Let’s Build Something Remarkable Together.
I’m a results-driven IT leader and WordPress expert who translates complex challenges into strategic successes. With a 28-year track record of enterprise-level achievement, I’m ready to bring my energy and expertise to your team.
I’m passionate about building powerful solutions and guiding teams to success. My entire career has been dedicated to a single goal: using technology to empower people and organizations to achieve their best. Whether I was leading a multi-million dollar modernization project or designing a custom payment solution for a small business, I’ve always been driven by the opportunity to deliver outstanding results.
This page provides a comprehensive overview of my professional experience and capabilities. For hiring managers and HR professionals seeking a creative, resourceful, and seasoned leader, it illustrates my commitment to excellence. I am currently seeking full-time, contract, and project-based opportunities.
This page provides a comprehensive overview of my professional experience and capabilities. For hiring managers and HR professionals seeking a creative, resourceful, and seasoned leader, it illustrates my commitment to excellence. I am currently seeking full-time, contract, and project-based opportunities.
My Leadership Philosophy: An Architect of Success
For 28 years, I had an incredible career in public technology with the Government of Alberta. I didn’t just work in IT; I was a digital pioneer, leading talented teams that made our collective heritage accessible to the world. It was a privilege to build the platforms that brought museum collections, provincial archives, and even dinosaur bones to your screen.
I thrived on the challenge of leading large-scale projects, managing multi-million dollar grant systems, and mentoring my team members to become leaders themselves. It was a dynamic and rewarding career built on a commitment to excellence, strategic planning, and fostering strong, collaborative relationships.
I thrived on the challenge of leading large-scale projects, managing multi-million dollar grant systems, and mentoring my team members to become leaders themselves. It was a dynamic and rewarding career built on a commitment to excellence, strategic planning, and fostering strong, collaborative relationships.
A Proven Navigator of Complex Challenges
I have a distinguished record of navigating high-impact projects and delivering significant value. I thrive in dynamic environments where I can apply my skills to solve complex problems. Some key achievements include:
Spearheading Modernization
I successfully provided architectural assessment and technical direction for the modernization of 11 critical business applications hosted on over 100 end-of-life servers.
Driving Payment & Ticketing Integration
As the ministry lead for IT-related Payment Card Industry (PCI) tasks, I managed PCI validation and successfully directed the integration of payment gateways into ministry event and ticketing systems.
Delivering Major Cost Savings
I re-engineered a solution architecture for heritage resource management systems, leveraging virtualization to deliver a $240,000 reduction in capital and operating costs.
Pioneering Innovative Web Solutions
I developed one of the Province’s first dynamic, data-driven .NET websites to provide detailed visitor information on over 500 parks and natural areas.
My Current Ventures: Empowering Today’s Leaders with WordPress
My journey has now led me to channel my enterprise-level experience into a focused passion for the WordPress platform.
Through my company, Ascendant Bits Creative Digital, I empower a clientele of life coaches, practitioners, and community leaders. With over a dozen years specializing in WordPress, I provide bespoke web design services that are not only beautiful and functional but also authentic to their mission. A key part of my work involves leveraging my deep experience with payment systems to seamlessly integrate ticketing, e-commerce, and payment solutions into their WordPress sites. Beyond design, I am developing impactful training courses in social media and AI, giving them the tools they need to succeed.
I am also proud to contribute my technical skills to the talented team at Spiritual Canada, a community passion project where I support the platform’s growth and stability.
Core Competencies & Skills
I offer a powerful combination of strategic leadership and hands-on technical skill.
- Strategic & Solution Architecture: Certified in TOGAF, I excel at designing and implementing robust, secure, and scalable enterprise-level IT architecture.
- IT Service & Project Management: An ITIL-certified professional with deep expertise in change, incident, and problem management , and a proven ability to lead application portfolios through their entire lifecycle.
- AI Content Strategy: Skilled in prompt engineering with AI for strategic ideation, efficient content creation, and workflow atomization.
- WordPress & Front-End Development: Over a dozen years of focused WordPress experience. My expertise is grounded in the core technologies essential for custom theme and plugin development, including modern HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and JQuery.
- Enterprise Systems & Databases: Extensive experience with Microsoft enterprise technologies, including SharePoint, ASP.NET, VB, C#, and SQL Server, providing a strong foundation for understanding complex integrations and legacy data. Former Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
- Diverse Operating Systems: Proficient across multiple platforms essential for modern web hosting and development, including Mac, Linux and Windows environments.