Paul Jackson
Director Of Government Of Canada Issue And Verify (Digital Credentials) at Canadian Digital Service (CDS) / Service numérique canadien (SNC)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Jackson is a seasoned digital government leader with 13 years of experience architecting and delivering citizen-facing online services and digital trust initiatives across the Government of Canada. Currently directing the Issue and Verify digital credentials program at the Canadian Digital Service, he blends engineering training (B. in Computer Systems Engineering) with deep policy, accessibility and web-standards expertise developed through roles at Treasury Board, Innovation, Science and Economic Development, and CRA. He has a track record of leading multi-disciplinary teams on enterprise-scale projects, contributing to open collaboration and open source approaches to public service delivery. Paul is equally comfortable in technical design and governance, and is notable for marrying pragmatic service innovation with rigorous digital trust and accessibility practices.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering at Carleton University
Github Skills (37)
javascript10
information-architecture10
multilingual10
architecture10
reference-implementation10
code-library10
italia10
specification10
user-experience10
wcag10
web-application9
accessibility9
portal9
collaboration9
arcgis-js-api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wet-boew/wet-boew-jekyll
Sep 2013 - Aug 2014
Jekyll variant of the Web Experience Toolkit (WET)
Contributions:35 commits in 11 months
experience-toolkitwetjekyllruby
ogpl/ogpl.github.io
Sep 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 11 months
governmentopen-government
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