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Practice
Everything beyond the day job: advisory and consulting, project work, business building, design and development, music, film and events. The rooms change, the habits carry over. Plan carefully, build it properly, and care how it looks.
01 · Advisory
Helping leadership decide what to do with technology before the money gets spent: where AI genuinely fits, which platforms to keep or retire, and what the risk looks like if nothing changes.
02 · Consulting
Most engagements end with something running: a tenant locked down, a migration finished, a new platform adopted, an app in production. These days that work runs through North Rain Technologies, for clients in BC, Ontario and beyond.
03 · Project management
Migrations, office moves, platform rollouts and launches, run end to end. Clear plans, straight status updates, and a cutover with a rollback ready if it needs one.
04 · Business building
Starting things since 2003: an IT services company, a consultancy, a paddleboard rental business on Kitsilano Beach and, on the zero-profit side, an interactive arts studio, a sober rave collective and a creative community in Vancouver.
05 · Design and development
Building websites since the early 2000s, and these days that includes apps with AI inside them. Design comes with the territory: logos, posters, brand kits and stage visuals. This site and everything in the Lab came out of the same toolbox.
06 · Music and sound
Producing music since 1999, mostly electronic and mostly written in Propellerhead Reason, the main studio since the early 2000s. Original tracks and DJ sets, mixed and mastered start to finish, which over time grew into sound design and audio engineering for video, commercials, games and live shows.
07 · Film, video and photography
It started on the road: a few years living out of a van, crossing the continent and documenting it on film, in photographs and from the air, then coming home hooked on telling stories through places. Editing happens in Vegas Pro, the go-to since the early 2000s. The drone work is certified and flown under Transport Canada permits since 2016, and some of the footage is licensed through Shutterstock.
08 · Event production
Events from small fundraisers to overnight shows for a few hundred people, plus festival stages across BC. The booking, the budget and the volunteers matter as much as the stage build, the sound and the lasers. Anything that needs power, a schedule and a plan B is fair game.