Hi there. Thanks for checking out my website! As a completely self-taught web developer, I’m pretty proud of it! If you’re looking to learn more about me, my decision to build this website offers some good insight: #1 I love to learn new things, #2 I’m not afraid of a little (or a lot of) hard work, and #3 I never back down from a challenge.
Learning New Things
Puzzles have always been one of my favourite things and by the age of 6 my love of complexities brought me to the art of ballet. At the age of 14 I was invited to attend the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School ‘s professional boarding school – an internationally recognized program that accepts less than 10% of its applicants. I accepted the offer and moved away from my family, filling my high school years with over 25 hours a week of intensive technical ballet training on top of my academic studies. I thrived in the fast-paced environment, finding the daily demands both exhausting and exhilarating. I learned to love being kept on my toes both literally and figuratively.
Hard Work
My hard work outside the dance studio earned me a sport at McGill University in Montreal. I packed up my life and moved across the country once again to pursue a new-found passion – physics. Solving equations with quantum mechanics and relativity was the ultimate test for the puzzle lover in me, and it was no easy feat. In the application of my studies I began working with programming languages and found great satisfaction in learning them too. I continued my love of ballet as a dancer and choreographer with Mosaica McGill‘s dance company, and expanded my extracurricular involvement to student government. On top of my academics and weekly rehearsal schedule I found time to take on several leadership roles within the McGill Society of Physics Students (MSPS), and the Science Undergraduate Society (SUS), as well as a research position with Dr. Nikolas Provatas studying simulations of atomic crystallization with high performance computation.
No Challenge Too Big
Putting my time and team management skills to the test, I served as President of the MSPS in 2015 and Vice President of Finance in 2016. My term saw the renovation of 2 student spaces, award-winning social event and academic events and the rewriting of our societal constitution to incorporate 3 new executive positions. Of course, I didn’t stop there. I applied what I had learned about working with a team and event management to opportunities with the SUS, eventually becoming Director of Programming for Frosh week 2017. Through my direction of Frosh week over 250 volunteers were hired and trained, 72 hours of programming were designed and executed, and over 1000 new students were welcomed.
Since graduating from McGill in 2018 I continue to seek out new challenges. I am currently looking for opportunities to merge my loves of team/project management and science through space based projects. This includes my current work with Space Concordia in the spacecraft devision working on the Canadian CubeSat Project.