Experience

Leo Cancer Care

• United Kingdom
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Human-Centred Design Consultant

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  Leo Cancer Care was founded with one goal in mind, to be the more human way to deliver radiation therapy. This is a very big goal but breaks down into three aims. 1. Improve the clinical effectiveness of Radiation Therapy through upright positioning 2. Improve the access to Radiation Therapy by removing the need for large and expensive rotating gantries and instead introduce slow patient rotation 3. Empower patients and clinicians to face Radiation Therapy together, eye to eye.



Andiamo

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Design engineer

  • Jun 2018 - Sep 2020

  Andiamo is creating a new user-centred children’s orthotics service. Our aim is to drastically reduce wait times from 13 weeks to 48 hours and create beautiful high quality orthoses, by using 3D scanning and printing technology. Andiamo is creating a new user-centred children’s orthotics service. Our aim is to drastically reduce wait times from 13 weeks to 48 hours and create beautiful high quality orthoses, by using 3D scanning and printing technology.



Cranfield University - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

• Design engineer - PhD Researcher

  • Sep 2014 - Feb 2018

  Thesis title: The potential for Reverse Innovation in the sanitation sector and the adoption of waterless toilets. Improving the user experience of waterless toilets by uncovering user insights in primary target market, testing and prototyping to evolve the user interface and exploring the transferability of sanitation technology from developing countries. Responsibilities: o Identifying user behaviour and attitudes of residents of Kumasi, Ghana utilising ethnographic research techniques based on key drivers of WASH behaviour. o Reviewing current low-water toilet technology with a focus on user experience and identifying opportunities for further research and development. o Development and testing of waterless rotating flush from lab based optimisation to user experience. o Material testing for waterless toilets in developing countries quantifying performance with image processing software. o Focus group testing with waterless technology in secondary target market in developed countries.



Cranfield University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Master of Research - Industrial Design

  • Feb 2013 - Jul 2014

  Designing the user interface for an innovative waterless toilet system for developing as part of a multidisciplinary team for the ‘Re-invent the Toilet Challenge’. Responsibilities: • Preliminary research in target area of Kumasi, Ghana. • Design and Development of patented flush mechanism • CAD modelling and rapid prototyping of prototypes ranging from small test rigs to full scale replicas for use at exhibitions such as ‘Reinvent the Toilet Fair’, Delhi, and the National History Museum. • Aesthetic design of toilet based on internal structural requirements, ergonomics, living environment, servicing and the lifestyle and aspirations of the target market. • Additional creative tasks: Designing the exhibition stand, graphic design of exhibition posters, advising video production company on the accompanying educational animation for the project.



Childreach International

• Retail

• Stove Design and testing on the Family Energy Project

  • Mar 2013 - Jun 2013

  Designing a stove to meet the needs of the local community of Moshi and training four local teenagers to build and sell the stoves in the hope of producing a self-sustaining project. The project was initiated by Kyoto Energy based in Kenya for Child Reach International, a London based charity doing incredible work all over the World. I worked closely with two great members of the Child Reach Tanzania team (George & Joshua) who were truly invaluable in the implementation stage of the project. Responsibilities -Research in local area -Visiting local workshops and selecting the best option as a base for our new project -Sourcing cheapest materials and tools -Training four local teenagers to build the stoves -Improving the stove design to work with available material and tools These tasks were all accomplished in the first four days along with the first stove being finished. The stoves used up to 60% less firewood, produced no smoke after initial ignition and allowed both loose biomass and wood to be used unlike any other stove in the market.