Lecturer at Laval University’s weekly Professors’ Development Sessions. The topic was "copyright issues with regards to the educational use of Web publishing tools".

Lead member of the Communications and Advertising Committee in Koumbit, a Montreal-based nonprofit organization providing a wide array of Free and Open Source ITC services.

I've been responsible of the writing, translation and proofreading, in English and French, of most of the organization's external documents (press releases, news articles, monthly newsletters, website portfolio items). I've also been responsible of the advertising campaigns and the budget elaboration and monitoring, in partnership with the Comité de travail (Steering Board).

These tasks require fluency in communication tools and protocols such as wikis, IRC, Drupal, Request Tracker, etc.

This is an ongoing mandate as a Web designer for the Réseau Koumbit.

Most frequent tasks include: 1) the installation and multilingual configuration of content management systems running under Drupal free software; 2) graphic adaptation (through php and css file editing), to suit the needs of the client.

Research Assistant to Professors Bruce Broomhall and Bernard Duhaime at the Centre for the Study of International Law and Globalisation (CEDIM). This position involved: data collection and analysis; the setup and maintenance of an online database; the preliminary writing and final proofreading of the International Justice Needs Assessment report.

Tight-deadline translation of articles and dispatches, from English to French, for The Canadian Press online division and various Sun Media printed & Web publications.

Installation and maintenance of the PatWhite.com cultural blog, powered by Drupal. This ongoing job involves the design of layout and navigation structure; the integration of syndicated advertisements (from two providers); content publishing, referencing and statistical analysis. (This website garnered 31,000 unique visitors in July 2008.)

Translation and interpretation (from English to Portuguese, Spanish or French) in support of the foreign performers and recruits admitted in the General Training Program.

Re-writing and proofreading of the 2004 Budgetary Plan, in the Finance Division offices.

Live Interpreter (from English or Spanish to French) at the annual Canadian International Model United Nations sessions, held in Ottawa.

French localization of the NewsStand Reader, an application that lets users read the digital edition of international newspapers such as The New York Times. French localization of the NewsStand website. Much of the work was done online, since the client is based in Austin, Texas.