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
Information Architect & Technical Writer at Algorithmics Inc.
2007 — 2008 • current full time employee, 1.5 years
Responsible for information architecture, publication workflow (technical and strategic), and technical documentation authoring. Establishing 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.
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
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) 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 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
SSHRC Summer Institute Scholarship
UVic • 2007 & 2008 • $1,000 x 2
Attended Digital Humanities conference, workshops on Advanced Textual Analysis (computational stylistics) (2007), Issues in Large Project Planning and Management (2008)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
UWO • 2006 — 2007 • $15,000
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