Josh Passey

Project Management Experience

Project Management Experience

Teaching Experience

Project Management and Management Experience

• Over 10 years as a Parts Technician in high volume fast paced work places. On average would handle 100-150 various client or customer inquiries a day, either by phone, email, or in person. Handled special orders and non-stock products. Contacting suppliers to source products. Creating new product codes in the system to fit that product. Handling cost, price, and margins. Sourcing items from warehouses, vendors, and other locations.
• Balanced time management skills with client requests to efficiently deal with a high volume of customers in a fast-paced worked place, without sacrificing a high level of customer service and satisfaction. Created a strong focus on time management skills, ability to do the job efficiently and quickly, while still giving a good client experience.

• Over 3 years management experience in fast paced retail environments. Managed teams of 20+ individuals as well as my own supervisors with their teams in high stress environments. Lead the team to meet deadlines while maintaining high level of client satisfaction by paying attention to detail and properly managing the teams time.

• Sitting as the sole graduate member, the committee hears appeals regarding students’ academic standing or their grades, during this hearing oral arguments from both sides are given on top of the written information we receive ahead of the hearing.
• Examining both written and oral information to make an impartial decision, with the students best academic interests in mind, which involves discussion and debate between various committee members to reach a consensus in how to best rule on the appeal.

• Working in a team of markers to analyze and assess student work and provide feedback while being responsible for approximately half of the classes’ major written works such as critical analyses and essays.

• Working in a team of markers to analyze and assess student work and provide feedback while being responsible for approximately half of the classes’ major written works such as critical analyses and essays.

• Graduate Student Research Intern for the Government of Alberta, Alberta Education.
• Research Assistant, Part Time – 24 hours a week
• Graduate intern employed by the University of Alberta but contracted until April to the Government of Alberta to conduct research for Alberta Education.
• Conducted research within a governmental context, which involved developing and condensing jurisdictional scans, reviewing and revising policy documents, as well as producing and refining briefing notes for senior researchers and directors.
• Performed data analysis, including a project extracting approximately 3,000 data points from Excel into an interactive map that significantly reduced research time by several weeks and which was subsequently presented to the Assistant Deputy Minister as a proof of concept.

• Company Overview: Research institute specializing in demographic changes and their impacts.
• Primary researcher and author on project, funded under SSHRC Insight Development Grant, examining the entire Alberta Hansard transcripts as a form of government speech.
• Working in Yoshikoder, a JavaScript text analysis program, the Hansard files were converted and ran through the program, looking for certain pre-identified keywords often used in populist context and producing these keywords as data which is then imported into Excel to create tables, graphs, and other ways to visualize the data and present it.
• Oversaw the project from inception in Sept. 2022 to delivery of final draft in Dec. 2024, including managing other research assistants in research and data collection.
• Project produced a presentation at the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF) 2023 conference, which was well received, and final drafts of the paper were delivered in December 2024 for expected publication in 2025 with a potential book in the future.
• Part Time – 8-16 hours a week

• Sole responsibility for student marking in a class of 80 students which included student papers, midterms, and other short assignments.
• Typical marking includes extensive project feedback, encouragement, and notes on how to address problems and improve student work.

• Editor of journal which involves both article selection and editing process with a specialization in articles focused on Classics, ancient history, and antiquity.

• Worked in a team of markers to analyze and assess student work and provide feedback and was responsible for marking for approximately 40 of the 120 students in the class and consistently met deadlines for returning students work.

• Worked in a team of markers to analyze and assess student work and provide marking and was responsible for marking for 20 of the 60 students in the class and consistently met deadlines for returning students works.

• Primary marker for a class of 80 students, marking approximately 90% of all completed work, which included papers and tests, while providing feedback and instruction on how to improve.
• Lectured class on sexual categories, sexual expectations in the ancient world, and its connections with culture and power.

• Sat as a voting council member representing graduate students and attended meetings and debated and voted on various measures, while best representing grad students.
• The council is the legislative body for the Faculty of Arts and is involved in decision making for academic affairs regarding said faculty and includes things like addressing budgets, creating or modifying research committees, graduations, strategic plans for the faculty, etc.

• Company Overview: Research institute specializing in demographic changes and their impacts.
• Primary editor on a large atlas book project on the Battle River Watershed, titled Taking Notice to Take Action: Integrating Environment, Health and Community Health in the Watershed Atlas of the Battle River Watershed and Sounding Creek Watershed, which was published in 2022 and presented at ECHO Vancouver 2022.
• A first of its kind project, the atlas consisted of 6 chapters with over 600 pages of text, maps, data, tables, etc, and examined everything from water health, to policing, to internet speed, to give a comprehensive overall picture of health in the watershed.
• Editing process consisted of checking sources, double checking data, checking for plagiarism, checking citations/bibliography, etc, and re-researching or re-writing where needed, with the average chapter requiring 300-400 edits.
• Full Time – 40+ Hours a week

• 65-page honours thesis examining both Muslim and Christian perspectives on female combatants during The Crusades that engaged with hundreds of sources from both current and historic scholarship to find a new and unique conclusion: That how and why women fought was dependent on socio-class expectations, not gender expectations.
• Full Time Student
• Advisor: Dr. David Hay

• Launched an initiative to improve communication between the department and undergraduate history students, increasing communication and student involvement in the department.
• Led a letter writing initiative to provide support for the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association who were in contract talks with Administration.
• Surveyed students about concerns with return to classes after a lengthy and contentious strike and created a several page report for the History Department to address those concerns and support students and this report was disseminated across the department and helped professors support students in their return by adjusting work due dates, managing expectations in a shortened semester, and facilitating communication about ongoing issues.

• 3rd year independent study that engaged with dozens of contemporary and historic sources and produced a 45-page thesis examining the battles of Pydna and Cynoscephalae.
• Full Time Student
• Advisor: Dr. Chris Epplett

Project Management Experience

Management Experience

Project Management Experience

Project Management Experience

Project Management Experience

Management Experience