Experience

Nest Wealth

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • May 2023 - Present

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2021 - May 2023

  Responsibilities include:• Building out the Nest Wealth platform and REST API using Node.js, Angular8, TypeScript, MySQL, Mongo, and Cloud Services.• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability• Technical planning and documentation

• Implementation Developer

  • Jul 2020 - Jul 2021



House of Anansi Press

• Canada
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Data Specialist

  • Sep 2017 - Oct 2019

  • Managed all print and digital metadata for entire publishing catalogue, ensuring that information is consistently kept correct and up to date.• Worked with a small team to update the House of Anansi Shopify website to newly integrate a book metadata plugin.• Created keywords for all front and backlist titles to ensure best SEO and discoverability on Amazon. • Monitored online sales, examining trends and changes due to keywords assigned to books. • Ensured correct metadata on all frontlist titles, conducting thorough audits. Show less

• Rights Assistant

  • May 2017 - Sep 2017

  • Pitched, negotiated and sold foreign rights of titles to different countries. • Drafted and sent submissions to a select client list with the intention of selling rights for front list titles. • Negotiated and drafted permissions agreements for Anansi and Groundwood titles.• Processed all department contracts, ensuring that clients have been invoiced, while tracking contractual fulfillment and payments.• Booked appointments and strategically organized the Frankfurt Book Fair schedule for president and publisher, editorial director, and rights manager. • Updated Filemaker Pro with information about files sent to foreign publishers, while also maintaining the contact database of possible customers, agents, and scouts in Acumen. Show less

• Metadata Intern

  • Mar 2017 - May 2017

  • Created relevant Amazon keywords for backlist titles, predicting customer search terms through product research. • Inspected ONIX file of the 900+ titles in the database, screening for errors and updating Acumen with correct information. • Uploaded new eBooks and price changes to Coresource, confirming that all metadata is correct.• Ensured that product information on the House of Anansi, Amazon, and Indigo websites were all correct and standardized.



Indigo

• United States
• Advertising Services

• Customer Experience Leader

  • Oct 2013 - Aug 2017

  • Participated on the selection of two Indigo Staff Pick of the Month, comparing the content and marketing capabilities of each book. • Hand sold product based on customer’s needs and tailoring recommendations based on their requests. • Reviewed and tested product placements throughout the store, merchandising according to product sales. • Posted promotions and interacted with others through social media on the Indigo Scarborough Town Centre Twitter and Instagram accounts. • Participated on the selection of two Indigo Staff Pick of the Month, comparing the content and marketing capabilities of each book. • Hand sold product based on customer’s needs and tailoring recommendations based on their requests. • Reviewed and tested product placements throughout the store, merchandising according to product sales. • Posted promotions and interacted with others through social media on the Indigo Scarborough Town Centre Twitter and Instagram accounts.