Experience

JEB Technologies Ltd
• United Kingdom
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Engineering Project Leader

  • Dec 2021 - Present


Care UK

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Maintenance (Bank)

  • Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

  Primarily decorating residential rooms and communal areas in an 80 occupancy Care Home that houses elderly and dementia suffering residents. Like most frontline industries the care home was adversely affected by Coronavirus and needs short term support to meet demand from current and new residential care intake. Primarily decorating residential rooms and communal areas in an 80 occupancy Care Home that houses elderly and dementia suffering residents. Like most frontline industries the care home was adversely affected by Coronavirus and needs short term support to meet demand from current and new residential care intake.


Truvian
• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Manager Technical Operations

  • Dec 2018 - Jun 2019


DNA Electronics

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director Of Production Operations

  • Jul 2018 - Nov 2018

• Automation Manager

  • Oct 2017 - Jul 2018

• Senior Manufacturing Engineer

  • Mar 2017 - Oct 2017



Thermofisher Scientific

• United States
• Packaging and Containers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manufacturing Engineering Manager

  • 2014 - Feb 2017

  Responsible for bringing in >750k USD capital manufacturing equipment to upgrade and augment Carlsbad site manufacturing, most recently a high end Thermoformer packaging machine through an international collaboration with Colimatic, USA and their equipment build facility near Milan, Italy. Managing a five strong Maintenance team, including corrective and preventative scheduling for a site generating >600mil USD revenue and managing a spare parts budget of ~$300k annually. Achieved a 20% reduction in downtime due to continuous improvement and sustaining projects Skillset: Budget management, Capital expense management, Project management, Equipment design, build and programming, Human resource management



Life Technologies

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Engineer

  • Nov 2012 - Jun 2014

  Performed design and implementation of new manufacturing lines alongside continuous improvement and manufacturing optimization. Projects included vision inspection systems, autoloaders for lines to minimize ergonomic injuries. Performed extensive upgrades to manufacturing lines including writing a LabView suite of programs to run all of the Protein Gels manufacturing equipment, reducing downtime, improving operator experience and eliminating potential for operator error by incorporating failsafes into the coding.Skillset: GMP / cGMP, Labview, PLC and HMI programming, Systems troubleshooting, Solidworks design for key components

• Staff Scientist, Chemistry

  • Jan 2007 - Nov 2012

  Developed novel solid phase materials for Nucleic acid purification. Delivered performance enhancements to the BenchPro2100 automated plasmid purification systemDesigned and developed universal plate kits for RNA, Plasmid and g-DNA, viral and PCR clean upCreated the Chargeswitch spin column purification product lineDesigned, prototyped and built the Everyprep universal vacuum manifold.Prototyped benchtop automation of protein purificationSkillset: NPI, purification, project management



Invitrogen, Kent / DNA Research Innovations (DRI) Ltd

• Research Chemist

  • 2004 - 2007

  Integral to key projects leading to global launch of successful products. Materials science team leader, with both direct and indirect reports Integral to key projects leading to global launch of successful products. Materials science team leader, with both direct and indirect reports



University of Surrey

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Knowledge transfer associate

  • 1999 - 2004

  Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Associate / Research Associate, DNA Research Innovations Ltd (DRI), Sittingbourne, Kent / University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey NPI development of novel rigid rod polymers and DNA extraction solid surface supports. Management and team training, including finances and auditing Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Associate / Research Associate, DNA Research Innovations Ltd (DRI), Sittingbourne, Kent / University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey NPI development of novel rigid rod polymers and DNA extraction solid surface supports. Management and team training, including finances and auditing



University of Cambridge

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research associate

  • 1998 - 1999

  Design and development of thermally rearranging rigid rod polymers Design and development of thermally rearranging rigid rod polymers