About Left Right Minds
Left Right Minds is a partnership between Allyson McGrane and Shane Birley. We are a company with a growing list of clients. Here are our key players:
Allyson McGrane
Strategy
Allyson McGrane is a Vancouver-based business consultant who specializes in the arts, non-profit and small business start-ups. As a partner in Left Right Minds Initiatives, Allyson is now working to develop ways for businesses and non-profit organizations to leverage the technical advantages of a customized website into their real-world business strategies.
She has over seven years of experience with consulting, mentoring and teaching workshops to adults including working as a part-time facilitator with the S.E.A.R.C.H. program at the Greater Vancouver Alliance for Arts and Culture. Since 2001, she has worked with over 75 non-profit arts groups and helped raise more than $1 million to fund various projects.
She is also a lawyer who graduated from the University of Victoria, and now runs her own sole practice as McGrane & Company. Allyson serves as the board president for TTS Theatre Terrific Society – an organization which focuses on providing theatre education and performance opportunities for disabled artists.
Shane Birley
Technology
Shane Birley is a Vancouver-based web developer, writer and blog consultant with over 12 years of experience in developing websites. As a partner in Left Right Minds Initiatives, Shane is now working to develop websites using content management systems where his clients can edit and update their own web content.
He gives tech workshops at West Coast Community Enterprises and did extensive research for the published book BitTorrent for Dummies written by local authors Susannah Gardner and Kris Krug, and co-wrote Blogging for Dummies.
He has a background in improvisational theatre and a B.A. in English – these qualifications enable him to translate difficult computing concepts into easy plain language. Shane is a member-at-large for the board of The Karen L. Colussi Foundation – an organization which supports and encourages Montessori programs in Victoria, BC.
Victor Terzis
Graphics
Victor Terzis specializes in the creation of logos and corporate identity packages,website design, and in some cases, Flash animation for clients at Left Right Minds.
Prior to being added on to the LRM roster, Victor had worked as a freelancer for a number of years. He has won awards for his own artistic talents very early on and has now focused on a career as a graphic/web designer. With his experience, professionalism to the craft, quirkines and a little bit of charm, Victor gets the job done right and on time.
His training began at the Vancouver Film School as a Classical and 3D animator and is also an Allumnist of Vancouver College where he was the top student in the Graphic Design program.
Victor's other interests include soccer, hockey, beating people in pool, talking to girls, acting out scenes in movies and referencing them during the day for no apparent reason.
At the moment he is continuing to expand his abilites by understanding the fundamentals of business with Allyson McGrane and learning to use Drupal and other backend programming languages as an apprentice to Shane Birley.
Kirstie McCallum
Administrative Assistant
bio coming soon!
Serendipity
Office Dog
Serendipity is a Vancouver-based pug, who spends much of her time working hard at being the cutest dog possible. Her input at meetings is often invaluable.
Faith
lick-o-matic-9000
Faith hails from Vancouver Island and is the newest canine addition to Left Right Minds. She is learning fast how to climb all over the furniture (and sometimes all over the clients). She is particularly fond of peanut butter.