Career to Date

Timeline:

• 20th Sep 2006 - Mechanical Eng at Uni of Birmingham, 3 year Full Time honours degree, Formula Student.

• 4th Jul 2009 - Raymond Priestley Centre, mixed abilities, rock climbing, sailing, mountain biking, mountain rescue.

• 12th Jan 2011 - Waterpark Adventure Centre, young adult groups, disability groups, visually impaired groups.

• 16th Jan 2012 (after 2yrs 6mo) - Comau, Tier 1 facilities design, costing, quoting, installing & process engineering. 

• 17th Feb 2014 (after 2 yrs) - Magna, Tier 1 producer for Toyota and JLR, Door casing assys, costing and quoting. 

• 20th Apr 2015 (after 13 months) - JLR, Cost Eng, Adv negotiation trained, Resp: Flooring, NVH, interior lighting. 

• 30th Sep 2015 (after 6 months) - Took on Steering wheels, Seat belts and Air bags, some EDS, cost modelling tools. 

• 5th Dec 2016 (after 14 months) - Promotion, team change, cost project mgmt, from scoping to funding approval. 

• 15th May 2017 (after 5 months) - Larger scale projects, cross-platform, cross-CoC, multi £million investment. 

• 20th Jun 2019 (after 2yrs 1mo) - VE, 21MY D7u, whole vehicle & feature readiness, FMA, yellow belt training.

• 14th Oct 2019 (after 4 months) - 20MY L663, Launch support secondment, ADV management, DVP closure to ESO.

• 3rd Feb 2020 (after 4 months) - Back to 21MY D7u, attribute targets & sign off, issue resolution, Launch & ESO. 

• 18th Jan 2021 (after 11 months) - Ignite cost reduction, x-functional consideration, CPE approval recommendations. 

• 14th Apr 2021 (after 3 months) - 24MY D7a, FDJ gateway progression, leading road release, post FEC PHEV uplift. 

• 23rd Aug 2021 (after 4 months) - Running Legacy ITP, issue sampling, agreeing ownership, progress to closed. 

• 16th May 2022 (after 9 months) - 25MY MLA, concluding virtual series, prototype vehicle allocation, build planning.

• 18th Jul 2022 (after 15 months) - Technical Group Leader, Upper Body, and Vehicle Attribute Leader, 24+25MY MLA. 

• 23rd Oct 2023 (to present) - UX Evaluation, JEA focus, Competitor Benchmarking, Assessing and Refining Vehicle Features.