Currently residing in the Greater Vancouver Area, British Columbia
EDUCATION
- April 2002
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science,
Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC
Concentration: politics and history of China, Canadian foreign policy and security policy
WORK EXPERIENCE
- June 2009 - Present
Proprietor
Ethical Detergent, Vancouver, B.C.- Independent Drupal development and consulting
- June 2010 - February 2011
Drupal Developer
OpenRoad Communications, Vancouver, B.C.- Drupal website building and Linux system administration
- January 2008 - May 2009
Community Support
Raincity Studios, Vancouver, B.C.- Customer technical support via email, instant messaging, and phone
- Documentation writing and forum support
- Installation and configuration of websites powered by Drupal
- Internal support following a development and ticketing process
- September 2004 - December 2007
Community Support
Bryght, Vancouver, B.C.- Customer technical support via email, instant messaging, and phone
- Documentation writing and forum support
- Installation and configuration of websites powered by Drupal
- Internal support following a development and ticketing process
- August 2000 - September 2004
Page / Circulation Assistant
Port Moody Public Library, Port Moody, B.C.- As library page: shelve books, perform sweeps and assist with other miscellaneous tasks
- As circulation assistant: utilize Dynix to check out books for patrons, check in and sort books to go back on shelves and register new library members
- January 2003 - June 2003
Teachers' Assistant
New School @ Surrey [background paper by Lee Weinstein], Surrey, B.C.- Instructed at-risk youth in digital camera techniques and photo manipulation with Photoshop
- Aided students with their Internet-based research projects
- Provided on-site technical support to teachers and school-board staff
- Summer 2001
Internet Trainer
Port Moody Public Library, Port Moody, B.C.- Created lesson plan for instruction about the Internet
- Designed and updated flyers, pamphlets and posters for Internet instruction
- Instructed Internet on group and one-on-one basis
- Summer 1999
Internet Trainer
Port Moody Public Library, Port Moody, B.C.- Created lesson plan for instruction about the Internet
- Designed online Internet tutorial for library patrons
(no longer online) - Instructed Internet on group and one-on-one basis
- Summer 1998
Internet Trainer
Vancouver Island Regional Library, Courtenay, B.C.- One-on-one instruction about the Internet
- Tailored lesson plan to different computer skill levels
INDEPENDENT PROJECTS
- December 2000 - Present
Just a Gwai Lo- Personal weblog covering all my interests.
- Writing
- July 2001 - Present
Personal Website- Travel and photo journals of China in 2000
- Concept, design and writing
- Valid XHTML and CSS
- Dec 2001 - June 2004
Vancouver Webloggers- Collaborative weblog with participants from the Greater Vancouver Area
- Concept and design, with occasional writing
- Sidebar 'tagboard' programmed using PHP and MySQL
- May 2002 - October 2004
China Weblog - replaced by Watching China- Weblog featuring analysis of current events relating to the People's Republic of China
- Concept, design and writing, as well as researching links to other resources
- April 2002 - March 2005
MovableBlog- Weblog covering various aspects of Internet technology
- Design, writing, aspects programmed in PHP
- Valid XHTML and CSS
- July 2003 - Present
improvident lackwit- Weblog relating The Simpsons to current events
- Concept, design, and writing
- November 2003 - Present
eriksson.ca- Family website
- April 2004 - Summer 2008
Urban Vancouver- Source for news about Vancouver, B.C., events listings, forums, and Vancouver-area weblogs
- Writing, photography, and administration