About Me

I grew up in a small town in Nova Scotia. I played ice hockey in the winter and soccer in the summer. I spent weekends at the family dairy farm, and the rest was spent running around outside my home in the subdivision. My childhood was exciting and full of the adventures and discoveries that come with living in a rural community, just outside the city of Halifax. I graduated high school, and then earned my Bachelor of Arts from St. Francis Xavier University. 

After moving to and living in Alberta for a few years, I met my partner and we moved to Beijing to travel abroad. We paid for it by teaching, and so I've been a teacher ever since. It's been almost fifteen years now. I have taught in China, South Korea, Egypt, and Canada. 

I have relied on efficient edtech platforms my entire career as a customer, taking courses online to upgrade my credentials and using mobile cloud-based solutions to collaborate and communicate my work, content, and resources. 

Yet, I am also a successful investor. In the summer of 2017 I invested my savings in the stock market in various sectors and industries. As of 2025, that initial amount has nearly doubled. It's been interesting; some big losses and exciting gains to be sure, but good performance overall. What I have particularly enjoyed observing is the increase in value of the edtech ventures that I use regularly and find essential to my practice as an educator.

Being both a customer (as an end-user and classroom teacher) and an investor (looking to make a profit) grants me the capacity to offer insight that affords edtech investors the means to improve education while potentially making a profit.