About Me

I build iOS apps and web platforms in Montreal, in English and French. Most of what I make starts as a problem in my own working life. GigFrame came out of managing shoots as a freelance sports photographer.

I came to development the long way around.

Seventeen of those years were nursing. I started on the float team, where you learn quickly to adapt to unfamiliar units and workflows. Later I worked in Nunavik, on the Hudson Bay coast, where emergencies had to be managed with limited resources and nobody else to hand them to. I think about that work often when something breaks and there is no obvious fix.

Curiosity about how things work took me to a Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering, finished with Distinction, with co-op internships in aerospace. After that I spent a year in the transition support office for the opening of the Glen Superhospital, which is where I started looking at systems instead of parts.

Then I went back to nursing, this time in the pharmaceutical industry, supporting patients on high-cost medications. Insurance coverage, clinic schedules, pharmacy coordination, and something changing at the last minute most days. It was a lot of threads to hold at once, which is familiar territory now.

I completed the Full Stack Developer AEC at John Abbott College, and kept picking up side projects outside the curriculum because I wanted to know how things worked: a web crawler to gather information, WordPress plugin development. That habit didn’t stop at graduation. This site runs on a theme and two plugins I wrote, and GigFrame is a native iOS app built with SwiftUI, SwiftData and CloudKit.

Right now I’m building DaddyApp, which gives families one shared place to coordinate care for an aging parent: recurring medication refills, appointments and errands, anticipated before they become urgent, with siblings claiming tasks so nobody doubles up. It is the closest thing I have built to the work I used to do. I spent years on the other side of that problem.