Education

I have a Bachelor's of Applied Technology - Photonics degree from Niagara College.

I have also previously graduated from the Computer engineering technician program also at Niagara College.

In addition to lasers, I've had the opportunity to be exposed to all kinds of neat and interesting stuff

• Class IV lasers such as Argon, Krypton, CO2, YAG, Excimer, and Dye lasers
• I assisted in the refurbishment of a Lumonics TEA CO2 laser
• Thin film deposition technologies
  • Plasma Vapour Deposition (PVD)
  • Ion beam (e-beam) deposition
  • Thermal deposition
• Tunable HeNe laser
• Ocean Optics Spectrometers
• Perkin-Elmer Lambda 3B Spectrophotometer (I wrote the revised SOP)
• Laser cutter¹⁾, Laser welder²⁾, and a laser marker
• Electron Microscope
• Laser beam profiling
• Holography
• Fibre splicing
• Raytracing
• Autocad
• Surface mount soldering