I have more than 25 years of experience in Mineral and Coal Processing Engineering working with industry, academia, and government. My first position was at the University of Alberta, followed by the Alberta Research Council. In the 1990s I held a senior Licensed Scientist positon at the British Columbia Ministry of Energy in Victoria, B.C., and I was engaged in consulting work for the mining industry before I decided to pursue my PhD studies at UBC. After completing my PhD degree in 2006, I moved to Australia to work at the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre, the center of excellence for mineral processing at the University of Queensland. In 2011, I returned to work for the industry as a Senior Research Engineer at Teck Resources until I joined the UBC Mining Engineering department as Assistant Professor in 2014.