The Founder
The Founder's Story
MUD TO MANAGEMENT.
I started an engineering degree and left. The classroom didn't work for me, but I still think like an engineer every day. I went to work with my hands instead: landscaping, construction, field tech at Telus. That's how I ended up running IT for the kind of companies I'd worked beside.
START
BOOTS IN THE MUD
Before I touched a server rack, I wore Blundstones. I spent years getting my hands dirty on landscaping crews, construction sites, and field tech runs for Telus.
I learned a fundamental truth that most tech guys miss: if a system doesn't work in the mud, rain, and chaos of a job site, it doesn't work.
SCALE
THE CORPORATE ARCHITECT
I rose through the ranks to lead IT for a major construction conglomerate. Suddenly, I wasn't just managing my own day; I was managing the data, security, and operations for 400+ employees across 6 companies.
I navigated the politics, the rogue subscriptions, and the disconnected spreadsheets. I built systems that turned a chaotic group of companies into a streamlined machine.
The work was whatever the quarter demanded: cutting 40 software subscriptions down to 12, building margin dashboards the owners still open, fixing the DNS records that were quietly sending bids to spam. The job was making problems stay gone, and it still is.
SHIFT
WEEKS INSTEAD OF QUARTERS
The way I build changed in the last two years. The tools got good enough that one person can ship what used to take a dev team. I stay expert in the newest of them, and that's why clients get working tools in weeks instead of quarters.
Clients don't buy my toolbox. They buy the finished tool, and I stand behind every line of it.
THE WHY
TIME IS THE POINT.
Profit pays the bills, but the goal is time: with your family, on the work that matters, somewhere other than a screen.
I started this business with that conviction. I'm a husband and a father in Langley, BC. I structured the business so I can be home for dinner, on the field on Saturday morning, and unreachable on Sunday if I want to be.
You started yours for a reason too, and whatever it was, it probably wasn't the paperwork. The operations you built to support it should not be the thing that swallows your week.
This is my promise to you: I build systems that give you your time back, so you can spend it on what matters to you.