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Career Roundtable Industry Expert Bio: Social Services

Communications
November 7, 2013
Events

Introducing: Lourdes Zelaya

Title: Assessment Advisor

Lourdes Zelaya has worked with diverse client groups in both academic and community settings. Prior to working as an Assessment Advisor at George Brown College she has worked in the social service field for over 5 years. When she returned from the JET program in 2005, her career path began at the YMCA working as a Language Assessor for newcomers to Canada and transitioned to Resource Specialist supporting individuals in search of employment. Interest blossomed in this area and moved on to work as a Mentoring Counsellor at Skills for Change, coordinating mentoring partnerships for internationally trained teachers and students taking LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) classes. In her current role as an Assessment Advisor she evaluates essays for admission/placement testing, administers an English language assessment, and advises students on their testing results.

Advice:

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Career Roundtable Industry Expert Bio: Education

Communications
November 7, 2013
Events

Introducing: Patrick Huang

Title: CELTA trainer

Patrick’s career in ESL is fast approaching 10 years. He has always been interested in languages and linguistics, even as he studied sciences, modern languages (BA, University of Toronto) and music (MMus, Royal Academy of Music, London). Since he finished his CELTA course at EC Toronto, Patrick has taught a wide range of classes, including 1-to-1, TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge CAE, business and general English classes. Besides teaching, Patrick has also been an examiner for IELTS, as well as FCE and CAE oral examinations.

He also enjoys leading professional development workshops and seminars. Beyond the qualification itself, the CELTA course also gave Patrick a goal and ambition – to become a CELTA trainer. To fulfill that goal, he completed the DELTA at International House, London, and received his CELTA tutor training back at EC Toronto after that. He has been a CELTA trainer since 2007. With Toronto as his home base, Patrick has taught and trained in the UK and the United Arab Emirates.

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Career Roundtable Industry Expert Bio: Non-profit/NGO

Introducing: Nathan Fenn Title: Internship Coordinator and Program Officer Upon completion of his undergraduate degree in South Asian Studies from Concordia University, Nathan spent four years in South Korea and Japan…

Career Roundtable Industry Expert Bio: Communications/Media

Introducing: Jeff Minthorn Title: Co-founder and editor-in-chief, Verge magazine Jeff hails from Waterloo, Ontario and holds degrees in Environmental Studies and Architecture from the University of Waterloo. He has worked and studied on…

Career Roundtable Industry Expert Bio: Healthcare

Introducing: Vincent Ng

Title: Management consultant, health IT strategist, and a clinical pharmacist

Vincent Ng is passionate about transforming the healthcare system, particularly through the better use of information to improve access to safe, high quality healthcare.

His mission is to help transform the healthcare system, and he has dedicated his career to contributing to this transformation in all possible ways, including:

Developing health system and health IT strategies;
Managing the on-budget, on-time implementations of these strategies;
Measuring and evaluating their impacts on patient safety, quality of care and effectiveness of care delivery; and;
Improving the ability of clinicians to use technology to practise good medicine and to make their lives easier.

Advice:

1. Healthcare is in desperate need for change and innovation, and requires smart people from many different backgrounds to solve its problems – for example, business, IT, engineering, design, data analysis. So, don’t close the door for yourself if you’re not in a “traditional” healthcare path.

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