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Lancaster, England, United Kingdom

Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Working with Python, SQL & NoSQL databases, and web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flask) I learnt to leverage the Scrapy package to acquire data ready to be manipulated and cleaned for ingestion into the AI/NLP insights generation platform.

I passed my City & Guilds Levels 1 & 2 in Plumbing and Carpentry, together with a BTech Level 3 in The Built Environment. I moved further north to begin applying my knowledge and be closer to my family. I experienced all the highs and lows of the U.K. construction industry, metaphorically and literally, working under motorised horse-boxes under construction and on top of roofs of residential and commercial buildings.Overall it was a lot of fun applying my engineering skills, manual dexterity and business experiences to successes in various construction enterprises, then moving on to my own. Learning more about how good and bad companies are run when they face the same constraints, how they feel as someone at the bottom of the ladder, to running my own firm and issues around dealing with poor business partners. The fun and the learning experience of this phase of my life had to come to an end as the physical aspects of work were already presenting longer term warning signs, and it was time to move to engineering and building in a different sphere.

Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Leveraging over seventy years of combined experience in business and heavy industrial engineering experience in the north west of England, four individuals diverse in gender and professional backgrounds co-founded a 3D printing startup.I developed the strategy and the plans to develop and market a 3D printer for the amateur superuser, a demographic with the financial means to afford a quality product with support packages. We would develop a technical community based in and around Greater Manchester, leveraging social media and volunteer efforts/user-groups. Simultaneously I established collaborations to develop novel printable materials, for example an edible chocolate with a research group in Sheffield, to embryonic stem cells and embryo components with an established research group at Oxford University.We had begun to generate revenue and garnered corporate interest from maintenance teams from several U.K. councils. Things were getting excited but before we could reap the rewards, a mental health crisis mandated my leaving the business.

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Between 2001 and 2014, I was committed to a life in research and development in and around academia, and my last period of research was to investigate how embryonic stem cells were affected by their physical environment, contributing to a future where we might engineer replacement organs without donor issues. I was key in co-developing a system that could look at embryo development during implantation into the womb. Progression & Achievements:As part of my M.Sc. at the University of Bristol I organised and undertook paid research into the neurological pathways of anxiety, at Eli Lilly & Co. in Indiana and IUPUI, USA.I conducted a study into the current state of embryonic stem cells at the University of Manchester and in 2007, at the department of materials at Imperial College London, I conducted multi-disciplinary laboratory research in embryonic stem cells and biomaterials. My work at Imperial College London resulted in publications and leading a team to win a competition to commercialise academic research. I continued this work at the University of Nottingham to better explore surface chemistry of biomaterials suitable for embryonic stem cell development at the molecular level resulting in publication, using cutting-edge biophysics equipment. My interest in 3D printing/additive manufacture was ignited as we collaborated with the Langer laboratory at M.I.T. in the field of biomaterials.In a collaboration between the Universities of Nottingham and The Wellcome Trust Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, I designed and engineered a system to view the developing mouse embryo during the implantation stage of development. In 2012, my work led to a patent application at the U.S. Patent Office and a paper in the journal Nature Communications, where I was the first Nottingham University author. In 2020, my contribution to this area of developmental biology was recognised with a mention in the book: The Dance of Life by Zernicka-Goetz and Highfield.

Master'S Degree, Pharmacology

Advanced Neuro- & Molecular Pharmacology

Bachelor'S Degree, Biomedical Sciences, General