Howdy and welcome to my corner of the Internet.

I was originally born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, leaving in 1979 for the big city of Toronto and then out to a rural town called Campbellville.

I left Southern Ontario for 5 years starting in 1993, where I lived between Ottawa, Ontario (Carleton University) and Norwich, England (University of East Anglia) and Frankfurt, Germany (work terms), going to school where I graduated with a Bachelor of Computer Science from Carleton University. I returned back to Toronto in 1997. where I live with my husband, Scott.

Through my professional career, I’ve held a number of positions – Web Designer for Feedback Communications (I was the original and first web developer for 808 State, a band based in Manchester, England during the Manchester craze – think Cubik and Pacific from the ’90s rave scene), QA and Software Developer with Nortel Networks and iFire Technology, Implementation Consulting for Reserve America (The Active Network), and now I am with Oracle-NetSuite as a Solution Architect where I’ve been for over 20 years.

I love travel – having been to most of Western Europe, parts of Asia, the South Pacific Central and South America. I’ve been to over twenty-five states in most regions of the United States, and have two more provinces to visit (New Brunswick, PEI and I feel I should include main-land Newfoundland and Labrador) and the territories in Canada.

I love music – Check out my music project.

I am a geek – While I don’t spend hours and hours writing code, I have been tinkering with graphics and games development having written my first game for the Playdate platform, web development (JavaScript, GWT).  I’ve also setup my own experimental home lab and my house is quite connected with IOT everywhere.

I love retro gaming – I still have a Commodore 64, several Amigas, a Dreamcast and a Playstation 3 as part of my collection.  I’ve even built an arcade cabinet based on a Raspberry Pi with a 4Tb SSD with games from the 1970s to 2000s.

Being adopted, I started a search for my birth families starting when I was 18, and it was brought to a close in 2026 after I got in contact with my paternal-side family in Newfoundland and Labrador. I met my maternal-side family in 2004. All in all, I am the youngest of 4, 3 and 2; and have at least 28 cousins, and 3 aunts out of 7 aunts and uncles, 8 nieces and nephews, and a multitude of great nieces and nephews, on top of the 3 cousins I grew up with and my sister, and an aunt and uncle.

Welcome to my world!