Originally from Quebec, my family moved to Whitehorse, Yukon when I was eight. Growing up in
the North gave me an early appreciation for the outdoors and environmental issues,
eventually leading me to a BSc in Natural Resources Conservation at UBC. It was there that I
discovered GIS, a field that immediately resonated with my love of technical problem-solving
and big-picture thinking. I was fortunate to gain hands-on experience at UBC's Integrated
Remote Sensing Studio, supporting graduate research with remote sensing and GIS analysis.
After graduation, I worked for the Yukon Government as a GIS technician on the Ecological
Landscape Classification program, combining summer fieldwork with ecological map production.
Wanting to experience life abroad, I then moved to Munich, Germany, where I worked as a GIS
planner for MRK Media AG, supporting the rollout of fiber-optic infrastructure across
southern Germany.
Upon returning to Canada, I sought something different: a professional challenge that would
test my resilience and offer immediate, tangible impact. This drew me to emergency services.
What started as a departure from desk work became a career with BC Emergency Health
Services, first as a paramedic and eventually as a dispatch supervisor.
EMS gave me meaningful work, resilience, and leadership skills, but it also shifted my
perspective.
Responding to emergencies across diverse communities gave me a firsthand understanding of
how infrastructure and environmental risk shape people's lives.
Having accomplished what I set out to do in emergency services, it was time to reconnect
with GIS, this time applying those skills toward understanding and mitigating real-world
risk through geospatial technology.
I'm currently completing BCIT's Advanced Diploma in GIS while working at NOAH Intelligence,
where I prepare the geospatial datasets that feed into property-level flood risk models.
I couldn't be more excited about what's ahead.
