Ian Mckenzie Email & Phone Number

Canada

Canada

British Columbia, Canada

After taking a long-needed sabbatical from the hustle and bustle of running an agency, hand-picked specific assets from freelance work and have built a new foundation for Curious Markings, Co. with its no-code app builders, macroSage and pageSage, leading the charge.

North America

Merging all of my disciplines under one brand with the mission of making peoples' lives brighter in all the ways that I am best able:• Art • Design • UX Design • Web Development • App Development • Adversarial Empathy • Mental Illness Self-Care Writing • Marketing Writing • Poetry Writing • Comedy Writing • Poetry Performance • Novel Social Commentary • Comedy Performance • Realizing how pretentious this list looks but clicking the Save button anyway

Canada

My time at Objektiv Digital (Now Curious Markings Co.) in a nutshell:1. Started as a freelance Rails developer but had a strong desire to learn marketing in order to sell websites to small businesses after creating a set of highly efficient systems and processes for a WordPress design and development that utilizes a highly converting landing page writing format2. Mastered my marketing ability and realized I sucked at closing deals3. Mastered my sales ability and realized I can… Show more My time at Objektiv Digital (Now Curious Markings Co.) in a nutshell:1. Started as a freelance Rails developer but had a strong desire to learn marketing in order to sell websites to small businesses after creating a set of highly efficient systems and processes for a WordPress design and development that utilizes a highly converting landing page writing format2. Mastered my marketing ability and realized I sucked at closing deals3. Mastered my sales ability and realized I can finally fulfill my goal since I started: growing into an agency4. Building a full-on agency with a team of 7 employees/contractors at its peak which led to learning that the stress of being responsible for other peoples' livelihoods is not good for my schizophrenia5. Demoted the business to just me as a freelance/casual worker and focus on health until I can find a new sense of direction6. Maintaining my lovely relationships with existing clients while I spend the rest of my time on projects that allow me to peacefully execute my inherent rebelliousness. Show less

All schizophrenic_yuppie avatars are now sold out — thank you so much for the welcoming embrace from the RCA community!

Remote

I wrote articles primarily about managing schizophrenia. Most of my articles on The Mighty are syndicated to other news sources like Yahoo, MSN, Newbreak, & more.

Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada

Provisioned, deployed, and modified a proprietary codebase to create a minimum viable product for Deploy Sites Inc. that later became used for Clinic Sites. Additional work included managing a Jr. Developer, market research, and talking to our target market in 1-on-1 meetings for product validation.Work also included UX designs for a streamlined onboarding process to allow users to sign up independently of staff support.

Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada

Worked on apps Indie Ninja, Propeller One, PEN America, Kitestrings, and a construction project management prototype. Work primarily consisted of Ruby on Rails and JavaScript development and Ansible server provisioning scripts.In addition to coding, design and UX were integrated with my work to fill in gaps that were identified after initial designs were drafted.

Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada

Assisted fellow Digital Design students with assignments and studying for tests related to graphic design and software development.

I learned a lot of useful social, management, and business development skills during my retail career. I quit retail to chase my dream of being in front of a computer all day for work. Less people, more pixels, please! Companies worked for include Loblaw Companies Ltd., Kroger, and 7-Eleven.