About Left Right Minds

We are a Drupal shop. Drupal is one of the most amazing content management systems currently in the open source market. We use it to do pretty much everything. It is scalable, extensible, flexible, and bends to our will. Every site we develop is built on this solid platform.

We are excited to be a part of the Canadian performing arts community and offer artist management services for a roster of six fabulous and eclectic arts groups. Our artists are Vancouver-based performers who perform locally and tour in British Columbia, Canada and internationally. Combined with our web skills, our solutions are a fully realized experience.

We work with clients over the long term. We don't like to develop solutions and then disappear. We work and plan over for the long haul and create a legacy plan with our clients. For shorter term projects, we provide an intense and complete service to make sure you're up and running quicker and faster.

Working with companies, charities, and festivals excites us. We love to get things done and invite people to come and enjoy the events we help to produce. Getting people together and making sure they are having a good time makes us smile and our clients too.

We have a wide variety of skills to offer our clients. We're not just a singular type of company. We have people behind the scenes that are working hard to get things done and to get it done right. People is the most important part of what Left Right Minds offers. Oh, and we also have a few pugs that help out in many ways.

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

Kirstie is hard at work on her biography and will hopefully have it on this website soon.

Gia Nahmens

Production

Gia Nahmens has been working as a Stage Manager and Production Manager in Vancouver for the past three years. She hails from Caracas, Venezuela where she was born and raised and then shipped to Vancouver to study at UBC seven years ago. She works as a Production Assistant for Left Right Minds helping out with the production/technical aspects of Left Right Minds clients.

Prior to working for LRM she worked as a stage manager in various productions such as Tony 'n' Tina's wedding, Back to You: The Life and Music of Lucille Starr (apprentice), The Talking Stick Festival and production managed The Edward Curtis Project, Queen Lear and A Picasso at Presentation House.

She enjoys long conversations, warm sunny weather, travelling, and Sudoku.

With Left Right Minds she hopes to learn more about Dance and Music and wishes to expand her knowledge about web site building.

Serendipity

Office Dog

Serendipity is a Vancouver-based pug, who spends much of her time working hard at being the cutest dog possible. She is in a mild cuteness competition with her counter-part, Faith, and she makes up any perceived deficit by defending the office from every form of invasion. She is quick to let all within ear-shot know when the latest invading troops are in the area and attempts to scare them off with her vocal talents.

Her input at meetings is often invaluable.

Faith

LICK-o-MATIC 9001

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) and is able to look cute. Her skill set allows her to make even the grayest days blue and she is always at the ready with a needed cuddle for both clients and staff.

She is particularly fond of peanut butter.

Monday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	9:30am - 5:30pm

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