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Multimedia producer and online editor, The Vancouver Sun

Covered and edited breaking news, wire news and galleries for the web. Edited and co-produced more than 100 online
videos, 20 Soundslides, 5 Flash applications and over a dozen podcasts. Extracted and converted video footage from many formats. Co-ordinated weekend coverage with freelancers.

General assignment reporter, The Yukon News

Provided vacation relief. Compiled 71 bylines in 3 months. Covered legislature, city politics, environment, courts and business. Initiated a well-received in-depth series on radon’s impact on health and real estate in Whitehorse and covered the ongoing battle between caribou conservationists and oil and gas developers in the north regions of the territory.

Contributing writer, Vancouver Courier

Wrote a dozen profiles of artists and entrepreneurs and 10 cover stories (2,500-3,000 word features), three of which were award-winning (B.C. and Yukon Community Newspapers Association). Feature stories include the lack of herpes testing in STD clinics; and a soaring urban eagle population.

Freelance writer

Published in The Globe and Mail, The Georgia Straight, Western Living Magazine, Vancouver Magazine, Vancouver Review, The Tyee, Cranked Magazine, and Seven Oaks Magazine. I wrote the cover story for the May 2008 issue of Momentum about Lance Armstrong’s new bicycle shop. Western Living Magazine fact-checker/intern for six weeks in April-May 2005.

News Writer / Features Editor / Columnist, The Peak

Writing, sourcing, editing, and laying out features and artwork for weekly with circulation of 10,000 during summer of 2003. Continued to write op-eds until June 2004. Training for this position began as a weekly news writer volunteer in January 2003.

Programmer, engineering trainee (co-op terms)

Between May and September 2004 I developed interactive Flash games for the Virtual Museum of Canada; for ten months beginning in July 2000 I worked in Silicon Valley in an e-Commerce firm, Nuvation Labs; and for four months each I worked in the verification division of Nortel’s semiconductor plant (1998) and with biomedical engineers at Vancouver General Hospital (1998).

Tech-nerd: Proficient/skilled in web-admin tasks, Joomla, SQL, PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS; Photoshop, Dreamweaver, ActionScript (1&2) and Flash; Audio/video editing (podcasts, online video) and PC/Mac conversions, Audacity, Garageband, ProTools, iMovie/MovieMaker; Soundslides; computer-assisted research (Excel, Nexis (full), Accurint, Factiva, ProQuest, Bloomberg terminal), digital photography (SLR and auto); fluent in French; cycling for urban transport.

Core co-organizer, Commercial Drive Car-Free Festivals, 2005 & 2006 (first two!)

The photo to the left is some of us napping after the Fest, just before the streets were re-opened.

The Vagina Monologues @ SFU
Co-produced, directed, and performed in two monologues. (Also performed in two monologues in 2003.)