Joseph Muller   37 Saint Marks Road, Toronto, Ontario M6S 2H5
                       416-766-6704 vox/fax, 905-546-2424 x1214 work, 647-401-2863 mobile

I am a Cultural Heritage Planner for the City of of Hamilton. Here I aid in the formulation of policy, protocol and standards for the management of archaeology, built heritage, and cultural heritage handscapes within the municipal context, most notably the draft Archaeology Management Plan and the Built Heritage Emergency Management Protocol for the City of Hamilton. In addition I manage individual files and applications, submit reports to committees and Council, develop in-house documentation on heritage matters, and respond to requests by Councillors, staff, other institutions and citizens, among other duties. I came to Hamilton after serving as a Heritage Planner for the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, at the Southwestern Ontario regional office in London.

Prior to this, I served as the GIS Specialist for the Anthropology Department at the Lakehead University.  Here, I built an interdepartmental (anthropology, geography, recreation, biology, forestry) GIS research lab with eight Silicon Graphics 330 workstations, a 1400 server, and assorted hardware (54" designjet, poster deskjet, scanner, 4'x5' digitizer, cd-burner, &c.). It was mainly an NT 4.0 client-server network, although one of the workstations ran Linux (mandrake 7.2) to access Easy/Pace remote sensing software on the campus CRAY . In addition, I taught several computer mapping and GIS workshops for staff and faculty at the introductory and advanced levels.  I also taught two courses in the fall: Anth 3118, or Scientific applications in archaeology, and Anthr 4111, Environmental and ecological theory in anthropology. Prior to this I served played much the same part for the Anthropology Department at University of Maryland College Park (UMCP), building and running a GIS lab, while teaching sessionally. My GIS software experience includes the ESRI suite of ArcView and Arc/Info, in addition to GeoMedia, MapInfo, Surfer, and an assortment of CAD packages.

From 1997 into 1999, I worked on contract through JAM Consulting with the Archaeology Unit at the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation (MCL) and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) on GIS and database management. Tasks included database design, porting data from legacy databases to GIS, forecasting and budgeting work, routing data pathways, and extensive data entry and editing in GIS and proprietary databases. In addition, I contributed a requested submission to MCL on the development of CRM standards for stages I through IV (background through excavation). Through this period I also served as a freelance management consultant with other CRM firms, formulating proposals, procuring contracts and facilitating inclusion in consortium bids, and was retained as a GIS specialist.

I am well versed in MS Office, Corel Suite and Draw, and other common graphics, spreadsheet, word-processing and database applications. As a computer technician I am proficient in LAN-management (NetWare, WFW, W95/8, NT, Klockner-Moeller PLC's), software and hardware installation, trouble-shooting and maintenance, and a broad range of data and signal cabling systems.

As an archaeologist I have excavated, managed, processed and photographed all manner of material culture for CRM and research. I have also collected and analyzed sediment cores for palynological and loss-on-ignition analyses. My work with 35mm and digital photography in the field and lab is extensive. In a supervisory capacity I have run crews in the field, lab and office in varied and sometimes trying conditions.

2001     Cultural Heritage Planner, City of Hamilton, Community Planning and Design.
2001     Heritage Planner, Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, Southwestern Region.
2000-1  GIS Specialist and sessional instructor, Lakehead University
1999-2000    GIS Coordinator and sessional instructor, Anthropology Department, University of Maryland College Park
1997-9  Director, Canadian Association of Professional Heritage Consultants (CAPHC) Internet committee member
1997-    President, JAM Consulting
1997-9  Computer and Data Consultant to the Archaeology and Heritage Planning Unit, Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation
            (MCzCR).
1996     CAPHC Business Development Committee member
1994-6  Principal Investigator, M.M. Dillon Cultural Resource Management Group
1993-7  System administrator for mcmi.com internet domain/fileserver
1993-6  President, MCMI
1993     MCMI Principal Investigator for Ministry of Transportation Ontario, 403 New/407 West project
1992-3  Radio engineering technician, CING, Shaw Communications
1991-3  Radio engineering technician, CHAM, Moffat Broadcasting
1991-2  Archaeologist, Ministry of Transportation Ontario, Central Region.
1990     Director, McLeod Site project, McMaster University Anthropology Department
1989     Assistant director, Adder Orchard Site project, McMaster Anthropology Department

Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP)
Registered Professional Planner (OPPI)
Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI)
Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA)
Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP)
Association of Professional Archaeologists (APA)
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
Canadian Archaeological Association (CAA)
Ontario Archaeological Society (OAS)

1999 M.A. Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (Dr. Peter Ramsden)
1989 B.A. Honours Anthropology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario (Dr. Chris Ellis)

2007 Planning Archaeology: Managing Archaeology within a Municipal Context. City of Hamilton City planning staff lecture
2006 Hamilton's Heritage Volume 6: Inventory of Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
2005 Hamilton's Heritage Volume 5: Reasons for Designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
2004 Hamilton's Heritage Volume 4: Inventory of Registered Archaeological Sites
2003 Hamilton's Heritage Volume 3: Canadian Inventory of Historic Building for Hamilton
2004 Archaeology Management under the Environmental Assessment Act. City of Hamilton public works staff workshop
2002 Hamilton's Heritage Volume 2: Inventory of Buildings of Architectural and/or Historical Interest
2002 Hamilton's Archaeology Management Plan. Municipal Heritage Planners workshop
2002 Hamilton's Heritage Volume 1: List of Designated Properties and Heritage Conservation Easements under the Ontario Heritage Act.
1999 Early Post-Glacial Ecology in the Lower Great Lakes. OAS conference paper, Waterloo
1999 The McLeod Site: A Paleo-Indian site in southwestern Ontario. M.A. thesis, McMaster
        University Anthropology Department. Advisor: Dr. C.J. Ellis
1998 Tool Typologies and Site Function in the Paleoindian Horizon: A comparative examination. CAA
        conference paper, Victoria
1997 Internet Applications for the Heritage Industry. CAPHC conference paper, Toronto
1996 Highway 407 Pengilley Site Mitigation: A Late Woodland Occupation. M.M. Dillon CRM Group
1996 Highway 407 Mullet Creek Site Mitigation. M.M. Dillon CRM Group
1996 Bob-Lo Island Ltd. Site Monitoring Report. M.M. Dillon CRM Group
1996 Highway 407 Site Survey Reports. M.M. Dillon CRM Group
1995 Bob-Lo Island Limited West Shore and Freight Dock Sites Reports. M.M. Dillon CRM Group
1995 St. Mary Cement Survey Report. M.M. Dillon CRM Group
1995 Highway 407 Site Survey Reports. M.M. Dillon CRM Group
1995 Leeds-Grenville (Prescott) Landfill Survey Report. M.M. Dillon CRM Group
1995 BFI-Ridge (Blenheim) Landfill Survey Report. M.M. Dillon CRM Group
1995 Wasaga Beach Riverbend Project Burial Mitigation. M.M. Dillon CRM Group
1995 Price Costco Northoway 3 Site: An early Uren Tradition Occupation. M.M. Dillon
1995 Highway 407 Zydeco Site Report. M.M. Dillon CRM Group.
1994 Highway 407 Kipling Interchange: Mitigation of Three Early Archaic Sites. M.M. Dillon
1994 Highway 407 Segment 14B German Mills Creek: Mitigation of an Early Woodland Site. M.M.
        Dillon CRM Group
1994 Bob-Lo Island Partnership Properties: Stage 2 Archaeological Assessment and Limited
        Stage 3 Testing Final Report. Porter Dillon CRM Group

1989-91 McMaster University graduate student scholarship
1990 Ontario Heritage Foundation research grant for excavations at the McLeod Site
1989 University of Waterloo Goddard Medal for excellence in Anthropology

Outside of work and archaeology in general, I am an avid runner and cyclist, and am SCUBA certified for advanced open-water (night, search and recover, wreck, navigation, deep-water), with Nautical Archaeological Society Level 1 certification. I am also a licensed Ham and Marine VHF radio operator (VE3 SZZ).