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I'm a writer from Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦

I have over 12 years of experience in information development and communicating complex ideas in simple, clear language.

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Communications Officer​

Duration: Dec 2024-Present
Employer: Algonquin College (Advancement & Strategy)
Location: Ottawa, ON

  • Write and edit time-sensitive communications for the Vice President, Advancement and Strategy, and the Director of Philanthropy
    • Comms include press releases, newsletters, social media posts, email campaigns, etc.
  • Use MS Office, Adobe Suite, and WordPress to create on-brand templates for proposals, reports, and forms
  • Maintain the team's WordPress site, which has contributed to 123% goal in donations in 2024-2025
  • Resuscitate social media efforts with content that has garnered 6x more engagement

Technical Writer​

Duration: May 2024-Dec 2024 (Contract)
Employer: Algonquin College (R3 Project)
Location: Ottawa, ON

  • Develop interactive, gamified, and story-centred technical content, including web articles and email announcements, that attracted 30,000 visits and 37% more visitors to the team's website in 2024
  • Created, edited, and professionally narrated over 800 slides of Adobe Captivate slides for eLearning and corporate training materials

College Instructor​

Duration: Jan 2023-Apr 2023 (Contract)
Employer: Red Deer Polytechnic
Location: Red Deer, AB

  • Created an innovative popular music course outline in two weeks
  • Led weekly activities centred on historical analysis and critical writing
  • Engaged students in songwriting exercises that resulted in valuable artefacts

Assistant Professor​

Duration: Mar 2021-Jan 2023
Employer: Universidad Austral de Chile
Location: Valdivia, Chile

  • Wrote a 66-page proposal that led to the creation of a new college department
  • Devised 12 original outlines for music courses and interdisciplinary seminars
  • Kept an inventory of faculty productivity from 2018-2022 with over 400 entries to produce reports that secure departmental funding
  • Founded and edited a periodical that published 10 student essays in two years
  • Advised the thesis projects of 60% of the Music School’s first graduating class
  • Composed 10 new musical works and released a solo EP and a collaborative LP

Clinical Assistant Professor​

Duration: Aug 2015-Jun 2019 (Graduate Assistant), Aug 2019-Jun 2020 (Clinical Assistant Professor)
Employer: University at Buffalo
Location: Buffalo, NY

  • Published an essay on the experience of teaching 17 courses in 13 terms
  • Reformulated an unpopular music theory course and got 96% student approval
  • Created a music theory YouTube channel, which now has over 100,000 views and nearly 1.7k subscribers
  • Secured funding and helped organize the June in Buffalo 2019 festival
  • Collaborated with several visiting ensembles like ELISION, Arditti Quartet, etc.

Graduate Assistant​

Duration: Aug 2013-May 2015
Employer: University of Utah
Location: Salt Lake City, UT

  • Led three courses on aural skills to 1st- and 2nd-year students
  • Managed the new music ensemble and hosted distinguished visiting composers
  • Recorded and edited concerts from Gardner Hall and released them to stakeholders
  • Earned the Geersten Glad Scholarship for outstanding performance and promise