I was born and raised in Vancouver on Canada's west coast.  I still live there today.  In school I was always a bit of a nerd, much more drawn to math and science than anything else, other than history.  I dove into books quite early and stayed there for most of high-school, emerging with a vocabulary rather larger than my contemporaries.   Oddly enough this did little to endear me to my peers.



I loathed sports, probably because I was absolutely terrible at them.  This has abated as I have grown older and become fitter, but I'm still pretty disinterested in them.   I went right into university after high-school and majored in political science. 



Sadly there were few job opportunities for people possessing an undergraduate degree in that discipline so I took some time off from school to determine what I wanted to do with my life (I'm still figuring that out).  I wound up working in a drug warehouse, shipping pharmaceuticals and related products to drugstores and hospitals.  I pushed drugs - literally.



After a couple of years of that I went back and obtained my MBA.



Currently I am an independent training consultant specializing in eLearning, mobile learning, and corporate training in general.



Interests include (in no particular order) history, science fiction (for example: X-Files, BattleStar Galactica 2004, Dark Matter, The 100 and others), The Walking Dead, authors Joe Abercrombie, David Weber, and John Ringo, animation, cats (my girlfriend and I have two), a few computer games (Civilization and X-Com 2) and strong women (make of that what you will).  Guilty pleasures include pizza, Xena, Warrior Princess, and Archer.