WEBMASTER SOLUTIONS - Key Persons
Amanda is thrilled to be a part of Urban Vegecation as an urban agriculture and local food enthusiast and enjoys feeding family and friends home cooked meals made fresh from the garden and foraged from the local forest. She also relishes a good food pun, no matter how corny.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Lead Designer, Cameron Howe is a creative design wizard in Photoshop and Illustrator as well as coding queen in HTML, CSS and LESS!
Job Titles:
- Member of the Urban Vegecation
Job Titles:
- Fundraising & Marketing Assistant
Christina Boliszcuzk is the newest member of the Urban Vegecation team. She has worked with children in many capacitites, including life skills coaching for special needs children and running educational programs and tours at the Vancouver Police Museum. Much of her volunteer experience includes planning and running fundraising events and serving on various boards including a number of years with Port Moody's Golden Spike Days Festival.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
With the help of SEO Lead, Donna Clark, you won't have to search any further for a website that is perfectly search engine optimized!
The diabolical super genius Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz was hired to develop the High Voltage Lab - a large building capable of housing the team, and making it the defacto source for research and development or more commonly referred to as "trial and error".
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Founder of Mad Scientist Laboratories
- Professor Geology Rocks
The Laboratory was founded by Dr. Boson's belief that he could make a better world by creating a new . Although he had been a part time mad scientist for more than 25 years, it was only during the early 2000s that he began seriously considering going full time. In September 2015, he left his position as a senior webmaster at Seneca College and dedicated himself to turning his vision into reality.
Professor Geology Rocks was the first scientist that Dr. Higgs Boson recruited for Mad Scientists Laboratories. With her coincidentally suitable name, Geology Rocks is the world's foremost geologist with a focus on, you guessed it, rocks. Nobody knows more about rocks than she. Geologist, Geology Rocks geologically rocks rock geology!
Luna Tic, a biologist who trained as a barista, set about the important task of establishing the Laboratory's reputation for bizarre discoveries unveiled by unconventional means along with Heinz Doofenshmirtz.
Lead Developer, Gordon Clark knows his way around HTML, PHP and Javascript like the back of his hands which he sees frequently as he types out strings of code.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Executive Director - on Leave until December 2016
- Executive Director of Urban Vegecation
Helen Stortini is the executive director of Urban Vegecation. Previous to her role at Urban Vegecation, she was a professional fundraiser for five years, most recently as a Development Manager for the David Suzuki Foundation.
Job Titles:
- Acting Executive Director
Jaydeen Williams is excited to join the Urban Vegecation team in the role of Acting Executive Director. Jaydeen holds a degree in Psychology and Biology from UBC. Her passion for travel and adventure lead her to working for cruiseline Royal Caribbean International, both on and offboard cruise ships overseeing children and family programming. She then spent five years working for the Take a Hike Youth at Risk Foundation in the roles of Program Director and Executive Director. There she led the organization through significant growth whilst enabling at-risk youth to reach their full potential.
As the Founder, Project Manager and "King" of Webmaster Solutions, Joe "Dr. Doctype" MacMillan is constantly striving to push web design and development into the future and demands only the best and most cutting edge design, coding and markup from his team.
This fall, we intend on introducing Kelvin Gelid, whose research goes beyond the typical. His motto; "There's nothing cooler than absolute zero".
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Founder, Chair of the Board of Directors
Merri Schwartz has been working in the Toronto food community since 2002. Inspired by an adventure-filled summer in Paris at the age of 20, Merri completed a degree in Visual Art at the University of Toronto before fulfilling her dream of becoming a pastry chef.
After attending the Baking and Pastry Arts Program at Vancouver Community College, Merri jumped into a whirlwind career. Her resume includes assistant positions at Sweet Obsession Cakes and Pastries and Cocoa West Organic Chocolatier, and pastry chef positions at C Restaurant, Quattro on Fourth, and the award-winning King Pacific Lodge.
In the fall of 2006, with a generous scholarship from Les Dames d'Escoffier, Merri travelled to France, where she trained at the world-renowned Valrhona Chocolate Institute, outside of Lyon. That same year, Merri further develop her pastry technique with travel and training in Italy, Switzerland, and France.
Merri founded Urban Vegecation with the hope that sustainable practices will become part of the foundation of living and cooking in Toronto, and in cities like it all over the world. After acting as the Executive Director of Urban Vegecation for four and a half years, Merri recently joined the board of directors as the Chair.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Dr. Weird is pretty mysterious but nobody on the team is more mysterious than Walter Bishop. Why? Well, we can't actually remember what he does around here or if he is even a scientist. It's been so long now that we're all afraid to ask him. Walter, if you're reading this, we're sorry.