I got my engineering degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1990 with the focus on speech synthesizer hardware design and software programming.

From 1990 to 2002, designed and developed quite a few adaptive hardware and software products such as Braille notetakers, Braille OCR, electronic magnifiers, tactile speaking maps and Braille displays. Founded two start-ups and led the hardware and software development in two mid-size companies.

Led the training for adaptive software and hardware at Humanware from 2002 to 2007 then joined RBC Royal Bank in 2007 and since then have been leading the Digital Accessibility Development team at RBC.

Served as a judge for the 2025 Simon Cox Student Design Competition.

I am a keen follower of accessibility and accommodation product innovations, conferences, hackathons as well as related standards and legislations.

I volunteer for adaptive sports, hiking, cycling, participating in adaptive arts, documentary movies and classical plays and music. I also participate in community building, intergenerational activities and other public discourses.