Instructor Certifications: Canadian Red Cross (CPR, EFA, SFA, WRFA, AWRFA), Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada (CPR)
I've been instructing First Aid professionally since 2005 and in April of 2008, I completed my Red Cross Wilderness and Remote First Aid Instructor level so we could add the AWRFA & WRFA to our list of available courses. In June of 2008 I completed my First Responder certification and will be working toward my instructor status at that level.
Since starting with LMac Community CPR in 2005, I've trained numerous staff from many different companies including office staff, factory workers, medical office staff, construction workers as well as both youth and adults with Scouts Canada. While many of them have different training needs, they all have one thing in common - they took the time to learn how to help someone else who requires First Aid - from a basic bandage to full CPR.
I've worked with Scouts Canada since 1983 as both an adult leader and leader instructor. In that time not only have I instructed well over two hundred Scouting members in their First Aid training but I've also applied my First Aid skills first hand during meetings, hikes and camps both short and long term.
I've always been very much an outdoor person and enjoy a wide
variety of activities - hiking, cycling, canoeing, camping and
rappelling. Over the last few years I've been white water rafting on the Ottawa
river, tidal bore rafting on the Shubenacadie river in
Nova Scotia, canyoning at St. Anne's Quebec, interior camping in Algonquin Park and hot air ballooning in both
London & Ottawa. I'm currently a RappelMaster with Simon Kenton Council, Ohio,
USA which involves teaching others rappelling skills as well as high rope rescue
techniques.