I was born on Prince Edward Island and have also lived, attended school, and worked in New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. I have spent the entirety of my adult living primarily in the Halifax area. I have 3 adult children and two grandchildren.

I am an IT consultant with 39 years of experience in the Health Care and Social services sectors, specializing in IT systems architecture and interoperability. From 2003 to April of 2018, I worked for a Federal Agency (Canada Health Infoway Inc.).

In that role I was responsible for designing and promoting the National EHR Solutions Blueprint for use across Canada. I led the establishment of the pan Canadian Health Information Standards Collaborative, a public & private sector Governance and Standards Development Framework.

Currently, I am an independent consultant. My client base ranges across 5 countries, and 3 continents. I have worked with the United Nations International Telecommunication Union and World Health Organization agencies, where I led the development of the Digital Health Platform Handbook, a required reference for all WHO Health IT programs worldwide. My other clients include: U.S. Veterans Affairs, Ministries of Health in Lesotho, Africa, in Sri Lanka, and the Council for Health Insurance in Saudi Arabia.

I have been a member of Green Party of Canada since March of 2019. I have also been a member of the Green Party of Nova Scotia since 2017, where I was the Bedford Basin regional representative to GPNS Executive Council and ran in 2 byelections. My introduction to the Green Party was through my father, an active supporter of the Green Party of Prince Edward Island, and who worked tirelessly on the Party Leader/s leader’s (Peter Bevan-Baker) successful election campaign, and their subsequent campaign to became the official opposition for PEI.