Skills:

• Programming Languages: Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, C, C++, MATLAB, MySQL
• Software: Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Eclipse IDE, Subversion, Ubuntu Linux
• Content Management platforms: WordPress, Movable Type, Expression Engine, Drupal
• Development Process: Project Management, Specification collection, process documentation, user studies, client relations and prototyping in low, medium and high fidelities
• Extensive knowledge of web applications and services dealing with: RSS aggregation, wikis, weblogs, social networking, visualization, Office 2.0 and productivity

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Education And Awards:

University of British Columbia – UBC (September 2006 – May 2011)

• Honours degree in Computer Science.

International Leader of Tomorrow Award, UBC (September 2006 – May 2011)

• For outstanding academic, extracurricular and leadership achievements for international students. Full scholarship to the value of $33 300 a year until graduation

President Entrance Scholarship, UBC (September 2006)

• For outstanding academic achievement. Value: $4 000

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Work Experience

Community Learning Assistant

UBC Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (May 2010 -Present)

• Creating resources and presentations to assist the UBC community in the selection and implementation of educational technologies.

Project Manager – Web Development

SAP- Business Objects, Technology Group Legal Compliance (April 2009 – December 2009)

• Managed and developed a large PHP-based application to facilitate communication between product development and legal teams at SAP.
• Consulted with lawyers and developers in order to ascertain the legal risks and architectural practices needed in order to use specific third-party open source code in the development of new products.

Usability Consultant

UBC Department of Computer Science (January 2009 – January 2010)

• Conducting a usability study to assess the UBC Imager Laboratory Website

Web Developer

UBC Office of Learning Technology (January 2008 -May 2009)

• Built custom user management and aggregation modules for WordPress and MediaWiki in order to allow them to be used as an online learning platform
• Collaborated with educators at the University of Mary Washington in order to create a successful framework for using blogs as an instructional tool
• Provided solutions to the UBC School of Education allowing them to aggregate and assess several hundred student e-portfolios
• Consulted with clients and provided coding solutions and designs for several different projects, including aboriginal.ubc.ca, digitaltattoo.ubc.ca, leap.ubc.ca and blogs.ubc.ca

Website Design Consultant

UBC Undergraduate Research Opportunities (May 2008 – December 2008)

• Individually built a multi-functional web platform for UBC Undergraduate Research Opportunities
• Gathered requirements for and then designed site while in continuous consultation with clients

Residence Advisor

UBC Housing and Conferences (August 2007  – August 2008)

• Counseled residents, built community through organizing events and maintained behavioral and safety standards
• Organized academic career fairs and learning workshops for up to 100 students

Learning Assistant

Student Development UBC  (May 2007 -August 2007)

• Managed and created content for leap.ubc.ca, an online academic portal for UBC
• Created marketing pieces and gave several workshops and presentations on LEAP and its usefulness as a tool for enabling academic success
• Created the “get Teched up” section on leap.ubc.ca, one of its most successful resources

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Activities and Interests

Representative to the UBC Department of Computer Science Communications Committee (September 2008 -Present)

UBC Computer Science Student Society

A committee responsible for identifying, evaluating and developing internal and external communications related opportunities for the UBC Department of Computer Science

• Worked in a team of 5 to redesign the information architecture and usability of the UBC Computer Science Department website

Information Technology Systems Director (August 2008- February 2009)

UBC Student Leadership Conference

• Managed the webmaster and audiovisual coordinators
• Developed technological strategies for all internal and external communication including the implementation a project management system
• Developed a customized MySQL database to create a complex registration system for the 1200 delegates

Webmaster (August 2007- January 2008)

UBC Student Leadership Conference

• Redesigned, managed and updated slc.ubc.ca and maintainted delegate database

Vice-President Communications (September 2006 – September 2008)

UBC Friends of Wetlands

An environmental group dedicated to the restoration and conservation of Urban Wetlands in conjunction with First Nations environmental group

• Website management and internal communications
• Increased membership by 200% through creation of innovative advertising strategies

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Presentations

• Beyond the Hype: Teaching with Social Media – NorthernVoice 2010
  
• The Great Debate: Should Social Media Tools be used in Formal Education – EduCamp 2010 (March 2010)
• Use your Leadership Skills to Create a Personal Learning Environment – UBC Student Leadership Conference (January 2010)
• Constructing your Personal Learning Environment – UBC JumpStart (August 2009)
• What Education will look like in 10 years time - UBC Terry Talks (November 2008)
• Online Social Software and the New Youth Culture – Implications for Education. BC Net (April 2008)
• Technology in Learning – UBC Jumpstart (August 2008) and Get Learn’d (September 2008)
• Represented the students of UBC at the opening of the UBC Irving K. Barber Learning center, speaking alongside Professor Stephen Toope and the Honourable Gordon Campbell (April 2008)