I was born in Toronto, but Canada is my city, now.  J'y habitais pendant mon enfance, mais ma famille a déménagé à Adolphustown en Ontario, où j'habitais pendent mon adolesence.  Je suis revenu à Toronto pour suivre mes cours à l'Université de Toronto.  Maintenant, je n'habite plus à Montréal au Québec, car je suis revenu à Toronto.  Just when you think you have me figured out, I say or do something that makes you think.  But as my friend Marian would say, I haven't changed in thirty years.  I look at the world with a different pair of eyes than everyone else.  Just like the blivet that you see here, if you say it's possible then I think it must be so.  Then I go about trying both to prove that it cannot be so and also how to make it work.
I enjoyed working for Bob Boose at Haliburton & White because it always seemed like together we made the impossible come true.  Similarly, at Webhelp, Jason Stunden and I made the possible come to life.
more>> <<less I love the look of the blivet. The way it looks like a problem that cannot be solved makes me think about my life. I am always trying to solve a problem. So I am always training and improving myself. I guess that means that the problem is me.

I never found a problem I didn't want to solve.  I am tenacious.  Sometimes a problem looks impossible to solve.  Either I don't have any tools to work with or the problem is just not well stated enough.  Can you imagine my frustration when I can't wrap my mind a problem that is baffling enough already?  I can ususally get around both issues by either learning about the tools at hand and by keeping the client involved in the solution.  I love to partner with my customers.  That doesn't mean that I am an insensitive nag, but that I am key tool in the enterprise.  I don't like standing still and in a vacuum, I will come up with some solution.  Did I mention that I was tenacious?
more>> <<less I love the look of the blivet. The way it looks like a problem that cannot be solved makes me think about my life. I am always trying to solve a problem. So I am always training and improving myself. I guess that means that the problem is me.

My first computer project was a hockey game that my big brother and I wrote on my Commodore VIC20. I worked on a roads maintenance program that my brother, Doug, developed and sold to small municipalities around Ontario. My next and current application was a retail cash processing system; I worked on the interface module that transferred the counts from the counting equipment to the computer. When that company sold it's interests to a multinational, I was allowed to bring the technology with me. I continue to support the few clients that still use the software. When my most recent employer needed to improve reporting efficiencies, I developed for them an Access-based, then a Web-based, data-entry system. Now, I've come full circle and wrote a hockey game for this web site. more>> <<less My Family    My Resume    My Games