I learn complex systems quickly, get proficient with the tools fast, and deliver work you can count on. A business to run, an audio post-production pipeline, a royalty-reporting platform, a house to lease in an unfamiliar market — different on the surface, much the same underneath. I go deep on how the thing works, solve the problems in front of me, and get it done.
My working life has run through several very different worlds — the back office of a publishing company, the recording studio, houses on three continents, a AAA game studio. The underlying work barely changes: understand the system, solve the problem, communicate plainly, finish what I start — and, when the job calls for it, run the whole operation.
A hands-on leader who makes operations run — a business, an estate, and (when the opportunity's right) a remote destination property. Co-founder and CFO of Ingenium Books for nine years: full P&L, budgets, a team of roughly 20 contractors, vendors, and the systems the business ran on. Also open to the right destination leadership post — a marina, lodge, or resort GM role — for someone who wants the same operating discipline with a change of scenery.
Standout proof point: Nine years running full P&L, budgets, and systems for a business — leading a team of roughly 20 contractors, full- and part-time — plus the same self-reliance that kept a boat and a 20-hectare remote estate running when there was no one to call.
Previously licensed with Royal LePage in Quebec and Ontario, combined with hands-on experience managing residential properties and navigating housing systems across Canada, Mexico, and France. Also trained Ontario realtors on Teranet's GeoWarehouse land-registry platform, in groups of 35 to 350.
Standout proof point: Previously licensed with Royal LePage in Quebec and Ontario, with hands-on property management across three countries, including Spanish-language lease negotiations and the day-to-day care of a 20-hectare French estate.
Production and audio experience spanning AAA video games, film and TV post, and a media business run for nine years — from coordinating 160-person creative teams at Ubisoft to producing and mastering a publishing company's full audio output, to dialogue, SFX, and Foley across 300+ TV episodes and 10 feature films.
Standout proof point: Coordinated production teams of up to 160 at Ubisoft; nine years running the operations of a media business; full-pipeline audiobook, podcast, and post-production work — built on studio sessions with Leonard Cohen, Céline Dion, the Bee Gees, and Pat Metheny.
I manage book royalties end to end — turning messy, multi-source distributor data into accurate, on-time statements for authors and rights-holders, and building or running the systems that produce them. I train the people who use those systems, too.
Standout proof point: Designed and built a proprietary royalty-management platform from scratch and ran it for 6+ years — a submit-and-receive process that saved 60+ hours every reporting period, reliable enough that we ran royalties for up to five external publisher clients on it.