Awardee of the industry-into-academia initiative that aims to utilise the experience of the Visiting Professors to enhance student learning as well as the employability and skills of UK engineering graduates.

Role:• Accountable for patenting technology across the Environment Control and Wearables category• Organising the drafting of 20+ patents per year with external council, ensuring broad coverage • Bringing new technologies to Dyson – If Dyson lack expertise, I technically advise on which strategy to pursue, evaluating buying companies, appointing post-doctoral researchers or recruiting staff to increase internal capability • Solving multi-disciplinary challenges using techniques such as Triz effects database, empirical and analytical models or experimental data • Coaching and career guidance for Dyson early careers and Dyson University students. • Promoting engineering in external and internal events including speaking on panels such as women in Engineering and importance of mental health at work Achievements• Achieved the highest number of Patents within research over multiple years. Patsnap values my granted patents at $1.7m.• Promoted engineering at prestigious events held at Eton Collage, Houses of Parliament, Cheltenham science festival and the Royal International Air Tattoo.

I manage an internal team of engineers, scientists and technicians as well as external consultants and academics to deliver technologies for future generations of Dyson products. I specialize in asking how systems work then building technology on fundamental physics and engineering. With development based on numerical and/ or analytical models, real time quantitative measurements, and six sigma data analysis. In addition to my core role I typically have a number of internship students and have this year built a multi-million pound laboratory for the development of dust separation systems.

As the filters team lead for Dyson I managed a team, as well as external research with a consultancy and external academic research with universities including Leeds and Oxford. I planed capital expenditure of research equipment for my group and link this with a whole business strategy for product emissions measurement equipment. I regularly use following equipment:• Advanced Laboratory Equipment, Scanning Electron Microscope, Energy-dispersive X-ray, Porometry measurement, real time data collection and X-Ray Computerised Tomography, Thermal and Hyperspectral imaging.• Particle counting, Laser Aerosol Spectrometer (LAS), Condensation Particle Counter (CPC), Differential Mobility Sizer (DMS), Aerosol Particle Sizer (APS) and Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer (SMPS). I am a regular attendee at filtration conferences and I was asked to be a guest speaker for the Filtration Society in the UK in 2016.

As a senior Engineer I was responsible for the design of filters for some of Dyson’s products. I had autonomy for planning my own projects. I started the introduction to Dyson of real time measurements of separation systems though a large capital expenditure phase.

I founded and owned a start-up that grew to a £¾ Million annual turnover business in my spare time. I employed one full time member of staff in the UK as well as one in India. The novel part of the company was I sold and then purchased stock, so I had no inventory, this allowed me to exploit the benefits of the low cost of online selling and “the long tail” phenomena. To achieve zero inventory I designed, then commissioned, a near real time server side piece of software, which downloaded prices from my supplier added on a fixed and % element then uploaded the selling price to my online shop. I had 100% authority and autonomy for the business.

Reporting to the project director responsible for the development of all production methods for UK MoD Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Respirator. Working as part of a team of 6, responsible for a £40 Million pound contract to the UK MOD for Respirator, Filter and Test equipment. Teamed with designers we moved from prototype models and CAD to achieve the required DEF-STANS and NATO NBC Respirator Triptych specifications on a production volume product. I coordinated robustness, environmental, military equipment compatibility, ARTS and UK MOD Standard Military Protocol tests. I was responsible for the development of all production methods for GSR respirator, including ultrasonic welding, cynoacrylite bonding, 3 and 6 axis robotics, laser marking. On a single piece flow line with KanBan storage and SPC control. Using a selection of lean, Kaizen and six sigma tools such as SMED, control charts, gauge R and R and 5’s improved to productivity of many production processes though out the business.

Continuous improvement of production lines using lean and 6 sigma tools and methodologies. Working on a wide range of metal working machines, lathes, milling, grinding, electron beam welding and balancing.