Product Manager

• Nov 2022 - Present

Dosimetrist and Medical Radiation Therapist

• Dec 2018 - Present

Active therapist bringing my varied experience to help patients, students and staff at central academic Cancer Centre;Planning in Eclipse and Providing Daily treatments in an ARIA based environment including total body irradiation, Prone breast, 6 DOF head and neck IGRT on 9 Truebeams and ClinacsNominee for RAD award 2019, 2020, 2022 =TBCC Rock StarPatient nominated RAD award 2020University of Alberta RT student 'Mentor Award' 2022 Active therapist bringing my varied experience to help patients, students and staff at central academic Cancer Centre;Planning in Eclipse and Providing Daily treatments in an ARIA based environment including total body irradiation, Prone breast, 6 DOF head and neck IGRT on 9 Truebeams and ClinacsNominee for RAD award 2019, 2020, 2022 =TBCC Rock StarPatient nominated RAD award 2020University of Alberta RT student 'Mentor Award' 2022

Independent Contractor

• Apr 2017 - Nov 2022

Remotely assisting companies & busy cancer clinics with operations, treatment planning, automation and process improvement using Raystation and online VPN applications. Pinnacle and Tomotherapy Treatment planning also available. Remotely assisting companies & busy cancer clinics with operations, treatment planning, automation and process improvement using Raystation and online VPN applications. Pinnacle and Tomotherapy Treatment planning also available.

Clinical Informatics Adoption Lead

• Jun 2018 - Dec 2018

Champion for the needs of Abbotsford Cancer Centre in a provincial effort to adopt Cerner as an electronic medical record. Supporting Radiation Therapy, Systemic Therapy and Surgical Brachytherapy users including physicians, RNs, MRTs, Pharmacy, and clerical needs.This transformation will be supported by the implementation of a common clinical information system that will replace multiple aging existing systems across three British Columbia health organizations. Champion for the needs of Abbotsford Cancer Centre in a provincial effort to adopt Cerner as an electronic medical record. Supporting Radiation Therapy, Systemic Therapy and Surgical Brachytherapy users including physicians, RNs, MRTs, Pharmacy, and clerical needs.This transformation will be supported by the implementation of a common clinical information system that will replace multiple aging existing systems across three British Columbia health organizations.

Treatment Planning Resource

• 2017 - 2018

Treatment Planning Resource serving an awesome team of 10 planners, 22 radiation oncologists, 80 therapists and a small army of fantastic physicists. We had 8 Varian linacs, Brainlab VERO, 2 CTs and 4D PET CT.Central academic site of 6 provincial cancer centres and largest on the West Coast of North America.Risk mitigation, resource allocation, efficiencies in treatment planning and balancing needs of patients, physicians and RTs in a time of many technical and departmental changes.Hosted Breast rounds, Provincial Sarcoma and Lymphoma Rounds and 1-3 weekly planning physics meetings.

Application Consultant- Implementation

• 2017 - 2017

Completed an exciting consulting contract for clinical Implementation of Raystation Treatment Planning System at Princess Margaret Hospital. Going live at such a massive institution was the culmination of years of effort from many people and was an honor to be part of. This also included helping researchers make use of the versatile software for surgical and radiomics purposes, planners, physicists and oncologists with adaptive planning, robust optimization, and total body solutions for their hundreds of anuual TBI patients.It was a great treat to be apart of this.

Application Consultant -Sales Support

• 2016 - 2016

Aimed to support Radiation Therapy customers to implement precision Stereotactic Radiosurgery products and to transition to new efficient 'Elements' treatment planning software platform Aimed to support Radiation Therapy customers to implement precision Stereotactic Radiosurgery products and to transition to new efficient 'Elements' treatment planning software platform

Rescuer, Membership Chair and Communications Chair

• 2008 - 2016

EMRU is a volunteer organization dedicated to saving lives through rescue and mountain safety education since 1954.We are increasingly requested to out of county missions and I have recently received awards from U.S. State Department, Mountain Rescue Association and County Sheriff's department. • Served our board and active membership of 70+ members in continuing to save lives in Snohomish county and beyond. • Previous Chair of Membership.• Involved with International MRA collaboration and a Preventative Mountain Safety focus making use of my decades of mountain experiences on 6 continents.

Senior Certified Medical Dosimetrist

• 2007 - 2016

I was highly engaged in providing quality Treatment Plans and helped Providence department thrive by continuously networking, learning and implementing state of the art technologies and techniques to help cancer patients in a busy, paperless Clinic (100+ patients/day on 4 linacs + specials with 2-3 Dosimetrists). I found efficiency using complex technologies.Supporting 3 Radiation Oncologists from U.Washington and MD Anderson I used Raysearch's Raystation and Pinnacle for Varian Linacs (IMRT, VMAT and 3D), Tomotherapy HI-ART and Planned Adaptive from Accuray, Eclipse/FastPlan for Stereotactic planning, Elekta's IMPAC/ MOSAIQ, & Brachytherapy seed implants. We made frequent use of in house PET/CT, 4D CT and MRI, stereotactic brain and body radiosurgery. I maintained our staff dosimeter badges, brachytherapy seed program, worked with RT students, spoke at nursing education events on and participated in Quality Assurance meetings. I was accepted to the Operational Excellence in house consulting program.I trained our new staff and we set a record in going clinical in our implementation of Raystation.My productivity increased 36% to 546 plans per year by optimally using Raystation and I presented as a champion at Raysearch user meeting 2015.I cooperated closely with other internal and external departments regarding patients and efficient procedures, stayed in contact with equipment vendors for solutions, licencing and continuous learning, • P.R.I.D.E. award winner (Providence Recognizes Individuals Demonstrating Excellence); • Completed employer sponsored Masters of Science;• created over 3700 clinical patient plans;• Initiated and maintained a departmental Sharepoint WIKI;• Reviewed articles for the Medical Dosimetry Journal: http://www.rtsource.com/periodicals/mdo;• Presented at National AAMD conference in 2014 on the topic of Team Work and Patient Safety including human factors/heuristic traps and systematic approaches to quality.

Planning Committee Volunteer

• 2010 - 2012

I am honoured to have been able to contribute to the cause of patient safety for IHE-RO. We clinicians worked with vendors towards safe and seamless plug- and- play Applications within Radiation Oncology technology.https://www.astro.org/Practice-Management/IHE-RO/Index.aspx I am honoured to have been able to contribute to the cause of patient safety for IHE-RO. We clinicians worked with vendors towards safe and seamless plug- and- play Applications within Radiation Oncology technology.https://www.astro.org/Practice-Management/IHE-RO/Index.aspx

Global Applications Support Specialist - Oncology headquarters

• 2005 - 2007

• Supported international customers and a team of 28 global application specialists in best use of and troubleshooting of released and pilot version software and hardware for radiation oncology planning and treatments;• Contributed clinical knowledge to the risk management team, documentation support, engineering and physics clinical subject matter experts. I assisted at ASTRO, AAPM, AAMD conferences and supported customers in person travelling to sites within 10 countries; • Streamlined our global support and training processes with training sessions for internal and clinical customers, including creating curriculum for my classroom teaching in California and Germany;• Created a Wiki to enable my team of global clinical educators and application specialists in the field to better facilitate communication and knowledge transfer to and from our small group at headquarters. • Involved with image guidance in all its manifestations: Multimodality Imaging (hosting imaging modality experts annually from US and German business units for multi-day seminars), 4D gated studies, in room CT, IGRT and Virtual Simulation for Treatment Planning; MV Cone Beam technology during its development, pilot and release; and the design of 160 leaf MLC collimator and the Artiste linear accelerator with kV imaging.

Medical Radiation Therapist

• 1997 - 2005

Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto 1997Fraser Valley Cancer Centre, Surrey, BC 1998-2000, 2004-2005Vancouver Cancer Centre, BC 2000• Served as therapist and preceptor to RT students;• Coordinated surveys of patient satisfaction. Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto 1997Fraser Valley Cancer Centre, Surrey, BC 1998-2000, 2004-2005Vancouver Cancer Centre, BC 2000• Served as therapist and preceptor to RT students;• Coordinated surveys of patient satisfaction.

Staff Dosimetrist

• 2000 - 2002

• Planned treatments, linear accelerator QA testing, treatment delivery;• Assisted in training therapy students and oncology residents;• Participated in pioneering PET CT planning and implementing IMRT for head and neck patients;• Presented at rounds and Swiss and European conferences on Robustness of IMRT plans and encouraging use of Planning Risk Volumes. • Planned treatments, linear accelerator QA testing, treatment delivery;• Assisted in training therapy students and oncology residents;• Participated in pioneering PET CT planning and implementing IMRT for head and neck patients;• Presented at rounds and Swiss and European conferences on Robustness of IMRT plans and encouraging use of Planning Risk Volumes.