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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Worked closely with LMS administration staff, D2L support team, and internal stakeholders and staff to provide support, design advice, and technological assistance.Applied principles of UDL and best practices of accessibility to course design for the Social Sciences and Human and Social Development faculties at a large public research institution.Wrote documentation and performed maintenance on organization- and public-facing knowledge repositories, using OneNote, SharePoint, and Figma.Created testing stories and scenarios for platform integrations and development.Administered division Jira board for project roadmapping, tracking and workflow organization.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Oversaw a distributed team of undergraduate, graduate, and professional researchers during the production of an interactive web app and map charting cultural, social, industrial, and commercial relationships between humans and Eastern North Pacific gray whales along North America's west coast.Designed data structure and taxonomy, designed and administered database with MySQL, constructed map with TEIXML, GeoJSON, and JavaScript, performed extensive qualitative and quantitative research, oversaw data entry by team members, quality checked deliverables, co-ordinated timelines and served as point-of-contact with the development team at the University of Victoria's Humanities Computing and Media Centre.Designed, wrote and deployed a fully operational site with HTML, CSS and Javascript to house map application and relevant contextual information. Take a look at https://www.devilfish.site.Presented research findings and demoed software application at two major conferences in marine and environmental history - the annual American Society for Environmental History conference (Eugene, OR), and the Oceans Past IX International Conference hosted by the University of Washington (Seattle, WA).Wrote a small link-crawling package with Python3, BeautifulSoup and Requests to crawl all externally-referenced project links and return their header status codes, cutting site maintenance time by an order of magnitude.Skills accrued: relational database creation, management and querying, XSD and XML schema design, GIS, version control (SVN, Git), project management within a distributed team, DOM manipulation with JavaScript, data structures and algorithms (DSA) and iteration in JavaScript, data cleaning, analysis and visualization, scripting and automation with Python3, site building and basic DevOps pipeline creation with Apache Ant.

Victoria, Bc

Created content and maintained an extensive Internal Knowledge Base for internal use by employees at the Technology Integrated Learning team at the Division of Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation. Responsibilities included accurate and concise workflow documentation, detailed articles on various learning technologies, and maintenance of content body with organizational changes. Utilized a content management system (Wordpress), along with some basic HTML and CSS, to design and create over 100 student profiles for the Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award (JCURA) online exposition. Responsible for 500+ resolved support requests through Request Tracker (RT) over this five-month term contract, working closely with administrative and instructional staff in the faculties of Social Sciences and Human and Social Development.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Researched, consulted, and generated content for two major research projects through the University of Victoria (Racial Uprisings Lab - Dept of Economics | Devilfish Project - Dept. of History).Analyzed, recorded, and transmitted results to supervising parties, utilizing best practices of data management and collaboration.Created and maintained interactive maps (using QGIS and ArcGIS) to visualize data in a digestible manner.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Assessed, recorded, and communicated student results on a variety of written and oral work to respective supervising professors.Led seminars, tutorials and discussion sections for six undergraduate-level courses offered through the Department of History.Courses: HSTR 210A - History of the United States to the Civil War (2018)HSTR 101D - Epidemics and the Modern World (2019)HSTR 101E - The Environmental History of the World (2019)HSTR 307B - US in the World, 1914-Present (2019)HSTR 210B - US: Postwar Reconstruction - Present (2019)HSTR 101C - Epidemics and the Modern World (2021)

Victoria, Bc (Remote)

Directly managed a distributed team of 4-7 Learning Technology Assistants over the disruptive transition to all-online course delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic, responsible for the timely resolution over 1,700 support requests across an 11-month period.Liaised with a wide variety of clientele from the Humanities and Fine Arts faculties at the University of Victoria in this public-facing role, including in-depth consultations, suggestions on course design for accessibility and user experience, and on-demand troubleshooting for those new to the e-learning space.Oversaw and managed the rollout of extensive documentation, landing pages, and other web-hosted content for students and faculty, using Wordpress, HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Responsible for labour budget, food costing and waste tracking in a busy campus restaurant. In this role, I oversaw a 15% reduction in food waste by way of a variety of innovative reduction and re-use strategies.Trained and supervised all new kitchen staff, ensuring high quality, consistency, and speed of execution with a rapidly changing seasonal menu.Created, costed, and executed a variety of new, feature, and rotating menu items.

Master'S Degree, Environmental History, Concentration In Cultural, Social, And Political Thought

Activities and Societies: Graduate Representative Council (2019-2020) SSHRC CGS-M Grant Recipient ($22,000)

Bachelor'S Degree (Distinction), History