CORTEX CONSULTANTS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Cortex Team
- Office Manager
- Writer, Researcher
Brennan Storr is a writer, researcher, and storyteller who specializes in crafting narrative from a variety of oral, visual, and archival sources.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Cortex Team
- Specialist
Doug Williams is a modeling specialist with extensive experience applying optimization algorithms to asset valuation and optimal planning issues.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Cortex Team
- Systems Analyst
Edward Gin is a systems analyst with a forestry degree and information technology diploma, and is experienced in both forest operations and forest resource planning.
Edward has a background in information technology and forest management and operations. His experience encompasses forest resource planning, forest operations, data modeling, systems and database development, programming, and web development.
As a systems analyst at Cortex, Edward's recent projects have included financial systems, contract monitoring, and website support to multi-stakeholder processes such as the Forest Science Board and Forest Genetics Council and GIS analysis of Spotted Owl habitat, Vancouver Island ecological representation, and the Haida Gwaii/ Queen Charlotte Islands draft land-use plan.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Cortex Team
Glenn Sutherland is a registered professional biologist and systems ecologist with expertise in decision analysis and risk assessment, environmental assessment and mitigation, and ecological synthesis.
Glenn is a systems ecologist with extensive experience in spatial landscape and habitat modeling, endangered species conservation, and scenario analysis to resolve forest management issues.
Glenn has provided scientific analysis and modeling support to several multi-stakeholder land-use planning processes, including the North Coast Land and Resource Management Planning Table, the Coast Information Team, the Canadian Marbled Murrelet Recovery Team, and the Canadian Spotted Owl Recovery Team. He has co-developed spatially explicit simulation models of habitat management and population dynamics for several species at risk, including the Northern Spotted Owl, northern caribou, and the coastal tailed frog. He has also designed and analyzed ecological representation problems at the multi-tenure (regional) and single tenure (licensee) scale.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Cortex Team
- Ecologist
Jason Smith is an ecologist, registered professional biologist, and resource management analyst with expertise in spatial modeling and analysis of complex datasets.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Cortex Team
Melissa Hadley is an internationally certified project management professional, internationally certified facilitator, BC registered professional forester, and certified teacher, skilled in working with diverse groups in government, First Nations, industry, and not-for-profit organizations.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Cortex Team
- Senior Analyst
Michael is a senior analyst with over 10 years experience with forest estate and ecological models, GIS, and database management systems. Mike has worked with private industry, government, and First Nations clients.
Job Titles:
- Graphic Designer
- Member of the Cortex Team
Richard Rawling is a graphic designer with extensive conceptualization and production experience for a wide range of media including websites, computer-user interfaces, print publications, on-screen presentations, and data visualization.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Cortex Team
Susan Leech is an extension professional, accomplished writer, and registered professional biologist, who works with stakeholders to achieve conservation goals and sustainability.