Our instructors

Jesse Malakoe

Rob Mathison

Rob Mathison has over 20 years of experience as a writer, content creator, and content strategist. After starting out as a print newspaper and magazine journalist in the UK, he moved into custom publishing, now known as content marketing. This led him to Toronto and Redwood Custom Communications (now Totem), the North American leader in custom publishing and brand journalism. He started offering writing and content strategy services, and in-house web writer training, through his own company in 2006. Clients past and present include Best Buy, Royal Bank of Scotland, Hootsuite, UBC, Government of Alberta, SFU, Fraser Health, Blast Radius, FCV, and Engine Digital.

Find Rob at www.robmathison.com and www.tincancommunications.com, and on Twitter at @tincancomms.

Joshua Mattson

Eric Mazzi

Eric Mazzi, BSc, MSc, PhD, is Principal at Mazzi Consulting and Adjunct Professor at New York Institute of Technology—Vancouver.

He is a consultant and educator specializing in technology and policy for industrial and commercial energy systems. He provides analysis, measurement and verification, policy studies and education to reduce energy use and emissions while promoting energy equity. He has taught university and certification courses, and served five years on engineering faculty at UBC. He is lead editor and co-author of the forthcoming 9th edition of the Guide to Energy Management.

Lawrence McDaniel

Lawrence McDaniel, BSc, is the Chief Technology Officer at Querium Corporation, an edtech company specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing for educational institutions. He is the principal author and lead product engineer of Smarter by Querium™, an AI resource orchestration platform designed to teach generative AI to non-programmers.

Lawrence brings extensive experience in financial modelling, forecasting systems, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, web, database technology and cloud infrastructure. He is a veteran of the hedge fund industry and multiple startups and early-stage ventures with dozens of successful product launches and one NASDAQ IPO under his belt.

He publishes regularly on advances in web technologies and open source platforms, and is the principal maintainer of openedx-actions, a set of CI-CD tools for scaling Open edX on Kubernetes. Learn more about Lawrence here.

Christopher McLeod

Daria Melnik

Paula Moriarity

Leigh Morrow

Leigh Morrow is a former television investigative reporter (CBC, Global, City TV) who covered local and international stories in Canada, the United States and Vietnam. With a degree in journalism and more than three decades in broadcast journalism, she loved telling people’s stories and digging deep for many award-winning investigative pieces. From her experiences, she co-wrote a memoir for women in their middle years, Just Push Play – on Midlife. In 2017, she became certified by the Birren Center for Autobiographical Studies in California to teach and train others in the Guided Autobiography method. Leigh teaches Guided Autobiography level 1 and 2, and a number of courses on creative aging, including The Wisdom Years: Aging with Purpose and Creativity. Learn about Leigh’s studio where she writes and creates on her website.

Shahriyar Motahari

Shahriyar Motahari is a PhD student in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at UBC, specializing in developing innovative technologies for the removal of emerging contaminants from water. Shahriyar also has a background in tutoring high school students, reflecting his passion for teaching and mentorship.