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Research project aims to contribute to improving the quality of life for individuals living with spinal cord injury or other mobility limitations and with age-related cognitive impairments. Responsibilities include: running an on-campus study to examine effects of using application on values and patterns of thought and behavior; carrying out select programming work to maintain application database and user-interface; conducting literature reviews to support research and assist with preparation of manuscripts for publication; preparing material for and presenting at academic conferences.Lead Researcher: Borna Noureddin, PhD (BCIT, Department of Computer Systems Technology).

Burnaby, British Columbia

Kerr Wood Leidal (KWL) is an award-winning leader in water engineering services in Western Canada.Practicum work focuses on utilization of GIS in water based projects, such as but not limited to, computer modelling, feasibility studies, and master planning.

Vancouver, Canada Area

https://www.ecojustice.ca/Ecojustice is Canada's largest environmental law charity. Ecojustice works to defend nature, combat climate change, and represent communities calling for environmental justice.As the digital engagement strategist, I serve as the architect of Ecojustice's digital engagement assets, tools and strategies.

The Baha’i community of the United States is engaged in a number of grassroots efforts that seek to build capacity among children, youth and adults to serve their communities and develop an ethos of unity among a growing number of people. *Structured an evolving conceptual framework to safeguard the overall learning process among a diversity of actors and participants.*Created workshop and training content to onboard distributed resources and teams.*Established learning groups in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; New York City, New York; and San Diego, California to explore targeted technology and media use and adoption at the community level.*Facilitated consultation, planning and decision-making among national, regional and local organizations and communities.*Facilitated analysis of target areas and populations primarily through the use of participatory interviews and narratives.*Coordinated the development, acquisition and production of all website content, and developed social and traditional ad content.*Created and managed remote, distributed team of content creators, web developers, and data scientists across the United States, Canada and France that supported the geographically-targeted campaigns.

Education Under Fire was a campaign that addressed the Iranian government’s denial of the right to education to minority groups within Iran. *Creative director and manager for all communications, training materials and promotional media produced for the campaign.*Coordinated relationships with participating organizations and key stakeholders.*Facilitated an advocacy base of approximately 5,000 individuals primarily across the United States and Canada who organized the participation of over 40,000 activists.

Haifa Area, Israel

*Designed and implemented web strategies for the online presence of the organization.*Developed and managed global virtual teams, utilized across a variety of disciplines to implement Internet Group projects.*Managed the core team and its internal projects located in Haifa, Israel.*Managed site content creation and served as a primary content editor.*Acted as liaison between vendors and potential consultants.*Prepared and wrote statistical and executive reports to oversight committees.

Haifa Area, Israel

*Managed a team of 25 and an overall budget of $750,000, with responsibility for all major office functions. *Led interactions with heads of state, ambassadors, diplomats, ministers, directors general, business and key dignitaries.*Managed communications and contributed to delivery of several key and sensitive matters, including sensitive political matters (and our non-involvement), tax status, national press, a land expropriation and UNESCO World Heritage status.

Geographic Information Systems Adp, Education

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science, English Literature