Garret is building space solutions.
i build things that have to work.
i think engineering makes the world a better place.
i think the interesting problems are the real-world problems.
i think modeling and simulations are only useful to a point.
i think preparation is key.
i think the best moment is when your solution breaks out of the target industry.
i want to work on the things that inspire.
The short version
Engineering physics by training, mission software by habit, and a persistent interest in things that have to survive their environment.
I'm a Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering student at McMaster, currently doing electrical, instrumentation, and controls work at Kinectrics — which mostly means reviewing the drawings, calculations, and simulations that keep Ontario's nuclear plants running.
The rest of my time goes to the McMaster Interdisciplinary Satellite Team, where I lead the software behind mission control for PRESET: the scheduler that issues timed commands, the schemas that keep telemetry honest, and the ground tooling an operator actually has to use during a four-minute pass.
In between there has been electrolysis cell design at Hydrogen Optimized, two semesters as a teaching assistant, and a hyperbaric shelter for Mars EVAs that took our team to the Space Generation Congress in Sydney.
- McMaster Award of Excellence
- Dean’s Honour List
- Computer Science Award
- COMSOL Multiphysics
- NASTRAN / Inventor
- MATLAB & Simulink
- MAPLE · FlexPDE
- Grafana · InfluxDB
- Keycloak · OAuth2
Where the hours went
Six entries, two of them still open.
- 2025 —
Kinectrics
Toronto, ONElectrical, Instrumentation & Controls Engineering Co-op- Consulting on Ontario grid power generation with Bruce Power’s nuclear plant.
- Evaluating drawings, documents, simulations, and calculations for nuclear facilities.
- 2023 —
McMaster Interdisciplinary Satellite Team
Hamilton, ONMission Operations Lead & Software Developer- Leading a team of six building the mission control software for the PRESET mission.
- Standardized schemas and backends with the Canadian Space Agency in the loop.
- Built the command scheduler that issues timed satellite commands, saving operator hours.
- Jan – Apr 2025
McMaster University
Hamilton, ONTeaching Assistant — Electromagnetism- Supported course delivery, grading, and student learning in electromagnetism.
- Sep – Dec 2024
McMaster University
Hamilton, ONTeaching Assistant — Computational Dynamics- Taught vibrations, motion, and Lagrangian mechanics through MAPLE and FlexPDE.
- May – Aug 2024
Hydrogen Optimized
Owen Sound, ONElectrolysis Cell Design Co-op- Improved cell design with multiphysics FEA in COMSOL, including nonlinear and hyperelastic materials.
- Automated simulation sweeps in Python via curve fitting and gradient descent.
- Worked with manufacturers on leakage prevention and performance.
- May – Aug 2023
Hydrogen Optimized
Owen Sound, ONManufacturing Engineering & Procurement Co-op- Modeled electrochemical mechanisms in COMSOL to raise electrolyzer efficiency.
- Designed heavy-duty fixtures rated past 10,000 lbs and verified them with NASTRAN/Inventor FEA.