Tait Hoyem

Profressional Experience

CNIB Access Labs Accessibility Lead (2025-present): Lead auditing, remediation, and internal software development teams.
University of Lethbridge Research Assistant (2025): OCR-aided transcription of non-standard Blackfoot script into a unified, searchable text.
GNOME Foundation Software Developer (2023-2024): Work towards a Wayland compositor assistive technology keybinding API.
National Network for Equitable Library Service Accessibility Tester (2023-2024): User-experience testing for public libraries and partner websites.
Oxfam Canada Accessibility Consultant (2022-2023): Audit-based remediation of primary website to meet WCAG 2.0 AA.
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Instructor (2022-2023): Web development (PHP, JS, SQL) over 5 semesters.
[Large Canadian university under NDA] Alternate Format Transcriber (2021-2022): Transcription of interactive, complex diagrams in Linguistics, Computer Science, and User Experience for a blind student.
Zone4 Systems Inc. Software Developer (2021): CI/CD automation for Olympic race-timing software.
Bytetools Technologies Inc. Founder (2020-present): Open-source, accessible internal tools, billing software, and OCR diagramming tools. Clients include two major Canadian universities.

University of Lethbridge BSc CS (2023-2026): Research on embedded text-to-speech systems, accessibility tools.
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Diploma, IT (2019-2021): Object-oriented full-stack program.

University of Lethbridge Shining Student (2025): Granted to students doing innovative work through the University of Lethbridge. For work towards an embedded text-to-speech engine.
ULGSA Best Undergraduate Research (2025): Voted best undergraduate research. For work on embedded text-to-speech systems.
Platform Calgary Pitch Night Competition Award (2023): Best business pitch of the night: Semantigram.
Phi Theta Kappa Honour Society Entry (2020): Given to SAIT students who achieve a GPA greater than 3.0.