A sample of what I've actually built.

The Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA) is a massive piece of legislation that officially became law in British Columbia on April 1, 2026. It replaced the Health Professions Act (HPA) of 1990 after 36 years.

The HPOA represents a paradigm shift for practitioners across the province and the legislative language makes it difficult to navigate for almost anybody.

I built the HPOA Comparison tool for reviewers who need governed retrieval over dense statutory corpora. The system supports comparative work across HPOA and HPA frameworks, surfacing how language shifts between instruments without flattening nuance into summaries. Designed for institutional teams and practitioners who are curious to know more about what this massive legislative change means for them.

Finding reliable channels to communicate with your membership has gotten genuinely difficult. Social platforms don't distinguish between a professional association and a consumer brand. They change their rules, shrink organic reach, and don't owe anyone an audience.

For associations, unions, and clinics trying to maintain real engagement with a distributed membership, much of the infrastructure that used to work no longer does.

That's why I built this mobile communications app for a professional association working through those pressures.

The work spans product architecture, editorial workflow, and the practical realities of serving a distributed membership. Designed for clarity and institutional tone rather than consumer-app novelty, the app supports how members receive news, comment on updates, publish articles, and access organizational resources, without assuming the association is just another content feed.

Where literary rebels came to play.

Real Vancouver Writers' Series started in 2010 as a one-time response to the absence of literary programming during the Winter Olympics: a four-week volunteer festival, 44 Canadian writers, housed at W2 Community Media Arts. It ran for fifteen years.

A registered nonprofit governed by an always-evolving group of writers and friends, we organized and promoted over 80 events across the Russian Hall, Iron Dog Books, INDEX Gallery, and a dozen other East Vancouver and Downtown Eastside spaces. During the COVID-19 pandemic we kept things going online.

More than 300 writers, and collaborations with Sad Mag, Geist Magazine, Poetry is Dead, Project Space, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Vancouver Writers Fest.

Peripatetic by nature, DIY because it made things easier. The Real Vancouver team was one of the best ever to do it.