Employment
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2013- |
Systems Manager
BC Libraries Cooperative – BC
- Member of the Co-op’s senior management team
- Manage Systems and development teams responsible for delivering infrastructure and services to 200+ member libraries across BC and Canada
- Helped lead initiative to bring service-oriented framework across all Co-op lines of business
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2004- 2012 |
Manager, Open Education Initiatives
BCcampus – Victoria, BC
- Created freelearning.ca – a portal for educators to find Open Educational Resources using WordPress and Delicious.
- Successfully implemented large-scale Open Educational repository to share post-secondary curricular resources in BC, including technical administration, management, documentation and marketing
- Led the requirements gathering and later RFP process
for 2 province-wide K-12 agencies and a province-wide post-secondary agency to procure a Learning Object Repository
- Created “software sandbox” for BC Open Learning consortium’s instructional developers
- Helped craft Open Textbook strategy for BCcampus
- Led project to investigate a shared streaming media service for provincial post-secondary uses
- Spearheaded province-wide meeting on Privacy and the use of 3rd party hosted educational technologies
- Continued to manage and improve BCcampus’ Shareable Online Learning Resources service
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2003- Present |
Educational Technology Consultant
Self-employed – Victoria, BC
- Consulted for numerous clients including Ministry of Advanced Education, WCET, SFU, BCIT, UBC, SREB
- Regularly invited speaker on various emerging educational technology topics
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2001- 2008 |
Research Coordinator/Consultant, Edutools
Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET) – Boulder, Colorado
- Co-creator and researcher for Edutools.info educational technology comparative analysis site
- Led numerous multi-client engagements to investigate emerging educational technologies
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2001-2003 |
Research Coordinator
Centre for Curriculum, Transfer and Technology, – Victoria, BC
- Supported the Centre’s educational technology group with research, web site maintenance, systems design
- Acted as liaison with the Edusource and POOL CANARIE-funded learning object projects; beta-tested a number of repository and authoring tools
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2000-2001 |
Manager, Online Development
Tractionworks – Calgary, Alberta
- Project lead on two large web development projects for this start-up
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2000-2001 |
Instructor
Mount Royal College Continuing Education – Calgary, Alberta
- Taught 2 sessions of the 30-hour course “Introduction to Internet Technologies”
- Received an average 4.7 out of 5 instructor rating
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1998-2000 |
Faculty and Curriculum Developer
PanCanadian Educational Technology Summer Institute – Calgary, Alberta
- Co-developed the curriculum and instructional design for the 5 day intensive workshop, and delivered 50% of the core content in a lab setting.
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1997-2000 |
Webmaster
Mount Royal College – Calgary, Alberta
- Maintained all aspects of 14 college web servers including publishing tools, web servers, operating system, authentication systems.
- Developed web-based applications in PERL, ColdFusion and VBScript
- Administered campus-wide Lotus Notes installation
- Responsible for assessing, acquiring, installing and maintaining Blackboard CourseInfo system
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1994-1997 |
Webmaster and Applications Analyst
Banff Centre for Continuing Education – Banff Alberta
- Instrumental in implementing internet applications on campus. Created and administered an extensive and early web presence.
- Provided web support for a number of artist projects
- Provided professional development training on maintaining websites as well as contract training for external clients
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1993-1994 |
Knowledge Carpenter
International Institute for Innovation – Banff Alberta
- Supported Notes-based collaborative learning system at International Institute for Innovation and later for C.I.B.C.’s Learning Centre
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1993-1995 |
Consultant
Organizational Learning Systems – Santa Cruz, California
- Designed and implemented software tools including The Executive Augmentor (ThEA), a prototype business process visualization tool
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Education
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1992 |
M.A., Critical and Cultural Theory
University of Wales, College Cardiff |
1991 |
B.A., 1st Class Combined Honours English and Philosophy; Dean’s List
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario |
2000 |
Rational Unified Process training
Rational Software, Cupertino |
Professional / Volunteer Activities
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2017-Present |
Treasurer, BC Association of Living Mindfully |
2015-2018 |
Board Member, Openmedia.org |
2011-2014 |
Delivered numerous digital literacy workshops for kids in Victoria as part of Mozilla’s Webmaker initiative |
2003-2013 |
Published the influential educational technology blog EdTechPost |
2012 |
Lead Organizer, 9th Annual International conference on Open Education |
2009, 2010, 2011 |
Program Committee, 6th, 7th & 8th Annual International conferences on Open Education |
2009 |
Organizer, 6th Annual International conference on Open Education |
2010 |
Fellow, OLnet, Open University of the UK |
2010 |
Peer Reviewer, NRC book on Personal Learning Environments, G. Siemens & S. Downes, editors |
2005-2011 |
Peer Reviewer on numerous education and ed tech journals, including the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Transactions on Learning Technologies, Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects, In Education |
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 |
Advisory Board member, Horizon Report, New Media Consortium/Educause Learning Initiative |
Publications and Presentations
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