textual metanoia

curriculum vitæ

Consultancy for information and knowledge projects. Specializing in academic and corporate settings.

experience

Proven corporate and academic experience in management, team leading, technical development, and research.

(X)HTML • CSS • sed • awk • grep • regex • BASH scripting • XML • XSLT(-FO) • XPath • DTD • DITA specializations • (S)FTP • (S)HTTP • AppleScript • Python • Javascript • AJAX • PHP scripting and web dev. • MySQL • Desktop publishing • LaTeX • Windows & *NIX

Information Architect & Technical Writer at Algorithmics Inc.

2007 — 2008 • current full time employee, 1 year

Three contract renewals and currently full time employee in Documentation department. Responsible for information architecture, publication build process, and technical documentation authoring. Currently involved in establishing Eclipse Infocenter for documentation deliverables and assisting Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 implementation core team.

Project Administrator and Technical Lead at The Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism

2007 • current contract

Implementing content and communication management system for publication of the Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism. Administration of project for 150+ authors and editors. Evaluated, installed, customized, and currently maintaining information management system (open–source PHP package, customized).

Teaching Assistant at University of Toronto

2006 • contract, 8 months

Assistant to Dr. Martin Pickavé and Dr. Thomas Mathien. Graded essays and exams, performed administrative duties and conducted in–person consultations.

Research Assistant at University of Western Ontario

2006 • contract, 8 months

Assistant to Professor James Crimmins (Canada Research Chair). Researched modern Utilitarian studies and created executive summaries and exhaustive reports. Bibliographic tasks included electronic and archival searching, microfilm duplication, photocopying, and printing. Contract renewed.

Research Assistant at University of Victoria

2005 • contract, 1 year

Assistant to Dr. Taneli Kukkonen (Canada Research Chair). Co–organized international academic conference involving eighteen invited speakers from five countries. Researched and summarized current scholarship. Developed preliminary assessment of UVic's library holdings for large acquisition endowment.

Barista at Starbucks Canada

2002 • 3 years 7 months

Worked closely with a small team in a fast–paced food service environment and informally assisted in training of new employees.

Research Assistant at University of Victoria

2003 • 1 year 1 month

Assistant to Professor Wendy Wickwire. Digitally archived ethnographic print and audio materials. Researched and created reports on a variety of ethnographic scholarship.

education

Top–tier graduate degrees in library and information science (MLIS) and philosophy (MA). Received awards.

copyright • privacy law • information ethics & policy • sociology of financial economics • information retrieval • cryptography theory & design • enterprise content management • information architecture • Arabic philosophy • Aristotelian philosophy • philosophy of subjectivity

University of Western Ontario

Master of Library and Information Science, FIMS • 2006 — 2007

Specialized in information policy, information architecture, and critical theory.

Courses: “Information Visualization” • “Information Policy” • “Subject Analysis and Thesaurus Construction” • “Special Topic: Information Ethics” • “Special Topic: Evolution of the Internet” • “Perspectives on Library and Information Science” • “Organization of Information” • “Information Sources and Services” • “Research Methods and Statistics” • “Information Systems and Technology Management” • “Technology, Information and the Human Factor” • “An Introduction to Information Behaviour” • “Information Retrieval: Research and Practice” • “Knowledge Practices in Scholarly and Professional Communities”

University of Toronto

Master of Arts, Philosophy • 2006 — 2007

Specialized in philosophy of information, law, and political economy.

Courses: “Topics in the Philosophy of Science: Models, Truth, and Representation” • “Political Philosophy: Locke's Theory of Private Property” • “Topics in the Foundations of Computation and Information” • “Information Law (Law Department)” • “Augustine, Aquinas, Lonergan” • “Seminar in Philosophy of Mind” • “Philosophy of Mind in the Middle Ages”

Activities and Societies Revolver Club, Photography Club.

University of Victoria

Bachelor of Arts (Honours with Distinction), Philosophy • 2002 — 2005

Specialization in ancient and medieval history of philosophy. Minor in religious studies.

Courses: “University Writing” • “Philosophy of the Social Sciences” • “Philosophy of Religion” • “Introduction to Philosophy” • “Introduction to History” • “Introduction to Sociology” • “General Physics” • “Topics in World and Comparative History” • “Language and Thought” • “Applied Logic: I” • “Applied Logic: II” • “Public Speaking” • “Political Philosophy” • “Plato” • “Medieval Philosophy” • “The Rationalists” • “The Empiricists and Kant” • “Sociology of Leisure” • “Sociology of Gender” • “Aristotle” • “Moral Philosophy” • “Advanced Topics in Philosophy” • “Introduction to Judaism, Christianity and Islam” • “Introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and the Chinese Religions” • “Contemporary Religious Issues” • “Ways of Understanding Religion” • “Listening to Music” • “Directed Studies in Philosophy” • “Directed Studies in Philosophical Topics” • “Directed Studies in Philosophical Topics” • “Middle Eastern Civilization: the Ancient World” • “Eastern Philosophy: The Chinese Tradition” • “Early Greek Thought” • “Directed Studies in Philosophy” • “Advanced Topics in Philosophy” • “Philosophy Honours Seminar”