curriculum vitæ

 

 

 

Consultancy for information and knowledge projects. Specializing in academic and corporate research settings. Residing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

 

 

 

experience

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

XML • XSLT(-FO) • XPath • DTD development • (X)HTML • CSS • sed • awk • grep • regex • BASH scripting • DITA • (S)FTP • (S)HTTP • Python • Javascript • AJAX • PHP • Web development • MySQL • Adobe CS • LaTeX • Windows • *NIX

Senior Information Specialist at Algorithmics Inc.

2007 — 2010 • current full time employee, 3 years

Responsible for information architecture, publication workflow (technical and strategic), and technical documentation authoring. Architected & managed rollout of Alfresco (with Componize DITA plugin) CMS. Established Eclipse Infocenter and end-to-end redesign of information processes: distributed XML authoring, CMS, automated and just–in–time publication. Core team member of enterprise–wide Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 implementation. Received R&D Core Services Q2 2009 Excellence award.

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. Developed custom PHP submission and content management system.

Teaching Assistant at University of Toronto

2006 • contract, 8 months

Graded essays and exams, performed administrative duties and one–on–one teaching.

Research Assistant at University of Western Ontario

2006 • contract, 8 months

Researched modern Utilitarian studies and created executive summaries and exhaustive reports. Bibliographic research tasks included electronic and archive searching, and microfilm duplication. Contract renewed.

Research Assistant at University of Victoria

2005 • contract, 1 year

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.

Research Assistant at University of Victoria

2003 • 1 year 1 month

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 & PhD) 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 • information theory

University of Toronto

PhD Information Science, FIS • 2010 — current

First year of PhD coursework. Brian Cantwell Smith is advisor.

University of Western Ontario

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

Studied the co-constitutive nature of technology, capitalism and selfhood as manifested in mediated discourse. Applied traditional library studies (ALA accreditation) to policy, law, personality, and the political in the reflection of our post–Industrial society.

University of Toronto

Master of Arts, Philosophy • 2006 — 2007

Synthesized historical problems in ancient and medieval theories of the mind, property, and self. A second mode of study produced comprehensive surveys of contemporary philosophy of science, information, and epistemology.

University of Victoria

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

In-depth research of medieval Arabic philosophy and its Aristotelian and Platonic historical prececedents.

awards

Algorithmics R&D Core Services Q2 2009 Excellence

Algorithmics • 2009

SSHRC Summer Institute Scholarship

UVic • 2007 & 2008 & 2009 • $1,000 x 3

Attended Digital Humanities conference, workshops on Advanced Textual Analysis (computational stylistics) (2007), Issues in Large Project Planning and Management (2008), SEASR digital humanities framework (2009)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship

UWO • 2006 — 2007 & 2010 • $15,000 x 2

SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship

U of T • 2006 — 2007 • $17,500

External Funding Entrance Award

U of T • 2006 — 2007 • $1,000

Sophia Undergraduate Journal

UVic • 2005

Pacific University Undergraduate Conference

Pacific U • 2005

personality

free and open source software • copyright policy • indie rock music • new media • social networks • cryptography • typography • printing techniques & technologies • bicycling

Teacher Volunteer at Yonge St. Mission

2007 — 2009 • current volunteer, 2 years (4 semesters)

Teach underprivileged children computer and technology skills (Advanced course and Internet course), primarily serving Regent Park area of Toronto.