Fred's fascination with laser entertainment began in 1980 with his first exposure to “Laser Madness”, a presentation created by Audio Visual Imagineering of Springfield Virginia and in performance at the Calgary Planetarium at the time.  "Within one show the laser bug had bitten me hard and I was determined to learn the craft of Laser Display".  27 paid admissions later Fred was taken on as an understudy at the Calgary Planetarium with the in house laserist and his long career had begun. It took four years of training before he became performance ready.  "Choreography can be subjective.  But every artist must learn the use of his tools and the boundaries of the medium".  For someone with no formal musical or dance training, this can be a long process of starting from the ground up. In 1985 he began performing to audiences to the music of Led Zeppelin.

Not satisfied with the singular role of performance laserist, Fred enrolled in the Cinema, Television, Stage, and Radio Arts program at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.  The two year program provides for a one year study of the media arts with a one year focus of one major discipline.  Fred Graduated with honors in 1989 with a Major in Radio Production/On Air with options in Audio Post Production.

By 1989, Fred began conceiving, producing, and choreographing his own presentation in a collaborative effort with 2 other planetarium staff to create Faster Than Light...A Journey to the Stars on the wings of Rock and Roll. The show was received with much acclaim amongst staff and patrons and the door had been opened for him to express his creative talents in the Laser Show format. Two selections from  “Faster Than Light” were submitted to the International Laser Display Association Conference and Awards held in L.A.  Pieces were submitted from laser production houses and laserists from across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Central America.  All submissions are judged according to their respective categories by an independent panel of industry related professional.  "I gave my submission strictly with the intent of gaining professional criticism and was exceptionally surprised to learn I had been given an honorable mention in the category of Abstract Choreography".

In 1992, Fred assumed total control of the Laser Show operations at the Alberta Science Center as an outside production company  under the name of Plasma Wave Entertainment and operated there until the closure of the Planetarium Star Theatre in the winter of 1995. Over his career as a Laserist, Fred has performed to over 350 000 people.