Role: Strategic direction of Operations, including Production, Technical Quality and Clinical Affairs.• Oversight of all Operational activities from Procurement through manufacturing to despatch.• Accountable for production and delivery of entire product portfolio, with annual sales of £10M.• Responsible for the Technical Quality, overseeing matters of sterilisation, microbiology and validation.• Set up a new Clinical Affairs team from scratch to meet the increased demands of the MDR.• Redesigned the organisation to improve operational effectiveness and clarify roles and responsibilities.• Changed working practices and introduced new equipment to enable significant future growth plans. • Established a company-wide Continuous Improvement programme to realise efficiency gains.• Developed strategic supply strategy and insourced more production to reduce supplier dependency.• Rationalised product packaging to reduce inventory and introduced a new labelling system.• Operational responsibility for implementation of a new ERP system and developing business analytics.• Introduced an employee training system to address issues with working culture and improve morale.• Implemented a Business Continuity Plan to ensure ongoing operational effectiveness.• Led an organisational resilience programme to identify and address potential points of failure or delay.

Role: Overall responsibility for New Product Development and project governance.• Accountable to the board for overall ownership of the new product portfolio of projects.• Member of Senior Management Team with overall responsibility for company direction.• Delivered a portfolio of new products from concept to market with annual sales over £1M.• Line management of project managers, design engineers and bioengineers.• Creation, evaluation and approval of project proposals and business cases for new medical devices.• System improvements for project management and product design.• Contract negotiations with customers and suppliers.• Secured a £1.2M contract for the delivery of a rotator cuff device with exclusive UK distribution rights.• Substantial improvements to the efficiency and effectiveness of the product development department.

Role: Managing development projects and the bioengineering team.• Programme management of multiple, cross-functional new product development projects.• Technical approvals on documentation and product release decisions.• Meeting potential new customers, including surgeons, academia and OEMs.• Conducting training seminars for surgeons, distributors and members of staff.• Improvements in project documents and review system.• Visiting existing and potential distributors to give product support.• Involvement in conducting cadaver workshops.• Developed new business opportunities through attendance at international tradeshows.• Fact finding missions to establish new markets in China, Europe and the US.

Role: Project management of research and development projects.• Design and evaluation of medical devices.• Establishing design requirements and conducting risk analyses.• Technical input to patent applications.• Authoring surgical technique manuals, clinical literature reviews and white papers, etc.• Authoring product training manuals and presentations for Marketing.• Bioengineering input to post market evaluation exercises.• Design and programming of bespoke production equipment.• Compiling sections for 510(k) submissions.

Temporary role as a project manager on a co-funded research project.

Role: Post-Doctoral research position as a Project Manager and engineer.• Designed and developed a novel cartilage repair device in collaboration with two major OEMs.• Created a new implant and instrument system; named on a number of patents and academic papers.• Project Manager responsible for production, testing, technical reports, data management and planning.