I am a tenured instructor in the department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. My teaching specialties are web application development, games development, object-oriented design, and technology and society studies.

I have over eight years of experience developing web sites for international clients, as well as over 16 years of corporate software development experience. I have been awarded the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral fellowship, the Petro-Canada Innovation in Research and Teaching Award (twice), as well as a Teaching Excellence Award (Mount Royal College) and a Meritorious Writing Award from the 2004 Information System Educators Conference.

I am also the owner of eTheoria Technology Group, which is the incorporated entity under which I do contract work and my own publishing.

I was born and raised in Calgary, and after some time living in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Montreal, I returned to Calgary in the mid-1990s. I am married and have two boys (Ben and Alex), currently aged 11 and 14.

Education

• PhD Candidate, Political Science
  1992 - 1998
  McGill University, Montreal
• MA, Political Science
  1990 - 1991
  York University, Toronto
• BSc, Computer Science
  1982 - 1986
  University of Calgary, Calgary

Awards

• Meritorious Writing Award
  2004 Information System Educators Conference
• Petro-Canada Innovation in Research and Teaching Award
  2003-2004
• Teaching Excellence Award
  2002 Mount Royal College Student Union
• Petro-Canada Innovation in Research and Teaching Award
  1998-1999
• Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
  1993-1996
• McGill Major Fellowship, honorary
  1993-1994
• McGill Political Science Merit Award, honorary
  1993-1994
• McGill Entrance Scholarship
  1992-1993
• University of Calgary Undergraduate Merit Award
  1990-1991

Work Experience

• Tenured Instructor
  Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, Mount Royal College, Calgary
  1997 - Present
  Taught degree, diploma, and service (non-major) courses. Acted as service course coordinator and CIS coordinator; this involves designing course content, evaluating sessional instructors, and planning curriculum.
• Adult Ed Instructor
  University of Calgary. 1995 – 2002.
  Taught 32, 24, 18, 12 and 6-hour computer courses to continuing education clients. Courses taught: ASP.NET Development, Database Design, Microsoft Access Application Development, Introduction to VBA Programming, Photoshop
• Applications Developer
  Various. 1995 – Present
  Provided software design and development to a variety of corporate clients. Most recent project (Fall 2004) was an ASP.NET application for Seattle-based firm. In previous years, I have developed requirements models, created e-commerce solutions, and have created robust multi-user Access databases systems for numerous corporate clients.
• Software Developer
  Various. 1982 – 1992.
  Worked alone and in teams developing software for a wide variety of scientific and database computer systems for IBM PCs. These projects were written in C or FORTRAN for IBM-PCs, VAXs, and Sun SparcStations.