Platform strategy. Governance design. AI integration. Grounded in over thirty years of institutional leadership and hands-on practice.
What I Do
I help post-secondary institutions make better decisions about teaching and learning technology. That means working at the intersection of pedagogy, technology, and institutional change — where most of the hard problems live.
I’ve spent my career doing this work from inside institutions, not advising from the outside. That experience shapes everything about how I approach consulting: I understand the politics, the constraints, the gap between strategy documents and what actually happens in classrooms and LMS instances.
I work with Provosts, Vice-Provosts, CIOs, teaching centre directors, and IT leaders on problems they can’t easily solve with internal resources alone — because the problems are too specialized, too high-stakes, or too entangled with institutional culture to hand off to a generalist.
Services
Platform Strategy & Governance
Designing the decision-making structures and strategic frameworks institutions need to manage their learning technology ecosystems — from platform audits to governance framework design to vendor selection support.
LMS Migration Planning
Strategic planning and change leadership for institutions migrating between learning management systems. The technical migration is the easy part. The hard part is everything else.
AI in Teaching & Learning
Helping institutions move from AI anxiety to AI strategy — with a focus on pedagogy, privacy, and practical implementation. I build working prototypes, not slide decks.
About Me
I’ve been working in educational technology since 1994 — over thirty years of building, leading, breaking, and fixing things in post-secondary teaching and learning.
My career has spanned both sides of the institutional divide that most people stay on one side of. I’ve been a web and multimedia developer, a commercial LMS developer, a learning technologist building repositories and authoring tools, the person who launched campus blogging and wikis and helped build a new Course Design Program, and an IT Partner who led an enterprise LMS migration from Blackboard to D2L Brightspace for 30,000+ users. That range — from writing code to leading institutional projects to designing faculty development programs — is what I bring to consulting work.
At the University of Calgary’s Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, I lead the Learning Technologies & Design Team, worked with university leadership to collaboratively build the institution’s learning platform governance structure, and managed the technology response to the COVID-19 emergency pivot to remote teaching.
I hold a PhD in Computational Media Design from the University of Calgary, where my dissertation developed a framework for analyzing course design through the lens of game design principles. My research and practice sit at the intersection of pedagogy, technology, and institutional change — understanding not just what tools to adopt, but how to make adoption meaningful.
I can help institutions across Canada make better decisions about their teaching and learning technology ecosystems.