Damon graduated from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2006 with a Bachelor of Optometry. He completed the graduate certificate in ocular therapeutics in 2009, is a CASA credentialled optometrist and a member of CLCSA and OSO. 

After a decade working around the country, he settled in Launceston, Tasmania in 2012 where he now acts as an optometry director of a large practice of 8 optometrists.

Damon has a passion for expanding the scope of optometry practice and is proactive in the space of collaborative glaucoma care in northern Tasmania.