Until recently I was an Assistant Research Officer at the Institute for Biodiagnostics (part of the National Research Council of Canada), and was actively involved in the biomedical research for over 5 years. However, due to budget cuts my position was discontinued and as such I am pursing opportunities that can take advantage of my wide range of skills. I have more than 15 years of experience managing and training large groups of employees, graduate students, and undergraduate students. I have a solid background in preclinical biomedical imaging (in vivo and ex vivo), microbiology, detergent/lipid/membrane chemistry, protein/peptide chemistry, biophysical chemistry, biochemistry, spectroscopy, cell biology, cardiology, and molecular biology. I also have extensive working and theoretical knowledge in many aspects of biomedical imaging including magnetic resonance imaging, UV-Vis and fluorescence spectrophotometry, fluorescence imaging, near-infrared spectroscopy and spectral imaging, and thermal imaging.