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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

I am responsible for leading the process development program within our Scientific Development Team to drive cost efficiency into the sugar manufacturing process and supply chain. My role is to evaluate and implement new processes and technology together with distilling technical insight from a complex manufacturing process. This requires me to effectively communicate and influence at all levels of the business in order to drive change.

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom

In this role I was accountable for the safety, performance and strategic development of a large team and a broad range of departmental outputs. My team focused on:o Scientific analysis for process control of a large food manufacturing facilityo Technical accountingo Quality assuranceo Process improvement and cost reductiono Scientific and technical consultingo Technical management information

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom

In this role I was responsible for the development of science-based process improvements, together with involvement in laboratory management and delivery of business-critical functions such as technical accounting, product quality assurance, process control analysis and technical reporting/recommendation.

Newark-On-Trent

This role involved training and gaining exposure to all aspects of the UK's leading sugar production business through a combination of practical experience in an operations shift team and training courses. My first year has been spent gaining detailed knowledge of all factory processes and process engineering together with management training in health and safety, food safety and environmental compliance. Additionally, I have contributed towards production problem solving, process improvement projects and safety improvement in a factory environment.Courses: Fire Marshall training, Food Safety (British Sugar), Confined Space Entry (Mines Rescue Service), General Work Permitting (British Sugar), Chemical Work Permitting (British Sugar), Behavioural Based Safety (Ryder Marsh), Isolation training (British Sugar), Environmental Impact (British Sugar), Manual Handling (British Sugar), Team Building (Team Dynamics).

Coventry, United Kingdom

This role involved the management of a 4-year project as part of a broader research team in the School of Life Sciences. I was responsible for the direction, planning and execution of complex experiments, the supervision and training of technicians and undergraduate students and the reporting of scientific data in a variety of formats to a wide range of audiences.My PhD research was centred around the biochemical characterisation, functional analysis and structural determination of small Cysteine Rich Proteins, believed to be involved in nutrient allocation during cereal seed development.My project involved developing bespoke analytical tools for the characterisation of an unknown maize gene through biochemical analysis. This included engineering, expression and purification of recombinant proteins together with the generation and optimisation of custom monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. Using GUS and GFP fusion constructs and immunohistochemistry together with confocal, epifluorescent and optical microscopic analysis, a clear understanding of a novel expression pattern was built.Generation of transgenics and a variety of phenotypic analyses supported by statistical analysis determined the function of an entirely novel maize gene with a complex expression profile. Gene function was disrupted using RNAi technology and the knock-down phenotype was analysed by microscopic analysis, genetic complementation, qRT-PCR and RNAseq. This provided evidence for a role in developmental cell signalling, nutrient allocation and a function spanning the pre/post-fertilisation period.The protein structure was determined by in silico modelling and solution state NMR spectroscopy to the aim of determining a structure-function relationship. To achieve this, a library of structural chimeras was generated and expressed in Arabidopsis as part of a functional assay to determine any cross-species functionality of CRP structural components and highlight function critical sequences.

Wellesbourne

Research support on an interdisciplinary research project on plant transfer cell development, using maize as a model system. The overall aim of this project was to dissect the role that small cysteine-rich proteins (SCRs) play in maize transfer cell development and assess their impact on seed development. This was achieved by the biochemical, molecular and cell biology characterization of maize transgenic lines that miss-regulate the expression of these proteins (Gutierrez-Marcos et al., 2004) and by the analysis of mutants that affect transfer cell development. Overall, the project provided novel insights into the role that SCRs play in the regulation of seed development in plants

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Life Sciences

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Biochemistry, 2.1

Activities and Societies: Warwick Mountains, Warwick Kempo Jujitsu, Warwick Climbing Club, Warwick Snow

A-Levels, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Maths As, A, A, B, C