Dusty grew up next to the ocean in Fredericton, New Brunswick and gained his early emergency medical services experience working as a Primary Care Paramedic in an ambulance there. Dusty was also a Lead Didactic Instructor and a Lead Lab Instructor for Medavie HealthEd, and worked as an Advanced Emergency Care instructor for the Department of National Defence. Today, he works as a Flight Paramedic for ACAA where the favourite part of his job is the management of critical care patients and getting to work with an outgoing, ambitious and intelligent group of people. To decompress, Dusty enjoys snowboarding, hunting, fishing, camping, canoeing and woodworking.