Professional

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, open standards and free software - Ubuntu Linux for servers, workstations and netbooks, Google Android for tablets and mobile - as well as social media strategy and web service development centered around the Drupal Content Management Framework.

My clients run the gamut from Slocan Forest Products, Environment Canada, the Canadian Environmental Industries Association, and NewMedia BC, to the BC Civil Liberties Association, Pivot Legal Society, West Coast Environmental Law, Great Bear Initiative, Greenpeace International, and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.

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

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.

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

Philosophically I find the intregral vision as outlined by Sri Aurobindo, Ken Wilber, et al. the most compelling worldview. I hold an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Simon Fraser University.

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

You can contact me via this form or check my availability for a meeting here.

 

 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

Member for

2 years 24 weeks