Ted is a member of the Hupacasath First Nation in Port Alberni. Ted is a Registered Professional Forester with an MBA from Edinburgh Business School. Ted worked 37 years in a variety of positions with the Ministry of Forests, mostly on the coast of BC, including as a senior manager in the Coast Forest Region and provincial negotiator for the G2G Great Bear Rainforest (GBR) Agreement and Haida Gwaii Strategic Land Use Agreement.
After retirement from the Public Service Ted has worked 9 years for Nanwakolas Council, as a Forestry Advisor helping to conclude the GBR Agreement in 2016 and associated carbon offset project and human well-being agreement and most recently as the La-kwa sa muqw forestry negotiator.