michael hargadon
ottawa, canada · m-at-mhargadon-dot-ca
January, 2008: Hyde Bridge, Sligo
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Michael A. Hargadon
Ottawa, Ontario · 613-297-7500 · m-at-mhargadon-dot-ca
Education
- June, 2011: Juris Doctor
- Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario
- 2011 Recipient: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Book Prize
- 2010 Recipient: Criminal Lawyers' Association Scholarship ($2,000)
- 2010 Recipient: Charles Edward Woodrow Award ($1,000)
- 2008 Recipient: Law Society Foundation Entrance Scholarship ($1,000)
- 2009-2011: Secretary, Osgoode Hall Criminal Law Society
- May, 2011: Master of Arts (History)
- Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
- Thesis: Like City Lights, Receding: ANSI Artwork and the Digital Underground, 1985-2000 (defended March 18, 2011)
- 2007 SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholar ($17,500)
- 2006 Recipient: Special Dean's Top-Up Grant ($5,000)
- May, 2005: Honours BA in History (w/Distinction)
- Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
- Faculty of Arts and Science Dean's List, 2002-2005
- Nominee: David Fox Prize, Best Undergraduate Thesis in History
- Profiled in Concordia Thursday Report, June 2005
Publications
- Howard L. Krongold and Michael A. Hargadon, "Not Criminally Responsible? Not so fast..." in For The Defence, Volume 32, Number 6, October, 2011.
Employment
May 2010- Aug. 2010 Student-at-Law Webber Schroeder Goldstein Abergel, Ottawa, Ontario - Standard articling student duties: summary conviction trials and pleas, remand court appearances; consent releases and adjournments in show cause court; counsel pre-trials; preparation of research memos; drafting of facta; preparation of trial and appeal materials; filing of court documents; interviewing of clients; correspondence and other miscellaneous administrative duties.
May 2010- Aug. 2010 Summer Law Student Ottawa Crown Attorney's Office, Ottawa, Ontario - Articles in miniature: preparation of research memos; drafting of facta; preparation of trial materials; trial observation; charge screening; witness intake, interviewing and examination in peace bonds; filing of court documents; correspondence with judges and defence counsel; vetting of disclosure; miscellaneous administrative duties.
Jan. 2010 - Apr. 2010 Placement: Intensive Program in Criminal Law Michael Lacy Barristers, Toronto, Ontario - Clinical placement as part of Osgoode Hall Intensive Program in Criminal Law
- Standard law student responsibilities: trial observation, legal research and drafting, transcript summarizing, filing and other administrative duties, etc.
April 2009 - Aug. 2009 Administration Officer (contract) Public Service Commission of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario - Project management: Defined timelines and assisted with the delivery of five audit products for tabling in Parliament.
- Project planning: worked with managers, Directors and Directors-General to devise delivery plans for 2009-2010 project year
- Optimized resource use, assisted with determining team composition and defined project milestones and management gates to ensure accountability.
- Evaluated software solutions to automate this process; trained employees on planning methodology and assumptions.
June 2006 - Present Systems Administrator, History & New Media Web Server Dr. Elena Razlogova, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec - Implementation/maintenance of high-availability web/database server solution based on sun Sunfire x4100s.
- Operating Environment: Apache2, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL on Linux.
June 2006 - Jan. 2010 Programmer, Consistory Database Project Dr. Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec - Designed and implemented a web-accessible database application to track primary source documents of court decisions from medieval Consistory Court of London.
- Development enviroment: PHP, PostgreSQL on Linux.
- Application size: 10,000 lines
April 2008 - Aug. 2008 Administration Officer (contract) Public Service Commission of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario - Provided administrative assistance to a Director-General in the Audit Operations Directorate of the PSC.
- Direct supervisor of two employees; trained them into their positions, managed their workflow, and provided performance feedback.
- Established and maintained the directorate filing system.
- Wrote and implemented basic adminstrative procedures for other members of the directorate.
- Filed forms, created and reconciled financial reports, arranged travel, requested translation and telecom services, purchased office supplies, prepared documentation for and scheduled meetings, made travel arrangements, and trained my replacement into the position.
Sept. 2006 - May 2007 Teaching Assistant, HIST201/2 Drs. Shannon Mcsheffrey, Norman Ingram, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec - Instructed two groups of students per semester in the use, interpretation and analsis of primary documents.
- Facilitated and moderated classroom discussion; encouraged engagement with the material.
- Graded five short essay assignments per group per semster.
- Provided individual and group coaching on research and writing.
- Designed and delivered lesson plans for each session.
June 2005 - June 2006 Systems Administrator Lush Cosmetics, Vancouver, British Columbia - Provided advanced hardware/software/network support to sixty stores within Lush's retail chain and sixty employees at the company's corporate office.
- Re-engineered helpdesk procedures and information systems to enable IT best practices and decrease mean time to problem resolution.
- Re-implemented existing point-of-sale solution, performing chain-wide rolling hardware/software updates to support open standards and enable tighter systems integration.
- Standardized internal network infrastructure to lower total cost of ownership.
- Designed and deployed North America-wide VPN (Virtual Private Network) solution to allow for cost-effective systems management.
- Deployed enterprise-wide network monitoring solution.
- Evaluated, tested, and sourced both PC and point-of-sale hardware; wrote budgets, testing procedures and cost estimates for future POS and network infrastructure implementations.
- Wrote software to allow for automated processing of store-generated sales data and statistical analysis of retail metrics.
- Assisted with setting interview criteria, evaluating resumes, and interviewing prospective candidates for employment within the department.
June 2004 - April 2005 Network / Systems Administrator (tendered contract) Arts and Science Federation of Associations, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec - Designed, tested and implemented a Linux-based small business network server. Solution provided equivalent functionality to a Windows Domain Controller at significantly reduced cost (70% reduction).
- Submitted detailed tender to secure the contract, documented all aspects of the system for novice end-users and provided training for ASFA staff.
- Provided long-term support to maintain the installed system.
June 2003 - Sept. 2003 Customer Service Representative Superior Propane Inc., Laval, Quebec - Provided bilingual, telephone-based billing support to customers in Superior Propane's Quebec area of operations.
Sept. 2000 - Sept. 2001 Network Operations / Systems Administration The IT Department Inc., Ottawa, Ontario - Supported clients and administered servers running all Microsoft operating system variants.
- Supported and configured IP firewalls running Linux; configured and maintained switches and routers manufactured by Ascend, Cisco and HP.
- Designed and implemented network monitoring solution based on CA UniCenter TNG. Designed and implemented helpdesk system using CA UniCenter TNG AHD. Wrote administrator and training documentation for both systems and trained ITD staff in their use.
- Implemented separate network monitoring solution using free/open-source software. Customized software for use by The IT Department and wrote documentation to support its installation and use at client sites.
- Wrote and presented business and sales proposals to ITD Associate companies.
April 2000 - Sept. 2000 Network Operations (Advanced Technical Agent) Bell ActiMedia Inc., Hull, Quebec - Acted as Level 3 (top tier) support for 400 agents providing phone-based technical support to residential users of Bell ActiMedia's high-speed Internet services. Senior technical agent for 100,000+ customers in two provinces.
- Identified network outages based on reports from first-line agents and notified appropriate third-party Bell business units (Digital Switch Service Center, ATM Operations Group, Bell Nexxia IP-NOC).
- Documented ATA troubleshooting procedures and designed escalation process flow.
- Implemented suite of network tools using PHP/HTML on Linux; wrote documentation and trained agents in the use of same.
Languages
- English: Oral / written
- French: Oral / written
References
- Academic / employment / character references available upon request.