Gary Heagle

Since graduating in 1980, Gary Heagle continues to advise and champion the college’s programs and students and has been instrumental in pursuing provincial and national accreditation for its engineering programs as a program advisory committee member and an Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) college liaison. For 20 years, Heagle has been employed with Bell Canada as a customer systems engineer where he has been involved in the design and implementation of domestic and global networks; co-presented the design of the highway 407 system; and spearheaded the consultation, design and sale of Internet connectivity for the Mosport Edenfest Rock Concert. Heagle is a licensed amateur radio operator and a member of the Repeater Technical Committee, providing support and maintenance to four VHF/UHF repeaters in the Durham Region. Since 2004, he has served as chairman of Hamfest, a radio flea market operated by the Oshawa and Pickering Amateur Radio Clubs.