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Handcross, England, United Kingdom

Twickenham, United Kingdom

Impact Tech Labs was founded in 2015 with the ambition of becoming the world leader in Performance Technology Products - creating exceptional products for protection and performance that enhance lives. Leveraging its dynamic team, ITL is building world leading scientific, technological and engineering capabilities to realise our vision. Our early projects have included developing new materials, material structures, products and impact testing. We are now embarking on product development into new categories, as well as offering product development and consultancy work for companies in need of our Performance Technology expertise. With multiple exciting products in the pipeline in areas as broad as smart wearables, and development projects for motor racing, ITL has an exciting future ahead. Our team includes expertise across materials science, industrial design, mechanical engineering, product design, biomechanics and sensor technology supported by experts in new market development, marketing, business development, sales, manufacturing, procurement and operations. Together we work as a dynamic, agile, cross functional team. We benefit from entrepreneurial flare balanced with a pragmatic commercial orientation. We also collaborate with numerous third parties, utilising subject matter experts or specialist 3rd party facilities, to contribute to making class leading products. We are based in Twickenham, London, UK.

Manufacturing and procurement consultancy specialising in the UK and Chinese market.DirectorCommissioned to work on a variety of contracts focusing on business development, business transformation and growth strategies with full implementation, establishing effective procedures and systems to ensure best practice and value for money. Assignments included;Creation of a company transforming it from a one-man business to a fully operational business employing a team of 15 with cost savings in excess of £100k as a result of effective project planning and a robust vendor selection process.Formation of an international purchasing division within a company servicing the food and beverage industry in Shanghai, established supply chain contract terms and set up procedures and quality safety standards.Functioned as Interim Group Manufacturing Director tasked with unifying six manufacturing plants and five PURCHASING offices with a total staff count of 250 in the UK and 150 in the Far East.Worked as Interim Procurement Manager leading on centralising specialist cleaning procurement across the organisation, reducing annual spend from £1.3m to £800k.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Managing both internal and external contract technical teams, giving product and project guidance. Translate, specify and Manage to corporate roadmap. Oversee the on boarding of new users from compliance and customer care prospective. Creation and management of the customer admin tools, management of both internal and external customer tech support functions

London, United Kingdom

ShareNPay is a social payment company that believes financial transactions are a social activity.With ShareNPay, anyone can easily build a social payment network to pay and collect money from friends, family and independent small business owners instantly. Our users can communicate with anyone in their network to split, discuss, agree, and approve transactions, as well as check their transaction history. Browsing the internet through our integrated web browser also allows users to share links and propose group activities. Our customers tell us that ShareNPay is a cool, ‘must have’ solution. We agree.

Newport, United Kingdom

A specialist sub-contract manufacturer supplying high quality and technically challenging electro-mechanical assemblies

Manufacturer and distributor of GPS/GSM location watch for child tracking.Manufacturing and Supplier Contracts ManagerEngaged to take the lead on the design for manufacturing processes for the company's main product, targeting cost reduction whilst also improving consistency of build. Key responsibility was to relocate from the existing premises to a low cost high volume manufacturing facility. Managed all mechanical and industrial design activities, selecting and pre-qualifying a new manufacturing partner taking the product to the stage of completion and to the next level to put into production as and when the company is ready.Successfully managed the logistics and operational process of relocating the manufacturing base to a low cost manufacturing sub-contractor in Asia.Achieved product cost reduction within a period of 3 months. Successfully commissioned the design of a new adult based product to compliment the range of tracking devices, including project managing the electronic design.

Worked as Interim Procurement Manager leading on centralising specialist cleaning procurement across the organisation, reducing annual spend from £1.3m to £800k.

Formation of an international purchasing division within a company servicing the food and beverage industry in Shanghai, established supply chain contract terms and set up procedures and quality safety standards.

Assisted in the formation of the company. contolled lettings Took control of the companies most prestigeous development at the time dealing with all issues from council / buildings control approval, client management site management, materials procurement, scheduleing and general management

Electronic & Electro-mechanical contract assembly including design and development and a PU/Plastic injection moulding facility.Senior Management Positions (Various)Held various senior management positions, most recently as Group Sales Director, focusing on new business development and growth strategies through revitalizing operational and manufacturing functions. Other positions over a cumulative 12 year period include Far East Manufacturing and Operations Director, Group Business Development Manager, Technical Services Manager and Manufacturing Manager. A key achievement was the introduction of Electronic assembly producing over 40,000 GPS based consumer units per month, Coil winding producing 150,000 transformers per month, tool making and injection mouldings servicing both external customers and the demands of the UK and Far East manufacturing plants.Established a group IPO in Hong Kong and 3 manufacturing plants in China from green field sites.Established training facility in China to retrain 150 strong local workforce to UK standards of manufacturing and quality control.Increased company turnover to over £23M per annum.Improved manufacturing efficiency levels by 30%.

Played an instrumental role in setting up of contracts with third party maintainer to ensure compliance with warranty standards and requirements. Engaged in a variety of consultancy assignments including Nippon Steel, Ministry of Defence (MoD Bicester) contract and Bray Electronics.Established dealer and end user service support for Nippon Steel Corporation, for their range of notebook computers when it was withdrawn from the UK & EU markets.Standardised and rationalised the installation and repair processes for all military vehicles fitted with 2 way communications, including emergency services over 3 MoD sites. Career

for establishing the quality and engineering departments. Served as the UK adviser to the Japanese production facility. Earlier career was with Walters Microsystems Ltd employed in various positions including production engineer and operative and assisted in the introduction of BS5750 and an internal ISO system.

Introduction of a production-engineering departmentAchieved £6M annual turnover for productionAssisted in the introduction of both BS5750 and an internal ISO system

National Certificate, Electronics

Btec First, Production Engineering

City & Guilds, Electronic Technicians Course 224