NeedleDock designs and manufactures innovative healthcare safety devices including the unique NeedleDock ND5 sharps container. This product reduces the risk of needle-stick injuries to healthcare staff by automatically removing hypodermic slip-Luer needles from syringes single handedly and securely locking the dangerous sharps away in the tamper-proof, spill-proof container for maximum safety for medical professionals and their patients. The remaining syringe is disposed of in lower cost waste streams, such as yellow bagged bins, offering substantial savings to healthcare industries by reducing expensive bulk waste costs, reducing sharps bin purchasing costs by compacting the waste and helps the environment by lowering the amount of single use plastics. Further exciting new products are in development for launch soon. www.needledock.com

Founder of Innovation and Design, a successful Cambridge product design consultancy, working with an associate engineer, offering industrial design, product engineering and 3D CAD modelling to clients. I also invent, patent, design and develop my own products. Many products successfully in production.Website: innovationanddesign.co.uk Skills:• Full product design, prototyping and development from concept to production and testing• Project and product planning and costing• Market and competitor analysis, conceptualizing, styling, mechanical design, construction, user interaction and ergonomic design, problem solving, product innovation, 3D CAD modelling, rapid prototype and full service to production.• Advising on injection moulding techniques, most product construction techniques, processes and materials.Projects managed from concept through to production include:• Three Chip & PIN, wireless, electronic payment terminals- Thyron Systems• Two touch screen information kiosks- Elephant kiosks• Three laboratory peptide synthesizers- Activotec Limited• A colour spectrometer unit- AstraNet Systems• Development of a water filter kettle- Lobo International• Concept designs for future mobile devices- NokiaOwn development work:Currently also commercializing several own product innovations including:• Patented, innovative ‘Perfect Toaster’ which uses an ionizing particle sensor (smoke alarm core sensor) to sense the brownness of toast to guarantee perfect toast every time. Licence sold to a major appliance brand.• Superior ergonomic computer mouse. Currently in development.Achievements for Particle Sensing Toaster invention:• Finalist in the BBC Tomorrow’s World Awards in 2001.• Selected and featured on BBC’s ‘Best Inventions’ series and Channel 4 Breakfast TV.• Granted DTI funding with a SMART award of £45K being given in 2003.

Paul invented, designed and patented the ‘UltraBib’, a unique children’s bib made of neoprene (wetsuit material), a revolutionary technical material in the baby bib market and is regarded by many as the best feeding bib on the market; winner of 30+ industry awards.Paul founded Bibetta Limited based on the above patent and since grown the company with his wife, Fiona, to fifty products and growing. Bibetta's products offer the best in comfort, protection, style, easy care and long lasting durability and value. Children love our products for their fun print designs and cool colours, soft feel and friendliness during use. Innovation is integral to all Paul’s designs as a market differentiator and value lever alongside a determination for highest possible quality levels. Is now exploring the fashion/style side of the neoprene bib range and rolling out new fabric prints each season. Sells to major UK retailers, all major on-line web-shops and several international distributors with particular international market success in Holland and Japan.Website: www.bibetta.com

Cambridge Consultants is one of Europe’s leading, multi-disciplined, design and technology consultancies employing 400 technologists and designers on typically revolutionary and hi-tech products. As an Industrial Designer in the Product Definition team I managed the design requirements of an exciting and leading edge range of products to time and budget working in multi-disciplined teams of engineers, technologists and scientists. Working on a wide range of products including surgical systems, high-end power tools and electronic devices I built a broad knowledge-base of many innovation methodologies, technologies and design know-how. Many products successfully introduced onto the market.Skills:• Taking client brief, project planning, management and budgeting• Ideas generation, strategic solutions, product design, ergonomics, styling, design illustrations, model-making, CAD modelling, rapid prototyping outsourcing and client presentations• Initiation of international market research and ergonomic and usability analysis sessions Products designed include:• In-heart surgical sensing system for heart diagnostics, incl. safety critical parts- Thermocore• High-tech, professional gas nailer- GX100- Hilti Corp.• Keyhole surgical device- Gyrus• A hand-held test meter- DPI800 series- Druck • Ink jet print head for large format print machine-XJ500- Xaar• New thermostatic shower- Triton• Diesel engine design improvement- Caterpillar Inc.• Nasal drug dispenser- Glaxo

As an in-house Industrial Designer for Black & Decker, one of the world’s leading power tool manufacturer, at their main UK design, engineering and manufacturing centre I designed many product for this well known household brand with most products successfully in production and selling in high street stores. Excellent experience gained of branding, sales and marketing, consumer testing, packaging design, testing, JIT manufacturing process, prototyping and design for mass production.Responsibilities and skills:• Entire product development including product conceptualization, styling, ergonomic evaluation, working with engineering, prototyping and CAD modelling teams, detailed design and productionization. Also assisted with market research and planning future product ranges for the marketing teams.Products designed include:• Master Vac™, an interchangeable European/US garden leaf vac/blow system- full design• Mains power drill with unique ergonomic handle- full design• Random orbit sander- full design• Dustbusters™ productionization responsibility• Reflex™ range of grass trimmers- full design• A host of futuristic concept studiesAwards:iF Award (International Forum Design, Germany) for Good Industrial Design- Paul Brown for B&D Random orbit Sander.

As an Industrial Designer at this exciting and popular design consultancy I was involved from an early stage in all aspects of product design work including project planning and budgeting, developing concepts and concept styling renderings through to modelmaking, engineering design, creating detailed engineering drawings and presenting designs to clients. I worked predominantly on laboratory equipment and hi-fi separates after being employed based on my degree major project of an innovative hi-fi amplifier. Many products successfully in production.Products designed include:• 8710 Protein sequencer- Jaytee BioSciences• 1000 Series ribbon speakers- Celestion Ltd.• Superloop digital aerial- Labgear• Professional tripod head- Manfrotto• Digital medical thermometer system- Edale