Prior to joining the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta (Canada) between 2015-2017. He completed his PhD and his MA at the Université de Montréal (in Canada) in Educational Psychology, a Bachelor of Education (BEd) at Concordia University (Canada), and a Psychology Degree at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR); and between 2001-2014 he spent 12 years teaching high school in the public system in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec.