Fences is an AgTech company that provides Farm Biosecurity & Disease Management Systems. I have provided extensive services in all aspects of their product line: Optimizing their database systems; Producing their REST API in accordance to the JSON-API spec; and constructing their web client dashboard which presents the companies data resources in a GIS Map Environment.

CAHSS is a network of animal health surveillance networks of individual self-organizing and self-governing network groups; linked through CAHSS by shared purpose and principles to strengthen animal health surveillance in Canada. This project

Co-led several parties (Marketing, IT, a 3rd-party CMS agency, a 3rd-party graphics team and JRS dev team members) to define, communicate and meet user requirements for an online custom furniture asse

This month’s issue of the HBR’s Spotlight was on the subject of how platforms are reshaping business. The subject of platforms are exciting from a technical standpoint as they require very little physical infrastructure and if engineered properly can be scaled orders of magnitude to accommodate rapid growth. From a business mindset owning a successful platform can be perceived as a mechanism to generating seemingly effortless wealth; scaling costs can be fractional to the revenue return on an exponentially growing user base of producers and consumers. The players of a good platform are manifold and can provide meaningful value to all, each in its own way.

I was at the magazine rack at a Chapters the other day in hopes of discovering a new publication to add to my readings, low and behold I found two: MIT Technology Review, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. If a pattern in my magazine choices has become evident, I guess I’ll admit to being a sucker to the weight of big university names. In any case I skimmed a few articles in each and found a breadth of interesting topics and so I picked the two up. Below are some of the highlights of my readings thus far.

In what I hope to be a recurring blog entry category I will comment on and/or highlight aspects of readings that I have found to contain meaningful insight on subjects that pertain to my professional ambitions and experiences. In doing so I hope to extract additional value from readings that may too quickly slip from memory after only one read through.