Jordan Shelswell

Jordan Shelswell

Ecologist/ Programmer

Ontario, Canada

jordanshelswell@gmail.com

Provided upon request

Skills

Ecology & Environmental Science
90%
Communications
80%
Web Design
75%
Programming
50%

Languages

English
Esperanto
French


About

I am a budding Environmental Scientist with a focus on Ecological Restoration, Indigenous and Scientific Consultation and GIS with an interest in technology and environmental mechanics. It is hard to put my various experiences succinctly, I have worked on small farms, Ontario’s Parks Service and as a Peer Tutor and Technology Help Desk Worker. As such my skills encompass everything from groundwater remediation techniques and plant identification skills to web development, business planning, digital marketing and cartographic techniques What I lack in concentrated experience I make up in adaptability, Interdisciplinary skills and the motivation to carry that forward into whatever comes next.

Currently I am looking for opportunities to apply my skills in the Environmental Services, Public Service or Information Technology Industries and contemplating further formal education to become a registered Geo-scientist In Training or in a Technical/Analytical field (Bioinformatics, Engineering, Geophysics, GIS).

Feel free to check out this website, that is under ongoing development, and if you have any questions about what you see reach out to me through LinkedIn or email and I would be happy to assist you. If you would like, you can also find a downloadable copy of my resume below, it contains much of what is here, and more.

Work Experience

Farm Intern

Three Forks Farms and Field Good Farms

2016
  • Responsibilities: Aided in the care of over 200 hundred white-rock chickens including cleaning and feeding them. Additionally, I aided in the cultivation an assortment of vegetables in an intensive market garden setting and operated a micro-green production system and prepared product for market.
  • Highlights: Field Good Farms provided me with frontline training in business planning and small farm operations including yearly crop planning and money flow management while participating in the first-year startup operations at Three Forks Farms.
Park Ranger – Maintenance

Lake Superior Provincial Park

2015
  • Responsibilities: Execute regular facilities maintenance, both indoors and outdoors. This included cleaning all visitor facilities, completing campsite maintenance, waste collection, minor infrastructure repairs and more. Additionally, while active on the park grounds act as a front-line Park Naturalist, providing information to visitors on everything from flora, fauna, geology, park policy and local recreation activities.
  • Highlights: Learned how to work in a small team in a remote location. Practiced environmental field identification skills and communicating them to the public.
Help Desk Worker & Peer Tutor

Fleming College

2013-2015
  • Responsibilities: Ensured that a core group of printers were stocked and in good working order. Provided face to face technical advice and peer tutoring to the entirety of Fleming College’s staff and students.
  • Highlights:
    Tutored: Advanced GIS Applications, Orienteering, Technical Mathematics, Chemistry, Environmental Field Skills and the Field Identification of Flora and Fauna.
    Technical Support: General user issues, networking problems, Microsoft's office suite, printer complications, and geospatial/data applications.

Education

Scientific Programming and Web Developmet

The Web! (Coursera, W3-Schools, freeCodeCamp, DataCamp...ect.)

2018 - Current
  • Major Project: This site!
  • Notable Courses: Google Ad Fundamentals, Responsive Web Design, Do-It-Yourself GeoApps, Introduction to R, SQL and Python, Fundamentals of Digital Marketing, Pleasure Craft Operator Licence, Mountains 101
Honours Bachelor of Science in Ecological Restoration

Trent University

2015-2017
  • Major Project: Investigated the use of Black Walnut as a control for Dog Strangling Vine
  • Notable Courses: Remediation and Restoration Ecology, Natural Water Chemistry, Environmental Policy, Natural Resource Project Management and Economics, Green Infrastructure, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Implications of Agriculture.
Ecological Restoration Diploma

Fleming College

2013-2015
  • Major Project: Investigated the effects of road metals on the seed success of Staghorn Sumac
  • Notable Courses: Environmental Field Skills, Plant Community Systematics, Hydrology, Environmental Chemistry, Species Identification (Terrestrial and Aquatic Plants and common Animals)