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Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Appointed to the role of Technical Director; leading both the R&D team in bringing new innovative products to market, and the Service team ensuring an industry-leading level of customer service (installation, commissioning, maintenance and repair).

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Labcold is well established as a leading specialist manufacturer and supplier of medical and laboratory refrigerators and freezers in the UK. In my role as CTO I lead the company's technology and product development activities whilst providing manufacturing and after-sales support support

Chertsey, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for improving product build quality, build efficiency and streamlining the production process for SSL who design and manufacture laboratory test instruments for quality control applications.Drove new production management ethos across the company based upon industry best practices.Developed new KPIs for tracking effectiveness in achievement business objectives and introduced Dashboards for improving reporting accuracy, clarity and transparency.

Led the company to design and develop and manufacture innovative laboratory/medical products implementing world-class manufacturing techniques whilst continuously improving product reliability and customer satisfaction, increasing profitability by 15%.

Byfleet, United Kingdom

Founder member of this innovative Biotech Start-up company focused on the research and development of new technology applications for the lifescience marketplace. Responsible for all technical R&D activities for own-brand and customer OEM products alike. Negotiated highly profitable sale of business to key customer in March 2012.

Ashord, United Kingdom

Headed a team of 80+ R&D, Production and Service personnel with particular emphasis on continuous innovation and improvement. Evangelist for the application of design for assembly and right first time design, and manufacturing excellence through the application of lean and six sigma, realising 20%+ improvements to manufacturing costs across the entire product portfolio.

Ashford, United Kingdom

Led a team of 14 engineers within a £50M company to design and develop new products for the medical device industry. Project budget preparation and administration, annual budget of typically £3M. Leadership and management responsibilities included recruiting and retention of employees and performance management, to ensure that all products were designed and developed on time, within budget and met all of the requirements of the product specification as well as industry standards including the FDA.

Ashford, United Kingdom

Responsible for designing, developing and executing product reliability and NPI test programmes for all products; design validation and verification testing. Identified and led product continuous improvement initiatives.

Ashford, United Kingdom

Leader of several design and development projects. Responsible for project time and resource management and budget control. Implemented design of experiments, design for manufacture, and continuous improvement tools such as six sigma and lean manufacturing. Responsible for new product compliance testing; EMC and Safety. Created and monitored QA/QC policies, performance standards and specifications.

Ashford, United Kingdom

Designing and developing laboratory instrumentation, duties included; electrical and electronic design (schematic capture and pcb layout), researching various enabling technologies, interacting with customers to define requirements specifications and creation of optimal solutions.