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Student Desktop Researcher
Innovation Enterprise, University of Saskatchewan, 2016 - Present

Evaluation of commercial opportunities stemming from University research ideas including:
Conduct initial market research (e.g. market size, competitor analyses, identifying market barriers, business and income models) on the innovative technology developed by university faculty, staff and student in various subject areas such as technology and health.
Review market, industry and consumer surveys.
Assist the Inovation Enterprise staff in identification of competitors or potential commercial partners for the technology (initial commercial feasibility studies).
Prepare summaries of reports on and studies of political, societal, economic, environmental or business related trends and issues.
Perform background research on and initial testing of new innovations and alternatives thereof.
Depending on the stage of technology, perform research & initial testing of new innovations & alternatives.  

Research Assistant
University of Saskatchewan. 2014 - Present

Translate project goal (improving online customers' shopping experience) into research questions and develop research plans
Develop and conduct research on how to improve e-commerce customers' experience using various influence strategies, social and cognitive psychology principles and personalization frameworks
Determine the type of study most appropriate to target the desired information and category of shoppers
Develop customer centered users studies that reliably inform the effect of various influence strategies on e-shoppers
Recruit participants for studies through Amazon's Mechanical Turk, social media, bulletin boards and one on one
Review survey results and perform thorough data analysis looking for trends and interesting patterns
Prepare reports based on findings and patterns identified
Design and implement technology or recommendations based on report
Write conference and journal papers based on results of research
Attend conferences and present findings where paper gets accepted
Teach classes (Social computing, ethics and computer science, web development)

Data Analyst and Developer
Legacy Pension Managers Ltd. 2012 - 2014

Business Analyst and User Experience Researcher
As a business analyst, I was responsible for liaising with the end users of the company's pension administration system, Enpower, to identify business requirements and requests. I had to effectively document, organize, translate and simplify business, functional and non-functional requirements and deliver such to the software development vendor.

In addition, I was accountable for the evaluation process of the developed solution and would discuss the users’ feedback with the software development vendor.

As a business analyst, I was also responsible for supervising the A/B testing of each new release or upgrade while reporting results and feedback of testing to the software developers.

I also delivered training and provided post-implementation support to the users of Enpower software.

My role as a user experience researcher involved me following up with Enpower software users to ensure the new product/release meets their needs and requirements. This was done through independent research, study and analysis or users’ behavior. In addition, I worked with the software design and development team to incorporate research findings into new product releases.

Data Analyst:
As a data analyst, I performed complex analysis on our clients' portfolios and transactions, summarized such information and communicated them clearly to the portfolio managers, and also to the finance, investment and operations managers as required.

I also identified and analyzed trends in clients' data, made forecasts and explained variances on key performance metrics to the finance, investment and operations directors as required.

In addition, I developed and maintained several dynamic reports using crystal reports for various business units as required. This would require me to access our data warehouse to extract data relevant for my analysis, clean and validate such data to ensure quality and usability.

Finally, I worked on several migration projects including the migration of all clients data from Oracle database to MSSQL server.

Developer:
As a full stack developer, I was responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the company's intranet. My team was also responsible for developing and maintaining a web based application to meet the regulatory reporting requirements of all business units in the organisation.

Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship, 2017/2018

This prestigious scholarship provides funding by the Government of Saskatchewan to deserving students based on academic and research excellence and their contributions to the economy

Nominated for best paper award, 2017

12th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Amsterdam, Nertherlands. April, 2017. One of 6 authors (out of over 70) nominated for best paper award.

ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference scholarship 2017

I was awarded a conference scholarship to attend the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing conference 2017, in the USA

Microsoft Conference Scholarship to attend ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2017

I was awarded a Microsoft conference scholarship to attend the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing in 2017. I had to turn down the offer because I was already awarded a scholarship by ACM for the same event.

Computing Research Association - Women (CRA-W) Travel Grant 2016

I was awarded a travel grant after the event which covered the cost of my travel to the event. This prestigious annual event brings together female experts in computing research from North America.

Geddes Award for research and academic excellence, 2016

The prestigious Geddes graduate scholarship is awarded annually in the department of computer science to the best graduate student based on academic and research excellence.

Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing (CAN-CWiC 2016) Travel Grant

Partial travel grant was awarded to cover part of the cost of travel to the event which held in Ottawa

Graduate Teaching Fellowship / Faculty Scholarship (2014-2017)

I was awarded a three year full GTA/Faculty scholarship for my PhD studies.

Front end Web developement (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)

 

Database development including SQL, T-SQL and Pl/SQL

 

Java

 

Data Analysis

 

R & Python

 

SPSS, SMartPLS, Tableau