Colin is a lawyer and a registered Canadian patent agent. His practice focuses primarily on the drafting and prosecution of patent applications pertaining to mechanical and electrical subject matter. Colin has substantial expertise in the areas of communications and networking, optical fiber and data processing technologies, semiconductors, Internet-related, and other, software applications.

Having joined F&A in 2009, Colin has practiced for several years in national and multi-national IP firms drafting and prosecuting patent applications filed in the Canadian and the United States Patent Offices.

Colin completed a Bachelor of Science (with Honours) in Physics at Dalhousie University in 1993. In 1996, Colin obtained a Masters of Science in Physics at McGill University with his thesis entitled "Supersymmetric Ward Identities: A Diagrammatic Analysis of QCD". Thereafter, Colin earned his Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie University in 1999. A member of IPIC, Colin was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2001, and qualified as a patent agent in 2004.