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Halifax Regional Municipality, Ns, Ca

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• end user troubleshooting via our ticket management system• HR support – using AD to create/delete user accounts, credentials, permissions, access rights, • setting up workstations and on/offboarding employees• developing and delivering all internal IT training – cyber security, MS Teams, Outlook• phishing simulations• software installs and maintenance • data recovery• hardware repairs and refurbs to extend lifespans• dealing with third parties including IT vendors• managing website.• Created MCHA’s first IT inventory – designed, discovery phase, maintain daily• Created a wealth of IT documentation from scratch – first-ever IT operations bible (for business continuity) and first-ever KBA library for the end users. • Recruited and managed our first-ever IT summer students

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Using four different IT ticket management tools, I solve IT issues for employees at a range of Buchanan's clients, including healthcare provider Commonwealth Care Alliance, Volunteers of America (non-profit), City of Guelph, Carleton University and at corporates Serena and Lily and Tridel Property. My BT duties included:• Answering clients’ IT break/fixes and requests via phone, e-mail and chat• Maintaining accurate incident tracking via four more ITSM ticketing tools• Remote support troubleshooting of desktops, laptops, mobile devices and peripherals esp. printers; network troubleshooting, esp. VPN issues • Updating drivers, installing software, fixing softphones, re/mapping drives• Resetting passwords in AD, on/offboarding support for HR.

Halifax, Canada Area

I used my writing skills to help diverse organizations on both sides of the Atlantic to inform, educate, entertain, and influence their diverse stakeholder audiences. Deliverables included website write-and-builds, highly complex global thought leadership, national cover stories, business development case studies, and successful award submissions. Journalism clients:- Atlantic Business Magazine- (Thomson Reuters title) Canadian Lawyer- The Chronicle Herald - Canada's oldest independent daily news service. Corporate writing and digital content clients:- Dalhousie University (storytelling, and website write-and-builds for Management, Law, and Science)- Dal-hosted Ocean Frontiers Institute (external storytelling)- Rogers Group (HR narrative)- Deloitte UK (ghostwriting)- The Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society (online storytelling)- PwC UK (thought leadership, and successful awards submissions)- J. D. Irving (recruitment copy)- Saint Mary's University (graduate recruitment copy)- The Government of Nova Scotia (external change communications)- A UK district council (online case studies, change communication)- KPMG International (thought leadership, internal communications, marketing copy)- Clifford Chance LLP (internal storytelling).

London, United Kingdom

Based in HR, I designed and developed for senior executives a diverse range of award winning employee communication deliverables (from annual reports to intranet sites) to engage employees and owners in the strategy. My high-impact communication skills enabled Deloitte to become the destination employer in its market for UK professional talent. Key tactical achievements:- Helping the firm develop the strongest employer brand of the Big Four UK firms- Winning the Accountancy Age Employer of the Year Award two years running.- Moving the firm from 12th to 9th place in the Best Companies rankings.- Increasing participation in the firm’s annual people survey by 30 percent- Increasing by 8% vacancies filled via the firm’s refer-a-friend hiring stream. - Drafting copy and creating content for intranet news stories that generated more than 6,500 unique page views (one in two people within the firm clicking-through).

London, United Kingdom

I delivered employee-only, strategically aligned internal communications publications for Grant Thornton UK, WPP, British Telecom, and a News International TV company with 9 million subscribers.

London, United Kingdom

I worked as a researcher for the Legal 500 B2B directories, wrote feature articles for the Law Society Gazette, and wrote news and features for a top tier global law firm's award winning in-house global magazine. Some travel and entertainment journalism, too.

London, United Kingdom

I wrote news, features and editorials for Legal Week, an award-winning weekly trade newspaper. Left to go freelance.

London, United Kingdom

Staff writer on monthly B2B magazine

London, United Kingdom

In-bound telephone sales for a freight forwarding company. Won Salesperson of the Year award.

London, United Kingdom

Various roles in London including freelance travel writing, bar and hotel work, tour guiding - and working as a live-in care worker. During this time I traveled independently across five continents.

Nelson, Marlborough & Tasman, New Zealand

Photographer and news and features writer for a daily newspaper.

Diploma Of It, It Programming

During my studies at NSCC's Technology Campus in Halifax's North End, I: Used C++ to program a simple console-based text editor (line.

Diploma, Journalism, Winner, D. W. Bain Prize For Top Student

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Government, Modern History

Activities and Societies: Student journalism, print and radio.