Associate Director, VeloCity at University of Waterloo
Kitchener, Canada Area
Associate Director, VeloCity at University of Waterloo
Kitchener, Canada Area
Currently I am responsible for user experience within the Special Projects Group as we build a new co-op system at UW. I lead a team of co-op students and a recent grad working on AJAX, usability, user advocacy, and accessibility. For fun I instigate local BarCamp's and brought the first StartupCamp to Waterloo.
While in the position of manager of web communications at UW I went through two re-developments of the universities public web space and learned a lot in the process. Using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Perl, etc. Part of my job was also to foster a community.
Project Management, CSS, XHTML, Web production, strategic planning
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
Working with students and their startups.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years)
Work on a team that tackles the development of important web apps at the University of Waterloo.
(Online Media industry)
January 2008 — December 2008 (1 year)
(Education Management industry)
June 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 5 months)
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Online Media industry)
June 2001 — August 2007 (6 years 3 months)
Focus on improving how the University of Waterloo Communicates online.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2000 — September 2000 (9 months)
I took GIS data and put it online.
MSc , Internet Computing , 2005 — 2008
Completed my dissertation on the Application of Microformats in the Higher Education Web Space in April 2008. This involved researching 10 higher education home pages and assessing whether they would be good candidates or not for Microformats.
Blog post with a link to my paper: http://whoyoucallingajesse.com/past/2008/7/16/a_look_at_microformats_for/
BA , Geography , 1997 — 2001
snowboarding, skiing, mountain biking, dodge ball
Web Standards Project - Dreamweaver Task Force Member, BarCampWaterloo, uwebd, StartupCamp