2005 – Present Total Engineering Solutions Ltd and Seventeen Nineteen Ltd: Design Consultancy: Management Chief Designer, Accountancy, etc. Design and Development of over 200 products
1986 - Present Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering University of Huddersfield
1985 Assistant Chief Designer Halifax Tool Co Ltd. Rock Drill Design and Design office Manager
1984 Designer, Calderdale Innovation Centre, Todmorden (Product Development and Invention Promotion)
1981 Research Technician Mintex Ltd, Cleckheaton (Brake Linings)
1977-1980 Designer/Office Manager
T A Ashton Ltd, Sheffield (Lubrication Equipment)
1976-1977 Draughtsman and Assistant to Sales Manager
W E Norton Ltd, Sheffield (Machine Tools)
1974-1976 Assistant to Home Sales Manager
A R Heathcote Ltd, Sheffield (Machine Knives)
1973-1974 Estimator/Progress Control
Tempered Tools Ltd, Sheffield (Machine Knives)
1969-1973 Indentured Apprentice, Precision Toolmaking
Naval Ordnance Inspection Department, Sheffield
◾ Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
◾ Chartered Engineer
Current Interests
◾ Sustainable Design (Eco-design) and Sustainable Design Research. Currently enrolled on a Phd research
project.
◾ The design of a 20KWh Mechanical Kinetic Energy Storage Device
Skills and Experience
Academic
◾ Specialisms in Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Dynamics, Engineering Design, CAD, CAD management.
◾ Experienced teaching advanced subjects up to Masters Level
◾ Course Leader
◾ Writing specifications for Engineering courses and modules
◾ Creating examination papers
◾ External Examiner for 4 Universities UK and Overseas
◾ Degree Validator – overseas degrees
◾ Academic consultant for NCUK (Module Leader)
◾ British Standards Institute Representative and UK expert (New ISO on Automatic Parking Systems)
◾ Engineering Design Consultant
◾ Academic text book reviewer
◾ International Recruitment
Commercial
◾ Engineering Design Office Manager
◾ Consulting Engineer (Many Projects, e.g. street furniture, quarry equipment, specialist cooking
equipment, Scissor lifts, Rock drills, Anti-terrorist barriers.)
◾ Engineering designer, (Hydraulics, pneumatics, fabrication, gearboxes, dynamics, power transmission, etc.)