Profile

Learning “Physics with Space Technology” at university was good fun, i met some like-minded friends. To fund my 2nd degree in “Vacuum Engineering”; i worked in a Camera Shop, which was a great introduction to photography.

Space and Rockets was a keen interest, i thought i learnt everything about orbital mechanics at university, until i played the “Kerbal Space Program” computer game… my mind was blown!

my university degrees led me onto a industrial placement in vacuum coating machinery, here i was placed into a research and development team for new coating processes and was responsible for running a small laboratory.

Several years later i got a new job in south manchester at a mass spectrometry company, working on building and testing mass spectrometers in-house and then following them out to places all over the world for installation. later years i was travelling the globe full time (but 3 years of this and a young family takes its toll)

I then moved back to vacuum coating machinery thanks to previous contacts made, and i am now working on many exciting and top secret projects, in various fields such as; solar cells, semi-conductors and battery technologies. (just to name a few)

Working in industry is very fast paced and challenging, which keeps me from ever being bored at work.

About 30min drive to work, usually listen to youtube about some topic on Tesla or SpaceX.  Morning Brew and discussions with colleagues then onto the project of the week, this can be varied from writing reports / research, to testing and running new hardware and equipment. sometimes there is travel out to customers where we help on-site.