James Blight
Vice President at Paladin Security Group Ltd
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Blight is a Vice President and certified security professional with over 20 years of experience designing and leading commercial and retail security, life safety, and emergency preparedness programs across Canada. He builds national-scale security strategies that prioritize protecting crowded spaces, optimizing guard operations, and aligning corporate and contract stakeholders around actionable risk mitigation. Known as an innovator and subject matter expert, James blends operational rigor with a willingness to challenge conventional approaches to drive transformation and efficiency. He has progressed through hands-on roles from site security manager to executive leadership, bringing practical program development and technology-focused operational experience (including LPR systems and national standards implementation). Based in Burnaby, BC, he also pursues a parallel creative career as a professional voice actor—currently the voice of the Hulk in Marvel Super Hero Adventures—which underscores his ability to communicate confidently across diverse audiences. His background in emergency preparedness, incident command, and music/voice training gives him a distinctive mix of technical, operational, and creative communication skills.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Douglas CollegeCreating Voices for the Cartoon Industry, Creating Voices for the Cartoon Industry at Vancouver Film SchoolEmergency Preparedness, Incident Command System, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Command System at Justice Institute of British ColumbiaPacific AcademyMusic, Music at The University of British Columbia
French
Github Skills (58)
zero-configuration10
javascript10
hot-reload10
typescript10
user-interface10
webpack-plugin10
declarative10
build-tools10
frontend10
developer-tools10
create-react-app10
react10
responsive-email9
webpack9
drawing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jamesblight/rules_node
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Bazel rules for node.js
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
bazelnode-jsstarlarkrulesbazel-rules
jamesblight/surviving-redux
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 21 days
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