About Me
I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where I'm a Research Engineer with the Protective Clothing and Equipment Research Facility (PCERF) at the University of Alberta. I am also pursuing graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering, specifically looking at the effect of fluid flow in fire protection testing. In general I'm intersted in large fires and high heat transfer systems, as well as protecting from these conditions and modeling their effects on human skin.
I have been working with PCERF since May 2003, assisting in setting up and improving testing equipment and experiments. This has primarily involved developing software for data acquisition and analysis in different research projects related to the testing of fire resistant materials, clothing, and equipment. My largest project to date has been a suite of applications to control and analyze flash fire testing using an instrumented mannequin.
That program development extended into testing and commissioning of the new burn room and then running tests at the flash fire facility, in addition to which I'm still developing software for new equipment and working on other projects, notably simulating and predicting heat transfer from flash fires and forest fires.
