Experience

British Computer Society

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Secretary - BCSWomen

  • Nov 2007 - Present

  Member of team responsible for producing a joint communications plan for BCSWomen and the BCS Women’s Forum. Establishing links with potential authors for publications. Published two articles for ‘ITNow’ magazine.



University of Nottingham

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor

  • Jan 2021 - May 2023

  Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

• Senior Research Fellow

  • Dec 2009 - Dec 2020

  EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow Composites Research Group, Faculty of Engineering Responsible for development of TexGen 3D textile modelling software. www.texgen.sourceforge.net



Clove Business Systems Ltd

• Research Engineer

  • Apr 2005 - May 2009

  One of two home-based engineers responsible for the development of the ‘PassPortal’ system for automatic reading of travel documents. Carried responsibility for the whole project lifecycle from initial design, through coding in C++ to production of builds and the development of installation programs. Developed the system through several versions: The system now captures and stores multiple photographic images per document using white, infra red and ultra violet lights, detects and reads… Show more One of two home-based engineers responsible for the development of the ‘PassPortal’ system for automatic reading of travel documents. Carried responsibility for the whole project lifecycle from initial design, through coding in C++ to production of builds and the development of installation programs. Developed the system through several versions: The system now captures and stores multiple photographic images per document using white, infra red and ultra violet lights, detects and reads documents using image processing and OCR techniques, reads RFID chips on passports, reads barcodes, and stores encrypted XML data. Show less



Self employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 1996 - Apr 2005

  Worked independently for Fulford Software Solutions designing and developing self-contained add-on modules for ‘Easy Cross’, a Windows-based home needlecraft design package. Modules included knitted garment, patchwork, beadwork, bobbin lace, cross stitch and ‘Hama Bead’ design. Working to a loose brief: researched the craft, specified the product requirements, designed and implemented the software, and delivered the final product for release. All work was carried out using object-oriented… Show more Worked independently for Fulford Software Solutions designing and developing self-contained add-on modules for ‘Easy Cross’, a Windows-based home needlecraft design package. Modules included knitted garment, patchwork, beadwork, bobbin lace, cross stitch and ‘Hama Bead’ design. Working to a loose brief: researched the craft, specified the product requirements, designed and implemented the software, and delivered the final product for release. All work was carried out using object-oriented design with coding in Visual C++ to deliver products with intuitive, easy to use interfaces. Show less



Cadcam Technology Ltd/University of Nottingham

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 1988 - Aug 1994

  Based in the Drawing Recognition research group in the Computer Science department at the University of Nottingham. Developed a method of outlining scanned data leading to development of software that used the outlines to automatically convert images into "punch" data ready to be filled with stitches. Designed and wrote a ground-breaking "stitch processor" for the conversion of stitch data back into stitch type to enable scaling of designs. Latterly part of a research team developing a… Show more Based in the Drawing Recognition research group in the Computer Science department at the University of Nottingham. Developed a method of outlining scanned data leading to development of software that used the outlines to automatically convert images into "punch" data ready to be filled with stitches. Designed and wrote a ground-breaking "stitch processor" for the conversion of stitch data back into stitch type to enable scaling of designs. Latterly part of a research team developing a small high speed embroidery machine, overseeing the project in its early stages. Show less