Lucas Timmons Data- / Programmer- / Online- /Multimedia- Journalist

Writing • Editing • Video • Audio • Web • Programming • Social Media

706-10134 100 Street
Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 0N8 Experience
613.327.6580 June 2010-Present • Data Journalist / Web Producer • The Edmonton Journal
lucas@lucastimmons.com
www.lucastimmons.com • Investigative reporting • Social media monitoring / interaction
@lucastimmons • Creation of flash interactives • Training of digital tools to newsroom
• Recording and editing audio • Real-time updates of edmontonjournal.com
• Website management • Copy editing and SEO formatting
• Online coverage of 2010 federal election • Photo editing
• Online coverage of Mark Twitchell trial • Mapping and database creation
• Live blogging / live chat moderation • Javascript and JQuery programming

Aug 2010-Present • Journalism Instructor • Grant MacEwan University

• Course design and instruction • Created and administration a hyper-local

• Instruction in design for print and online news website (westedmontonlocal.ca)
journalism design and reporting • Computer Assisted Reporting, video & audio
• InDesign, Photoshop & Illustrator, coveri- editing, podcasting, mapping, SEO, & social
tlive, stoirfy, soundslides & dipity instruction media monitoring/interaction instruction

Feb 2010-June 2010 • Investigative Reporter • CBC Ottawa

• Investigative reporting for radio and online • Production of radio pieces for CBC Radio 1
• Creation of flash interactives • Database and webscraping work
• Recording and editing audio for radio • Computer assisted reporting

Nov 2009-Feb 2010 • Online Apprentice • The Ottawa Citizen

• Real time updates of ottawacitizen.com • Flash programming and design

• Generate content for online and print • Designed and administered microsites
• Shot and edited video for web • Live blogging
• Photography for print and web • Media Monitoring

Scholastic Journalism Experience

Sept 2009-April 2010 • Website developer / designer • The Algonquin Times
Dec 2008-April 2009 • Editor • The Algonquin Times, Algonquin College
May 2007-May 2008 • Editor-in-Chief • The Athenaeum, Acadia University
Aug 2007-May 2008 • Podcast Coordinator / host • Canadian University Press

Education
2008-2010, Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario
Print Journalism - Dean’s List
2002-2007, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Music

Technical Proficiency
Platforms: OS 9/X, Windows XP/Me/2000/Vista/7, Linux, iOS, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress
Applications: Adobe Creative Suite 2-5 (Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, InCopy, Photo-
shop, Flash, Fireworks, Premiere Pro), Final Cut Pro, Quark Xpress, MS Office Suite, Garage-
band, iMovie, Aperture, SouthPARC6, Saxotech, Audacity, Soundslides, QGIS, Tableau
Languages: HTML, XML, CSS3, Java, Javascript, JQuery, PHP, MySQL

Professional Development / Awards

2011: Canadian Association of Journalists • Member in good standing
Investigative Reporters and Editors • Member in good standing
Canadian University Press Western Canada conference • Speaker, digital storytelling tools
2010: Canadian Association of Journalists • Delegate, innovate news conference
Canadian Association of Journalists • Member in good standing
Nominated: Ontario Community Newspaper Association • Student photography award
Nominated: Ontario Community Newspaper Association • Best college newspaper website
Won: EMC/Performance Printing award • Top graduating journalism student
2009: Ontario Community Newspaper Association • Delegate, annual meeting
Canadian Association of Journalists • Member in good standing
2008: Canadian University Press national conference • Speaker, podcasting and new media
Canadian University Press Atlantic/Quebec conference • Chair, organizing committee
 Lucas Timmons Data- / Programmer- / Online- /Multimedia- Journalist
Writing • Editing • Video • Audio • Web • Programming • Social Media
706-10134 100 Street
Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 0N8 Online works
613.327.6580
lucas@lucastimmons.com Javascript • Interactive video application • Edmonton Journal
www.lucastimmons.com http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/decision-canada/
@lucastimmons candidate-questions/index.html
Uses the Youtube API and javascript and JQuery to create a video player that
dynamically loads a video to the candidate and answer the reader chooses.

Mapping & data visualization • Election riding previews • Edmonton Journal

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/decision-canada/
edmonton-strathcona.html
Made using Qgis to create and edit the shape files and Geocommons to display the
map data. Google fusion tables were used for the interactive charts below the map.

Flash interactive • Heron Gate tenants plead for help • CBC Ottawa
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2010/04/20/
ott-herongate-buildings.html
Uses video, a map and a document viewer to tell the story of tenants forced to live
in slums and the inability of the City of Ottawa to help them. Made in Adobe Flash
with Actionscript 3.0 and the Google Maps API for Flash.

Flash interactive • My Wardrobe - Jennifer Grimm • Edmonton Journal

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/mywardrobe/grimm/index.html
Written in Actionscript 3, this flash 3d interactive gives a 360 degree carousel tour
of a model’s wardrobe. Dynamically loads the images and text from an external .xml
file. This is one tour of an ongoing series of tours.

Database • Edmonton unclaimed bank accounts • Edmonton Journal

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/unclaimed-bank-accounts/index.html
After scraping, cleaning and investigating the data from the Bank of Canada, it was
made searchable and browsable in a Socrata database. Users can search to see if
they have any money being held by the federal government.

Flash interactive • CFB Petawawa: Life on the homefront • Ottawa Citizen

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/petawawa/index.html
Interactive flash application presenting video and text stories of soldiers posted to CFB Peta-
wawa. Made in Adobe Flash with Actionscript 2.0

Timeline • Edmonton homicide timeline • Edmonton Journal

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/localhomicides2011/index.html
Using Dipity, this timeline keeps tabs on all the homicides in Edmonton in 2010. It
includes a map to where the homicides occurred, photos and links to the stories.

References
Karen Unland
Online Editor - The Edmonton Journal
(780)429-5499
kunland@edmontonjournal.com

Archie McLean
Chair, Journalism - Grant MacEwan University
(780)554-0792
mcleana28@macewan.ca

David McKie
Data journalist - CBC News Investigations, Parliamentary Bureau
(613)288-6523
david_mckie@cbc.ca

Melanie Coulson
Senior Online Editor - The Ottawa Citizen
(613)596-3730
mcoulson@ottawacitizen.com