Experience

Page One Publishing Inc.

• Canada
• Marketing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Writer

  • 2007 - Present

  Regular contributor to YAM, Douglas, SPRUCE (and the now defunct SALT) magazines -- all part of the Page One Publishing operation. YAM is primarily profiles, arts, lifestyles, and design. Douglas is a business magazine. SPRUCE is house design. SALT was a publication created in Victoria for Calgary readers contemplating a move out to the West Coast. www.pageonepublishing.ca Regular contributor to YAM, Douglas, SPRUCE (and the now defunct SALT) magazines -- all part of the Page One Publishing operation. YAM is primarily profiles, arts, lifestyles, and design. Douglas is a business magazine. SPRUCE is house design. SALT was a publication created in Victoria for Calgary readers contemplating a move out to the West Coast. www.pageonepublishing.ca



CBC

• Canada
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Fill-in morning show host for All Points West and On The Island

  • Apr 2008 - Present

  Hosting Victoria's No. 1 morning and No. 1 afternoon radio shows. Producing segments and interviewing a wide variety of people, live. Weekday mornings from 5:30-8:37 a.m. and afternoons from 3-6 p.m.

• Contributor -- Theatre Reviews

  • Jan 2007 - Present

  Reviewing theatre for Victoria's CBC morning show On The Island.



Freelance writer and editor

• Freelance writer and editor

  • Apr 1995 - Present

  Got a story? I'll write it. Got a space that needs filling? I've got stories to tell. I write for numerous magazines: business, arts, lifestyles, decorating, hard news, investigative pieces, humour. I write for PR and communications firms. I write ad copy for several agencies and for individual clients. I write for radio and television. Got a story? I'll write it. Got a space that needs filling? I've got stories to tell. I write for numerous magazines: business, arts, lifestyles, decorating, hard news, investigative pieces, humour. I write for PR and communications firms. I write ad copy for several agencies and for individual clients. I write for radio and television.



Life As A Human

• Writing and Editing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Writer

  • 2009 - Present

  Freelance contributor of mainly tales of humour. Freelance contributor of mainly tales of humour.



The Seen TV

• Victoria, B.C.

• Producer

  • Apr 2000 - Aug 2014

  The Seen is a half-hour, weekly show about music (laced with comedy) out of Victoria for Shaw TV, featuring the combined talents of Daniel Pender, Jose Araujo, and myself. www.Facebook.com/TheSeen TV and www.vimeo.com/channels/theseentv The Seen is a half-hour, weekly show about music (laced with comedy) out of Victoria for Shaw TV, featuring the combined talents of Daniel Pender, Jose Araujo, and myself. www.Facebook.com/TheSeen TV and www.vimeo.com/channels/theseentv



Shaw Communications

• Shaw TV Victoria and Vancouver Island

• Producer/Host The Seen TV

  • 2000 - Aug 2014

  Produce and host The Seen, a weekly, half-hour television program on music for Shaw TV Vancouver Island with Daniel Pender. We talk to local and touring musicians about their craft and produce live performance videos of their work. The show evolved out of an earlier version I produced and hosted for Shaw for a decade, which covered the arts more generally. I became renowned for being the cheeky guy with a beer in his hand on that one. In the late 1990s, I worked with Stephen White to create an award-winning independent arts/comedy show called Art Attack. The Seen is at www.vimeo/channels/theseentv and www.facebook.com/theseentv Show less



Western Academy of Photography

• Victoria B.C.

• Journalism instructor

  • 2008 - Apr 2014

  I taught journalism students a course called Advanced Writing. The course produced a student magazine as a final project. Instruction concentrated on the finer points of story craft, from framing devices to wordplay to helping new writers find their voice and get settled with the ins and outs of good narrative. Numerous students of mine have graduated into regular employment as journalists world-wide. I taught journalism students a course called Advanced Writing. The course produced a student magazine as a final project. Instruction concentrated on the finer points of story craft, from framing devices to wordplay to helping new writers find their voice and get settled with the ins and outs of good narrative. Numerous students of mine have graduated into regular employment as journalists world-wide.



Shaw TV

• Producer

  • 1997 - 2009

  Produced, scripted, edited, and hosted an arts and entertainment show with some great partners including Rod Horner, John Carswell, and Orlando Carillo. Produced, scripted, edited, and hosted an arts and entertainment show with some great partners including Rod Horner, John Carswell, and Orlando Carillo.



Black Press

• Kamloops, Victoria, B.C.

• Editor

  • 1990 - 2005

  Editor, reporter, photographer. I worked at a number of community newspapers for Black Press reporting on sports, the arts, news, and writing commentaries. I became editor for several of those publications both in Kamloops and in Victoria. Editor, reporter, photographer. I worked at a number of community newspapers for Black Press reporting on sports, the arts, news, and writing commentaries. I became editor for several of those publications both in Kamloops and in Victoria.



Sheraton Hotels & Resorts

• Calgary, Canada Area

• Bell Captain

  • Feb 1983 - Sep 1987

  Of all the jobs I've worked (too numerous to ever try to remember), the most fun was working as the Bell Captain at the Sheraton Cavalier Hotel for several years in the 80s. Why? Well, anyone who has worked a similar gig knows you get handed the veritable keys to the kingdom. But this particular job allowed me to hire my own staff -- 14 of the funniest, most oddball, and creative guys I have ever known -- and then hang out with them every day under the guise of "work". I'm still close friends with many. Everyone should get to do this job once. Frankly, I often think of myself still doing it. Hah! And come the invention of a time machine, I'm dialing up this era of my life to return to the Sheraton to relive that job, those years and all those great friends. Just ask me about the "cold toast treatment" sometime. Show less