Computational medicinal chemist
Special Student, Biochemistry and Medicine, uOttawa (current)
PhD, Applied Mathematics, Carleton University (2011)
I'm working on the beginning of the end for animal testing in the pharmaceutical industry with help from scientists at Sandia and Los Alamos. Nobody looks at a pigeon and thinks that's a good example of a T-Rex, Mus musculus and Homo sapiens evolution diverged around the same time 100 million years ago. Preclinical results from mouse models often fail in human trials, with tragic consequences in some cases eg. Thalidomide.
40 years of computer experience
In 1985, my truck driver father had the brilliant idea "computers are going to be big one day" so he asked the secretary in his warehouse where they bought her computer. He took me to the IBM office in downtown Montreal on the Monday before xmas to buy me the first original IBM PC but he had no money left for software or games after that. I cried many nights, all my friends had Nintendos and Ataris. I split my paper route money with another nerd at my school to buy BASIC 1.0 so the only video games I played as a teenager were the ones I coded myself. In hindsight that act of tough love set me up on an amazing computer career at Corning, Disney, Mercedes-Benz, McLaren F1, BBC News, ...