I live in Squamish, British Columbia, and have for the past four years. My pronouns are he/him. Professionally, I'm an enterprise Customer Success leader, see Work for the details. This page is everything else.
Family · Erin · Friends · The hard years · Nature · Tinkering · Music · Sport
Dad is well read, inventive, and extremely musical, from a prairie family of academics, doctors, and musicians. Mom is empathetic, generous, and kind, from a Manitoba Catholic family of farmers, engineers, and writers. I got a bit of both sides: eccentric and steadfast from Dad's, artistic and family focused from Mom's.
I've got two sisters. My older sister is a professor known for her intensity, her passion, and how much she cares about her students. My younger sister has an uncanny gift for caring for plants and animals, which is how she makes her living. She's in Switzerland with my brother in law now, competently trilingual in English, German, and furry friend.
Erin and I have known each other since January 2025, and I fall for her a little more every passing week. She's one of the strongest, kindest, wisest people I know, and she tolerates more of my chaos and effervescence than anybody else ever has.
2025 was a big year for her too: putting down roots in a new community, 32km hikes and glacial swims, more live music, growing her coaching and wellness businesses alongside a new day job, two paintings in art exhibitions. She's a wellness coach by trade, and it shows. More of her work is at workwellnesscoach.com.
Every friend I've got is as weird, quirky, and abnormal as I am. Some of them I game with, train with, work with, sing with, or travel with. They've laughed, cried, and loved through some of the highest and lowest moments of my life, and the ones who've stuck around bring a lot of purpose to the milestones along the way.
PTSD, depression, and chronic migraines were my whole life from 22 to 26. I worked through some genuinely terrifying stuff. I'm one of the lucky ones. Most people don't come back from where I was, and I only did because of the unconditional love and support of my family. Whatever zeal you see from me in everything I do now comes from having nearly lost it all.
Part of that road has been sobriety. I wrote more about what four years of it has taught me in Four Years Sober.
The piece that took longest to name was ADHD. Getting properly diagnosed and treated for it has been the closing chapter of this whole story, the thing that finally explained a lot of what came before it and made the rest of the work stick. I'm still adjusting to what a regulated life actually feels like, but it's the best I've felt in years.
Mountains, beaches, oceans, and trails strip the noise out of my life. It's why Squamish is home, why Tofino is one of my favourite places on earth, and why I keep working toward bigger hikes and adventures. I also lived and worked in Japan for almost a year, a childhood dream that went sideways in a big way.
Both of my grandfathers were patented inventors, so I've always had a knack for building and breaking stuff. Technology and cars mostly, but curiosity has taken me into plenty of other hobbies too. A lot of why I ended up working in tech traces back to building computers as a kid and getting hooked on hardware.
See Projects for what I build and race, Causes for what I support, and Writing for the essays and poetry I've published over the years.
I grew up surrounded by it. My parents never had cable, so the living room was a piano and a dozen other instruments instead. I grew up playing piano, bass, and clarinet, and singing. I got back into singing after I recovered, and it's one of the most important things in my life. A life without music isn't one I'm interested in living.
I was a heavy kid, picked last for dodgeball, nearly failed PE a few times. Turns out I'm just poorly suited to team sports. I learned to run at 21, started cycling seriously at 24, and picked up swimming at 26. Then I put the three of them together. Over the past six years I've finished four Ironman events and three ultramarathons as far as 50 miles, with plenty more on the road ahead.