This is My Story

At the tender age of 16, I was the amphitheater technician for the
Staff Education Department at the Saint John Regional Hospital in New
Brunswick. The Regional was a new, state of the art hospital facility at the time, with a full
multimedia studio and in-house staff education support, including state-of-the-art photography darkrooms and equipment, a fully equiped graphic design studio with PMT cameras and compter-aided graphics, a computer integrated—multi-projector slide-show development suite, and a full sound and video recording studio.

I was inspired by the fancy equipment and fantastic success of this department
in the field of staff education and CME/CPD and so completed a two-year diploma program
in Communication Arts (Photography, Graphic Design and Journalism), with
extension courses in computer programming, television production and technical
writing.

A large training company hired me straight out of school, to teach
technical courses in classrooms all over Canada, and I began my journey into
adult education. I consulted as a curriculum and training developer for the
engineering arm of the Queensland government in Australia and provided
training, consulting and development services in all areas of my expertise,
including web and eLearning development. I developed and taught Digital Design
curriculum for two private colleges and provided consulting services for
various corporations, universities and governments.

In 2006, the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of
Newfoundland (MUN) in Canada, hired me on a one-year contract to help develop
CME/CPD for their cross-country medical school consortium project, MDcme.ca.
There I was part of a small team, working in all aspects of course development:
Needs Analysis—Instructional Design—Technical
Writing—Editing—Photography—Graphic Design—Development—Quality
Assurance—Assessment—Project Management.

For the next seven years, I continued working full-time
with MDcme.ca developing high quality, accredited, on-demand online CME/CPD courses
including Canada’s pandemic planning guide for the Public Health Agency of
Canada and several series for the Canadian Medical Association, along with
specialised training for International Medical Graduates, hospital staff
orientations, and several courses on Diabetes, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s
Disease etc.

In 2014 I left MUN and began a location independent
lifestyle, offering my extensive expertise to training companies and
entrepreneurs around the globe.