Digital Media Studies Politics of Online Authorship Cultural Encoding of Online Identity Chief Architect at InGamer Real Time Social Live Sports Game Start Up in Waterloo Hive Waterloo Founder Working with the Mozilla Foundation to help youth technology organizations start, grow and succeed
Computer Science, University of Guelph PhD Statistics Undergraduate Teaching Real World Problem-Based Instruction Community Engaged Scholarship Current Research Statistical modelling of populations for ecological risk assessment Testing sampling design for population estimates
• How to build & measure what customers want • How to find early customers • How to test pricing • How to decide what goes into Release 1.0 • How to maximize for speed, learning, & focus • How to iterate for product/market fit
MORE SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS, IT’S ABOUT WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THOSE BUSINESSES TO IMPROVE VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING WE DO. I IMAGINE LEAN STARTUP PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS, TO HEALTHCARE, AND TO SOLVING THE WORLD’S GREAT PROBLEMS. IT’S ULTIMATELY AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: HOW CAN WE LEARN MORE QUICKLY WHAT WORKS AND DISCARD WHAT DOESN’T?
LEAN COMPANIES SUCH AS TOYOTA TO DOMINATE ENTIRE INDUSTRIES. LEAN THINKING DEFINES VALUE AS 'PROVIDING BENEFIT TO THE CUSTOMER‘ ANYTHING ELSE IS WASTE.