Rob Mcsweeney Email & Phone Number

Royston, England, United Kingdom

- Manage the Generator and Detector Subsystem teams.- Ownership of the roadmap, product life-cycle management and strategic direction of the subsystems.- Product owner and scrum master on subsystems scrum team

Heppenheim An Der Bergstraße, Hesse, Germany

- Responsible for defining the strategy to generate growth for the PCE Track and Trace business.- Developed sales and marketing strategies for new business growth.- Identified, negotiated and initiated a partnership to deliver on growth strategies.

Royston, England, United Kingdom

- Managed the launch of a new product, the X34C. A small footprint high-speed x-ray machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BchfE-57E3M). - Worked with engineering, marketing, operations and product management to efficiently handover a fully validated, high-quality product to production.- Executing the on-time delivery of a new platform, meeting requirements of customers and key stakeholders.

Royston, England, United Kingdom

- Own the roadmap for the generator subsystem, directing the strategy for NPDI, retirement and quality. - Quality focused approach, improving the internal yield of the generator subsystem by 6% in 6 months and reducing the incidence of warranty claims for generators by 35%. - Defined the new Generator Subsystem Lead role, developing tools and a management structure.

-Develop military handheld products that use ion mobility spectroscopy for the detection of chemical warfare agents, explosives and narcotics to protect warfighters.-Oversee the end-to-end detection library development process including; supervising a team performing laboratory data collection on prototype detectors; developing software and hardware alongside engineers; performing data analysis to generate detection algorithms for incorporation onto fielded units; and presenting these results and rationale to the wider project team and to the customer .-Consult with engineers on the design of products to ensure they meet contract requirements and mitigate possible issues with respect to unit functionality and suitability for large scale production.

Nottingham

- Supervising and managing a group of PhD and masters students.- Liaising with Professor to design student projects while performing my own research.- Writing a proof of concept proposal for the commercialisation of fundamental research from my PhD, working in collaboration with industrial partners, DSTL.- Responsible for lab safety inspections and reports.

- Performing the electrochemistry of catalysts inside nanotubes to alter the pathway of the electrocatalytic reaction. - Electrochemistry expert within the nanocarbon group.- Development of new nanomaterials for catalysis.- Published "Single-walled carbon nanotubes as nano-electrode and nano-reactor to control the pathways of a redox reaction" in Chemical Communications and "Direct Measurement of Electron Transfer in Nanoscale Host-Guest Systems: Metallocenes in Carbon Nanotubes" in Chemistry: A European Journal.- Won the Skinner prize for the best poster at the RSC 172nd Faraday Conference.- Won a £150 travel bursary to attend the RSC 172nd Faraday Conference. - Oral presentation at NT16 in Vienna and the 3rd Annual Postgraduate Symposium on Nanotechnology Birmingham.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Chemistry

- Performing the electrochemistry of catalysts inside nanotubes to alter the pathway of the electrocatalytic reaction. - Electrochemistry.

Msci, (Hons), Chemistry, First Class

Activities and Societies: Canoe Club (treasurer) Climbing Club- Enhanced ‘In-situ’ Catalysis via Microwave Selective Heating: Catalytic.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Cricket Team Athletics Team Rugby Team- A level : Maths, Chemistry and Biology, - AS level : Physics, - GCSE.