Physics

I was happily teaching physics at Bishop’s University (academic years 1996 and 1997 ) when fellow McGill graduates convinced me to join them in a physics simulation start-up company in Montreal. I ended up spending the next eight years building physics and collision detection software for all kinds of 3D environments, including robotic and vehicular simulators, video games running on PS2, XBox and GameCube, virtual actors, and 3D animation packages for the film industry.I still track these many forms of virtual reality through my involvement in Montreal ACM SIGGRAPH, a computer graphics organization that produces regular public events with invited speakers from industry and government, academic researchers, educators and artists exploring the digital domain.

I’m a John Abbott grad who went on to do my B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University (where I was a member of the Mini Baja team) and my M.Eng in Aerospace Engineering at École Polytechnique (where I was project manager for a 21-student collaborative project with Bombardier, Bell Helicopter and Pratt & Whitney Canada). I worked for two years at Pratt & Whitney Canada within the Digital Engine program (evolving computer software towards the next generation of engineering design), before starting teaching part-time at John Abbott in the Engineering Technologies department in 2009. I joined the Physics department shortly thereafter and have continued to explore ways in which technology can be used to help students better engage with, and better grasp, the concepts taught in the sciences.

I started teaching at John Abbott in 2016. Prior to that, I got my Engineering masters and bachelor degrees at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I worked for Bombardier, General Electric, Alstom, Messier Bugatti, a French consulting company and the very famous École de voile de Lachine where I taught sailing. I've worked on planes, trains (metro and tram-train stations mostly) and X-ray machines.

I graduated from McGill University in Aerospace Engineering (B. Eng 1991, M. Eng. 1992). After working for a year on the doomed EH-101 helicopters, I joined Maya Heat Transfer for a little over six years, initially in Montreal, and then for three years based in Paris, France selling computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer analysis software. Following a three-year stint as a stay-at-home dad with my two sons, I taught Mathematics at The Henley College in England. I joined the Physics Department at John Abbott in August 2004 and I’m glad to be here!