User:Petermgiles

This is the Wikipedia userpage for Petermgiles.

Peter M. Giles lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia and is a product manager at General Dynamics Canada.

He has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University and is a former Olympic athlete. He has held a number of volunteer positions in the Canadian sport system including Commodore of CanoeKayak Canada and B Session Member of the Canadian Olympic Committee. In 2008 he was Assistant Chef de Mission for the Canadian Olympic Team in Beijing. In 2009 he was one of the final 16 candidates in the Canadian Space Agency's national astronaut recruitment campaign.

On Wikipedia, Peter has contributed to a articles describing Canadian athletes, especially Olympians in canoe-kayak, and to the article discussing the Opening Ceremony flag bearers for the 2008 Olympic Games.