About

I’m a Technical Director at Electronic Arts. I’m also CTO of FairX, which I co-founded. I moved to Canada while working at Cloudreach and later spent the longest stretch of my career so far at Phoenix Labs. For the rest of the conventional account of my career, there is my CV.

Over the years, the scale and scope of my work have widened: from designing and building systems, mentoring junior engineers, and working across disciplines to setting technical direction, leading teams, and making organisations better. The engineering mindset applies throughout: understand how things work today, identify the important constraints, make a plan, and see it through.

Born in Scotland, I now make my home in Vancouver and am a dual citizen of the UK and Canada. Away from work, I tinker with software projects, play and run roleplaying games, cook, read, sing when I feel like it, go to the gym regularly, and take whisky and cocktails far more seriously than necessary.