Professional Experience
Research Consultant (UPEI)
ACENET
August 2023 - Present
Digital Projects Librarian
Scholars Portal
February 2016 – July 2023
I+IT Intern
Children, Youth & Social Services IT Cluster, Ontario Public Service
July 2015 – January 2016
Graduate Student Reference Assistant
University of Toronto Scarborough Library
January 2015 – July 2015
Practicum Student
Scholars Portal
January 2015 – March 2015
Virtual Reference Intern
AskOntario
April 2014 – April 2015
Library and Information Management Assistant
Ontario Ministry of Finance
May 2014 – August 2014
Library Assistant
New College, University of Toronto
September 2013 – April 2014
Digitization Assistant
Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island
September 2011 – August 2013
Education
Certificate in Computer Coding
Toronto Metropolitan University
2018 – 2022
Master of Information
University of Toronto
Library and Information Science Stream
2013 – 2015
Bachelor of Arts
University of Prince Edward Island
Women’s Studies, Psychology
2008 – 2013
Workshops
Introduction to SQL - November 2023
Introduction to the Unix Shell - June 2021, August 2020, & June 2020
Getting Started with Static Website Generators - February 2018
Presentations
2022
Dataverse 2022 Community Meeting - “GeoJSON Preview in Dataverse” - Slides, Video
Dataverse 2022 Community Meeting “‘One to Beam Up’: Migrating a Dataverse repository to a shared installation” - Slides, Video
US/Canada Datacite Community Call - “DOI use cases: Scholars Portal Dataverse”
2021
Learn with Scholars Portal - “Getting started with web accessibility” - Video
Digital Pedagogy Institute - “Library Carpentry from in person to online: What was lost, what was gained”
Open Repositories - “From Hard Drives to Globus: Supporting new workflows for large data transfer in libraries” - Slides
Library Publishing Forum - “Growing a Sustainable Publishing Technology Service for Libraries” - Slides, Video
2020
Dataverse 2020 Community Meeting - “The Dataverse Data Curation Tool” - Slides
CANARIE Research Data Management Workshop - “Dataverse for the Canadian Research Community” - Slides
OLA Super Conference 2020 - “Library publishing technology services at scale” - Slides
2019
PKP Conference 2019 - “What’s New with PKP Documentation?” - Slides
Canadian Data Curation Forum - “Curating Data in Repositories” - Slides
Canadian Data Curation Forum - “National Repository Updates” - Slides
Access 2019 - “Library publishing technology services at scale” - Slides, Video
Access 2019 - “Quick tips for sustaining a software documentation initiative” - Slides, Video
Code4Lib North 2019 - “Building a successful documentation initiative” - Slides
2017
Code4Lib North 2017 - “Static Site Generators” - Slides
Code4Lib Toronto Workshop, 2017 - “Static website generators” - Slides
Code4Lib 2017 Poster - “Static website generators: An overview”
Publications
“Research Data Sharing and Reuse”, in “Research Data Management in the Canadian Context: A Guide for Practitioners and Learners” (co-author), publication forthcoming in 2023.
“#TakeBackTPL Tweets” [Data set], published 2019-11-03. Available at https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/THVVS0.
“Making the Move to Open Journal Systems 3: Recommendations for a (mostly) painless upgrade” (co-author), published 2019-02-14. Available at https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/14260.
“Tools and Workflows for Collaborating on Static Website Projects”, published 2017-10-18. Available at https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/12779.
Professional Activities
Maintainer of the Library Carpentry Unix Shell lesson
2021 – Present
Member of the Code4Lib Conference Accessibility Committee
2022
Chair of the Public Knowledge Project Members Committee
2018 – 2022
Member of the Public Knowledge Project Advisory Committee
2018 – 2022
Member (2018/2022), Co-Chair (2020), and Chair (2019) of the Code4Lib Conference Web Committee
2017 – 2022
Member of the Dataverse North Working Group, and Training Subgroup
2017 – 2022
Coordinator of the Public Knowledge Project Documentation Interest Group
2018 – 2021
Co-Organizer for the Code4Lib Toronto regional group
2017 – 2021
Member of the University of Toronto Teaching Technology Interest Group
2020 – 2021
Member of the University of Toronto Libraries RDM Working Group
2020
Webmaster for the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
2015 – 2019
Organizer for the Code4Lib North Conference
2018 – 2019
Helper for Software Carpentry Workshops at the 2018 Access Conference and University of Toronto
2018
Volunteer for Ontario Library Association Career Centre
2017
Volunteer for Patient and Family Learning Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital
2015
Participant in Toronto Public Library Open Data Hackathon
2015
Volunteer for Ontario Library Association Conference
2015
Virtual Reference Intern for “Ask Ontario” (Ontario Colleges Library Service)
2014 – 2015
Webmaster for Special Libraries Association Toronto Student Group
2014 – 2015
Volunteer for Faculty of Information Student Conference
2014 – 2015