About Me

Talking about myself isn't my forte, even if a lot of people would tell you that talking is. That's just how it goes sometimes.

Born in Toronto, I moved to Vancouver at the end of 2000 for the reason most guys do things: to follow a girl. Vancouver was home for basically 20 years, until circumstances conspired to bring me back to Toronto. Like many people, those circumstances include an aging parent. Sort of how it goes with the annoyingly linear nature in which time moves.

I miss mountains. A lot. Toronto has a lovely waterfront and the valleys are great, but they're to paved and there's no mountains.

Cycling

I started cycling a lot in my late teens, and commuted to work for years by bike almost every day. Sure it was wet a lot, but there wasn't snow and ice. So it went. There are currently three bikes in my fleet which feels about right, though the legit old school racer with Campagnolo components rarely gets ridden these days. I geenrally ride a cyclocross bike, because I bought it before the gravel craze. My 20 year old commuter touring bike is a part of me.

Music Journalism

For a lot of years I was in Vancouver I built a burgeoning music journalism career, if you can call a thing that barely paid a career. If you search my name you'll find a lot of things at No Depression that I wrote. I was the official photographer of the Vancouver Jazz Festival for a couple of years (that paid!) but when I left Vancouver for a while before coming back to Toronto there wasn't much live music. So it goes. Music remains a thing that gets me out of bed in the morning.

Salesforce

I've been working mainly in the Salesforce ecosystem for almost 20 years now, with some attempts to move companies onto the platform that pre-dates that. Over the years I moved from being a Business Analyst and Technical Writer into taking over Administration and Solution Architecture roles. Eventually this meant writing Apex code and building entire platforms, as well as leading teams and growing talent. It's been rewarding, frustrating, exhilarating and boring all at the same time but I keep finding new challenges.

Politics

Donald Trump is a jackass and I have four feet of Pierre Trudeau books on my shelf, but not a single book about Justin. Go figure.