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Work Experience

Casual/Supply School Library Technician, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB), Ottawa, Ontario

February 2025-present

Key duties performed at all schools (Canterbury High School, Rockcliffe Park Public School, Roberta Bondar Public School):

• - Managed circulation: check-ins, check-outs, hold requests, renewals, Chromebook loans/returns (Alexandria Integrated Library Software (ILS))
• - Maintained library operations: organized chairs and cleaned workspaces
• - Delivered storytime sessions to K–8 students



School-specific experience:

Rockcliffe Park Public School:

• - Managed library error messages/alerts and put aside unknown barcodes, books to repair, wrong linkage, barcodes at different locations, mislabelled barcodes, etc. and repaired books
• - Sent out overdue notice reports to teachers and parents to track which books are in the library catalogue
• - Shelved returned books according to Dewey Decimal Classification and author's last name, shelf-reading and completed inventory of the library catalogue during PA day to see which books are missing or available



Canterbury High School:

• - Assisted a student with printer use and supervised a co-op student during Chromebook circulation
• - Worked on weeding out biographical books by doing shelf-reading in the non-fiction section, and added biography sticker labels

Junior Data Analyst FSWEP Student, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gatineau, Quebec

January 2023 - April 2023

• - Supporting the team and helping transition the student with assigned tasks (GIS, MetNotes, software testing)
• - Performing testing procedures to validate change requests on operating systems and documenting the test results on a portal following the software development lifecycle
• - Updating the WeatherCAN app page with statistics and maintaining the MetNotes wiki page

Junior Data Analyst Co-op Student, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gatineau, Quebec

January 2022 - December 2022

• - Using ArcGIS to edit boundary changes and metadata for points, lines and polygons in shapefiles. These points, lines and polygons represent locations that are used by the MSC organization to issue weather forecasts and alerts
• - Working with detailed data specifications and requirements for different scenarios based on consulting clients or subject matter experts
• - Assessing the impact of proposed changes to the organization and validating proposed data or applications against business requirements
• - Supporting the team and software developers with my coding expertise to automate business processes for dissemination tools (i.e. WeatherCAN mobile app, Environment Canada Alert Me (ECAM) and Translation testing)
• - Writing Python scripts to web scrape data from a website to create statistics and a web map for MetNotes data on the MetNotes wiki page
• - Performing testing procedures to validate change requests on operating systems and documenting the test results on a portal following the software development lifecycle
• - Reviewing and providing feedback on technical documentation

Volunteer Experience

Student Catering Assistant, Gate Gourmet, Ottawa, Ontario

September 2015

• - Assisted in packaging soda cans, beverages, and food into carts as part of the Take Our Kids to Work Day program to gain experience in a labour position
• - Served customers in an airline catering environment by pushing food and beverage carts to the proper destination for the delivery to airplane passengers on time
• - Helped employees order packaging material and inventory in bins to send to the correct station, expediting the process for delivery

Student Teacher Assistant (International Languages Summer School Program), Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB), Ottawa, Ontario

July 2015

• - Guided students ages 5 to 7 learn to read, write, and speak in Vietnamese during summer school as a volunteer and community experience
• - Supported children in various singing and drawing activities, resulting in an end-of-year culminating performance in front of an audience
• - Supervised kids and children playing in the gym during recess time, gaining experience in observation

Raffle Tickets Seller, RA Centre, Ottawa, Ontario

September 2015

• - Served the Vietnamese community and sold tickets for the Mid-Autumn festival event in Ottawa
• - Participated in various activities for children and families,s such as singing contests and lantern-making competitions resulting in community connections to culture and traditions
• - Collaborated with community members in the event and engaged in social interactions between people during the event, developing people skills

Extra-Curricular Activities

First-Year Connections Mentorship Program, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

September 2019 - October 2019

• - Engaged in conversations with a mentor to become acclimated to Carleton University and its services, which helped build confidence
• - Exchanged emails with a peer mentor to develop good relationship-building and communication skills
• - Attended weekly meetings for 6-8 weeks, which resulted in a meaningful connection and leadership skills

OrKidstra, Ottawa, Ontario

September 2009 - June 2016

• - Sang at concerts and played the flute at many events and concerts in Ottawa, Canada
• - Participated in Youth Group for playing flute in a chamber music group from 2013-2016
• - Went to Toronto, Canada, to play music with students inthe El Sistema Toronto Program in 2015