Career Paths
I'm a veteran of many successful start-ups. While I was in charge of all technical operations at Axion Internet, they experienced a six-fold growth in customers over fourteen months, becoming Vancouver's second largest Internet provider. At Group Telecom (now 360 Networks), I was part of a 13 person start-up which created a telephone company in Canada's deregulated local phone market, becoming the largest competitive local access provider in Canada in two years. I'm also very familiar with high-level security and have run a highly successful national audit for a major Canadian telecommunications company that covered the full spectrum of security including digital, physical and social areas. I designed and project-managed the construction of one of the only facilities certified under Washington State's digital signature legislation. Through years of providing technical evaluations for the Vancouver finance community, I have developed a very large breadth of technical knowledge covering everything from wireless to high tech food manufacturing. Seeking a change of fields, I accepted a position as High Performance Computing Manager at one of the world's top ten biological research labs at the University of Dundee in Scotland where I designed and project-managed the deployment of all of the University's high performance computing infrastructure.
Over the last decade I've been involved in several pioneering identity and biometrics ventures while following my passionate belief that privacy and security need not be a zero-sum game. I'm fascinated by the boundary between computers and humans - my recent forays into crowd sourcing have only sharpened my desire to explore game theory and it's related impact on how we use the net. My time at Cambrian House taught me that most of our motivations for online interactions are subtle beasts that we don't often consciously consider.
Intellectual Pursuits
I have a voracious appetite for new knowledge. Physics, genetics, and information theory are pet areas of mine. I'm especially interested in convergence and the meta-patterns that emerge repeatedly across different swathes of science. I pride myself on being able to talk about anything from gardening to stellar mechanics to world politics.