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✦ Personal site · Workshop log · re-est. 2026
Builder of
small things,
patient with the long ones.
Working in emergency management from Vancouver Island, with AI doing some of the heavy lifting. Evenings I roast espresso, tend fermentation vessels, and show up for the communities my family is part of. This is the workshop wall.
§ 01Work
After twenty-nine years in uniform, I serve as the CTO for Ally Emergency Management — helping organizations plan for, respond to, and recover from the days no one wants to think about. I lean on AI across the practice — to sharpen plans, pressure-test assumptions, and build training that actually sticks.
I spend my days at the seam where machine intelligence meets human readiness — plans, tabletop exercises, after-actions, and the AI tools that make all of that sharper. The work that matters is rarely glamorous, which suits me fine.
Working with
PracticeEM · BCP · IMS
AIClaude · LLMs
FieldTabletop · HIRA
BasedComox, BC
Studying
B.EmSMJIBC
Risk & HIRA2026
Recovery PlanningCURRENT
2024 —
Ally Emergency ManagementPlans, exercises, and after-action work for public & private clients
CTO · Comox, BC
→
2025 —
AI-assisted EM PracticeUsing LLMs to enhance planning, scenario design, and exercise delivery
Practice lead
→
2025 —
Bachelor of Emergency & Security Management StudiesJustice Institute of British Columbia · in progress
Student
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1996 — 2025
Canadian Armed ForcesTwenty-nine years of service · retired 14 June 2025
Veteran
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§ 02Coffee — roasting & espresso
Roasting on a 300g tabletop roaster — about a batch a Month. Pulling shots on a modified Gaggia running Gaggiamate for full pressure-profile control, with AI helping me read the curves and dial in better shots.
Roast loglast 5 batches
APR 22
08:14
08:14
Ethiopia GujiUraga · Natural · 1900m
City+
260g · 9:52
260g · 9:52
APR 18
07:40
07:40
Colombia TolimaPlanadas · Washed · 1750m
Full City
275g · 10:24
275g · 10:24
APR 12
09:02
09:02
Kenya Nyeri AAKaratina · Washed · 1700m
City
255g · 10:08
255g · 10:08
APR 05
08:30
08:30
Sumatra MandhelingAceh · Wet-hulled · 1400m
Full City+
265g · 11:14
265g · 11:14
MAR 28
07:55
07:55
Brazil CerradoMineiro · Pulped Natural
Vienna
280g · 10:46
280g · 10:46
Espresso dial-in
A working calculator. Drag the rails.
Dose18.0g
Yield36.0g
Shot time28s
Ratio1:2.00
Flow1.29 g/s
Time28s
VERDICT · IN THE POCKET · pull it
§ 03Brewing — cider, beer, wine
Mixed Garage: cider in the autumn from my own and neighbours’ apple trees, session pale ales through summer using hops grown at the side of the house, and the occasional country wine when the fruit gets aggressive. I keep batches small and the spreadsheets honest.
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§ 04Service & volunteering
Twenty-nine years in uniform, retired June 2025. Service didn’t end with the uniform — three orgs, three different hats. Showing up beats grand gestures — I try to be useful to the people doing the heavy lifting.
Veteran · 29 years of service
Canadian Armed Forces
Retired 14 June 2025 after twenty-nine years in uniform. The reason I show up the way I do for everything else — careful planning, quiet competence, getting the team home.
1996 — 2025
Board Member · Software
YANA
You Are Not Alone — supporting Comox Vallery families who travel for medical care. I sit on the board and build the software that powers our fundraising, so the team can spend their time on families instead of spreadsheets.
Since 2022
PAC Secretary · Parent Volunteer
École Robb Road Elementary
My daughter’s school here in Comox. I serve as Secretary on the Parent Advisory Council — minutes, motions, and keeping the paper trail honest — and pitch in as a parent volunteer wherever the school needs hands.
Since 2023
MM - JD - Member
FM - Shriners
A century-old fraternal order. Children’s hospitals. The rest is between brothers.
Since 2025
§ 05Now
Updated · Apr 2026Comox, BC/now-page
Heads-down on Maxwell, a personal assistant that wrangles my other software and admin work — first cut shipping soon.
Roasting through a sack of Ethiopian Guji and finally getting the espresso dial-in I want. The cider is doing its slow thing.
Spring volunteer season picking up