Instructors & Team

Jamesan draws on a wide personal experience of shooting, hunting, and outdoor skills — combined with 16 years in the firearms industry and a lifelong practice of martial arts — to bring an innovative and genuinely engaging approach to firearms instruction. Range Arts derives its name from that martial arts background, and it shows in how he teaches: methodical, progressive, and focused on building habits that hold under pressure.

He has been developing and delivering live-fire training since 2015, a period that spans holster draw certification programs, structured handgun and carbine progressions, and thousands of hours on the range. Over his career he has also brought more than 10,000 students through the Canadian Firearms Safety Course.

His academic background in lecturing and research informs his instructional style — his courses are known for being as informative as they are fun.

He is a Chief Firearms Office of Ontario / Firearms Safety Education Service of Ontario certified instructor #ON1291, Region 6, licensed to deliver and examine both the Canadian Firearms Safety Course (CFSC) and the Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Course (CRFSC). He holds a Canadian Firearms Institute Action Pistol Holster Course Trainer qualification and competes actively in IPSC and multigun disciplines. The Range Arts Shooting Program is the curriculum he has spent the better part of 15 years building toward.

Denis brings 15 years of instruction experience to Range Arts, having taught undergraduate and post-graduate diploma programs for nearly a decade, practiced and instructed self-defence focused Japanese Jiu-Jitsu for close to 20 years — an experience that informs how Range Arts thinks about teaching physical skills safely in structured environments.

A 20-year career spanning film, television, and game development shapes how Denis thinks about Range Arts at a deeper level — as not just a classroom, not just a store, but as a purveyor of experiences.

As Managing Director, Denis oversees operations, regulatory compliance, and program structure. On the range he supports course delivery, student supervision, and safety monitoring alongside the instruction team. He also teaches Range Safety Courses from time time.

Patrick brings decades of hands-on field experience to his role as an Ontaio Hunter Edducatoin Program (OHEP) instructor — a veteran hunter whose real-world knowledge runs as deep as his commitment to passing it on. Paired with a long career as an educator, he has trained and mentored hunters across all skill levels, blending practical field-tested insight with clear, engaging instruction.

His OHEP course is widely regarded as one of the most dynamic offerings in the province — combining safety, ethics, and genuine field experience in a way that goes well beyond the standard curriculum. If you're deciding between completing your OHEP online or in person, Patrick's course makes the choice easy.

His OHEP course stands out as the most dynamic and engaging program we’ve seen, combining safety, ethics, and field-tested insight in a way that truly resonates.

When deciding if you’d like to complete the OHEP in person or online - don’t walk, run towards Patrick’s course.

David devoted more than half his life to clay target shooting before most people his age had ever held a shotgun. He spent six years as an actively competitive member of Team Canada's High Performance Clay Target Shooting Program, earning medals at the regional, provincial, national, and international levels in his primary discipline — Olympic Skeet. Across a career that also spans Sporting Clays, American Skeet, and ATA Trap, he developed a cross-disciplinary understanding of shotgun handling that is rare even among elite competitors.

He has stepped back from competing to focus on what comes next: sharing the sport via shootingsuccess.ca. His teaching philosophy is straightforward — master the fundamentals and handle a shotgun well, and no target is out of reach. Static or dynamic, close or far, crossing or incoming, clay or game. The platform changes; the principles don't.

David is equally at home coaching competitive shooters and introducing complete beginners to the range for the first time. He's particularly motivated by bringing younger shooters into the sport — and by showing anyone willing to try just how exhilarating, challenging, and yes, therapeutic, a day on the clays can be.

Thomas is an active Infantry Corporal with the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, Canadian Armed Forces. He is a CAF-qualified Small Arms Instructor and Range Safety Officer, with formal small arms instructional methodology training and a Foreign Weapons Instructor qualification covering NATO platforms.

His live-fire instruction experience includes lead instructor roles across four serials of Operation UNIFIER international recruit training and five NATO foreign weapons introduction courses. He brings military range safety doctrine, structured qualification standards, and the kind of baseline discipline that comes from running live-fire environments where the margin for error is zero.

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Dorothy joined Range Arts at an early stage of the company's development, bringing with her a sharp eye for brand and a fluency in social media that has shaped how Range Arts shows up in the world. She leads marketing strategy and manages the company's presence across digital and social platforms.

Kristen joined Range Arts early and brings a natural affinity for the community we serve — she grew up on the East Coast where hunting was simply part of life. She handles customer communications and is typically the first point of contact for anyone reaching out to Range Arts.