yonge St, North York, ON M2N 6K7

• Management for commercial CD-production during key staff changes
• Elevated critical information processing from an e-mail/MS-Excel-based approach to free cloud applications (e.g., Google Docs, Google Calendars), improved efficiency

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Reported to Board of Directors; maintained executive support to nine provincial branches
• Negotiated new headquarters lease; relocated facilities in extremely short time, reducing overhead costs by 50%; updated and re-established IT and A/V infrastructure at flagship office
• Managed CFI’s first national tour of a celebrity guest speaker; produced the Toronto event
• Led a team of stakeholders through a rebranding process with Instinct Brand Equity Coaches

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Managed production of approx. 20 public lectures (incl. debates) with prominent scientists and intellectuals (e.g., CBC’s Bob McDonald); designed, crewed-up, and supervised large and small ticketed events (audience.
• Public speaking to audiences ranging from five to 500; hosting public debates, panel discussions
• Introduced consistency to event announcements across multiple platforms
• Introduced a Google Site for volunteer recruitment and duty-management
• Wrote a complete catalogue of job descriptions for all volunteer positions

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Managed pilot episode post-production for a TV series in development
• Designed core financial and project-tracking Google documents during development
• Designed budget, tax credit estimates, deferral structures, and recoupment schedules

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (also British Columbia, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Indiana)

• Similar roles as performed on Mighty Machines Series II (see below)
• Multiple roles in this popular children’s educational series on TVO, TFO, and TreehouseTV
• Designed digital post-production workflow to meet complex deliverables
• Obtained participation by dozens of manufacturing and construction companies
• Drafted contracts and negotiated credit with talent, crew, vendors, and staff
• Administered complex federal and provincial tax credit applications

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (also Los Angeles, USA)

• Managed the monthly cycle of digital production for Air Canada’s in-flight TV
• Introduced a multi-user MS-Access database to centralize and streamline operations
• Designed routines and systems to meet the challenges of a new seat-back playback system
• Produced numerous in-flight video messages (e.g., for airport orientation)
• Produced two music CD samplers for industry events

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Similar roles as performed on Mighty Machines Series III (see above)
• Multiple roles in this popular children’s educational series on TVO, TFO, and TreehouseTV
• Designed digital post-production workflow to meet complex deliverables
• Obtained participation by dozens of manufacturing and construction companies
• Drafted contracts and negotiated credit with talent, crew, vendors, and staff
• Administered complex federal and provincial tax credit applications

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (also New Brunswick, Quebec)

• Helped secure financing for documentary programs, accessing numerous charitable foundations and government funding agencies
• Introduced a multi-user MS-Access database to run development for 40 programs
• Produced a bilingual website proposal to the Department of National Defence

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Designed, researched, and wrote five annual audio-video product catalogues presenting prices and specifications of approximately 4,000 products in each issue
• Obtained the participation of approx. 225 companies worldwide
• Personally collected, sorted and groomed approx. 2 million cells of data
• Introduced a custom database and pioneered a web-based submission system
• Writer of nationally published audio product reviews

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (also Estonia, Russia, Virginia, USA)

• Was mentored in documentary production by Canadian legend Allan King over four years
• Location filming, tech supervision, and sound recording in Estonia and Virginia
• Innovated a real-time language translation system for mobile crews
• Managed 120 hours of digital media in various formats
• Organized VIP screenings of films in universities (USA, Canada)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Served thousands of demanding customers; processed approx. 10,000 work orders
• Provided advanced technical training and problem-solving to customers and staff
• Repaired hundreds of loudspeakers, including high-end brands (e.g., Totem Acoustic)

Ontario College Diploma With Honours, Law

Seneca College's LAW CLERK Diploma Program is recognized by the Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario as equivalent to their Associate level.

Certificate, Film Studies

Courses in film production, writing and editing