Supplier purchasing, sales, payroll, payables, employee management, and marketing at this fast-paced, family-owned cedar lumber, fence panels, gates & pergola sales, as well as fence manufacturing business. It's a positive work environment and friendly place to shop in the Comox Valley.

OSCAR BC is a non-profit organization that supports medical professionals using the open source OSCAR Electronic Medical Record system. I provide conference management, membership, and marketing services (YouTube Channel management, digital newsletters, and social media).

Open OSP is a for-profit cooperative, serving members using the open source OSCAR Electronic Medical Record system. I provided foundational administrative support during their first two years of operations. (Financial signing authority, payables, share and membership management, corporate records management, insurance applications, provincial reporting, board minutes, and more.)

Communications - Education Sector: Briefing note writing, reviewing, and editing for senior department officials (ministers, deputy ministers, assistant deputy ministers); speech writing; web content and Tweet writing; News Release reviews and inputs; spokesbook inputs; support with messages to Canadian Embassies/High Commissions/Consulates; messages to external stakeholders; Edu-Canada branding committee member; marketing products review, as well as conducting interviews of co-op students and contractual staff.

INVEST IN CANADAA/Deputy Director (13 months): project, financial and human resource management. Senior Investment Officer: investincanada.com web content writer - short termSenior Investment Officer: Project management (5 years):1. World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting 2014, Davos: Business Leaders Round Table; Canada Reception; planning & event management. 2. ASEAN Business & Investment Summit 2013, Brunei: Canada's role & on-site delivery.3. Temporary Duty, Canadian Consulate in Palo Alto, CA, attracting foreign direct investment to Canada.4. FT Global Business Leaders Series - Doing Business with Canada (London, UK). Co-planned and implemented three business conferences with the Financial Times during the 2012 London Olympic Games (ICT, Global Economy, Advanced Manufacturing). 5. FT Global Investment Series: Focus on Canada (19 cities in the US) Co-developed and implemented forums to attract foreign investors to Canada (an Invest in Canada initiative in partnership with the Financial Times). www.ftconferences.com/focusoncanada6. Global Business Leaders Day (Vancouver, BC). Co-organized the forum held during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The event engaged top investment prospects and current investors, as well as Canadian business and government leaders. Press covering the Global Business Leaders Day included Bloomberg News, Thomson Reuters, The Globe & Mail and the Vancouver Sun. Special guests included: Olympians Gaétan Boucher, Marnie McBean, Kathleen Heddle, Lori-Ann Muenzer, Jeffrey Buttle. http://www.ftconferences.com/canada 7. Federal-Provincial-Territorial Investment Promotion Conferences (Vancouver 2009) & (St. John's, NL 2010). Organized and implemented in partnership with provincial governments. 8. "Creative Competitive Canada" and "Innovation + Stability = Profitability" promotional videos: Oversaw the work of consultants and provided direction in the production of videos to market Canada as a great place to invest.

1. Financial export support evaluations and contract management for Canadian cultural exporters. 2. Supported Trade Commissioners most particularly those based in Toronto, Winnipeg, Shanghai, Tokyo and New York. 3. Coordinated the Cultural Trade Advisory Team network (public-private partnership) for the Performing Arts Working Group, as well as the Music Working Group.4. Prior to working at Trade Routes at headquarters, worked in the Ontario Regional Office (Toronto and Ottawa locations) evaluating arts presenters' applications for funding under 3 contributions programs.