Education

  • This is a 12-month intensive program “for digital media innovators” that provides a foundation in technology, business, and design. My major research paper is a 23,000-word mixed-method study of modifications to video game hardware. I received the Dean’s Award of Excellence.

  • This four-year undergraduate program provided foundational studies in print, magazine, broadcast, and online journalism before requiring us to specialize. My major is in newspaper journalism. Extra-curricular activities included three terms as a section editor at The Eyeopener and an academic year as the web director of McClung’s Magazine.

  • I completed the full-time front-end development bootcamp at HackerYou (now Juno College) in the summer of 2014. I also earned a continuing education certificate in digital media skills at OCAD University in 2012.

    I study piano as a hobby and have recently begun to work towards the Associate of the Royal Conservatory, Toronto (ARCT) diploma in piano performance.

Employment

  • As Web Producer, Web Manager, and Senior Web Manager, I was responsible for all content updates to TSO.CA, training other staff on the content management system, reinforcing accessibility requirements, and building, testing, and deploying all marketing and patron services emails. I also built a microsite for the “Canada Mosaic” sesquicentennial celebrations and co-project managed the client side of the website redesign that launched in the spring of 2022.

  • I was a front-end developer focusing primarily on WordPress builds, some of which I coded from conception to launch. I also inherited some existing maintenance projects from other developers.

  • I began my CBC career as a researcher compiling and hand-coding (!) candidate profiles during the 2006 federal election campaign, then as a part-time video encoder on the online news desk. This turned into an interesting multi-year stint that included front-end development, writing, technical work on the CBC Politics web portal, and two more federal election campaigns.

  • I maintain a small roster of freelance web clients including the Music in the Morning festival in Vancouver and the chamber ensemble Trio Arkel.

    I worked as a teaching assistant for the TMU Master of Digital Media Interdisciplinary Innovation (DG8005) course in the winter term of 2003.