William Tang

From Aug 2021 To Present McMaster University Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact Remote Work

Research Assistant

I am currently working on two systematic reviews on food allergy and e-cigarette with researchers from Brazil and the Netherlands.

From May 2021 To Aug 2021

(4 Months)

University of Alberta Department of Occupational Therapy Remote Work

Research & Project Manager Assistant

I relaunched a mobile application pilot project that was stagnated for 3 years through effectively managing the ethics amendment, hardware procurement, and stakeholder engagement. This project was later awarded a $300,000 grant as it holds potential to improve the workflow of personal support workers in Alberta. Besides project management, I also conducted bibliometric analysis literature reviews, cleaned 7,000+ rows of text data, and wrote manuscripts for various conferences and congress.

From Jan 2021 To Apr 2021

(4 Months)

International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project Remote Work

Research Assistant

I conducted literature reviews and market research on various tobacco topics to support several NIH and CIHR multi-million-dollar grant applications. Additionally, I was also heavily involved in research administrative duties such as maintaining a global tobacco control policy database and analyzing 3000+ survey data using Excel. Lastly, I initiated and implemented an internal reporting procedure to increase co-op students’ productivity.

From Sept 2020 To Dec 2020

(4 Months)

Defence and Security Foresight Group Remote Work

Social Media and Marketing Academic Assistant

Developed a political science database to support a Canada-Wide research project and produced dissemination materials using Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe InDesign, and Canva.

From Jan 2020 To Aug 2020

(8 Months)

University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy Kitchener, Ontario

Research Assistant & Web Developer

My biggest contribution was evaluating a mental health program with a PhD student. The results were presented at a webinar hosted by the Elder Abuse Prevention Ontario with more than 300+ attendees. Besides the evaluation project, I worked with a Senior Software Engineer to integrate knowledge translation materials to a website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

From Sept 2019 To Apr 2020

(8 Months)

University of Waterloo Department of Housing Waterloo, Ontario

Student Researcher

Developed survey and interview guide questions for a mixed methods project to evaluate University of Waterloo students' co-op experiences. Other duties include drafting ethics documents, conducting literature reviews, and taking meeting minutes.

From Sept 2019 To Dec 2019

(4 months)

University of Waterloo Data Analytics and Reporting team Waterloo, Ontario

Employment Metrics Analyst

I had the opportunity to clean and analyze the world's largest co-op database using simple packages in R and various Excel functions and add-ins. My work helped business developers to adopt better job mining practices. I also built Power BI dashboards to streamline an internal reporting process.