Date of Birth: 12.7.47                                 Married, two adult children

Current Activities

1991 - present, Freelance Consultant, in association with Ellis Developments Ltd, Textile Consultants.

Designing computer-generated ranges of medical and engineering devices using novel fibre placement techniques, and converting said designs to the machine code necessary to control textile machinery

Presently working with a large hi-fi loudspeaker company to investigate the use of novel textile techniques in the production of loudspeaker cones with enhanced properties.

Previous Activities

Contributed the design component of a £350,000 MedLINK project (‘SITE’) to create a minimally invasive vascular implant for the treatment of aortic aneurysms. This work has given rise to a growing family of related components for varied end uses in the body for which I have created the designs, working drawings and embroidery computer files.

Three year project successfully completed January 2000.

Design and development of novel seamless garment blanks on Santoni machinery for Adria (Charnos), Strabane, N. lreland, on sale in M & S stores.

Lace design consultancy for a local raschel lace company, also some computer design simulation for Leavers lace company and other more general design work.

Recent projects include evaluation of weaving computer simulation package for large Japanese multinational company, design and development of stretch fabrics on CAD single jersey machinery. Helped set up and manage a £700,000 DTI 'LINK' project to fund research into engineering uses for embroidery in composite materials, ('MASCET').

Other projects have included design of medical components with Leicester General Hospital, development of economical body armour, design of composite bone plates for orthopaedic use. Design of novel woven structures for artificial ligaments and biaxial cloths for structural composites.

Design Manager - responsible for fabric ranges working closely with customers (50% M&S) up to 75 tonnes per week mainly cotton fabrics, outerwear and underwear on rib, interlock, single jersey, jacquards, stripers, wrap stripes and so on.

Also responsible for design on small diameter CAD-driven underwear machine project whereby electronically patterned and striped underwear garment blanks with waistbands knitted individually. Was first in the world to have this type of garment in stores.

Head Designer responsible for elastomeric lace ranges into Marks & Spencer, Berlei, Symingtons. Responsible for Sultzer Moratronik l8gg Double jersey machinery production of ranges of fabrics for diverse end uses; stretch covers, children's, ladies and menswear, outer and underwear on single and double jersey, rib in a variety of gauges. Coarse gauge raschel fabrics for outerwear, curtainings. Managed a design and development department of 5 personnel.

Lace Designer for innovative electro-mechanical raschel machine "Esmerelda', the world’s first operational electronic lace machine

Ranges of polyester suiting fabrics, stretch covers, narrow fabrics.

EDUCATION

1958-65 Brunts Grammar School, Mansfield

8 '0' Levels, 3 'A' Levels (Chemistry, Biology, Art)

1965-69 University of Leeds, BA Hons Textile Design, specialised in woven textile design

Associate of the Textile Institute

Short Courses include -

Warp knitting, Nottingham Polytechnic (1 year)

Managing People

Exhibitions

UK Patent Application 9115821.2 Reinforcement for Holes in Composite Materials

UK Patent 9218539.6 Device for the relief of strictures of the oesophagus

UK Patent 2270264 Palliative Stent and insertion device

UK Patent Application 9507648.5 Method for placing reinforcing fibres in fibre reinforced composite materials

UK Patent Application 2322505A Components for Loudspeakers

PCT International Patent Application WO99/37242 Reinforced Graft

UK Patent Application 9816066.6 Method for manufacture of textile reinforced composite material

INTERESTS

Photography (useful for trade fairs, illustrated reports and displays), music, gardening, geology and palaeontology.

Currently Hon. Editor of the newsletter of the Nottingham Rock Garden Society, and am on the committee of the University of Nottingham Composites Club.

Electric bass player in 2 local blues bands.

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