Nuclear systems, quietly built — automation, hands-on.

01 — About

Bridging heavy tooling and the home bench.

I hold a degree in Nuclear Engineering from Ontario Tech University. Today I work as a Systems Engineer in the nuclear sector for ATS Industrial Automation, deployed heavily at the Bruce Power site. My work spans design calculations, FMEAs, risk assessments, integration, and on-site commissioning.

A big part of my recent focus has been acting as the tool lead for the MCR Auto Calandria Tube Installation — taking a complex piece of nuclear tooling end-to-end. Alongside that I've contributed to decommissioning work for KHNP Wolsong-1 and waste-management systems for Canadian Nuclear Laboratories.

On site — Auto CT / Inspect team.

02 — Work

Where I've been.

03 — Projects

Robotics, MCR tooling, and reactor decommissioning.

The ATS × Bruce Power Inspect East team — Noman, centre.

Nuclear · robotics & tooling001

MCR Auto Calandria tooling — first-ever robotic execution on a CANDU reactor.

Tool lead for the Major Component Replacement (MCR) Auto Calandria Tube Inspection project — owning the full development cycle and system integration, and spearheading the Auto Inspect initiative that achieved industry-leading robotic execution inside a CANDU reactor for the first time ever.

• End-to-end ownership of tool development and system integration
• First successful autonomous robotic inspection run on a CANDU unit
• Design calculations, risk assessments and FMEAs
• Systems design, verification and validation through on-reactor commissioning

Bruce Power — milestone announcement ↗ ATS Industrial Automation — feature ↗

Nuclear · waste & decommissioning002

Waste, fuel and decommissioning consulting.

Specialized consulting across domestic and international nuclear projects — from fuel encapsulation to decommissioning dose and shielding analysis, communicated directly to global customers.

• Fuel encapsulation project consulting
• Built & operated a CNL low-to-high-level waste sorting facility
• KHNP Wolsong-1 decommissioning — dose, waste & shielding reports
• Led international customer meetings on technical findings

R&D · thermal aging & automation003

Thermal aging studies and MATLAB test automation.

At Kinectrics, ran accelerated thermal-aging R&D on low-voltage cameras to characterise how they degrade and behave across their service life — and built MATLAB applications that automated the test rigs, acquired instrument data, and ran the statistical and graphical analysis.

• Accelerated thermal-aging studies on low-voltage cameras to model long-term degradation and behaviour
• Component-failure forensics & diagnostics on HV/MV/LV power cables
• MATLAB applications automating tool & instrument testing end-to-end
• Statistical and graphical analysis of acquired test data

Engineering · systems & V&V004

Core systems engineering and validation.

Systems analysis across the full engineering lifecycle — bringing nuclear-grade rigour from kinematics, thermal and metrology through to verification, validation, and design review.

• Kinematics, thermal, accuracy, cycle-time, vibration, metrology & reliability analysis
• Design reviews with vendors, customers and internal engineering groups
• SMR layout Capstone with the OPG Darlington New Nuclear team

04 — Credentials

Licensed, cleared, and certified.

05 — Off duty

The other side — curiosity on weekends.

MIG welding · Small-engine repair · 3D printing · RC tuning · Field photography · Weekend backroads

06 — Contact

If it touches heavy tooling, home-lab automation, or a hands-on mechanical problem — I'd like to hear about it.