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Biography

I am a semiretired electrical engineer with over 40 years of experience.

I thought courses in industrial electronics; instrumentation, automation, process control and electronics for over 20 years, and provide technical training to the Automation and Process Control Industry.

I have written numerous instructional manuals including ones in Analog and Digital Electronics, Signal Processing, Automation, Process Control, PLC Programming, ISA-5.1 Technical documentation, Robotics, Computer Automation, Distributed Automation, and Medical and Military Electronics.

I graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering in 1976, and have over 25 years of industrial experience in the design of military electronics, Instrumentation, and biomedical instrumentation; including more than fifteen years of operating my own company specializing in research, design and development of data acquisition and signal processing systems for medical applications and the Process Industry. In addition I have provided design and consulting services to the Process Control and Automation industry, and participated in research conducted at McGill University by custom designing equipment for medical research applications.

I have thought Industrial Electronics at Vanier College, Montreal for over 20 years, and chaired the Department for more than 15 years.

I am and have been an ISA member since 2006 and serve on the Montreal Section Board of Directors as Montreal Section and District 13 Education Chair.