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About Me

I have over 25 years experience as an information technology steward. In 1993 I founded progressive web firm Communicopia, which I subsequently sold out of in 2000.

My expertise includes implementation of commodity and re-purposed hardware (including mobile), open standards and free software, particularly Ubuntu Linux and Google Android, and social media strategy and web implementations centered around the Drupal Content Management System.

My past clients run the gamut from Slocan Forest Products, Environment Canada, and the Canadian Environmental Industries Association to NewMedia BC, Greenpeace International, and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.

I am a co-founder of the Vancouver Open Network Initiatives Cooperative, Free Geek Vancouver and Indymedia, and have sat on several non-profit, progressive boards including the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation, Vancouver Community Net and the Downtown Eastside Community Arts Network.

My past political party work includes both volunteer and technology consulting for the federal, provincial and municipal levels of the Green Party, Vancouver's Coalition Of Progressive Electors and the Work Less Party.

Philosophically I find the intregral vision as outlined by Ken Wilber, et al. the most compelling worldview. In that vein, I am the creator and maintainer of the integral playground service.

I am a cyclist and have lived car-free since '93. I have an abiding interest in martial arts and currently train in Baguazhang and Choy Li Fut. I am an avid meditator in the Theravada Buddhist tradition and help maintain websites for the D.I.Y. Dharma community and Birken Forest Monastery.

I am currently available for short and medium term length contract work.

You can contact me via this form.

 

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A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1999

History

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