At Aera, we build smart farming appliances that advance sustainable food production at the point-of-consumption.We believe all communities will have autonomy over their food supply and be reconnected with food at its source with locally embedded and connected agricultural technologies.The world’s first smart farming appliances that gives homes, restaurants, and communities easy access to fresh, secure, and sustainable produce.

Co-founder of Remix86, an internationally recognized electronic music blog and DJ duo based out of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. DJ (Lance Wicks), creative contributor, and programmer. Listed as one of the top electronic music blogs in 2011 with listeners in countries all over the world. Focus on building relationships with producers, labels, blogs, and independent artists. Engage in creative writing initiatives (music blog posts, festival and event coverage, artist press kits), execute multimedia interviews with international artists, and create digital videos. Arrange and release exclusive content and contest giveaways with artists and labels.Released compilation album featuring 22 artists (FOGO) with exclusive originals and remixes and listed as a Top Electronic Music Blog.

Technologist role responsible for designing all types of general utility line extensions and facilitating the power needs of residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Responsible for power requests, customer service, distribution maintenance, and system design for the Southern Shore area of the Avalon Peninsula. Complete job designs for line and pole work, obtain property and easement knowledge, and manage customer billing, finance documentation, and municipal approvals. Maintain safe working environments for utility workers while keeping public safety and service at the forefront of all job actions. Acting supervisor over line and pole crews during re-occurring on-call shifts throughout each year.Maintain and provide input into AutoCAD standards and new drafting and geographical system technology.

Supervisory role responsible for designing and managing overhead and underground line construction, providing technical leadership to construction crews and contractors, and building and maintaining relationships with customers, councils and other regulatory bodies. Lead large, complex projects with direct coordination and management of all aspects of the job process, from job initiation to costing to construction to billing. Specific duties relate to distribution systems planning, underground distribution systems, and substation and switching operations. Acting supervisor over line and pole crews during re-occurring on-call shifts throughout each year. Accountable for updating the underground standards for all of Newfoundland Power and sitting on the Standards Committee for power distribution. Developed a graphic interface that displays supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) information. Currently the lead responsible for the power utility design of Galway, a new 2400-acre development consisting of residential neighbourhoods, industrial complexes, and retail areas. Received excellent performance reviews in annual evaluations by immediate supervisors since employment.

Technologist role responsible for designing all types of general utility line extensions and facilitating the power needs of residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Responsible for power requests, customer service, distribution maintenance, and system design for the Southern Shore area of the Avalon Peninsula. Complete job designs for line and pole work, obtain property and easement knowledge, and manage customer billing, finance documentation, and municipal approvals. Maintain safe working environments for utility workers while keeping public safety and service at the forefront of all job actions. Acting supervisor over line and pole crews during re-occurring on-call shifts throughout each year. Maintain and provide input into AutoCAD standards and new drafting and geographical system technology.

Project management role responsible for designing line extensions with a focus on communication utilities. Responsible for communication applications and the installation of infrastructure on power utility systems. Manage relationships with large clients such as Rogers, Bell Aliant, and EastLink specifically as they relate to technical aspects of joint use policies. Other responsibilities include customer billing and street and roadway lighting analysis. Acting supervisor over line and pole crews during re-occurring on-call shifts throughout each year.

Electrical Engineering Technologist responsible for quickly and efficiently drawing job aspects using AutoCAD. Design lighting layouts and perform lighting calculations with programs like Genesys and Visual3D. Plot drawings, perform site visits to job sites, gather information required for active jobs. Interact and cooperate with other engineering disciplines, clients, and contractors. Prepare plans and designs, calculations, cost estimates and bills of material.Scored 4 out of 5 on the annual Employee Review with high commendation from immediate supervisor.

Tool test and calibration, programs competency, troubleshooting, assembly of tools, insertion of tool into drilling pipe, monitor and interpreting incoming data, cooperation with directional drillers.Scored 90% on supervisors’ evaluation.

Battery tests, air gap measurements, megger readings, luminaire replacement, equipment installation, cable runs, cleaning and maintenance of electrical rooms and equipment (cycloconverter room, shore power and ships service transformers, neutral grounding resistors, main propulsion generators, main propulsion motors etc.).90+ evaluation results from 3 separate supervisors.

Assembled upgraded equipment to be installed onto cable strands on telephone poles.• Read technical maps of the residential area to prepare equipment.• Small, speedy work.• Filled out proper documentation for each installed unit.