Resume

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

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

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

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

Presentations

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