Mihaela Ilovan
Assistant Director - Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolMihaela Ilovan is an experienced digital scholarship leader with 12 years building and managing research platforms at the University of Alberta, currently serving as Assistant Director of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC). She combines project and information management with UX-focused software delivery, having scoped and QAed platforms like LEAF-VRE and the CWRC site while supervising development and partner integrations. A proven grant strategist, she’s co-authored 12 successful proposals totaling over $2.5M and has co-designed and led 25+ hands-on workshops to train scholars on digital tools. Her background in humanities computing and archival practice—rooted in archaeology and library science—gives her a rare blend of technical, academic, and preservation-minded perspectives that shape accessible research infrastructures.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Library and Information Science, Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Library and Information Science at University of AlbertaUniversitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca
English, Romanian, French, German
Github Skills (46)
xml-editor7
editing7
markup6
islandora6
xml5
browser5
javascript5
xslt4
ontologies4
ontology4
storage4
entity4
datasets4
solr4
semantics4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cwrc/tech_documentation
Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
Centralized storage for cwrc technical documentation.
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
centralizedcwrctechnical-documentationstorage
ilovan/Git-Writer-tests
Nov 2018 - Jun 2023
Automagically created by CWRC
Contributions:2 PRs, 96 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 7 months
cwrcautomagically
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