With years of experience in industry, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to my role, allowing me to equip my students with the skills and tools they need to succeed in this rapidly-evolving field.My teaching philosophy centres around a student-centred approach, fostering an environment that encourages creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration. I believe that by empowering my students to take ownership of their learning, they are more likely to reach their full potential and achieve their goals.In addition to my role as a Programme Leader and Lecturer, I am also an active researcher and advocate for sustainable design practices and Ecological Citizenship.Co-Investigator, Ecological Citizens Project. 2022 to present (4-year project).The Ecological Citizens project, funded by UKRI's EPSRC and based at the Royal College of Art in collaboration with the University of York's Stockholm Environment Institute and Wrexham University, aims to establish the Ecological Citizens Network+.

Working within the BA, BSC PD 2nd year teachings teams leading student facing design tutorials helping and contributing to the development, assessment and management of academic courses.

For final year Product Design students. Topics include Design for Society, Ageing Population and Design Development Processes.

Working in the Global Hair Packaging category, based within the R&D Technology Hub. I led new packaging innovations and design engineering capabilities, as well as being the lead design engineer on new brand packaging projects, bridging the gap from R&D to supply chain and procurement providing evidence and advice on the project’s development and testing. The ultimate aim is to guide the product through pilot mould testing and then through to mass production and product launch. Another area of my role was working towards and leading a culture of innovation, creating better ways of working using design and engineering thinking within the category by introducing or defining new capabilities and design methodologies in a bid to improve how design engineering was conducted at Unilever.Personal Achievements at Unilever:- Led and delivered a production-ready new packaging format for the refill market.- Patent pending on a new packaging concept innovation.- Winning the Placement Employer of the Year 2018/2019 award on behalf of Unilever from Nottingham Trent University based on some graduate recruitment and development work I had been leading.- Led 2 major brand packaging projects from conception through development and testing to passing two packaging design locks.

Design Lead for a team of eight engineers within the New Production Innovation department to deliver a functional assembly to New Product Development within a tight timeline, identifying and mitigating risks and driving specification targets. Often exceed and consistently achieved key design milestones by working efficiently with numerous multi-discipline Engineering teams. I continually reviewed the benefit of change when documenting and communicating the evolution of engineering solutions ensuring compliance to targets for environmental impacts, safety, hierarchy of specifications and costs whilst ensuring lean principles were embedded from the outset. Lead regular Global technical reviews with multi-discipline engineering personnel at all levels. Actively tried to increase safety awareness of products throughout their cycle by performing risk management activities (such as FMEA's) and regular and open correspondence with Dyson Safety Product Committee. Reviewed, interpreted and incorporated customer feedback, retail/reliability returns and incorporated solutions into future designs.Personal Achievements at Dyson:- Line manager for four very successful Engineers (two of them Dyson Pioneers).- Registered Inventor of a Dyson Technology (release date: 2019).- Successfully transferred a product to Dyson South East Asia (SEA) for production aided by a one-month secondment to transfer the design (product: Dyson V10 Cordless Vacuum). - Identified and engineered significant cost savings on a Dyson assembly by instigating increased liaison with Dyson SEA and transferring the solution for production.

Experience Includes:- Line manager- New product innovation- New product development- Siemens NX (formerly Unigraphics) CAD- Teamcenter PLM- FMEA- Design for manufacture- Design for assembly- Robust designOther:- Committee member of Dyson Road Cycling Club - Arranged 2 charity rides across the country raising over £10,000 for ARUK

Design, development, engineering, production engineering, testing, project management.www.teqniqa.com

Tabluka is a concept that allows you to customise and configure furniture to the exact specifications you need and assemble it without any tools or fixings. Sustainability, less waste and personalisation are at the heart of our values. Tabluka is sold online and exclusively within a high end interior design and furniture shop in Chester called Chattels [www.chattels-designerfurniture.co.uk].@tabluka on Twitter.

Pilot Flight Equipment Engineering Design, Development and Testing.I was selected to work as part of a team on a multi-million dollar research and development phase of RFD Beaufort’s biggest project to date, to bring a new fast jet flight suit to manufacture ready for evaluation and testing. The end product was for the US Air Force/US Government. It was my responsibility to carry out all the research, design, testing (which included human factor testing, ergonomic evaluation and user experience during all scenarios) and production engineering whilst designing and developing the next generation of pilot flight equipment.As a team we successfully passed the Critical Design Review (CDR) stage of the project to the approval of the US Government (allowing it to progress to the evaluation and testing phase) which required several trips to the US and presenting the work we had completed to 30/40 members of the US Government and US Air force.In another project I took the lead role and helped to win a highly competitive and high profile tender for the design of a new Life Preserver Unit (LPU) for the KNRM (Dutch Life Boat Organisation). I designed and tested a new LPU from scratch to tight specifications which needed to integrate with a new Survival Suit. I production engineered the design to allow it to be manufactured against tight deadlines and to current legislative standards. I received great feedback from the customer and senior managers at Survitec Birkenhead. Garment Design for Outdoor Wear (Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), 2011)As part of my continuing professional development, I successfully completed a course at MMU which involved designing a novel outdoor wear garment. This involved designing, selecting and testing new materials and managing the manufacturing process. I presented the project to my piers as well as to high level managers from Survitec Birkenhead and MMU

Design Automation Software for SolidWorksRole at DriveWorks Ltd- I was responsible for implementing complex engineering models from SolidWorks in to DriveWorks to create custom demonstrations to illustrate the advanced features of DriveWorks. - I was required to have very good understanding of SolidWorks and the ability to learn quickly to allow me to absorb and accurately demonstrate the functionality of DriveWorks to existing and potential customers.- It was my responsibility to ensure all the new training material was created, available on the new website in time for the product launch and kept up to date with new demonstrations. Achievements at DriveWorks Ltd- During my time at DriveWorks I was a key member of the technical team to help develop and bring a new product to market (DriveWorks Solo) with great success and a huge uplift in sales in all DriveWorks products.- As part of the DriveWorks Solo product launch I also led a project to design and implement the build of a tradeshow stand for SolidWorks World 2010 in California, LA with huge success and praise from the company Directors and visitors to the trade show.

Design, Engineering & Construction for Large Scale Live EventsRole at McCabe Creative Construction Ltd- I worked closely with the senior project leaders and customers to design and engineer technical drawings of large conference and hospitality sets that were built for a worldwide client base. - I also solely managed smaller projects, which required good communication skills and leadership qualities. - I joint managed the smooth running builds to ensure they were produced in line with the client’s specifications. - Other responsibilities included producing CAD visuals and presentations for client pitches.Achievements at McCabe Creative Construction Ltd- I was actively involved in setting up a recycling project to help reduce the amount of plastic, digital printed graphic waste that was disposed of as well as helping set up a scheme to plant one tree for every day the company travelled or spent on site installing an event. - I successfully engineered a project that was to tour around Europe. I engineered it in a way so the set broke down into manageable pieces between events and all fitted inside 1 truck which dramatically reduced costs.