Education

The masterdatascience.ubc.ca platform is an academic website developed to support and promote the University of British Columbia's (UBC) Master of Data Science programs.

Originally built in early 2016 for Saint Bernadine Mission Communications Inc, the platform has undergone several major architectural overhauls to scale alongside the program's requirements and modern web compliance standards.

Technical Milestones & Core Features

• Institutional Brand Alignment: Developed using the official UBC Drupal base theme, ensuring strict adherence to the university's Common Look and Feel (CLF) guidelines. 
• CMS Evolution & Modernization:
  • 2016: Launched initially as a Drupal 7 site.
  • 2021: Completely reworked and rebuilt on Drupal 9 to reflect programmatic changes to the data science tracks and upgrade the backend infrastructure.
  • 2023: Successfully upgraded to Drupal 10 to guarantee modern performance, security patches, and ongoing stability.
  • 2026: Drupal 10 -> Drupal 11 upgrade
• Accessibility Compliance: The platform recently underwent a comprehensive accessibility audit. Following the assessment, all identified compliance deficiencies were resolved, resulting in a fully accessible and inclusive user experience for all students and prospective applicants.

This is another complete reworking of the www.hastebc.org site. Graphics supplied Passion for Action. This site has been up since 2008 and started off as a Drupal 5 site. It features geolocation of affiliated projects and custom route mapping.

Status: Offline / Historic Archive

ontoottawa.ca is a historical archive web project developed for the On to Ottawa Historical Society. Built during the earlier eras of web design, the project serves as a digital preservation of the history surrounding the 1935 On to Ottawa Trek, where hundreds of unemployed men hopped freight trains to demand work, wages, and an end to government relief camps.

Key Details & Contributions

• Architecture: Developed as a classic web platform utilizing HTML framesets to organize and present historical data, photos, video resources, and anniversary updates.
• Purpose: Created to keep alive the spirit, memories, and lessons of the historic trek for the society.

Status: Offline / Historic Archive

¡Hola Canada is a web platform developed for Simon Fraser University (SFU). Originally engineered as a Django application featuring a primary Flash user interface, this project involved creating a fully functional, alternative HTML interface to mirror and complement the existing Flash setup.

Key Details & Contributions

• Interface Development: Developed the alternative, flat HTML interface to ensure cross-platform accessibility and stable functionality, transforming the original Flash application directly into a functional web specification document.
• Collaborators: The original Flash interface was designed and built by Jer Thorp (formerly of Simon Fraser University).
• Platform Philosophy: While the HTML version intentionally trades heavy visual animations for streamlined performance, it focuses heavily on high usability and seamless, practical navigation.

Status: Offline / Historic Archive

This is an HTML site that I coded for the LIDC at Sinon Fraser University. The site designer is Ivana Filipovic.
This is the blurb @ http://mediadesign.sfu.ca/portfolio/ about the project:

"From the Heart" is a multimedia collaboration between the City of Burnaby and the LIDC that showcases the military and civilian careers of five distinguished Freemen of Burnaby. The project tells their stories through video, a website, interactive games, archival photographs, posters, and documents. Its purpose is to inform elementary and high school students, and the general public, about the devotion to service, both in war and peace, displayed by these five men, and to inspire others to follow in their exemplary footsteps. The project received multiple awards from the Columbus International Film and Video Festival.