Justin Patton

Experience

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  Artevo / Artists of the World - Art Gallery

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  Director of Marketing
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  1. Events planner 2. legal researcher 3. Buxiban curriculum writer 4. travel agent 5. librarian

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2004

  Additional experience

  1. I planned and executed over 100 events, some for up to 800 people with major corporations (e.g. multinational media, petroleum, banking, real estate and investment companies) and fashion/lifestyle brands (Grey Goose Vodka, Diageo/Johnnie Walker/Guinness, Dolce and Gabanna, Holt Renfrew, Moen Professional, Ferrari and Lamborghini exotic car garages, Harley Davidson and custom motorcycle "chopper" manufacturers, California and B.C. vintners' associations, concert marketing firms, art dealers etc.)For the Vancouver Children's Festival, with the assistance of nine embassies, consulates and community cultural groups, I organized an interactive art component to the festival. 10,000 children and their parents participated in the ''Silk Road'' art event over two days.2. I was contracted to do legal research for Residential Schools and indigenous land claims cases on behalf of firms representing the plaintiffs.3. I taught and was later hired to write curriculum for an ESL school in Taipei, Taiwan. I also taught English and French at the Berlitz School in Vancouver. 4. I worked as a travel agent over three years while at university; for two summers in Central London, UK and for one year in Montreal at université UQAM (en Français).5. Also while at university, I worked at la Bibliothèque Americaine / The American Library in Montpellier, France and at Le Mirail University Library in Toulouse, France Show less

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  Contemporary Calgary, formerly The AGC - Art Gallery of Calgary

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  Director of Business Development
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  Western University

  Jul 2008 - Apr 2013

  Consultant, Research Development, Services and Ethics, Western University (permanent position)

  I worked on applications in all disciplines, from STEM, to medicine, to law, engineering and the arts. My focus was on applications deemed of strategic importance to Western University, with neuroscience/psychology, business, law, philosophy and genomics being five such foci. From 2008 to 2017, I worked with all of Western's faculties, affiliates, hospitals and Institutes.-Faculties/Institutes/Affiliates/Hospitals: The Faculty of Education, The Ivey Business School, The Schulich School of Medicine, Arts and Humanities, The Faculty of Health Sciences, Law, Social Science, Engineering, The Faculty of Music, FIMS; Brescia, Kings and Huron University Colleges;St. Joseph's, Victoria and University Hospitals; The Robarts Research Institute, The Lawson Health Research Institute and; Western's Tech-transfer and business development incubator (WORLDiscoveries).I was tasked with bringing our Faculties into closer and more frequent collaboration on research projects. This took three years and was a team effort involving senior university administrators, Faculty Deans, researchers, Centres, Institutes and teams. An example 2013 success for Western University:For Western's three largest SSHRC grants, our applications were ranked #1 of 74, 6/100 and 7/100 for all major institutional applications received nationally. A notable 2012 success: I was Western's Research Office lead on our application to the Canada Excellence Research Chairs program (CERC), which is Canada's largest program to fund the research of an individual and their team. Our application was ranked #1 among the applications submitted. Dr. Adrian Owen was recruited from Cambridge to Western University as CERC. This started as a $22 million application which has since grown significantly in size and scope. As the result of this experience, I am very comfortable acting as the empathetic yet effective bridge between groups with most often concordant, but sometimes significantly divergent aims. Show less

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  Ivey Business School

  May 2013 - Nov 2016

  Director, Research PhD and Postdoctoral Studies

  2013-16 budgeting:Responsible for $5.6 million in Ivey budgets across the Research, PhD and Postdoctoral Studies departments. In fiscal 2015, we restructured the way our faculty members were funded, increasing the research budget by ~20%.Our International Financial Times Ranking increased eleven points in three years. This was perhaps our greatest success, brought about through significant changes to research funding allocation and by enticements and rewards for publications in top-ranked business journals. 2014-15: Of 12 SSHRC grants I reviewed for Ivey, 10 were successful (83%). The national success rate for the IG and IDG grants was 23%.2014-15: I trained staff to write and review Tri-council applications. Ivey's Research Officer went on to have a 50% success rate in her first year, over double the national rate. The reviewed NSERC grant was also successful and we secured additional health contract research funding for $6 million. In 2013-14: the year I was hired, I oversaw significant departmental budget cuts and managed to keep our full complement of staff at a time when other departments were unfortunately required to make staffing cuts. Our faculty increased the number of Financial Times publications produced over three years (Ivey's top measure for success).From 2008-2017, I worked with the President’s Office, with Research Ethics Boards, with Research Offices and with Finance Departments to set up and/or amend policy. I sought to deeply understand then ameliorate applications of all types (in ethics, research and finance) to the benefit of all involved in Western’s research enterprise. I was in the relatively unique position of working closely with the University’s Central offices, with departments and with individual faculty researchers over a period of years. I was thus exposed to both the macro and micro picture. Consequently, I was an advocate for evolution / change in systems and structures that could sometimes remain static over many years. Show less

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  Western University

  May 2015 - Oct 2017

  Research Consultant - Managed the Faculty Research Office in the interim absence of a Research Dean

  Worked to ensure that the Faculty of Education increased its research profile and funding-Faculty of Education Member of the university's Research Policy Committee.The RPC discussed and determined/ modified research-related policies and adjudicated funding requests-Managed the faculty research budget-Assisted with funding opportunities to internal, provincial and national funding competitions. Primary topics include literacy, linguistics, policy, psychology, workplace learning, testing, mental health, international teaching, curriculum studies and STEM learning. Adjudicated student competitions in English and in French-Oversaw internal competitions and co-adjudicated internal awards for faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, Masters and PhD students, assisted with applications to the CGS-Doctoral competitions-Delivered presentations and developed documents to teach faculty members, staff and students how to find success when writing and reviewing funding proposals. After over a decade spent writing and reviewing grants, learning from others, sitting on adjudication panels, meeting with foundations and senior personnel at granting agencies, teaching others how to apply, as well as working to help people to synthesize, focus, describe and market their projects, I believe I have found a uniquely successful method for writing a funding application, which I am happy to shareFederal SSHRC grant successes well above the average:2017 and 2016: 75% Insight Grant success, 8 applicationsand100% success with co-applications - 2017: 3 grants, University of Windsor, University of Toronto and Brock. 2016: 2 grants, UBC and Brock (vs 31% 2017 and 23% 2016 national success rate)2016: -1/1 Partnership Grant at the Letter of Intent stage (28% national success rate). This application was later successful as a PDG and Insight Grant.-2/2 Knowledge Synthesis Grant (48% national rate)-2016 and 2015: 1/1 Partnership Development Grants each year (36% national success rate) Show less

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  Le Collège Boréal

  Jul 2018 - Jun 2022

  Chef Régional / Centre Director, London, Sarnia, Waterloo regions; Ethics Committee/CÉR President

  LE FRANÇAIS SUIT L'ANGLAIS:ENGLISH: Centre Director for the London, Kitchener-Waterloo and Sarnia sitesCollège Boréal is one of 24 accredited Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology with 28 sites across the province, serving over 3,500 clients per year. I ran 6 principal programs including:-Immigration programs (7 levels of language instruction for newcomers to Canada in English and 3 in French, plus our newcomer settlement programs offered in person and online);-The Employment Office; -Apprenticeships; -Post-Secondary and Continuing Education, Corporate Training programs and; -Administrative services, including the associated HR and budgets-President of Collège Boréal's Research Ethics Committee. Review of ethics applications and development of policies and related documents for research involving human subjects for the College's 28 Ontario sites. Provided writing assistance for grants for all Boréal sitesI managed a staff of 3 Managers and 24 administrative employees, plus 14 teachers (41 total staff)-FRANÇAISChef pour les 6 principaux programmes, les RH et tous les services des centres Boréal de London, Kitchener-Waterloo et de Sarnia, servant plus de 3,500 clients par an:-l'Immigration et établissement (incluant le LINC et CLIC en-ligne, avec sept niveaux de cours de langue pour les nouveaux arrivants);-Le bureau et les programmes d'Employabilité;-l’Apprentissage, incluant la formation post-secondaire;-l'Education permanente, de la mise à niveau, de la Formation sur mesure et;-Les services administratifs incluant les budgets et les ressources humaines-Président du Comité d'éthique de la recherche du Collège. Évaluation des demandes d’approbation déontologique, ainsi que le développement de nouveaux formulaires et politiques relatives à la recherche impliquant des sujets humains pour les 28 sites du collègeDirigeant d'une équipe de 3 managers, 24 personnel administratif et 14 professeurs (41 personnes) Show less

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  Self employed

  Jul 2022 - now

  Self employed - real estate