Experience

• Queen's University

  English Instructor

  As a Teaching Fellow, I taught a full-credit course on British Romantic Literature (Engl. 250) to a class of 90 undergraduate students.
  
  - designed the course syllabus
  - gave two 90-min. Powerpoint-enhanced lectures per week (48 total) on British Romantic authors and their work (1789-1831), as well as instruction on literary analysis, research, and essay composition
  - graded assignments, essays, quizzes, and exams
  - supervised 3 Teaching Assistants in grading papers
  - managed an online component to the course using Moodle

• Queen's University

  Editor & Graphic Designer

  - edited and redesigned the departmental newsletter
  - designed marketing materials for the undergrad recruitment campaign
  - designed several posters and ads for various conferences and lectures
  - volunteered technical expertise for English graduate-student conferences

• Small Potatoes Urban Organics

  Driver & Drivers' Supervisor

  Delivery driver for a local organic grocery delivery company. As supervisor, I was in charge of a fleet of delivery vehicles (vehicle maintenance, purchasing, branding application, cleaning), a team of drivers (problem solving, crisis management, hiring), and systems management (i.e., computerized route planning).
  
  I began this job as a part-time driver part-way through my MA at UVic in order to pay for my degree and finish debt-free. Juggling the job and school prolonged my degree completion time (three years to do a two-year program), but I enjoyed the balance of alternating hard physical labour and hard intellectual labour, plus I ate very healthily as there was plenty of organic surplus produce (perishables) that employees could take home at the end of the week. When I was hired, the company was called Fresh Piks Organics and was run locally as an all-vegan online-ordering operation, but it was bought out by SPUD, a Vancouver-based online-ordering grocery delivery company, in 2003, with a diversified product line, including dairy, meats, eco-friendly cleaning products, etc., but all organic. I continued working there and took on supervisory duties for the three years after I had completed my MA. My duties included much hands-on vehicle maintenance for our 5-truck fleet, route planning for deliveries throughout Vancouver Island, vehicle branding, and purchasing. During this time I also occasionally went travelling (Australia, the 'States, Northwest Territories, and Haida Gwai), ran marathons, and ended amicably in order to travel Canada from coast to coast (and back again) in the summer of 2006 and start my PhD in Ontario in September. In my five years there, I made many wonderful friends among my coworkers and was in the best physical shape I'll ever be.

• University of Ottawa

  Professor of English

  Teaching ENG1131 Effective Business English for the Telfer School of Management

• Algonquin College

  Curriculum Consultant

  Advised faculty and subject matter experts (SMEs) on how to develop new courses for new and existing programs, as well as improve and update existing courses; advised department chairs and SMEs on how to write applications for new college programs, how to implement them, and how to update the curriculum of existing courses; General Education (Gen Ed) website updates; and academic advising for Gen Ed course exemption applications.

• Algonquin College

  Professor of Communications

  I currently teach Communications courses for the Schools of Business, Media & Design, Hospitality & Tourism, and Advanced Technology. I have also authored a first-year English/Communications open textbook.

• Saterra Psychological & Counselling Services

  Communications Consultant

  I assist Saterra with a range of communications-related services, including copy editing; website design, maintenance, and content (writing and photography); and stationery design and production.