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Matching consumer aspirations with bespoke products, delivering must have designs yet still generating profit essential for growth and sustainability offers success in global markets.This is Mick Beard. Creating designs consumers buy. Understanding consumer need, the market, targeting niches and voids, defining product, designing the desirable, engineering in excellence, engineering out cost, manufacturing and selling with partners globally to be competitive and create markets.At home in London buying and selling scooters and motors, a work ethic, a passion for sports, art, craft and theatre at Bancroft’s led to an Undergraduate Apprenticeship and a Car Designer at Rolls Royce. Catapulting from automotive to design for people and a Master of Art, Chartered as Engineer and Designer. Designing for companies, big brands, researchers, industrialists, military and aerospace, as Partner at DCA Design then as 3T Design. Winning, managing, delivering for the inventor to the largest international corporations. Innovation from low tech, Swingball, Honeywell, VAX, Dualit, Stanley, to high tech for Top Gun pilots, RAF and USAF, Boeing. Concept vehicles for GM, Citroen, DAF, trains for Central Line, mechatronics and robots for Pepsi Cola and top film directors. From consultancy to innovative manufacturing and sales partnerships. Currently independent, trading as Tech Step, automation for smart homes, patented innovation. Innovative steps in global trading, matching product with consumer need, with 20 years with China factories and industrialists. Brand new products, low cost manufacture, access to consumer markets, and access to China market. Constructive disruptive market forces, unique product technology, lower prices so retaining gross margins. Custom design for the consumer market. Full English and Chinese Takeaway.Passion for people, community, environment and commerce through partnership, trust and a sense of humour. Cycling and building my time out.