He was engaged in developing hardware and software for deep sky imaging and in research of brightness variations in active galactic nuclei.
[1] He pursued a career in computer software and systems design, with an emphasis on signal and image processing.
[1] In the early 1990s, he constructed an observatory in his backyard near Ottawa, Ontario, with a CCD camera of his own design.
[4] He used the observatory to perform long-term monitoring of several blazars (active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets), including the objects OJ 287 and 3C 66A.
This medal is awarded, not more than once a year, to an amateur astronomer resident in Canada on the basis of the value of the work carried out in astronomy and closely allied fields of the original investigation.