Product person turned builder.
For fifteen years I worked on the product side, mostly in healthcare: recruiting patients for clinical trials, putting telemedicine into retirement homes, product marketing at PointClickCare, and getting a consumer device made in Shenzhen. Since 2019 I’ve worked at Banty, which runs live and virtual events for Ontario’s medical associations. Now I write the software myself, for Banty, for HMRG’s clinical trials and for my own products. I live in Hamilton, Ontario, with my wife and kids.
35,317 contributions on GitHub in the last year
Most of them in private repos. github.com/marctytus
Livestreamed, hybrid and fully virtual events for medical colleges and associations: the cameras, the crew, the stream and the run of show, in the room or from our studio. For the biggest meetings I also write the software, like the live speaker queue and vote results for the OMA’s virtual AGM.
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Hamilton Medical Research Group runs Phase II to IV clinical trials, led by Dr. Richard Tytus for more than 30 years. I manage its clinical site operations and build its software (study budgets, sponsor invoicing and the site’s internal operations app) and its website, and I’m fitting out its new research site at 304 Victoria Avenue North.
hmrg.org →
A menu bar button for macOS that transcribes the room. Click it and it’s already listening; click again and you get a clean, dated Markdown transcript. Speech recognition runs on the Mac’s Neural Engine: no cloud, no account, and the audio is deleted once its transcript is filed.
For my four-year-old, who loves cars. A printed play-mat town where real 3D cars drive themselves, drivers park and walk to the door, and a lake freighter comes and goes. Day and night follow Hamilton’s sunrise and sunset.
It has three quality levels so it still runs on the old iMac he uses.
Running the research site’s operations and building its software, from study budgets and sponsor invoicing to the internal operations app.
Live, hybrid and virtual events for medical associations, and the software the biggest ones run on. Before that, a virtual visits platform for Ontario clinicians, since sunset.
Led sales training on new products and capabilities with the sales enablement team.
Helped found a startup putting telemedicine into retirement homes across Canada: the brand, the website, onboarding at each home, and a spot on the local TV news.
Launched a search engine for clinical trials running in the US and Canada, and ran more than ten recruitment campaigns for studies sponsored by Merck, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novo Nordisk and Pfizer.
Product marketer for hire, mostly in healthcare: the Antidote and the Cure Stress app, a booking system for the International Sailing Academy, Hello Cannabis, and promotional sites with 6.5 million visits between them.
Delivered a CME platform sponsored by Takeda Canada.
Led the agency’s Google Partner accreditation, one of the first in the world.
Websites since high school, for clients like Landscaping With Style, the Burlington Chiefs and the Canadian SHIELD Ethics Review Board. By 2010 my own sites, like 500days.com, drew more than 10,000 visitors a day, and I’d worked with the NBC Universal Store and Fox Searchlight Pictures.
PMP, 2017 · B.Comm. (Hons), University of Guelph, 2011 · Director, Hamilton Bike Share, 2014 to 2016
A credit-card-sized audio player loaded with guided stress-relief exercises, for a US non-profit. In 2012 I found the manufacturer, Sygama in Shenzhen, and ran the product from there: a 2015 redesign and rebrand from Cure Stress to The Antidote, with a designer I found and briefed, new packaging, and sales on Amazon. It became the non-profit’s biggest source of revenue after donations.
I also created the Cure Stress app for iPhone and Android, from the concept and wireframes to its launch and marketing.
A Bluetooth speaker that doubles as a table lamp, for iBomb, Sygama’s own brand. I led the project: I found the designer, Toni Šljaka, developed the ring concept with him, and worked it through colours, packaging, button layouts and dimensioned drawings with Sygama’s engineers until they began bringing it into production in 2016.
For Sygama I also commissioned the packaging for the iBomb Cobble egg speaker and wrote the English copy for their product catalogue, 2015 to 2019.
A PHIPA and HIPAA compliant video visit platform for Ontario clinicians, with a digital door lock on every appointment. banty.org
For the syndicated talk network behind shows with Michio Kaku and Robert Davi, I led the rebuild of talkradionetwork.com and trn1.com: show pages, podcasts, and the 24/7 live stream player behind Listen Live.
A WordPress site for a Laser sailing school in Puerto Vallarta, with clinic bookings run through a FareHarbor integration. It replaced the academy’s paper booking system.
“Listen together.” A side project from before Spotify, made among friends who were musicians and artists: everyone had a public profile of the music they were recommending, and anyone could listen along and post a reaction.
A fan blog for (500) Days of Summer. Fox Searchlight’s online marketing team worked with it like a partner, sending the final poster and an exclusive clip, and I interviewed the director, Marc Webb, in New York three days before the film opened.
A fan site for The Office: about 3,800 quotes, 3,000 members and 45,000 votes. When the old host disappeared, I rebuilt it in 2026 from a 2021 backup. theofficequotes.com
Also: Healthy Caledonia, ram.care, Wicycle, BurlingtonGas and others.
As a teenager I made Flash movies, games and photo pages, and ran a webcam page, on the family domain. The site warned that the movies “make no sense at all and are all completely and utterly stupid.”
The Wayback Machine kept this one movie and the drawings. Still missing:
a rabia · cars · cars: part two (unrelated) · protest · drunk driving ad · the Ugly Kid · pie movie · the dangers of olympics
