Experience

Rathco ENG

• Canada
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Junior Engineer/Strategist, Renewable Energy

  • Jul 2023 - Present



ZS2 Technologies

• Canada
• Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research And Development Associate

  • Jan 2023 - Jul 2023

  Support the development and design of innovative Carbon capture, utilisation and storage units; Monitor, collect and analyze data on the operation of prototype and effectively disseminate knowledge to other team members; Conduct research into emerging sustainable design building products and methods and provide an overview of the study; Design of prototypes for direct air capture system to allow for cost-effective CO2 pressure-swing adsorption and desorption cycles – simulate their geometries on ANSYS to optimize mass transfer and pressure loss while reducing the need for heat; Perform quality control tests on cement tiles, such as flexural strength and screw withdrawal; Show less



Charlton Sustainability Hub

• Charlton, Ontario, Canada

• Green Energy Technician

  • Feb 2022 - Aug 2022

  Source local energy industry contractors for Solar PV, Wind Turbine, and Geothermal Heating to explore options for the hub’s facility and request quotes based on building energy needs and the net-zero mandate; Conduct technology assessments to implement and develop a net-zero building to maximize the energy efficiency of the facility and meet its sustainability goals; Research and explore power, heating and cooling solutions and predict energy usage by deploying RETScreen analysis and plug load schedule; Show less



University of Ottawa

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Jan 2020 - Feb 2022

  Conducted many proximate analyses according to ASTM standards to characterize fuel feed for numerical combustion model;Designed a device called “bed slicer” to help guide the hand saw during the cut of the post-combustion beds cross sections in SolidWorks;Wrote a paper about the void fraction in a packed bed combustor of wood biomass during quasi-steady-state combustion to find up to a 30% difference from the previous assumption;Updated and improved an existing Finite Volume combustion thermodynamics and heat transfer model in FORTRAN to account for new experimental results and found substantial impact in the oxidation zone;Performed image analyses with ImageJ and MATLAB Show less

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2021

  Led Thermodynamics I & II tutorial sections in classes with 40 students and ensured they understood the subject which I guided them through weekly by effectively communicating with the whole group or individually;Delivered Air Conditioning and Diesel Engines laboratories to 20 students once a week deploying strategies to make learning quicker and more effective;



Confederation College

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Maintenance Technician

  • May 2015 - Aug 2015

  Set up and operated workshop mechanical machines to prepare materials for upcoming students, including milling machine, lathe, guillotine, table saw, drill press machine, and shearing machine; Designed monitor stands in SolidWorks and assembled them by using hand tools such as hand drills, and screwdrivers; Set up and operated workshop mechanical machines to prepare materials for upcoming students, including milling machine, lathe, guillotine, table saw, drill press machine, and shearing machine; Designed monitor stands in SolidWorks and assembled them by using hand tools such as hand drills, and screwdrivers;



Ontario Power Generation BioEnergy Learning and Research Centre

• Thunder Bay

• Volunteer

  • Jan 2015 - Feb 2015

  Performed proximate analyses of wood chips and wood pellets for a sizeable sustainable project of biomass-fired boiler that provides 1250 kW of heat to one of the College’s buildings built based upon Canada-wide environmental regulations. Performed proximate analyses of wood chips and wood pellets for a sizeable sustainable project of biomass-fired boiler that provides 1250 kW of heat to one of the College’s buildings built based upon Canada-wide environmental regulations.