Adam Spilka

Business Analyst September 2021 – January 2022

Logiag Inc.: Agriculture Management Software

• Collaborated with agronomists in Canada and the USA to create reliable environmental reporting tools for industrial agriculture: soil composition, fertiliser application, crop management.
• Defined project objectives based on user feedback, developed instructions for the programming team to implement, and evaluated the final product for compliance and reliability.
• Designed improvements to greenhouse gas emissions reporting software to identify the potential for carbon sequestration and create accurate models based on industrial practices.

Citizen Engagement Agent May – August 2021 

Centre d’écologie urbaine de Montréal

• Promoted infrastructure proposals from Montreal’s Participatory Budget ($10 million) in several periphery neighbourhoods to increase public participation and voter turnout.
• Evaluated the impact of municipal infrastructure projects by collecting citizen feedback and recording on-site observations.
• Submitted reports to project managers based on public feedback about pedestrian street projects.

Policy Researcher Fall 2017

Trajectoire Québec

• Proposed a policy position supporting a tramway project in Quebec City after researching public transit infrastructure in medium-sized Canadian cities (Ottawa Confederation Line, Hamilton LRT).

Math and English Teacher July 2022 – Present 

High School of Montreal Adult Education Centre
École secondaire Joseph-François-Perrault

• Teaching English conversation and grammar to adults. Created a custom curriculum to practise dialogue, verb tenses, tricky elements of speech and engaging content according to the students’ needs.
• Taught grade 7 Math to four classes in the International Baccalaureate program.
• Taught English as a second language for grade 8. Prepared engaging activities for students in the adapted learning program who live with learning difficulties.

Bachelor of Political Science, Concordia University completed in 2019

• Focused on environmental politics and Canadian federalism.
• Analysed resource extraction regulations in Canada and the history of climate negotiations at the UN.

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Concordia University completed in 2012

• Specialisation: Combustion and Vehicle Systems.