Summary
Bill Pickard is a freelance designer-developer with 11 years of professional experience and a decade-plus track record building multimedia learning tools for higher education. He combines instructional design sensibilities with hands-on web, audio/video, and graphics production—having created virtual field trips, language training apps, and an online calculus lecture series that were showcased at academic conferences. A former Senior Digital Media Developer at UBC and Multimedia Specialist at Simon Fraser University, he’s comfortable maintaining legacy systems while prototyping rich internet learning objects. Based in Langley, BC, he pairs practical hardware know-how (he built 250+ PCs early in his career) with a creative approach to enhancing student engagement in distance-education environments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Multimedia Production, Diploma, Multimedia Production at Confederation College
Lakehead University