I moved away to go to University and College, travel, and work. I was a deckhand on my dad's salmon troller for a few summers in and out of High School and fished in the Queen Charlottes/Haida Gwai and off the South Coast of BC, Washington and Oregon. I completed a Diploma in Information Technology at Malaspina University College and became the Technician in the Information Technology and Applied
Systems Program. I will have been at Malaspina/VIU 14 years this August and am now a Computer and Educational Technician helping students and faculty in the Media Studies Department. I live in Port Alberni with my wife Theresa and 2 children Jade and Josh (10 and 7!). We moved back to Port Alberni in 2006 to be closer to family and to raise our kids in the wonderful small town I knew and loved. Once we were back in town I started the website Alberniweather.ca, I ran a small computer support business from my home called Windward Systems, . In 2007 I had the honour to have been asked to be on the City's Climate Change Committee to develop its Climate Action Plan used to justify and direct CO2 reduction strategies to comply with the BC Government mandate for public institutions to be Carbon Neutral by 2010. This spurred me to create the Alberni Valley Transition Town Society with other concerned citizens in the City and to advocate for the railway to be used for transport for the Raven Coal Mine proposal. I served Port Alberni for 4 years on City Council between 2014 and 2018.
