Qualifications held - BSc MSc PGDip EngD CEng MIMechE
Personal Profile
A Professionally Registered Engineer (CEng) with over 7 years work experience within two international organizations. Scope of technical work has included nuclear consultancy, railway product manufacturing and materials R&D leading to the award of Doctor of Engineering (EngD). In addition to multiple technical qualifications/memberships, a management diploma at Manchester Business School was acquired, increasing my ability to combine business tasks with technical authority. Experience has been gained in project management, working alongside senior management, and individually being responsible for executing company investments currently amounting to $400,000. During my time at my current employer, the subsidiary company has doubled in revenues and number of employees. Furthermore, regular individual intervention has led to significant cost savings realised by my review of suppliers.
Employment History Highlights
Technical Support Engineer, LucchiniRS (Rail), 2013 onwards
LucchiniRS is a railway wheelset, axle and wheel manufacturing organisation, 2500 employees.
• Work in a manufacturing environment supporting production of safety critical products.
• Substantial responsibility held for the maintaining of Lucchini UK’s Unipart Rail key account.
• Responsibility is held for the production of customer enquiry outcome engineering reports.
• Regularly communicating with customers including Unipart, Siemens, Alstom and Hitachi.
• Provide ad-hoc advice to customers in support of external component manufacturing.
• Individually managed significant business investments, currently amounting to $400,000.
• Manage the monthly technical review meetings with customers.
• Oversee work with R&D third parties to achieve desired outcome reports for customers.
• Acts as a lead on scope analysis, implementing business improvement strategies.
• Set-up new business opportunities, from conception, business case submission to delivery.
• Work directly with the Managing Director producing Project Initiation Documents (PIDs).
• Undertake classroom activities, typically one-to-one, to support technical training of staff.
• A key contributor to the Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) section, holding ultrasonic exam certification.
• Lead internal auditor within the business, also during supplier First Article Inspections.
Project Manager (nuclear), Amec Foster Wheeler, 2010 to 2012
Amec is a large organisation with focus on the mining and energy market, 40,000 employees.
• Worked alongside the Operations Manager for period of one year at HQ.
• Responsibility was held for $15,000-$300,000 projects within the Consultancy business.
• Travelled regularly, holding responsibility for management of a small renewable energy office.
• Internal and external monthly progress reports were written and presented to clients.
• A contributing member to the monthly review of major projects, reporting to the Director.
• My role required the preparation of many internal documents, necessary to monitor projects.
• Seconded to EDF Energy for 12 weeks, to support with the writing of regulatory documents.
• Actively worked on nuclear defense related projects with security clearances required.
Research Engineer, Amec Foster Wheeler, 2006 to 2010
The division in which research was undertaken is a materials consultancy division, 500 employees.
My Doctor of Engineering (EngD) degree was completed in Materials Science whilst working for Amec Process and Energy within an employment contract. All the way through my higher degree studies I was based in this consultancy company environment as opposed to at the University, this accelerating my understanding of a commercial and industrial setting.
• Acquired doctorate study funding completely on my own, facilitating $225,000 of research.
• The research work was completed to time and budget, demonstrating personal drive.
• Laboratory research split into two distinct areas, both substantial and revenue generating.
• Suitability of novel cement/glass for encapsulation of radioactive waste academically reported.
• American invented materials assessed were magnesium phosphate cement and GeoMelt glass.
• The invention of my gas corrosion monitoring system continues to generate revenue for Amec.
• Experiments demonstrated compatibility of cements with natural uranium metal samples.
• GeoMelt dissolution in a simulated repository environment understood and reported.
The research and thesis work was recognised as exceptional, jointly by my supervisor (Prof. Neil Hyatt) and my external examiner (Prof. Graham Thompson), and subsequently I was nominate...
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