I am an Inspector (Analytical Chemist) within the Inspectorate Division of the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons based in The Hague working towards a world free of chemical weapons by verifying compliance of the Chemical Weapons Convention

Originally from Vancouver, I have degrees in Analytical Chemistry from Carleton University and The University of British Columbia. Formerly, I was with Defence Research and Development Canada at the Suffield Research Centre in the Chemical Biological Assessment & Protection section. I am a former Governor of Medicine Hat College to provide governance oversight and strategic vision to the 3,000 student (2100 FTE), 440 employee comprehensive community institution that has a $60 million annual budget.

At Carleton, I worked on various analytical, geochemical, land-use and climate change projects under the supervision of Dr. RT Patterson & Dr. Bob Burk. For my M. Sc. in chemistry, I was part of the Okanagan Regional Chemical Analysis Centre at UBC Okanagan that did a wide variety of chemical analysis using various analytical techniques and instrumentation. I developed novel ionization sources for mass spectrometers and hardware development for chemical analysis. We looked at mechanisms of Photon Induced Chemical Ionization (PICI) in Atmospheric Pressure Photo Ionization systems and Stationary Sample Introduction (SSI) methods.

At UBC Vancouver, I was working towards a Ph D. in Experimental Medicine with Dr. Juergen Kast at the UBC Biomedical Research Centre. We were looking at developing new mass spectrometers to better characterize and understand biochemical process of blood. I helped develop hardware to fragment proteins and peptides using photo-generated electrons to induce ECD/ ETD like dissociation to identify post-translational modifications. I also researched new methods to study protein-protein interactions in our studies of causes of cardiovascular dI am an Inspector (Analytical Chemist) within the Inspectorate Division of the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons based in The Hague working towards a world free of chemical weapons by verifying compliance of the Chemical Weapons Convention

Originally from Vancouver, I have degrees in Analytical Chemistry from Carleton University and The University of British Columbia. Formerly, I was with Defence Research and Development Canada at the Suffield Research Centre in the Chemical Biological Assessment & Protection section. I am a former Governor of Medicine Hat College to provide governance oversight and strategic vision to the 3,000 student (2100 FTE), 440 employee comprehensive community institution that has a $60 million annual budget.

At Carleton, I worked on various analytical, geochemical, land-use and climate change projects under the supervision of Dr. RT Patterson & Dr. Bob Burk. For my M. Sc. in chemistry, I was part of the Okanagan Regional Chemical Analysis Centre at UBC Okanagan that did a wide variety of chemical analysis using various analytical techniques and instrumentation. I developed novel ionization sources for mass spectrometers and hardware development for chemical analysis. We looked at mechanisms of Photon Induced Chemical Ionization (PICI) in Atmospheric Pressure Photo Ionization systems and Stationary Sample Introduction (SSI) methods.

At UBC Vancouver, I was working towards a Ph D. in Experimental Medicine with Dr. Juergen Kast at the UBC Biomedical Research Centre. We were looking at developing new mass spectrometers to better characterize and understand biochemical process of blood. I helped develop hardware to fragment proteins and peptides using photo-generated electrons to induce ECD/ ETD like dissociation to identify post-translational modifications. I also researched new methods to study protein-protein interactions in our studies of causes of cardiovascular diseases.