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Nantwich, Gb

Crewe, England, United Kingdom

Contract CAS modeller in the Bentley design studio. Supporting the design team on developing future external & interior design concepts.Current SPOC (Single Point of Contact) Team Lead for Interior CAS (concepts)

Nantwich

Started a company to provide highly skilled technical personnel to Automotive OEMs.

Redditch

Surface Designer providing Alias support for Design Q's OEM Automotive & Aerospace contracts.

United Kingdom

A senior industrial role within a 10 stong Design team, supporting JCB projects from 2D concept generation to 3D production cad data.Apart from the day-to-day 'monotony' that was designing the interior and exterior design of some of the most awesome and technically challenging machines, my other duties included (but definitely not limited to) ergonomics, vector iconography, trend analysis, colour and trim, photo manipulation (or photobodging), lots of mood boarding and general visualisation of whatever anyone, anywhere in the company asks for. Working in a real go-to department, that was constantly in demand, definitely tested my core skill flexibly. This was highly valued due to the small size of the team and often included unusual requests. All my skills were used, challenged, improved and i was often been forced to learn new ones at short notice.The small team has meant being thrown in the deep end, managing several projects of my own from day 1, expected to get on and do the job, constantly interacting with teams of engineers, suppliers, marketing & sales, test site developers & machine specialists.Not to mention high-level interaction with all levels of executive staff, including the Bamford family, which I was privileged to be involved in and with despite my relative inexperience in the job/company. In my senior role I was expected to mentor and guide junior staff as well as take more responsibility in design reviews for projects involved in. I also took charge of sign-off roles for production parts, including colour tollerancing and texture mapping.

Rochester, United Kingdom

Industrial designer supporting JCB business units from 2D concept generation to 3D production cad data.

Rocester

Graduate industrial designer, joined shortly after finishing university. Large learning curve, developing skills on a wide variety of 2D and 3D projects, from decal/branding work, 'photobodging', pure photoshop renders, concept 3D CAD generation & Production 3D cad development.Took on the role of 'hmi specialist' within the industrial design department, looking at how the customer interacts with the machines, getting user feedback and feeding this information back to the project/department.Lots of interaction with design engineers, marketing, product specialist project leaders, senior management.

An awesome job to come back to from University, so much better than the normal student pub job. Lots of travelling around the London & Essex area, lugging large desks, cupboards and various other bits of heavy office furniture up impossibly small flights of stairs and then having to assemble it to floor plan designs. Lots of team work, leadership, time planning and organisational skills gained. Glad to be paid to build flat-pack furniture, working with a great bunch of guys who are always more than happy to have a laugh at your expense and also losing some uni weight in the process.

Started working in a few pubs to pay off the beer tabs. An interesting learning curve to say the least. I believe I learnt a lot of my teamwork and people skills during this time and gained a huge understanding, empathy and respect towards barstaff in general.The Oak, Inn CoventryThe White Heart, ChelmsfordThe Bulls Head, Binley, Coventry

Automotive & Transport - Vehicle Design, Vehicle Design, First Class With Honours

Activities and Societies: Rugby team for a bit, then tore a spinal muscle so returned joined the uni ice hockey team.

Diploma, Art & Design, Pass

A Level, Gcse, Alevel- Art, Design Technology, Maths... Gcse - English, Mathis, Science, History, Pe, D&T, German, Alevel - 3 C Gcse - 8 A, 1 B & 2 C

Activities and Societies: 1st xv RugbyGrade 1 Euphonium.