John Pyrik spent 27 years in government before retiring in 2017 to move back home to BC where he rarely has to shovel snow. He began as an intelligence officer for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) where he conducted investigations into terrorism and economic espionage. He then worked as an investigator for the BC Securities Commission on cases of market fraud, broker misconduct, and insider trading. When Canada established FINTRAC, its new anti-money laundering agency, he joined as a senior analyst and team leader.  Mid-career he became interested in improving the tradecraft of analysis so he became a scholar-residence at Carleton University.  The following year, the Privy Council Office (PCO) asked him to create and manage a new government-wide Intelligence Analyst Learning Program. He later became the first ever “analytic methodologist” at CSIS and  their first chief of analytic training.