I founded Krate to create a cloud where accessibility, convenience, and collaboration do not necessitate compromises in security and privacy information or loss of control of that information by the owners. The drive to achieve this is fuelled by my decade long experiences dealing with the fallout of data breaches involving both private companies and governments that have led to multiple identity thefts and my name being changed on my credit profile cause hundreds of additional difficulties rippling over time. My personal goal is to end data breaches as we know them.

Restructure of NIST Privacy Framework Course delivered by Privacy by Design expert and author R. Jason CronkReview NIST PF mappings to other frameworks and standardsCollaborate on ways to operationalize the NIST PF beyond a simple compliance checkmark exercise.

I am a Leaders in Professional Services Mastermind Chairperson. This peer group is made up of Owners, CEOs & Managing Directors of Professional Service companies located in North America, LATAM, Europe and the UK.The Chairperson for this mClub Group has a track record of scaling professional service companies and is a trained moderator, who will guide group discussions and support members in achieving their goals. Members of Professional Service Leaders' peer groups meet twice a month to discuss and share current challenges, trends and insights in their quest to grow their respective companies.Each meeting focuses on a topic which is chosen by the group members and moderated by the group Chair.External knowledge experts and key participants often attend group meetings to help tee up conversations and answer pressing questions on particular topics.Deep Dives can take place at any time during meetings. This exercise involves one member of the group seeking counsel from their peers on a particular challenge, opportunity or idea they are tackling in their business.

Spoke about responsible AI for law enforcement. Specifically how law enforcement does not need back doors to information systems to be effective. Also spoke about how responsible AI in general increases both privacy and safety of individuals, communities, and societies.

Spoke about data privacy/sovereignty in decentralized systems at Decentralized 2019 in Athens organized by University of Nicosia.

Volunteered my time providing end user support to various community managed blockchain projects. This gave me a valuable look into issues affecting mass adoption by the end user. It also allowed me to gain experience regarding business and technological challenge of various blockchains striving for greater adoption. Cumulatively I learned what blockchain can do and equally learned what it can’t do, which provides a firm understanding viable business cases which can benefit from blockchain and not view it as a panacea.

Providing lawn care and snow removal services for fixed and low-income families, seniors, and small to medium-sized businesses. Husband and wife team started with only offering snow removal using only a Lincoln Town Car, a push broom, and a scoop shovel. Built up to a full-size truck, enclosed trailer, and equipment required to take of all outside property maintenance for 35 properties including roto-tiling, windows/eaves cleaning, tree/hedge trimming, fertilizing, weed control, aeration, etc. Was closed due to rapid gas price increases which our fixed income customers could not absorb.

Saw to day-to-day operations to ensure excellent services were being performed. Was also hands on with providing those services ranging from analysis, planning, design, construction of various computer systems. Then ultimately integrating them into the home or office network ensuring security and proper operation. At times these networks became regional in size requiring the design and implementation of virtual private networking over the public internet and making sure those connections were not only secure but also highly available and fault tolerant for mission critical operations.

Assisted Customer Service Technicians (CST) service calls with any issues regarding the assignment of equipment or service lines in the field. Provisioning of new central office equipment required for new or change of services for the CST to install services on site.

Manage my resources and time according to the work scheduled to me. My work van doubled as my office and work was delegated to me via Lotus Notes on my laptop and all required equipment and tools were in the van. This allowed me to work virtually unsupervised requiring me to be prepared for all possibilities.Tasks included proper scheduling of time per job, ensuring sufficient inventory for allotted work and possible obstacles when installing new services, altering existing services or repairing existing services.Installation and maintenance of both SaskTel facilities equipment and customer on site equipment to ensure all available products and services were available and working in top condition. This included telephone, internet, MaxTV services.Provide training to customers who are new to services such as the Internet and MaxTV as well as any additional options added to their phone service to allow maximum utilization of their services.