I work within the Manufacturing Skills Academy (MSA) which focusses on engineering / manufacturing skills development at all levels from school to upskilling and reskilling experienced engineers. . - Successfully delivered our Advanced Manufacturing Challenge Fund (AMCF) project. 3-year, £1M project to develop training content and engage with 300 unique manufacturing SMEs to deliver training / project support. - Ongoing work within Scottish manufacturing has allowed me to build a community of around 500 contacts who I regularly engage with to promote NMIS and MSA events and opportunities. - Worked with Scottish manufacturing businesses and candidates to facilitate ~50 placements of graduate calibre candidates to manufacturing businesses as part of the National Transition Training Fund (NTTF) - Led the NMIS project team in skills foresighting with Shipbuilding, NHS & Scottish Ambulance Service. - I am the NMIS champion for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP). I facilitate and qualify KTP projects between industry and academia while also providing and internal point of contact for KTP promotion within NMIS. - I co-ordinate and host engagement events and workshops (both online andin-person) to promote NMIS & MSA support and training events.

Responsibility for developing a portfolio of knowledge transfer projects West of Scotland Universities and industry from inception through to project start.

Responsibility for maintaining and developing the Environmental testing business in Scottish region. Portfolio of clients ~£500k with new business targets of £125k p/a

– Business Development & Marketing (Reason for Leaving – End of Contract) OptoSci develop innovative gas detection systems for a range of niche markets in Oil & Gas, Environmental Monitoring, Waste & Energy.

(Reason for Leaving – Redundancy / Closure of Scottish Service Centre) I worked as manager of the Scottish business unit and held staff and P&L responsibility for the site. I managed a team of up to 12 from various disciplines.

. (Reason for Leaving- Career Progression)