Astronomy!!! Astronomy has been a passion of mine since I was 11 years old. After discovering books on the subject, using modest telescopes and building my own little backyard observatory, I decided to become a professional astronomer when I was about 13. Since then, astronomy has been part of my life on a daily basis! Even as a professional astronomer, amateur astronomy remains important to me. Nothing is more exciting than to look through a modest telescope and see "what's up there"! As with music (see next page), I also have my "heroes", i.e. astronomers I greatly admire for their contributions to that wonderful science. Toping the list for me is William Herschel, that extraordinary observer and telescope makerr, who discovered the planet Uranus and surveyed the entire sky by telescopic eye observations! Other astronomers I really admire include William Huggins, George Hale, Walter Baade, Fred Hoyle, Friedrich Bessel, Gerard de Vaucouleurs, Clyde Tombaugh, Simon Laplace, Leon Foucault, Joseph Fraunhofer, etc. etc. As a researcher, my fields of study in astronomy are quite broad: from galactic star formation and evolution, planetary nebulae and Cepheids, to the chemical composition, massive star formation, morphology and dynamics of nearby galaxies. In particular, I have been interested in barred spiral galaxies since my PhD work, at Laval University. Those objects, now considered the norm and not the exception among the spiral galaxy family, are extremely interesting from several point of views: morphology, dynamics and evolution. A bar plays a major role in the evolution of a galaxy, including in our Milky Way. More and more work is being dedicated to this subject and I'm very glad about that! Since 1996, I have been working at three major observatories, the NTT,CFHT ad now WIYN. I have done a lot of different things at those observatories, mostly work dedicated to optimizing their scientific productivity. Below, you will find link to these sites, in particular my work on the queue scheduling mode implemented at CFHT. Currently, I have the honor to be the WIYN Director. That means lots of administration, plans, budgeting, and so on but also, and most importantly, the opportunity to work with a great group of people for the progress of WIYN Observatory.