Peter Organisciak

• Phone— 780-953-7105
• Address—1206-8715 104 St. NW, Edmonton, AB, T6E 4G7
• Website—http://www.porganized.com
• email—organisc@ualberta.ca

MA Candidate in Humanities Computing, with Specialization in Library and Information Studies

September 2008—present | University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

• Expected graduation date: June 2010.

Honours BA in Communication Studies and Multimedia

September 2004—June 2008 | McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

Research Assistant

September 2008-present | Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Alberta | Edmonton, AB

Supervised by Stan Ruecker and Geoffrey Rockwell. Current projects:

• Just in Time Research (JiTR): Research environment considering on-demand research.
• Day of Digital Humanities: Project documenting 24 hours in the field of Digital Humanities, and visualizing such semantically linked data.
• Flash Text Analysis Tool (FlashTAT): Tool for embedding text analysis tools into a webpage.

Freelancer

March 2008 - August 2008 | Hamilton, ON

Various Projects in programming, design, and academia. Including:

• Spectator Map Generator - Hamilton Spectator - Tool for creating custom maps for online articles.
• SmartTexts - Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell - Project visualizing a tool for archival of web projects.
• “The Body Snatchers“:Trench Raid at Roclincourt - Dr. Kathy Garay - Animation of WWI trench raid. Funded by the Peace and War in the 20th Century project.

Instructor - “Crowdsourcing”

January 2009 - July 2009 | Metroland West Group | Hamilton, ON

• Private sector instructor and course designer. 1-hour course, “Crowdsourcing”, taught every week to editorial, marketing, and advertising employees at newspaper publisher.

Instructor - “Web Development”

December 2007 - June 2008 | Metroland West Group | Hamilton, ON

• Private sector instructor. 2-hour course “Web Development” taught to newspaper employees from creative and news departments.

Teaching Assistant

September 2007—December 2007 | Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia - McMaster University | Hamilton, ON

• Course topic is Introduction to Digital Media in the Humanities.
• Areas covered revolve around introductory web design, particularily XHTML, CSS, usability and online media.

Assistant Photographer

Fall 2007 - Present  | Chappell Studios | Toronto, ON

• Photographer at University of Alberta and Grant McEwan convocations, October 2008 - Present
• Photography of McMaster University convocations, November 2007 - June 2008

Instructor - “Mashups”

November 2007-December 2007 | Metroland West Group | Hamilton, ON

• 2-hour course “Mashups” taught to newspaper employees from creative and news departments.
• Course designed by me in August 2007.
• Topics covered included history of content on the internet, practical uses of mashups, and hands on introduction to creating mashups.

Website Designer

June 2007—present | Mixed Media | Hamilton, ON

• Website redesign for the James Street North Art Crawl.
• An example of the future site can be found at http://www.porganized.com/JameSt.
• Coded in CSS and PHP, uses Wordpress as a content management system.

Graphic Designer

July 2004—July 2006 | Hayden Industries | Hamilton, ON

• Main medium of design was for publishing.
• Experience with Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Flash.
• Example work at http://porganized.com/commercial.html.

Graphic Designer

July 2004—September 2004 | Crawford and Associates | Hamilton, ON

• Created icons for computer software interfaces.

Layout Editor

June 2005—present | Between the Lines | Hamilton, ON

• Strong experience with Adobe InDesign.
• Examples available at http://porganized.com/publishing.html

Club President

September 2006—present | McMaster Multimedia Students Society| Hamilton, ON

• prior to President, held the position of Treasurer, August 2005-April 2006.

Residence Rep

September 2005 | McKay Hall | Hamilton, ON

Faculty Rep

September 2005, September 2006 | McMaster Humanities Society | Hamilton, ON

First-Year Representative

September 2005—April 2006 | McMaster Humanities Society | Hamilton, ON

• Position representing the interests of the first-year students of a university faculty.

• McMaster Dean’s Honour List (2007, 2008)
• The Bank of Montreal Humanities Multimedia Scholarship (2007)
• Time Magazine Person of the Year (2006)
• St. Joseph’s Community Scholarship (2004, 2006)
• Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Scholarship(2004)
• McMaster University Entrance Scholarship (2004)
• Honour J: “For Excellence in academic and extra-curricular activities at Saint John’s College” (2004)
• Silver Medal - Skills Ontario Animation Competition (2004)
• Runner-up - Notmad Skin Design Contest (2003)
• Saint John’s College Honour Roll (2002, 2003, 2004)
• 1st Place City Standing in Cayley Mathematics Competition (2002)
• 1st Place City Standing in Pascal Mathematics Competition (2001)

Software

• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Premier, InDesign)
• Final Cut Pro
• Lightwave
• Maya
• Cubase

Design

• Photo editing, Photo manipulation
  • Strong ability at improving photos or adapting them to a desired style
  • example 1 (before and after rollovers)
  • example 2 (combining two photos and a vector illustration)
• Editing
  • Strong video editing ability, quickly adapt to new functions or tasks
• Web Design and Code
  • Strong ability with XHTML, CSS, Actionscript 2.0
  • Growing familiarity with PHP, Actionscript 3.0, JavaScript
• 3D Modelling, 3D Animation
  • Skill depending on task and program. Particularily strong with texture design and with Lightwave
• Photography
  • Moderate skill, strong familiarity with digital SLRs, some professional experience
• Vector design, vector animation
  • Moderate vector illustration skill

• Photography (examples - http://flickr.com/photos/organisciak/)
• Graphic Design (examples - http://porganized.com/graphics.html)
• Crowdsourcing (journal - http://crowdstorming.wordpress.com/)