Summary

This is a multitalented individual with a highly technical aptitude and willingness to travel and relocate. Presenting to one-on-one and to groups fewer than 50 has proven confidence and an ability to explain comprehensively in both speaking and writing. Converting a vehicle to electric drive is proving ingenuity and skill flexability. The long term objective is to join a team in the electric drive industry and help change society's dependence on oil.
The current objective is to pursue a career that allows me to utilize my education and work experience that would be challenging, have an opportunity to apply new technology requiring a mix of skills, involves on-going learning, and opportunities  for advancement.

Education

• A Bachelor of Arts Combined Honours degree with Multimedia and Japanese Studies in the faculty of humanities.
• Learned and applied skills in MS Office, Adobe Suite (photo, vector, video, web editing and design), basic programming, group presentation, team building and more.
• A commitment to continuous learning and technological awareness is proven in a independently-built Virtual Reality system thesis project viewable here. This successful project required a mix of web design, programming, project management, electronics and mechanical engineering skills.

• This academic year was spent as an exchange student, representing McMaster University to study abroad. Enrolled in International Division intended for foreigners to study Japanese language and culture while immersed.
• Rapidly became conversational in Japanese.

• Three year Electronics Engineering Technology Program with co-op work experience.
• fundamentals of electronic circuit design and troubleshooting were covered in-depth. Learned to use high tech tools such as an oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, function generator and more.
• This stream focused on telecommunications.
• Final Technical report PDF can be downloaded here.

St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Secondary School,
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Graduated in Hamilton, June 1998

Primary Employment Experience

Self guided electric passenger vehicle researcher and consultant

• Converted a 1989 Ford Ranger to electric power in order to learn how to build and personally use electric vehicles first hand.
• Successfully mated electric motor to transmission using extreme ingenuity and minimal tools. Taught self to weld in order to create safe battery restraints.
• Actively researching present and future EV industry directions and technologies such as main stream batteries and EEStor’s capacitors.
• Worked with Electric Mobility Canada as an IT consultant and news letter formatting/publishing assistant. Also volunteered at their December 2008 AGM.
• Actively involved in the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada as a representative to educate the public in events such as the Toronto Auto Show and Green Living show.

McMaster Hamilton Health Sciences
srs-mcmaster.ca

Position: Casual/Temp - Digital interface specialist
• The Human Motion Research Lab in the School of Rehabilitation Science required a consultant with special skills in human-computer-interfaces for a specific
  research project.
• The project was an interface that allowed a joystick to be perturbed and data recorded while keeping children engaged in repetitive motions. This was completed successfully, on-time, and under budget.

Position: Teacher's Assistant for2 Multimedia Courses: Animation and
Digital Image Editing
• Being a confident and enthusiastic leader resulted in a re-hire for second term.
• While working with the course instructor, the T. A. is responsible for grading projects, planning, organizing, and running tutorials in the computer lab.
• Gave training for Autodesk Maya 8.5, Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver

Position: Summer Student Media Assistant – Temporary salary, (10 weeks)
• Created advertising materials such as posters to promote events and activities at local conservation parks using common multimedia and graphics software.
• Proving media creation and editing skills, being creative and outgoing resulted in a second consecutive summer.

Position: Department Media Designer – Temporary salary, (6 weeks)
• Working for the newly joined departments of Communication studies and Multimedia.
• Primary task was to renew, tweak, promote and update the new department web site.

Position: Test Technologist - Salary
• Duties entailed test and repair of assigned product group out of the factory. Testing involves loading firmware, operating equipment to field specification and troubleshooting.
• On the fly design, construction and use of custom test tools occurred frequently.
• Program tools included MS Access, Excel spreadsheets and professional PCB layout software.

Position: Production Tester – Co-op Work Placement
• Responsibilities: Test, debug and repair motion tracking products in preparation for shipment.
• Applied skills using professional equipment such as an oscilloscope, infrared detection for motion tracking calibration.
• Determining pass/fail results of products and diagnosis of standard product failures.

Position: Repair Technician – Co-op Work Placement
• Responsibilities:  Required to perform repairs and/or upgrades on networking products.
• Duties included testing product with the aid of automated test equipment and various stand alone test fixtures. Performed basic debug on failures using current test descriptions and schematics.

Additional Employment Experience

Position: Archaeological Field Technician - Seasonal
• Working in a team, one must excavate existing artifacts deemed culturally significant.
• As out-door conditions can be stressful, being energetic with a positive attitude is critical in this position.

Position: Refill Technician – Part-time
• Island Inkjet refills, repairs and refurbishes cartridges from most inkjet printers.
• Customer Service is top priority. Honesty and integrity is important, as working alone is common here.

• Worked in Australia for one year while traveling the country.
• Jobs included: horticulture harvester, kitchen aid, night-shift restaurant attendant, among others. Work often involved being trusted at a cash register.

Position: Part-time Floor Staff
• Responsibilities included Popcorn Stand, and Ushering.
• Admit customers, serve customers at confectionery stand, assist patrons when required, monitor and report any problems, tidy and maintain lobby and theatres.

Position:  Maintenance Assistant - High School Co-op Placement
• Responsibilities were to receive assignments to assist various tradesmen in the Engineering Department to repair, replace or install new equipment.

Position: Part-time Car Wash and Gas Bar Attendant
• Started earning at a young age - responsibilities included preparing cars for washing and assisting at gas bar when needed.

Noteworthy Achievements/
Hobbies & Interests

• Converted a 1989 Ford Ranger to be fully electric, see website for more info.
• Volunteered with EV Society of Canada to host an exhibit at the 2009 Toronto Auto Show and 2009 Green Living show
• 2008 Volunteer at Electric Mobility Canada’s AGM
• 2007 Dean’s Honours List, McMaster University
• 1998-2001 college student government class representative, Mohawk College
• 2001 Peer tutor, Mohawk College, supervised weekly tutorial sessions
• Competed in the 1999 Skills Ontario and Skills Canada national competition in Kitchener. Won a silver medal in the electronics category at the provincial level.
• Recipient of The Ontario International Educational Opportunity Scholarship, the McMaster Exchange Grant and 2 separate general McMaster University Bursaries.
• Earned an Advanced PADI Certified open water SCUBA licence with a wreck diver specialty while living/traveling in Australia in 2002-2003
• Member of McMaster University's Dragon Boat team. Earned a silver medal at the 2008 Toronto International Dragon Boat Festival, and a gold medal at Woodstock’s festival.
• Hobbies include photography, playing acoustic guitar, D-I-Y projects and weekly floor hockey.