Past experience

UBC, Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver, BC

Senior Systems Analyst 2011 - 2018
Designed technical architecture of the educational learning environment for UBC Faculty of Medicine's MD Undergraduate Program(MDUP). Translated functional needs of program into application design. Integrated multiple applications into a cohesive user experience.

• Collaborated with many functional and technical teams achieving best results.
• Migrated learning environment application from WebCT Vista to Blackboard by leading technical design for 2 year project and supervising 5 people.
• Integrated learning environment with Enterprise LDAP, automatically synchronizing Faculty of Medicine users with upstream user management systems.
• Implemented multiple improvements, based on user and student feedback, to the day-to-day usage of the learning environment.
• Led technical migration of learning environment from Blackboard to Elentra (formerly Entrada) resulting in the successful deployment to new learning platform.
• Made extensive use of LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) processes to integrate multiple disparate applications into one experience.

Langara College, Vancouver, BC 2004 - 2011

Project Leader
Created myLangara portal which was the cornerstone of the student experience at Langara. It provided access for students to the registration system, courses, grades, activities, and email. Integrated the portal with classroom systems to automatically create computer lab accounts for students based on their registrations.

• Built the myLangara portal from the ground up, which became the front page for all student and employee activity.
• Established and implemented portal migration strategies that were adopted in the wider portal community.
• Built specific, targeted mini-applications that extended and enhanced the student experience.
• Created an identity management process for creation of student lab accounts based on registrations.