I am experienced in a range of engineering work from design to manufacture, specifically additive manufacturing. Furthermore, I have experience in organising, running and leading groups of people ranging from the young to professionals.
I am working on providing reusable, loupes-ready PPE that protects against aerosols for dentists! 100% of the profits are donated to NHS Charities Together! The visor I designed passed 7/8 tests for CE marking.
Unfortunately, due to the industry being built and processed around a few large companies dominating the market, a new entry to the market is very difficult. The process from the government CE specification document to getting the product tested and approved by an awarding body is very expensive and has clearly shown the industry is made to sustain the few, large companies. However, this does mean that the large companies are able to continuously increase the price because the consumer has no other option.
I will continue to look through other options to get my visor design to the market. However, for now I have dormant the company as to not obtain any new costs.
Throughout my time at Warwick University, I worked with the Warwick Engineering Society to make updates to the website, helped to brainstorm new ideas for their tech platform and worked on facilitating calls throughout events.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I founded Makers4theNHS to help those in need of PPE visors. We provide 3D Printed PPE visors completely free of charge to NHS hospitals, GP's, care homes and more! Using purely the money that we are able to raise from our GoFundMe page. The volunteer group comprised of just over 65 members, running more than 30 3d-printers simultaneously to produce over 6500 visors for the NHS. Moreover, we raised just over £18,000 to help our efforts run smoothly.
As a Designer in Residence, I work on supporting Jayesh, the Head of Engineering, at Westminster UTC. Throughout my time there, I work on guiding and offering my expertise to the students and in return, I'm able to access the industry-standard facilities for free.
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, Dare to Care Packages was set up to aid those shielding / vulnerable. I worked on manufacturing/sourcing and quality checking PPE to distribute through the Dare to Care Packages network.
I worked on designing a 3D-printable belt tensioner using Fusion 360. Approaching the project with an agile thought process, I learnt a lot of new features of the software and applied this directly to the project at-hand.
I acquired a week long work experience placement at IBM through my networking skills and connecting with those through a machine learning project I had been working on during my spare time. I worked with Dale Lane, a Software Developer at IBM and creator of MLforKids.
During my time at IBM, I spent time working on MLForKids coming up with new ideas for different, engaging worksheets to provide kids during lessons. I focused on trying to expand my skillset so using Python and different API's to really curate lots of different services to create a product. During my first day I converted a Scratch worksheet to Python, so I could get a feel for how much effort each worksheet would be.
Knowing this, I worked on a sentiment analysis program using Twitter's API and a Machine Learning Model that I trained with IBM Watson. Using this model I was able to see whether Tweets regarding a specific topic had a bias, and labelling them automatically as Positive or Negative. Once I had completed this and finished creating the easy-to-follow worksheet I submitted it and continued to work on a new project.
During my last two days, I worked on an Android App that woukd recognise the colour bands on a resistor and distinguish what ohm rating the resistor was. I managed to complete the machine learning training model and write the program for the detection, however I was not able to complete the Android App. However, I am determined to continue the project and will be finishing the app in the near-future.
I spent a couple days working with this geotechnical engineering firm to help sort Point Clouds and using these point clouds to create 2D engineering drawings on a a multi-layer view with AutoCAD. I used multiple files to compile a final design and fed this back to the Head of CAD at BEDI.
I worked with Drum Roll HQ on the Erase All Kittens game, that teaches kids to code through an online hackable and changeable game. I was the leader of a workshop and worked alongside the company with the Friday Science Fair and across all three days, where I was present helping out with different tasks. Successfully completing all these tasks and also talking to new and interested people within the field of drones and aerospace engineering in which I would like to embark my journey on.
I played a vital role at the Scope shop in Harrow for 8 months as I worked there to give back to the community. I found Scope Charity shop through my Duke Of Edinburgh Award, although not completing my Duke Of Edinburgh award I continued to work at Scope. Over the months I was there to work solely to achieve the award I came to the realisation that there is not enough people volunteering at the shop, or any charity shop really. I continued there because of my love to help others and wanted to make sure that everyone would always have someone there for them.
Throughout my time at Scope, I took on a variety of diverse roles that you would not see clash within the retail industry. I would interact with customers, at the till, to help them purchase items so my communication skills had to be great and I was told on multiple times that my friendly nature helped me acquire friendships with the regular customers. Moreover, I helped around the shop with hanging up clothes, restocking and cleaning the store overall, this was a labour-heavy part of my volunteering job which allowed to gain the skill of never giving up, with customers walking in and out all the time, clothes that I had just put away properly were found on the floor.
One of my favourites parts of the volunteering job was being able to sort and tag all the clothes. All the clothes that are donated to us would be sorted and tagged behind the shop floor, which was fun because I was able to use a tagging gun and I liked pricing the items that would go on store, there was no set pricing so I had to make good judgements. I often took on a leadership role at the shop and others would ask me about the pricing.
I assisted Drum Roll HQ with the Erase All Kittens game, which teaches kids how to code within a hackable and changeable game. I helped across the 3 day event at the Southbank Centre called 'The Web We Want Festival'. I helped kids work on the computers and directly communicated with them about programming and how it can help them in the future with different jobs.
At the end of my first year studying at The University of Warwick, I permanently withdrew due to finding the course not challenging enough. Furthermore, I did not enjoy the early specialism of the course and the heavily-based theory structure.
A-levels (2018-2019): Maths (A), Mechanical Engineering and Design (D*D*), Extended Project Qualification (A*)
GCSE's (2017-2018): Maths (7/A), Engineering (Distinction) and Physics, Biology and Chemistry (6/B). Total of 8 GCSE grades (A*-C)