Alan Whiteside Email & Phone Number

Forres, Gb

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Rome, Latium, Italy

Working on H2020 Project FishEUTrust Set up in 2011, RETE EUROPEA DELL’INNOVAZIONE (REDINN) is a high-growth knowledge intensive company, doubling its turnover each year and expanding its operation in the whole of Europe. The growth of REDINN can be explained by the innovative and specific services that the company offers, by supporting Industrial and Research organizations in defining and implementing their innovation and research strategies. This is achieved through the use of advanced methodologies, communication and dissemination strategies, promotional tools, and ICT solutions. REDINN is specifically focused in Innovation Management, providing support services to private and public organizations in Product and Process Innovation, Technology Transfer, IT solutions, communication and dissemination strategies, promotional tools and support for research and development projects. Headquartered in Rome, REDINN is made up of a pool of professional engineers with consolidated experience in international working environments (Europe, Latin America and Grant Advisors specialize in consultancy services for grant submissions and negotiations, project management, and dissemination actions

Forres

Developing strategies and initiatives to support innovation, specialising in health and well-being.

Forres, Scotland, United Kingdom

Supporting B2B and B2C opportunities for Eco-Vendors on the Green Grow Club website through the utilisation of Digital Technologies and Innovative approaches to product and service development and sales and marketing to meet the demands for plastic-free, cruelty-free, fair and kind products.

Forres, Scotland, United Kingdom

Scotland, United Kingdom

Supporting manufacturing SMEs, predominantly in the Highlands and Islands, with digitalisation and developing more environmentally-friendly products, services and processes.

Forres, Scotland, United Kingdom

Developing collaborations around Edify's Virtual Learning Platform for education and skills development in Lifesciences and Medicine with business, academia, healthcare providers and other stakeholders

Developing applications and partnerships to apply for funding for novel markets in the Aquaculture markets for innovative water quality sensing platform in Europe and Africa. Create concept for risk platform for aquaculture that combines satellite and sensor data.

Inverness, United Kingdom

Developing collaborative clusters of businesses, academics, public sector organisations and communities to improve healthcare services and education in the biggest health board geographically in the UK with a focus on remote and rural healthcare.Particular interests of the Health board are remote digital healthcare and green healthcare.I am developing collaborative projects around the green healthcare agenda, including food, energy and transport. We are coordinating a Scottish cluster focusing on emerging contaminants, which includes pharmaceuticals, chemicals, micro plastics and other pollutants, that is keen to collaborate with other water and emerging contaminants clusters.

Oban

Developing innovative electronics, starting with an Automated Early Warning Scoring System for healthcare

Highlands

The role involved linking up innovative SMEs, commercial companies, healthcare professionals, academics and enterprise agencies in the digital health sector to identify unmet needs and stimulate innovative solutions.

Inverness, United Kingdom

My responsibilities involved managing the development of our website to provide Inventors and Innovative companies and organisations straight forward access to the people, resources and services to help inventors and innovative organisation manage the protection, development and commercialisation of the technology that is produced as a result of their ideas. The website will also allow companies who offer services and resources to protect, develop and commercialise novel ideas to advertise their services to inventors and innovative organisations with smart ideas. I am also responsible for publicising Smart Idea Store and responding to customer feedback and improving the service and resources offered through the Smart Idea Store website.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Raise the awareness of NHS staff in the north of Scotland to the services and expertise that are available to help them develop their ideas to improve healthcareMet with inventors to discuss their ideas Performed an initial evaluation of the clinical demand, competing products and potential market by meeting with clinical advisors and searching patent databases and the internet.Finalise the evaluation in collaboration with the inventor and present the findings to assessment panels for deliberation

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Project manage the intellectual property protection, commercialisation and clinical evaluation of a diverse range of medical device projects including vascular access devices, radiographic test tools and physiotherapy equipmentNegotiate licence agreements with health boards, sub-licence agreements with commercial companies and collaboration agreements and contracts with project partners to facilitate the designing, prototyping and evaluating of the medical technology

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Testing the performance of ionising and non-ionising medical equipment to ensure it complies with legislation and/or best practiceProviding advice to NHS staff and patients on personal risk and optimising treatmentLecturing to undergraduate and postgraduate on diagnostic radiology, radiation protection and risk assessmentSupervising MSc students during their thesis

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Undertaking a part-time Masters degree and training programme that included six month placements in radiotherapy, physiological measurement and nuclear medicineDeveloped my own MSc thesis project to investigate if there was any difference in changes in the pain and temperature thresholds following aerobic exercises of volunteers with chronic fatigue syndrome compared to a healthy control population through discussions with clinical scientists and consultant neurologists

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Consultant engineer offering services to the Defence, Oil and Gas and Nuclear SectorsParticipant in Hazard Identification (HAZID) and Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) studies for the safe design/modification of petrochemical and nuclear installations.

Kirkwall, United Kingdom

Gained experience of the commissioning of the sodium disposal plant, including bid preparation and design in the office and fabrication in the prototype fast reactorCreate training modules by assimilating information from reports, process and instrumentation diagrams and other documents

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Undertook significant roles in the preparation and disposal of naturally occurring radioactive material during the decommissioning of the Brent Spar oil platformProject managed initial trials of a drill cuttings reinjection module in the Middle East having been involved in the design and development process

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Created Performance Standards for offshore equipment and contributed to sections of safety cases to assess offshore safety

Msc, Clinical Physics

MSc in Clinical Physics

Beng (Hons), Electrical And Electronic Engineering

BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering