cv | shot from the hip

last updated august 09

education
2003-2004
Bachelor of Fine Art, OCAD
Concentration: Jewellery/Metalsmithing, Material Art & Design

professional experience

2005-
Consultant
Strategy, research, project management, facilitation, fundraising and education, focusing on mobile and digital media, design and public policy.

2010-
Faculty, Canadian Film Centre Interactive Arts & Entertainment Program

Mobile and Locative Media workshop delivery to each intake of residents at the IAEP program.

2009-
Director, MEIC
Now a non-profit organization, I built the MEIC from a small research consortium to an emerging non-profit aimed at providing entrepreneurial and applied research support to Canada’s mobile industry. I am responsible for strategic direction, partnerships, programmes and operations. More here

2009-
Co-Founder, Ignite! Toronto
Curator and Co-organizer of the Toronto edition of O’Reilly Media’s Ignite! Lecture Series.

2008-2009
Manager, Mobile Experience Innovation Centre
The MEIC is a public/private partnership led by OCAD, whose aims are to foster collaborative innovation and build capacity in Ontario for the next generation of mobile experiences. I manage all aspects of the MEIC, including Business Development, Outreach/Events, Research, Operations and Communications. Successful grant writing, program development, research partnerships and evangelism for the mobile sector in Canada are among recent achievements, as well as leading research for Innovation + Insight – Mapping Ontario’s Mobile Industry, published in April 2009.

2007-08
Producer – Interactive Ontario, Toronto
Programmed and produced panels, conferences, research projects, etc that engaged the interactive and digital media industry in Ontario, facilitating business development and knowledge exchange for commercial, R&D and policy-focused purposes. Content, operations and brand management. Successful public funding grant and application development for interactive media industry events, budget and resource allocations, project management. Conferences/Iniatives included ICE 2008, GameON: Finance 08, iLunch6.0, etc.

2007
Sessional Faculty at OCAD
Course: History of 19th and 20th Century Jewellery
Developed and implemented curriculum in Material Art & Design, Faculty of Design, OCAD

2005-07
Research Associate – Beal Institute For Strategic Creativity, Toronto
Strategic Foresight, Research and Brand consulting for public and private sector industry, developed active research methods and processes. Clients/partners included the OCAD, Creative Commons Canada, Firefly Foundation, Motorola, BumpTop Technologies.

The Imagination Challenge: Strategic Foresight in the Global Economy

Perspectives in Strategic Foresight,

writing

2007-
Shot from the Hip: my blog about current ideas, trends, events and research in the area of foresight, design and technology.

2009
Tacit Knowing in Digital Communities, KCTOS, Vienna, Austria

2007
Pursuing the Questions of Our Time: Frameworks for Pre-Competitive Innovation (co-author), BISC
The Imagination Challenge: Strategic Foresight in the Global Economy, Alexander Manu (research lead, contributor), PeachPit Press, San Francisco

2006
From Network to Net-Worth: Social Capital in DataSpace (co-author), BISC
Do you hear what I hear?, Spacing Magazine

2005
OCAD Profile, The College Issue, MAGazine
Putting the Pieces Together, Canadian Contemporary Glass, GAAC, Toronto/Vancouver
Wunderkammern (exhibition catalogue), Pointyhead Press, Toronto
Cartography and Context: Post-Colonial Identity in “By the Sea”, The Student Guide to Writing, OCAD

2004
Series: Reading New Work by Ken Vickerson, NewViews2, *new* Gallery

awards + residencies

2004
George A. Reid Award (honourable mention), OCAD

2003
Professional Artist Residency and Scholarship (1 year), The Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre
Aboveground Art Supplies Student Award, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
Handy & Harman Award, OCAD

2002
Summer Residency Scholarship, The Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre
Nora E. Vaughan Scholarship, OCAD

2001
Eugene A. Pogetto Scholarship, OCAD

2000
Ferdinand H. Marani Award, OCAD

media

2006
Metalsmith – Society of North American Goldsmiths, Spring 2006, Colorado.

2003-2006
Macleans Guide To Canadian Universities

2005
Bowling With Canadian Women Silversmiths, NewViews9, Toronto
Dose, September 7, 2005, Toronto

2003
Cityline, CHUM Television, October 16, 2003, Toronto
MAGazine, Summer 2003, Toronto
Now Magazine, April 24-30, 2003, Toronto

2002
OCAD Video, Toronto
MAGazine, Spring 2002, Toronto
The Chronicle-Herald, February 21, 2002, Halifax, Ns

select exhibitions, juried and invitational

2010
2010 Jewellers, *new* gallery, Toronto (upcoming)

2007
Around the Neck, Prime Gallery, Toronto
Currents: Nuit Blanche MAAD Alumni Exhibition, OCAD, Toronto

2005
Bowling: Canadian Women Silversmiths, *new* Gallery, Toronto
Habitat, *new* Gallery, Toronto
Wunderkammern, OCAD Gallery; Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary, Al

2004
What’s New? *new* Gallery, Toronto
Same Time, Same Place, York Quay Gallery, Toronto
Sinkholes, Studio Works, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (Solo)

2003
Home & Style Studio Tour, Designer’s Walk, Toronto
Featured Designer, The Gallery Shop, AGO, Toronto
Seven Jewellers, Snapdragon Gallery, Ottawa
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
Ceramics, Fibre, Jewellery/Metalsmithing: Maad Scholarships, *New* Gallery
Word, Virus Arts Gallery, Toronto
Re: Record Recall Reconstruct Repeat, OCAD Gallery
Go West, Sarah Lowry Studio, OCAD

2002
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square
Proxemics, OCAD Gallery, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS