 He has led large scale emergency exercise projects for both the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and the British Embassy in Tokyo, and been a commentator on crisis communications on CBC and the Vancouver Sun.He also worked as a volunteer on tsunami relief efforts in Thailand in 2005.In 2013 his agency was named the Canadian PR Agency of the Year by the Homes Report and a campaign he developed with Tourism British Columbia was named best North American Travel and Tourism PR campaign by the Sabre awards in 2012.