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United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Utilising strategic leadership and design strategy to create and manage value adding solutions for stakeholders globally.Strategically lead the organisations ESG efforts, setting organisational sustainability and social goals, spearheading our BCorp application and working towards NetZero.Maintain and develop the organisations supply chain resilience.

United Kingdom

As a member of the senior leadership team I am responsible for the development & implementation of the product roadmap encompassing both Red Paddle Co & Red Original brands. I have a proven successful track record of delivering products from inception through to delivery.Working together with the CEO & FD I define route to market options & implement a top down approach setting project costings & targets which I then manage within a product management process.I have extensive experience of team recruitment, formation & on going management of an Interdisciplinary team of designers & engineers. Along with an extensive knowledge of user centred design & the circular economy to provide effective & environmentally sound products shifting towards circularity.Having developed & implemented company design processes & associated workflows. I lead the team through a full R&D design process, predominantly utilising the design thinking double diamond approach. I also helped plan & implement our bespoke in house project management system to track milestones against the roadmap & manage the full product lifecycle.We design & deliver a wide range of products utilising plastics, fabrics & technical fabrics & composites materials.I have built & continue to build successful relationships with key suppliers throughout our supply chain. I work along side manufacturers to improve their quality control reducing warranty & defective rates which propagate throughout our own network. This has consequently improved relations & saved significant cost. In my current position I have been responsible for a warranty rate reduction from 16% to under 1%.For my cpd I currently attend regular Chinese lessons and can speak & understand basic working Mandarin.I have extensive knowledge of patent generation, design registrations & their applications, including trademarks. I have experience with NDA’s & manufacturing agreements & also extensive experience with purchasing negotiation.

Uk

Working as a member of the design team and our main Asian suppliers to create and deliver new innovative products and improve QC processes

Application of the full design process within the water & winter safety depts.Milestones included project definition & scoping, customer requirement gathering, research & ideation, prototyping, testing, development, compliance & documentation with senior management providing approval at pre-planned milestones throughout. Thorough use of sketching, rendering, Siemens NX CAD and the adobe creative suite in addition to the creation of presentations & reports for stakeholders & work with 3rd parties to ensure adherence to appropriate regulations & legislation.As part of prototyping & testing phases of the projects, I created proof of concept models and full size working prototypes in the engineering workshop using a wide range of materials & machinery before creating the corresponding technical drawings.Other tasks included the updating & modification of current engineering drawings and BOMS.These would be used to develop or improve the product or to ensure spare parts & documentation were readily available throughout the supply chain.The largely self contained site enabled first hand experience of the entire manufacturing process end to end allowing useful insights which influenced my designs. This included the in house testing dept & production lines which my experience includes:- Accelerated saltwater & UV testing to ascertain an accurate product lifespan & also to modify the design if critical failure became apparent.- Impact testing & compliance- Field visits & maintenanceProduction line work improved my understanding of how design decisions can impact the factory floor & beyond.This also highlighted waste in materials and time that could be improved upon in the design process.I gained in-depth knowledge of injection molding & rotomolding including:- Full process of both methods- Corresponding part design- Tool manufacture & modification- Testing & QC- Supplier Management- Production risk management

London, England, United Kingdom

A research project investigating the steps required to shift from a linear product to a circular modal involving the adoption of a new design and how a Product-System-Service model may be introduced and utilised.In depth LCA analysis using Granta CES Edupack and SimaPro, highlighted the key areas of energy consumption and throughout the entire product lifecycle providing quantifiable metrics.The redesign of the existing solution required reverse engineering of the design followed by in-depth investigation into alternate fabrication methods that would provide the same level of connection but when required could quickly be released and the materials recovered, in particular the rare earth minerals.Several prototypes were created and tested and many failed before the development of a successful solution was generated.In parallel with the redesign of the physical artifact, Product System Services were investigated and how these scenarios might be applied and deployed in a real world scenario and the potential implications of these scenarios.This involved user research into current consumer behaviour and how design of the system may begin to influence change, highlighting potential transitional steps. The findings of the project contributed to phase one and two of the B&Q power tool share scheme in the UK.A business case highlighting the benefits of the study was presented to senior Kingfisher group representatives and a paper created for submission to the world economic forum in Davos as well as several presentations to senior academics and post graduate students.By improving the ability to recover the material, scoping the services required to deliver the product and greatly reducing the time taken, the viability of a circular economy solution was successfully demonstrated to be a commercially viable and strategic option.

Bristol And Somerset

Mainstream secondary school Physics, Maths and Design Technology long term cover helping students pass their GCSEs.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

A start up successfully contracted to work with Vodafone UK with the purpose to improve the health and wellbeing of customers using a connected smart device, cloud integration and a mobile app.The project used the double diamond approach and design thinking methodologies including but not limited to affinity mapping, flow analysis and extreme user interviews.Physical 3d prints were then subjected to real world testing and refined with the ergonomics and usability of the product improved.By opening the discussion to a selection of previously interviewed target audience members and by communicating with this group regularly, greater insight was gained into how to best move forwards with the design of the product. This was also helpful when designing the UX of the product and the refinement of the customer journey map ahead of execution streamlined the design process and allowed for more effective creation of story boards and app wire framing which were then conceptualized and user tested.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Working in pupil referral units (PRU) and special educational needs (SEN) schools in Bristol and Somerset.SENWorking with children with severe learning difficulties in the classroom, swimming pool or often one to one.I was qualified in safe and effective manual handling of individuals with complex needs and learned basic sign language to better communicate with students, enhancing our ability to connect and understand one another. There was an emphasis on reading, social interaction skills, independence, and fun, the purpose of which was to instill skills, confidence, and resilience allowing them to navigate the outside world.PRUWorking with children who are not able to attend school for several reasons including neurodiversity, mental health issues, anxiety or behavioural issues for example young offenders, helping them predominantly with Maths, English and Science.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Cunard, P&O & Ocean Village.Seasonal work throughout my studies onboard a number of ships working with children ages 5-17. Also working as ships lifeguard maintaining safety of guests and crew on top deck.Enhanced CRB approved.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Design and manufacture of the Smart metering project, currently nationwide throughout the U.K

France

Winter seasonaire position working in La Plagne, Les Arc and Val d’Isere.

Connecticut, United States

Waterfront camp counsellor working for two consecutive summers with children ages 6-17 providing support and living with the children 24/7.Main Roles:Swimming InstructorAmerican Red Cross Lifeguard training instructor (LGTI)American Red Cross LifeguardEnhanced CRB approved.

Bolton & Bristol

Working in predominantly in men’s tailoring providing customer service and general sales duties.

Master'S Degree, Senior Leadership, Distinction

Msc With Merit, Integrated Product Design, Msc With Merit

Activities and Societies: Member of Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors, Climbing, Wake-boarding societiesSchool of Engineering.

Bsc, Robotics, Robotic Engineering

Activities and Societies: Swimming Team Captain, Surfing and Snowboarding societies

5 A-Levels, 10 Gcse'S

Activities and Societies: Swimming Team Captain