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VANCOUVER TRANSMISSION // MUSIC • SYSTEMS • AI
Musician. Creative technologist. Senior technical generalist. Builder of useful weird systems.
I’m a Vancouver-born musician and technical systems fixer. I came up through piano lessons, open mics, recording arts, touring vans, loud rooms, broken gear, and studio floors, which is a pretty good training program for chaos.
That same instinct runs through my technical work now: QA automation, IT operations, cloud-connected systems, identity/security, SaaS troubleshooting, APIs, production debugging, and practical AI tools. The through-line is simple: turn chaos into working systems, ship the useful thing, and keep enough personality in it that people remember it exists.
SIDE A
Before tech became the main stage, I played bass in Vancouver bands including Minto/The Smokes and Seafoam, toured across Canada, appeared on MuchMusic, and recorded in Chicago with Steve Albini. Music taught me how to troubleshoot under pressure, collaborate with intense people, trust my ear, and keep the whole thing moving when things get messy.
SIDE B
I've spent 12+ years working across QA automation, IT operations, support engineering, SaaS platforms, identity, endpoint/security, cloud-connected infrastructure, APIs, and production troubleshooting. I build tests, scripts, alerts, docs, dashboards, and workflows that make fragile systems easier to understand and harder to break.
SIDE C
My site is part portfolio, part arcade cabinet, part notebook, part product lab. I use it to build in public with WordPress/PHP, JavaScript, AI-assisted workflows, audio experiments, civic/open-data ideas, and Vancouver-flavoured tools that are strange enough to be memorable and useful enough to keep shipping.
SIDE D
A lot of my work starts with the city around me: transit, venues, small businesses, housing pressure, weird outages, civic data, rain, noise, and the feeling that useful tools should have personality. I'm interested in technology that helps real people navigate messy systems, not just shinier dashboards for people who already have too many dashboards.
A few receipts from the archive: music, press, radio, and public builds.
PRESS CLIPPING
The Georgia Straight covered Minto’s shift from The Smokes into a harder-working Vancouver rock band, the Steve Albini recording trip in Chicago, and the live-sounding foundation behind Lay It on Me.
Read the Georgia Straight articleLOCAL RADIO
“A Little Louder” received airplay on UBC’s CiTR, a local radio nod from the campus and community radio world that helped shape so much Vancouver music culture.
FEATURED TRACK
A short, loud rock dispatch from the music side of the operation. Part confidence anthem, part reminder to take up space.
A few active projects from the lab: music, code, prototypes, and civic-tech weirdness all feeding the same machine.
A short, loud rock dispatch from the music side of the operation, built around confidence, volume, and taking up space.
Listen on BandcampRetro UI, REST/API workflows, custom templates, AI-assisted prototyping, audio experiments, and interactive web projects.
Open projects hubA first-person Vancouver corridor experiment using civic/open-data flavour, route anchors, weather/time controls, and iterative product design.
Explore prototypeVancouver-first operational tools for outages, transit, roads, weather context, provider weirdness, and business continuity.
Creative tooling for music feedback, procedural sound, synchronized visuals, storytelling, and the “fine, I’ll build it myself” side of AI.
Weird bug triage
QA automation and release confidence
WordPress/PHP and JavaScript builds
SaaS, identity, endpoint, and cloud troubleshooting
Practical AI prototypes with reviewable outputs
Dashboards, alerts, workflows, and operational cleanup
Translating between technical and non-technical humans
Making cursed systems less cursed
If you need someone who can debug the weird issue, automate the boring thing, test the fragile workflow, clean up the dashboard, explain the system, or make the project feel less cursed, I’m probably your person.