Born and raised in Northwestern Ontario in a small town called Fort Frances, he is now in Toronto and on the forefront of modern design, focused on creative opportunities and solutions for challenges facing businesses today.
John began his career as a designer for small gaming organization who needed intuitive and creative design to attract and maintain the userbase. From there he branched out and developed a broad knowledge of design and the different mediums design touches.
Since then John has been sought out by companies large and small, governments, and organizations needing his experience.
He has worked in the classroom helping to develop the next generation of designers, given seminars on the value of design to small businesses, played a major role in the 2007 Fort Frances municipal elections, sat on the Planning Committee for the town of Fort Frances, to his position as Director of Communications for the Borderland Arts Alliance.