Providing in-depth business news and analysis of public companies in the North American markets, consulting with said companies to help them formulate their market strategies and corporate narrative, and building a new business news outlet from scratch.If your pubco needs help getting the story out, message me and let's chat.

Started a professional wrestling promotion running live events in Vancouver BC at venues as diverse as The Commodore Ballroom, Nat Bailey Stadium, Harbour Convention Centre, Vancouver Convention Centre, Granville Island and more. NEW was founded on the premise of giving North America's best in-ring performers a high quality venue to show what they can do, for enthusiastic audiences, with a focus on diversity, best of breed production standards, and creative integrity.Televised on Telus TV across Western Canada.

Director at professional football club at the fifth tier of the English football pyramid.

Brought in to streamline the editorial department of a lagging business news outlet, I cut departmental costs while launching new directed content products that generated $500k in first year and turned department into a significant profit maker. Among first year achievements; raised traffic to new highs, hitting 1m unique monthly users, established new beats (medical marijuana, tech and biotech) to help generate sales in non-traditional sectors, started social media programs, broadened industry profile of company and generated high level journalism projects that established new legitimacy across the country.Over two and a half years, served over 240 companies with news coverage, strategy, marketing advice, directed content and CEO interviews, including Manitok Energy, Trevali Mining, Fission Uranium, Strata-X Energy, SoMedia Networks, Golden Leaf Holdings, IBC Advanced Alloys, Bedrocan, Moseda Technologies, Health Space, Naturally Splendid, most public companies in the medical marijuana field, and many more.Recently launched podcast series, handled video interviews at investor conferences, and received three promotions and two pay rises in 30 months based on excellence of work and consistent results. Moving on to take advantage of competitive offers.

Test advises on marketing programs and corporate strategy, and assists public companies (and those looking to soon become public) with retail market exposure.Currently focusing on the medical marijuana, agriculture, technology and biotech sectors.

Since 2007, my role at The Sun, and more recently at PNG, had been to transform the newsroom into an SEO-proficient, digitally innovative profit and content creation centre. I conceptualized and created online revenue projects, white label news sites, data journalism projects, strategized in the area of social media, and created niche microsites. I have trained The Province, The Vancouver Sun and PNG's Specialty Publications unit in search engine optimization and online best practices, social media excellence, blogging and traffic analysis. I have worked with ad sales and business development teams to bring all staff up to speed on online revenue potential, and conceptualized dozens of websites with a view to increasing revenue, including the TaiYangBao.ca Chinese language news website, VancouverDesi Indian news service, and VanSunSportsBlogs.com, which draws more traffic than any other Postmedia blog presence. I have created proprietary tools for the newsrooms to use in determining which stories are receiving early lift elsewhere and ways to ensure their version of those stories receive maximum uptake with readers. I have laid out successful standards in content packaging, updating, social media strategy and traffic retention that propelled The Sun from 7m page views monthly when I began to a high of 56m page views monthly three years later. I have enacted online strategies that tripled traffic to national niche sites (Driving, Househunting) that had never seen gains of any similar levels previously, I have launched data projects that received awards for excellence in multimedia and technology journalism, and my own writing has led the chain in terms of traffic numbers on a consistent basis, year over year.I can wrangle Omniture, Gomez, Spundge, Hootsuite, Chartbeat, Publishflow, Prezi, Photoshop, Outbrain, Textlinks, Wordpress, Saxotech, Southparc, Quark, Caspio, Google Analytics, Lyris, Strutta, Shopify, Storify, Ooyala, all forms of social media...

Conceptualized VSCF Adopt A School program, which has raised over $2,000,000 online in three years for underfunded schools and youth programs. Moved VSCF online, coordinated with sponsor companies (Telus, London Drugs, Best Buy), media outreach and social media.

Conceptualize, create and launch East Vancouver restaurant. Responsible for marketing and promotion. Reached a successful exit in eighteen months.

Helped Minerva conceptualize new web presence, design Wordpress-based CMS, and train staff in maintenance and social media marketing.

Started pioneering movie review website in 1997. Built roster to 80+ reviewers.

Co-hosted Fellini is King weekly movie show for several years - Mondays at 8pm.

Started editorial services company as an overflow option due to packed freelance schedule, built it to 25 employees, sold in 2007 to take advantage of wild US/Canada currency fluctuation. Still consulting.

Stringer, film festival coverage and entertainment reporting

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