Thank you for viewing my LinkedIn profile. Having gained an honours degree in engineering, I studied design, manufacturing and management for a further year. I then enjoyed a career in engineering design consultancy that gave me very broad experience. While at four different consultancies, I worked on projects ranging from factory automation, specialist test instrumentation and sliding doors for the rail industry, through to surgical implants and asthma inhalers.I have also held journalistic and editorial positions at engineering magazines and websites including Industrial Technology, European Design Engineer, Asia-Pacific Engineer, International Energy Solutions, Engineer Live, Automotive Manufacturing Solutions, Industrialsafetytalk, EfficientEnergy.net, and Industrial Networking and Open Control. At the same time, I have freelanced as a technical writer.In 2006 I formed Damte Ltd and launched MachineBuilding.net, which I edited until Damte sold the website and newsletter to The Engineering Network in June 2020. I launched the Machine Safety Blog in 2022 but this is currently dormant.