Freelance & consulting — networks fixed, signal found, systems built

I build the
systems
behind the numbers.

Analytics, network infrastructure and business analysis are usually three different people. I've spent four years being all three — instrumenting the network, modelling the data it produces, and sitting with the stakeholders who have to act on it.

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Wireless uptime held across a district network

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Faster troubleshooting through automated alerting

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Latency cut across a 40+ site WAN

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Manual reporting removed every week

01About

Three tracks that kept converging.

Currently

Master of Management Analytics at McGill University and PMP in progress.

I started on the wire. Active Directory, ticket queues, access points — the unglamorous layer where a school district either works on Monday morning or doesn't.

That layer produces an enormous amount of data, and almost nobody reads it. So I started reading it: scripting monitors, then dashboards, then an ETL pipeline in Spark because the finance team was rebuilding the same spreadsheet every Monday. Troubleshooting time dropped 35%. Fifteen hours a week came back. The analytics track opened itself.

What I learned next is that neither track matters if nobody agreed on the question. So I went and got certified in business analysis, then project management — and started running discovery sessions before writing a single query. At the City of Kamloops that meant governance frameworks, requirements documentation, and dashboards two departments actually depend on.

Today the three tracks are one job: understand what the business needs, build the infrastructure that can carry it, and prove the result with numbers. Azure and Terraform on one side, Databricks and Power BI on the other, stakeholders in the middle.

02Practice

One system, viewed from three angles.

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Data Analytics

Reading the system

Power BI, SQL and Python pipelines that turn operational exhaust into decisions people actually make. Spark ETL, predictive models, dashboards built for the person reading them at 8am — not for the screenshot.

  • Power BI
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Apache Spark
  • Databricks
  • Statistical Modeling
02

IT & Network Infrastructure

Holding the system up

LAN/WAN for 15,000+ users, VLAN segmentation, OSPF/BGP routing, firewall audits and Azure administration. Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and pipelines through Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.

  • Azure
  • Terraform
  • OSPF / BGP
  • VLAN
  • Firewall
  • Linux
  • CI/CD
03

Business Analysis

Deciding what the system is for

Discovery sessions, requirements, governance frameworks and process design — ECBA and CAPM certified, PMP in progress. The translation layer between what the business asks for and what the data and infrastructure can actually deliver.

  • Requirements
  • ServiceNow
  • M365 / SharePoint
  • Governance
  • Process Design
03Experience

Where the work happened.

2026

Mar – Aug 2026

Business Analysis

Recreation Systems Analyst

City of Kamloops

  • Mapped business and technical processes end to end, then rebuilt the workflows around the technology instead of the other way round.
  • Ran requirements discovery with stakeholders across 2+ departments and shipped the Power BI dashboards and SQL reporting they now run on.
  • Authored a SharePoint Online governance framework and information architecture standard for the organisation's site collections.

2024–26

Jun 2024 – May 2026

Infrastructure

Network Systems Analyst

School District No. 73

  • Extended custom monitoring scripts into real-time alerting, cutting manual troubleshooting time by 35%.
  • Deployed cloud-based WAN/LAN monitoring for proactive detection, dropping downtime by 20%.
  • Tuned wireless performance and access point security to a sustained 99.8% uptime.
  • Used Linux/Unix tooling to automate routine operations and keep network compliance intact.

2023–24

Sep 2023 – Aug 2024

Analytics

Data Analyst

Kamloops Office Systems

  • Built an Apache Spark ETL pipeline for financial data that measurably reduced reporting latency.
  • Designed interactive Power BI dashboards used by 30+ stakeholders for financial and strategic decisions.
  • Automated recurring reporting with Pandas and NumPy, returning 15+ hours a week to the team.

2022–23

Apr 2022 – Sep 2023

Infrastructure

IT Technologist

School District No. 27

  • Tightened Active Directory access control, reducing unauthorized access incidents by 40%.
  • Introduced a structured ticketing system that cut resolution time by 35%.
  • Scripted software deployment and hardware tracking for a 50% efficiency gain.
04Selected projects

Problems, and the delta after.

Analytics2026

Facility Space Allocation Analysis

Three years of facility usage pulled from Snowflake into a predictive Power BI model for arena and field allocation — surfacing peak-hour maintenance inefficiencies worth 60+ extra hours per organisation, per season.

60+hrs recovered / org / season
  • Snowflake
  • Power BI
  • SQL
  • Forecasting
Infrastructure2025

District-Wide Network Optimization

Re-architected a 40+ site school network serving 15,000+ users: VLAN segmentation, OSPF/BGP route optimisation and QoS policy — latency down 30%, congestion down 40%.

40+sites re-segmented
  • OSPF / BGP
  • VLAN
  • QoS
  • WAN
Security2025

Firewall Rule Optimization & Audit

Audited 200+ firewall rules, stripped redundancy and shadowed policy, reduced exposure by 25% and lifted firewall processing speed by 30%.

200+rules audited
  • Firewall Policy
  • Audit
  • Hardening
Analytics2024

Predictive Analysis of Patient Data

Statistical and predictive modelling on clinical data reaching 85% accuracy, tied to a 15% improvement in patient outcomes and 10% cost reduction.

85%model accuracy
  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • Statistics
Integration2024

API Ingestion for a Lumber Operation

Integrated third-party APIs with MS SQL and automated the ingestion in Python and C#, halving data retrieval time across the business.

50%faster retrieval
  • API
  • MS SQL
  • Python
  • C#
Automation2023

PaperCut Reporting Automation

Automated print-management reporting in JavaScript and C#, removing 40% of manual reporting time and 25% of associated operational cost.

40%manual work removed
  • JavaScript
  • C#
  • Reporting
05Toolkit

The stack, honestly listed.

Grouped by what it's for rather than by logo count. Everything here has shipped something in production or in a graded analytics program.

Data & Visualization
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Databricks
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Matplotlib
  • Excel
  • Predictive Analysis
Programming
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • C#
  • C++
Data Platform & ETL
  • MS SQL Server
  • Apache Spark
  • Snowflake
  • ETL Design
  • API Ingestion
  • Data Modeling
Cloud & DevOps
  • Azure
  • Terraform
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • Git
  • CI/CD
Network & Systems
  • LAN / WAN
  • VLAN
  • OSPF
  • BGP
  • QoS
  • Firewalls
  • Active Directory
  • Linux
Business Systems
  • ServiceNow
  • Microsoft 365
  • SharePoint Online
  • Power Platform
  • Requirements
  • Governance
06Education & credentials
  • Master of Management Analytics

    McGill University

    2026 – present

  • PMP

    Project Management Institute

    In progress

  • Bachelor of Computing Science (Co-op)

    Thompson Rivers University

    Dean's List · Minor in Project Management

  • Entry Certificate in Business Analysis

    International Institute of Business Analysis™

    Business analysis

  • Certified Associate in Project Management

    Project Management Institute

    Project management

  • CompTIA Network+

    CompTIA

    Certified

  • CompTIA Data+

    CompTIA

    Certified

  • CompTIA Security+

    CompTIA

    In progress

  • CompTIA Server+

    CompTIA

    In progress

  • Power BI Data Analyst Associate

    Microsoft

    Certified

  • Power Platform Functional Consultant

    Microsoft

    Certified

  • Data Analytics Professional Certificate

    IBM

    Certified

  • Certified Linux Administrator

    Linux

    Certified

07Contact

Let's build something measurable.

Available for freelance and consulting work — fixing networks, finding the signal in the data, and building the systems that connect them. On-site, hybrid or remote, anywhere in Canada.