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.