“Jordan has always been someone who looks at a process and immediately starts thinking about how it could work better.”
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Jordan and I worked together at SAIT Students’ Association for several years, and our professional paths ended up overlapping in a pretty unique way. We originally worked together behind the bar at The Gateway, and over time we both moved into assistant manager roles in different departments. One of the projects I especially enjoyed working with Jordan on was SAIT Students’ Association’s Tax Program, where we collaborated to improve the forms, streamline the student intake process, strengthen communication, and make the overall experience easier for students to navigate. Those improvements helped us successfully support more than 1,700 students in filing their taxes free of charge through the CVITP program, an extraordinary result that set a new benchmark for a post-secondary tax clinic in Alberta. To my knowledge, that level of participation has not since been surpassed by another post-secondary institution in Calgary, or even by SAIT Students’ Association itself. It remains one of the accomplishments from that program that I am most proud of, and Jordan played an important role in helping us get there.
Jordan has always been someone who looks at a process and immediately starts thinking about how it could work better. He brings a great mix of creativity, practical problem solving, communication, and genuine care for the people on the other side of the work. I always appreciated that he was willing to challenge inefficient processes, bring forward new ideas, and actually put in the work to turn those ideas into something useful. He was also a strong collaborator who understood that sometimes the biggest challenge was not creating the information, but figuring out how to get students to actually read it.
It is pretty funny looking back at where everything started. We went from working busy nights at The Gateway and learning how to handle fast-paced, people-focused environments to eventually stepping into assistant manager roles and collaborating on projects that had a meaningful impact on the student experience. There is something pretty special about seeing that kind of professional growth happen side by side. We both started in very hands-on roles, learned a lot along the way, and eventually found ourselves contributing at a much higher level while still being able to laugh about where it all began.
While Jordan and I did not always see eye to eye on everything, I’m genuinely grateful for the years we worked together and would gladly recommend him to anyone looking for someone who brings creativity, initiative, strong collaboration, and a real desire to improve the way things are done. He is reliable, thoughtful, adaptable, and someone I would confidently trust to take ownership of meaningful work and follow through.