Personal
I live in Clarington with my wife Sharon and our three children. I work at the intersection of practice ownership and software development, building tools that help dental practices run smoothly and creating work environments people want to be part of.
Practice Owner & Builder
I co-founded Longworth Dental Bowmanville (2011), expanded to Courtice (2021), and added our Lab (2021).
Running two independent dental practices has surfaced problems that existing practice management tools don't solve. So I'm building Dentalope, a Django-based system that handles the specific workflows our practices need. Check it out! It runs our website, helps onboard our team members, crunches our numbers, and builds on the same stack as my healthcare & machine-learning research.
How I Think
My work is frequently multidisciplinary. I like applied problems, understanding the systems that help people work together. I model complex problems.
Even though you try to put people under some control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in its wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good; that is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.
—Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
This quote shapes how I approach practice ownership and systems design. Build structure, watch how people interact with it, optimize based on what emerges.
Research & Background
In 2025, I completed a Master's thesis on using transformer-based language models to identify alexithymic language patterns, supervised by Dr. James D.A. Parker through Trent University's Department of Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods. The research demonstrated that language models can quantify emotion in text and predict alexithymic patterns across diverse formats.
I previously taught mathematics in English and French. I hold teaching certificates in Labrador, Quebec, and Ontario. I completed a double-bachelor's degree at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in mathematics and secondary education.
I've presented research at psychology and dental conferences. The work on language models appeared at Canadian Psychological Association conventions; the practice management work at the Ontario Dental Association's Annual Spring Meeting.