After I graduated from NBCC in 1995, I started working for a small contractor in St. Andrews.  Later that contractor would become the biggest electrical contractor in Charlotte County, servicing residential, commercial and industrial clients.  I was fortunate to have worked with someone that covered such a broad range of the electrical field.  I served my entire apprenticeship with that contractor, enabling me to get my inter-provincial license for construction electrician.

That experience gave me the skills necessary to work as an industrial electrician at Flakeboard Company Ltd., where I was employed for 10 years.  Two years after starting at the Flakeboard, I was able to challenge my industrial electrician license, giving me 2 red-seal journeyman tickets.  After 8 years of working there, I was able to start another apprenticeship for industrial instrument mechanic, giving me a total of 3 red-seal journeyman tickets.  I continued to work there until August of 2009.

Since then I have been an instructor at NBCC in St. Andrews, first teaching in apprenticeship and now I am teaching in the Electrical: Industrial program.

NBCC has not only given me the skills to become an electrician, but has also equipped me with the tools to learn new skills.  Now, as an instructor, I get to see future electricians and possibly future instructors, supervisors, managers or company owners.