Career
Canadian Welding Bureau
(Vancouver, BC, Canada) June 2026 - Present
Chief Innovation Officer
As Chief Innovation Officer at the Canadian Welding Bureau (CWB), I provide executive leadership in exploring, defining, building, and overseeing innovation programs that support the long-term competitiveness and advancement of Canada’s welding industry.
My role focuses on understanding emerging industry needs, shaping thought leadership around innovation, and developing programs that connect industry challenges with opportunities for collaboration, adoption, and commercialization. I work across the broader welding ecosystem to bring together industry, educational institutions, researchers, technology companies, and entrepreneurs around shared priorities.
A central part of my mandate is ensuring that innovation supports CWB’s broader commitment to public safety, industry success, and workforce development. This includes creating pathways that strengthen Canadian talent and capabilities, encourage responsible adoption of innovation, and help the welding community prepare for a changing manufacturing environment.
This role represents a natural evolution in my career: from developing and commercializing individual technologies to building the structures, programs, and partnerships that enable innovation at an industry level. My focus is on creating sustainable value and strengthening the people, capabilities, and connections that support the long-term competitiveness of Canada’s welding ecosystem.
Novarc Technologies
(Vancouver, BC, Canada) November 2021 - May 2026
Deputy Chief Technology Officer
At Novarc Technologies, I serve as Deputy Chief Technology Officer, providing executive leadership for weld quality standards and production readiness across the company’s automated welding platforms and customer deployments.
My role focuses on establishing and overseeing the governance frameworks that ensure consistent weld quality across Novarc’s products. This includes reviewing weld performance prior to commercial release, aligning internal engineering teams on quality standards, and supporting the successful deployment of welding systems across North American customer operations.
I also represent Novarc’s welding leadership in engagements with customers, industry partners, and at international trade shows and technical conferences. Through these interactions, I work closely with manufacturing partners and early adopters to ensure that weld performance expectations, production requirements, and quality standards are consistently understood and implemented across deployments.
Applus SKC - Welding
(Vancouver, BC, Canada) February 2015 - October 2021
Senior Leadership Role - Welding (Business Development & Engineering)
At Applus+ (formerly SKC Engineering), a global engineering and inspection organization, I held senior leadership roles focused on advancing welding engineering and structural integrity practices across industrial sectors. I led multidisciplinary teams and helped translate specialized engineering expertise into structured, repeatable systems aligned with industry codes, quality requirements, and client needs.
I contributed to business development, engineering program management, and the growth of our engineering capabilities. This experience shaped an important part of my leadership philosophy: lasting industrial progress comes from combining technical capability with clear standards, strong governance, and practical implementation.
Carleton U. & uOttawa
(Ottawa, ON, Canada) September 2007 - January 2015
PhD & Postdoctoral Research | Industrial Engagement
My early career combined academic research with practical industrial engineering. Beginning with my PhD at Carleton University and continuing through postdoctoral appointments at the University of Ottawa and the University of British Columbia, my work focused on understanding the performance, reliability, and long-term behaviour of welded materials and structures.
Alongside my academic work, I gained industrial experience through Goldak Technologies Inc. and Life Prediction Technologies Inc., applying engineering analysis to practical welding and structural integrity challenges. This work connected computational and experimental methods with real industrial applications, including weld performance, material behaviour, and life assessment.
These experiences established the technical foundation for the next stages of my career and shaped an approach that has remained consistent throughout my work: combining rigorous engineering with practical industry needs to support reliable, safe, and effective manufacturing.