Meet the Founder
Chris Hetherington
The Technician Who Built a Course
To Put Himself Out of Business
I lead an automotive diagnostic and electrical repair center specializing in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems calibration, serving independent shops and collision centers across Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens Counties in New York. Shops call me when they cannot handle the complex stuff: diagnostic nightmares, electrical faults, and ADAS calibrations that need to be done right. That has been my business for years. And I just taught you how to handle the calibrations yourself.
That is not a joke. That is exactly why I built Omega Tech Academy.
I have been an ASE Master Technician for nearly 20 years. Every week I work on vehicles that have the shops stumped. Electrical gremlins, module failures, and ADAS systems that need to be diagnosed and calibrated correctly before they go back to a customer. And every week I see the same thing. Shops with the vehicles, the customers, and the opportunity, but sending calibration work out the door because nobody on their team knows how to do it with confidence.
The training that existed for ADAS was not helping. Too theoretical. Too expensive. Too boring. Techs were sitting through hours of slides and still walking out lost when a real vehicle was in front of them. I got tired of watching it.
So I built something different.
Inside the Academy you will know me as Omega 1. Out here I am just Chris, an ASE Master Technician who got tired of watching good shops and good techs leave money on the table because the training available to them was not good enough.
What Is Omega Tech Academy?
Omega Tech Academy is ADAS calibration training built from the shop floor. Not a classroom, not a certification mill. Every lesson is grounded in real calibrations performed on real vehicles in a working diagnostic shop. The same process I use every single day.
The Academy teaches technicians and shop owners the Calibration Success Framework — a structured, repeatable system for approaching every static and dynamic ADAS calibration with confidence and consistency. Forward radar. Multi-purpose cameras. Blind spot monitoring. Around-view systems. Parking sensors. Real procedures. Real scenarios. Real results.
The goal is simple. By the time you finish the course you are not just capable of performing ADAS calibrations. You are doing them consistently and keeping that revenue in your shop.
Credentials
- ASE Master Technician
- Advanced Level Diagnostics Certified
- ADAS Calibration Certifications
- Nearly 20 years of automotive industry experience
- Active diagnostic and ADAS calibration business
- Founder, Omega Technology Academy, LLC
Why It Matters
As of 2025, roughly 65% of collision repairs require at least one ADAS calibration. That number is still climbing. The shops and techs that figure this out first are going to own it.
This is not about the future of the industry. It is about what is already happening in your shop right now. Whether you are keeping that work in-house or writing a check to someone like me every time it comes through the door.
I built this course so you can stop writing that check.