Isaac Campbell, CEO & Lead Developer
Isaac Campbell is a DevOps practitioner specializing in implementing best practices and leading efficient, integrated teams. His primary focus is enabling teams to own their applications and tools, and providing said teams with the knowledge, automation, tools, and skills required to support their application through it’s entire lifecycle. In a past life, he was a linux systems administrator and database administrator, with my expertise focusing on On- Premise to Cloud migrations, AWS and VMware ecosystems, MySQL and Percona Databases, and a variety of other technologies that Ops people in those worlds inevitably interact with.
Isaac has over 15 years of experience working in a variety of industries, including: education and public policy, telecommunications, machine learning, travel, and, most recently, video games. He has worked for companies in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. He graduated from the Computer Programmer Analyst program St. Lawrence College (Kingston, ON) in 2006. Over the course of his career he has developed a specialization in systems architecture design and implementation with a focus on automation.
As a DevOps (development and operations) practitioner, Isaac firmly believes in integrated development processes that are collective and self-reflexive. This work philosophy removes the traditional barriers that exist in tech companies and empowers teams and individuals as they are part of an entire production process rather than simply one part of the assembly line. As a team lead, Isaac acted as a mentor to his team members and built an environment of continued learning and professional development.
Isaac has always been a supporter of the arts and arts community. He is enjoying living out his childhood dream of working for a video game company! He is an avid photographer, with a particular focus on black and white photography. This company is an opportunity for Isaac to use his expertise to give back to the arts community in a meaningful way.
Alison Bowie, CFO & Lead Designer
Alison Bowie achieved her undergraduate degree in History from Queen’s University (Kingston, ON) in 2006. While working for the Living Arts Centre (Mississauga, ON) she developed the French Educational Arts Program through a Trillium Foundation of Ontario grant, which is now fully self-sustaining. Alison is passionate about teaching and the development of students’ critical analysis, writing, and creative skills. She has 9 years of experience teaching in a university setting, and has acted as a Teaching Assistant and Instructor of record at both the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA) and Concordia University (Montréal, QC). Alison recently co-authored a new textbook on Dramaturgy with Professor Gene Gibbons (Concordia University).
Alison completed a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Dramaturgy at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA) in 2014 and is a PhD Candidate in the Humanities program run out of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University (Montréal, QC), supervised by Louis Patrick Leroux, Sherry Simon, and Hervé Guay (UQTR). Her research is funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture as well as the Concordia Faculty of Arts & Science. Alison’s research project focuses on the intersections of cultural and linguistic contact zones, dramaturgy, collective memory, and theatre history in a Québec context.
Alison worked as the Project Manager for the 4-year Circus Dramaturgy project, led by Professor Louis Patrick Leroux, a collaboration between Concordia University and the Ecole nationale de cirque (Montréal, QC), and recently helped to launch the new World Circus and Stories Mapping Project. She has also worked as Project Assistant for the Lost Stories Project run by Professor Ronald Rudin through Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Alison is currently working as the Lead Research Assistant for the “History of English-language Drama and Theatre in Québec, 1930-2015” project run by Professor Erin Hurley (McGill University).
Along with her dramaturgical work, Alison has also been active as a web developer and research project database developer and administrator. She worked as one of two developers for the database management and data analysis tools custom built for the Circus Dramaturgy Project. She is also currently building custom database solutions for three other research projects at Concordia University, McGill University, and a collaborative project between Concordia University and the Max Planck Institute of Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt, Germany). She is co-founder and lead web designer for Techne Creations Ltd, a company dedicated to providing custom web design, development, and archiving solutions to arts organizations across Canada. The company’s mission is to provide resources that empower companies to be able to manage their data and own their online presence and stories. Techne Creations Ltd. has worked a variety of companies including: SpiderWebShow, Black Theatre Workshop, Montreal English Theatre Awards, Generator (Artist Producer Resource), and the Canadian International Organ Competition.
Alison also continues to be an active member of the theatre community. Since moving to Montréal in 2014, she has translated two plays, one of which has been produced twice (Me & You, Talisman Theatre, 2016 & 2018). She also worked as the Marketing & Development Assistant for Repercussion Theatre (2015). She has also worked as a grant writer, copy editor, and writer as part of her role as Associate Dramaturg for SpiderWebShow Performance. Alison also follows her passion as a photographer and musician (piano & voice).