Experience

  1. Data Engineer (Casual/Contract)

    Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health

    Responsibilities include:

    • Co-designed and maintained automated data pipelines for ISPA and CCEYA immunization reporting using Python, YAML, and Typst.
    • Developed a modular end-to-end reporting pipeline in Kubeflow using Bash, GitHub Actions, and Docker to ensure reproducibility and efficiency.
    • Contributed to the development of a data quality library using Great Expectations to validate schema and improve downstream confidence.
    • Supported documentation and transparency by writing and editing internal development guides and public-facing resources using Github.
    • Advanced data governance by coordinating external experts for speaker series and implementing column mapping and schema validation.
    • Participated in Privacy Impact Assessments for new data infrastructure and transformation initiatives.
    • Contributed new custom container images to Kubeflow to support secure and scalable workflow orchestration within the agency. These extensions of base images were used as examples for subsequent custom images.
    • Participated in meetings with public health nurses to understand data quality needs for ISPA reporting, translating comments and needs into an actionable plan to improve data quality.

  2. Research Associate (Contract Part-time)

    College of Engineer and Physical Sciences - University of Guelph

    Responsibilities include:

    • Migrated infrastructure to a new data center
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  3. Research Associate (Contract Part-time)

    St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

    Responsibilities include:

    • Migrated infrastructure to a new data center
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  4. Technical Manager

    Global Burden of Animal Diseases

    Responsibilities include:

    • Migrated infrastructure to a new data center
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  5. Graduate Teaching Assistant

    College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Guelph

    Held GTA positions to support teaching of Software Design II (CIS*2250), Systems Programming (CIS*3010), and Cloud Computing (CIS*4010).

    Responsibilities include:

    • Developed and maintained course materials, lab assignments, code examples, and automating test scripts.
    • Provided student support through office hours, online forum moderation, detailed feedback on programming assignments, and exams.
    • Ran lab sessions and tutorials to guide hands-on exercises in software design.

  6. Data Analyst (Contract Part-time)

    College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Guelph

    Responsibilities include:

    • Migrated infrastructure to a new data center
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Education

  1. PhD Candidate Computational Sciences

    University of Guelph

    GPA: 4.0/4.0

    This thesis develops a metadata-driven graph database framework that harmonizes livestock data classifications and vocabularies from intergovernmental and national sources, enhancing interoperability and enabling discovery of disparate data sources. Through a qualitative review of metadata, data, and data systems, this research establishes a bottom-up methodology for developing community-driven standards.

  2. MSc Bioinformatics

    University of Guelph

    GPA: 4.0/4.0

    This thesis developed an unsupervised machine-learning pipeline to analyze Electrodermal Activity (EDA) as a sympathetic-nervous-system stress marker. We applied DBSCAN and k-means clustering to time-series features extracted over multiple window lengths (3-120 seconds) from Biopac and Empatica E4 recordings. A novel visualization for cluster dynamics was created and demonstrated that analyzing Empatica E4 signals with longer window lengths are able to identify regions of stress at a comparable level to signals collected from Biopac.

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  3. BSc Biological Sciences

    University of Guelph

    Courses included:

    • Climate Change Biology (ENVS*3010)
    • Use and Management of Environmental Data (ENVS*3340)
    • Meterology and Environmental Instrumentation (ENVS*4210)
    • Plants and Environmental Pollution (PBIO*4530)
    • Epidemiology (POPM*3240)
    • Epidemiology of Foodborne Disease (POPM*4040)
    • Statistics I and II (STAT2040 and STAT2050)
Awards
SoCS Summer Doctoral Scholarship (valued at $2500)
University of Guelph ∙ May 2024
“The Summer Doctoral Scholarship is payable for $2,500 for the Summer 2024 semester, and is awarded based on the demonstrated academic excellence and research potential of our PhD students within the School of Computer Science.”
NSERC CGS-D (valued at $120,000)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ∙ May 2022

“The Canada Graduate Scholarships — Doctoral (CGS D) program is a federal program of scholarships administered by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Scholarships are awarded through national competitions by these three granting agencies.

The CGS D program supports and promotes research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of natural sciences and engineering, health and social sciences and humanities, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. This support allows scholars to concentrate on their doctoral studies more fully, to seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields and to contribute to the Canadian research ecosystem during and beyond the tenure of their awards.”

Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST) (valued at $15,000)
The Ontario government, in partnership with the University of Guelph ∙ May 2022
“The Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST) is designed to encourage excellence in graduate studies in science and technology. The program is jointly supported by funds provided by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (‘ministry’) and funds provided by the University of Guelph. The ministry contributes two-thirds of the value of the award and the university provides one-third.”
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (valued at $15,000)
The Ontario government, in partnership with the University of Guelph ∙ April 2021
“The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Program recognizes academic excellence in graduate studies at the master’s and doctoral levels in all disciplines of academic study. The program is jointly supported by funds provided by the Ministry of Training, College and Universities (‘ministry’) and funds provided by the University of Guelph. The ministry contributes two-thirds of the value of the award and the university provides one-third.”
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (valued at $15,000)
The Ontario government, in partnership with the University of Guelph ∙ April 2020
“The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Program recognizes academic excellence in graduate studies at the master’s and doctoral levels in all disciplines of academic study. The program is jointly supported by funds provided by the Ministry of Training, College and Universities (‘ministry’) and funds provided by the University of Guelph. The ministry contributes two-thirds of the value of the award and the university provides one-third.”