Portfolio
Technology
5 Reasons Why Governments Should Consider Headless CMS | Agileana, May 25, 2023
Accessibility and Design Systems: A Perfect Convergence | Agileana, June 1, 2023
Accessibility Audits by Chapter Three (ghostwriter) | Chapter Three, March 19, 2024
Accessibility: What Content Editors Need To Know | Agileana, August 29, 2023
Admin Dialogs: A Simple Innovation for Better User Experience (ghostwriter) | April 10, 2024
Apigee Kickstart in Action: Powering Financial Services (ghostwriter) | Chapter Three, February 12, 2024
Celebrating Failure: Social Media Apps That Never Caught On | Digital Link, May 28, 2020
Development of a website using a co-design approach to promote uptake of advance care planning (co-author, peer reviewed) | BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, May 22, 2023
Digital Archeology 101: Exploring the Internet’s Oldest Websites | Digital Link, May 14, 2020
How Design Systems Evolve (ghostwriter) | Chapter Three, March 1, 2024
The Mara Phone: Africa’s Smartphone Revolution | Digital Link, June 12, 2020
The New Content Creator: Befriending ChatGPT (uncredited co-author) | Evolving Web, March 17, 2023
Next-Drupal 2.0: Making A Good Thing Even Better (ghostwriter) | Chapter Three, February 26, 2024
OK Computer | University of Alberta Faculty of Education, August 22, 2013
Open Source vs Proprietary Software: 3 Common Myths, Busted (uncredited co-author) | Evolving Web, February 16, 2023
Tout ce qu’il faut savoir à propos de la Loi 25 sur la vie privée au Québec (translation) | Evolving Web, February 27, 2023
Turning PDFs into HTML with Document OCR (ghostwriter) | Chapter Three, March 26, 2024
Web Accessibility: How to Build Equal-Opportunity Websites (ghostwriter) | Vardot, April 18, 2024
We Trolled A CRA Scammer (So You Wouldn’t Have To) | Digital Link, June 19, 2020
Health and Wellness
The changing face of palliative care | Covenant Health, May 7, 2021
Choose Your Own (Cloud Wellness) Adventure | Ignite Magazine, October 2017
Dulcina Hospice resident Joyce Morrison recounts an eventful life | Covenant Health, April 12, 2024
Embracing palliative care | Covenant Health, May 11, 2023
A helping hand for final journeys | Covenant Health, August 3, 2023
Meet Holley Santos, medical radiation technologist, St. Mary’s Hospital | Covenant Health, April 23, 2024
Meet Jose Gallardo, health care aide, Villa Marie | Covenant Health, April 2, 2024
A Positive Public Message: Introducing the Understanding Palliative Care e-Module | The Palliative Approach, November 24, 2023
A Prescription for Oversight | Tokyo Weekender, October 2007
Theresa Bellows, volunteer co-ordinator, fosters a compassionate community of volunteers at Dulcina Hospice | Covenant Health, April 17, 2024
Business
“Are You Experienced?” | Tokyo Weekender, May 2008
Ascending to New Heights | Alberta Venture, August 2010
Business As We Know It | Business in Edmonton, November 2018
Defining your Brand’s Voice and Tone (uncredited co-author) | Evolving Web, October 25, 2022
Eastern Promises | Business in Edmonton, September 2015
Exempt Market to the Rescue? | Business in Edmonton, February 2019
Gains in aboriginal entrepreneurship impeded by youth-education issues | The Globe and Mail, September 1, 2010
Hoppy Days | Business in Edmonton, March 2017
Making Things Work | Business in Edmonton, October 2018
Making Tracks | ECA Breaking Ground, Winter 2016
A Mighty Wind | Alberta Venture, August 2009
Risky Business | Business in Edmonton, April 2019
Safe as Houses? | Business in Edmonton, April 2018
Steady As She Goes | Business in Edmonton, September 2018
Still Ticking — The G-Shock at 25 | Kansai Time Out, July 2008
Taming the Stock Market Bogeyman | Business in Calgary, December 2012
To A Tee | Business in Edmonton, April 2017
Trade Winds Across the Pacific | The Canadian, Fall 2011
Vardot Named Among Top B2B Companies in 2023 | Vardot, January 21, 2024
Waiting to Exhale | Business in Edmonton, June 2018
The Way to Succeed | Business in Edmonton, October 2018
We’ll Move You . . . And Your Stuff | Business in Edmonton, May 2015
Where Industry Meets Ancestry | Work of Arts, Fall 2010
Wild Rose Bullet | Alberta Views, April 2010
Society and Culture
Adding Some RAM to Edmonton’s Downtown | Business in Edmonton, September 2018
À Fort McMurray, les Métis obtiennent leur centre culturel | Le Franco, March 26, 2021
Against the Tide | J Select, January/February 2008
Breaking the Bullying Cycle | University of Alberta Faculty of Education, October 24, 2012
Crescent Moon, Rising Sun | J Select, September/October 2005
How To Speak About the Unspeakable | University of Alberta Faculty of Law, June 21, 2018
Mightier than the Sword | J Select, June/July 2008
Miles to Go | Avenue Edmonton, March 2010
More Than Just a Card | Tokyo Weekender, December 2007
New Year, Japanese Style | Tokyo Weekender, December 2011
Planning for the unexpected | Covenant Health, October 12, 2021
Planning for things no one wants to talk about | LawNow, April 14, 2023
Putting the Public in Education | University of Alberta Faculty of Education, May 1, 2012
Rage Against the Machine: Pollster Nik Nanos on "Politics in an Age of Voter Rage" | University of Alberta Faculty of Law, March 30, 2017
Reclaiming the D-Word | LawNow, April 16, 2024
Supporting a grieving loved one | Covenant Health, November 16, 2021
Talking about death | Covenant Health, May 4, 2022
Youth-Driven Justice | Work of Arts, Spring 2011
Travel Writing
All Aboard! | J Select, December 2007/January 2008
Ancient Crossroads, Modern Getaway | Tokyo Weekender, March 2008
Back on the Beaten Track | J Select, July/August 2007
Final Frontier | J Select, May/June 2005
Kansai Reclaimed | Air Macau Magazine, October 2007
Our Man in Edmonton | Open Skies Magazine, December 2011
The Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton | Legacy Magazine, Summer 2009
Saving Tokyo Station | Tokyo Weekender, January 2009
A Slice of Paradise in Seoul’s New Centerpiece | Tokyo Weekender, June 2007
Snow Country | Tokyo Weekender, December 2007
Spelunking in the Suburbs | Tokyo Journal, Summer 2006
Timeless Hospitality | Singapore Airlines Priority, Quarter Three 2008
Untamed Waterton | Tokyo Weekender, October 2008
The Whimsical Isle | Tokyo Weekender, June 2009
Case Studies
BART.gov | Chapter Three
California State University Bakersfield Extended Education | Chapter Three
Canada Foundation for Innovation | Evolving Web
City of Hamilton | Evolving Web
Georgia Tech Library | Evolving Web
iCIMS | Chapter Three
Million Peacemakers | Evolving Web
Oregon Law Help | Chapter Three
Princeton Industrial Relations Section Centennial (Microsite) | Evolving Web
The Shops at Santa Anita | Chapter Three
SkilledTradesBC | Evolving Web
Tourisme Québec | Evolving Web
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals Foundation | Chapter Three
University of California Berkeley Research | Chapter Three
York University Markham Campus | Evolving Web
Web Copy
Agileana | 2023 (copywriting support)
Bearpaw Legal Resources | 2009 – 2011 (designed and managed)
Boudreau Communities | 2022 (copywriting support)
Compassionate Alberta | 2022 – present (designed and currently manage)
Connectra Technologies | 2017 – 2018 (wrote all copy for site redesign)
Covenant Health Palliative Institute (microsite) | 2021 – present (created wireframes and copy for site redesign)
Evolving Web | 2022 – 2023 (copywriting support)
Maple Legal Services | 2021 (wrote all copy for site redesign)
NorQuest College | 2014 – 2016 (designed microsite for Singhmar Centre for Learning, now part of main website)
University of Alberta Faculty of Law | 2017 – 2018 (created wireframes and wrote copy for redesign)
Vista Virtual School | 2020 – 2022 (managed site and rewrote copy)
Print Publications
2013 Annual Report | Edmonton International Airport, 2014
2018 Annual Report | Edmonton Public Library, 2019
EIA from A to Z (children’s book) | Edmonton International Airport, 2014
Moving In: Renter Rights and Responsibilities Booklet | Native Counselling Services of Alberta, 2011
My Wishes Alberta: Planning for My Care (co-author and editor) | Covenant Health, 2023
Statement to Police Wallet Card | Native Counselling Services of Alberta, 2009
Essays
After the Wave — The Communications Lessons of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Fukushima Disaster | Medium (Personal), October 3, 2017 (originally published March 11, 2012 by MacEwan University)
The Case for Cree Syllabics | The Amiskuan, December 18, 2019
The Day I Met a Convicted Terrorist | The Amiskuan, August 8, 2018
French: Canada’s African Language | The Amiskuan, December 13, 2019
John A. Macdonald and Other Devils | The Amiskuan, January 15, 2020
A Pyrrhic Victory — Religion and Suppression in 1930s Japan | Kyoto Journal, May 2006 (nominated for 2007 Pushcart Prize for non-fiction)
Reiwa (令和) — Thoughts on Japan’s New Imperial Moniker | Lessons from History, April 3, 2019
The Screwtape Sutras | Humanist Perspectives, Summer 2017
Why we should all spend more time looking at maps | The Amiskuan, February 26, 2019
Poetry
New Orleans is clawing at my bones