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Transition Insight
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  • Summary
  • Biography
  • Qualifications
  • Career & Projects
  • Backdrop & Mission
  • Writing & Research

Summary

Academic Summary

  • BA Hons, History & Political Science University of Western Ontario, 1991
  • MA International Affairs, Norman Paterson School, Carleton University, 1995
  • Monbusho Scholar in Political Economy, Hitotsubashi University, 1997
  • Diploma in Applied Information Technology ITI (Information Technology Institute, Toronto), 1998

Core Competency - Risk Management

 If I offer a core capability, it's an instinctive grasp of identifying and managing risk by articulating them (ahead of the curve).  This comes from from cultivating skills managing a variety of technically complex contexts—in the wild, in capital markets, in managing software delivery, at high speed on motorcycles and snowboards, improvisation in social or environmental contexts and vipassana meditation—in a word, learning how to manage discomfort across disciplines and cross-pollinating the learning across the various aspects of my life.

Skills

Stakeholder Management / Communications / Risk Management / Iterative Product and Project Delivery / Agile DevOps (and tools) / Solution Architecture / Identity / UX / Payments / Banking / Blockchain / Solana / Ethereum / International Political Economy / Strategy and Vision / Brand Development / Digital Creative

Outside Work

Beyond 'work'  I spend my time getting 'kinetic'; training, snowboarding, motorcycling, bouldering, krav maga, noodling on my guitar, navigating Ontario's backcountry - or just moving large stones, planting trees and making some other adjustment on our two acre property northwest of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I also love the great songs, films and shows of our time. I also watch Arsenal  (I find it intellectually rewarding).

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