Abraham Lam
Web And Digitization Specialist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAbraham Lam is a Web and Digitization Specialist with 11 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining library and exhibition websites for Victoria University Library and other clients. He combines front-end and back-end skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL) with hands-on digitization workflow expertise—scanning, post-production, metadata delivery—and supervisory experience training student teams. Known for creative, analytical problem solving, he repeatedly modernized digital collections and micro‑sites, improving templates and UI for archival access. Based in Old Toronto, he blends academic training in information and library studies with a background in urban geography to approach web projects with user-centered, research-informed design.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information and Library Studies, Master of Science - MS, Information and Library Studies at Robert Gordon UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Geography (Urban, Economic & Social Geography), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Geography (Urban, Economic & Social Geography) at University of TorontoAppleby College
English, Chinese
Github Skills (47)
build-script10
high-resolution10
viewer10
image10
image-viewer10
iiif10
openseadragon10
zooming10
javascript9
fullscreen9
sketchup8
oembed8
api7
rest6
spec6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
abrlam/site-build
Jul 2018 - Feb 2021
Build script and documents for the OpenSeadragon site
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
openseadragonbuild-script
abrlam/abrlam.github.io
Dec 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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