Cofounder who is now at the helm, overseeing operations of a grassroots neurotech network.

Co-Founder and Team Lead

Residents Quality Improvement (QI) Projects, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and DentistryDeveloping a novel mental health website to prescribe supportive daily messages with an easy-to-use interface for medical practitioners and researcher featuring integrated analysis.

Jackson Lab, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and DentistryDeveloping novel closed loop optigentic-based neuromodulation hardware for use in mice; operationalizing behaviour in real time and activating transfected protein channel to characterize the function of claustrum projections to the prefrontal cortex.

Sturdy Lab, Department of Psychology, Faculty of ScienceCare taking of research chickadees, in-training for conducting operant conditioning based experiments.

Visual Attention and Social Perception Lab, Department of Psychology, Faculty of ScienceProgramming and testing experiments to ensure appropriate integration of disparate data streams, training lab volunteers on the best practices of EEG setup and data collection.

NeuroNexus is a series of events structured around a core 6-week interdisciplinary neurotechnology design competition. The year before I joined the administrative team, NeuroNexus was an initial pilot of the program (2019), taking place locally in Calgary, Alberta.Despite the challenges of COVID-19, which lead to the initial cancellation of NeuroNexus 2020, as the sole Director in Edmonton I personally ensured the competition was successfully brought to the capital of Alberta. My day-to-day involved leading a team of 6 volunteers in the recruitment of undergraduate and graduate university students as innovators for the competition. Additionally, I engaged with experts from industry, academia, and medicine, for the recruitment of real-world problems that can be solved by innovations in the neurotechnology space. Throughout the competition I assisted with the initial program launch, was the liaison for makerspaces throughout Edmonton, hosted workshops for innovators, and was the NeuroNexus point of contact for the BCI innovator team Neuro GoGo.

Develop the activities, lesson plans, and evaluative material for the BrainCo NeuroMaker course now offered in high schools across the United States.

Section of Translational Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cummings School of MedicineDeveloping mobile EEG hardware for experiments and collecting data for validating the efficacy of gait-based biofeedback in Parkinson's Disease patients.

Attention Perception & Performance Lab, Department of Psychology, Faculty of ScienceResponsible for literature reviews and writing research papers. Heavy focus on programming novel experiments using Python, Matlab, and Unity. Automated online analysis pipelines for live data. Utilized machine learning algorithms to integrate the analysis of discrete brain data and video streams. Employed the use of DNNs for object recognition and ERP waveform classifiers.

Assisting with studies developing novel methods for virus adminstration to the brain.Winship Lab, Neurochemical Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta.

Investigating electrophysiological correlates of attention in relation to virtual reality, exercise, and natural movements outside of the lab. Responsible for correspondance, schedualing, inventory, and training.Mathewson Lab, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta.

Full-time (either 8-4 or 6-3)Drove on highway and city roads with a manual 3-ton dump truck , an asphalt distributor truck, and various under 1-ton trucks with trailers.Operated a debris blower tow-behind and tow-behind molten rubber crack sealing machine. Frequently moved asphalt by hand with shovel, for several hours at a time in full sun.

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