Miles Weston Email & Phone Number

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

• John Guest is the leading manufacturer of plastic push-fit fittings, including pipe fittings and valves for home and commercial plumbing and drinking systems. During my placement I worked on various projects for.
• Complex CAD models containing numerous components
• Producing and improving complex assemblies in SolidWorks, in preparation for injection molding
• Inspection of commissioned injection mold runs looking for imperfections
• British Standard Testing
• Production Engineering regarding certain aspects of the products assembly I reported to both the Director of Engineering and my Line Manager directly. My technical drawings were presented to various teams, including.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Being a Student Ambassador involved: - The set up of display stands for open days - The presentation of previous work to future students - Organised tours of the facilities available on the course - Talking to future students about aspirations and further questions

Surrey

Since July 2014 I have worked in a variety of roles at Bocketts Farm in Surrey. This is a highly successful working family activity farm, one of the most successful all weather places in the South East of England. I have worked both as part of the Saturday and Sunday team as well as the full time team during the week when I am back from University.I.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• While working for Omlet Ltd as part of a Student University Project, I learned various new techniques. these were applied to the brief in which we had to produce a product range that would innovate the dog lead market.
• Use of keyshot rendering software to produce photo realistic renders.
• Engineering calculations to work out stresses applied to the concept.
• FEA using SolidWorks (FEA) to simulate life like scenarios when walking the dog and the strain that could put on our concept.
• User Testing where we took dogs on walks to test out the final concept and assist with development.
• Collaborative brainstorming with other members of the department and also Omlet Ltd employees.

Bristol, United Kingdom

During my course, I worked with Pelico as a live client where I redesigned their food packaging, optimizing it for transport by delivery workers. This gave me a chance to work with a real client and tackle their brief.