Universal Associate / Customer Service
The Home Depot
Squamish, BC
May 2020 - July 2020
- customer service desk; returns, order creation and customer satisfaction
Guest Experience Coordinator
Alamanda - Palm Cove
Cairns, Australia
July 2018 - November 2018
- hotel reservations, check in/out and tour bookings as a concierge
Construction labourer
Brymark Installations
Vancouver, BC
May 2017 - August 2017
- concrete form work, pours and finishing; excavations; civil works
- operation of heavy machinery - fork lift, jack hammers etc.
- lead hand of a 10 person crew, scheduling and distributing of workforce
- execution of confined space entry and work in a safe manner
Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race - Club President
UBCO GNCTR
Kelowna, BC
September 2015 - March 2019
- team of ~30 engineering students; design, build, present & race a 5-person toboggan
- yearly design cycle with a $30,000 budget, use of CNC machine shop & prototype testing
- application of SolidWorks & FEA to meet design requirements of competition
Research Assistant
UBC Okanagan
Kelowna, BC
May 2016 - September 2016
- research & development of state-of-the-art methanol fuel cell membranes & POC devices
- co-author on two peer-reviewed articles:
“Composite Membranes of PVDF Nanofibers Impregnated with Nafion for Increased Fuel Concentrations in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells" [https://doi.org/10.1002/fuce.201800056] “Portable device for the detection of colorimetric assays" [https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171025]
- worked in the Advanced Thermo-Fluidics Lab on a variety of projects, as needed
