Lead Materials & Display Manager at Envisics Ltd (2025-04 – 2026-05)
- Built and led the end-to-end LCOS packaging qualification and production-readiness programme, defining responsibilities across component, package, and system integration activities.
- Directed cross-functional teams spanning materials, engineering, quality, and supply chain to deliver manufacturing objectives, resolve issues, and report progress to senior leadership.
- Managed supplier onboarding and lifecycle activities, including technical evaluations, RFQs, purchase specifications, and alignment with external packaging partners.
- Developed and maintained detailed programme plans in MS Project and Office Timeline, ensuring key milestones, dependencies, and delivery risks were actively managed
- Led structured failure analysis and 8D/RCA investigations, implementing CAPAs that reduced disruption and supported stable production continuity.
- Applied DFMA and process-improvement principles to improve manufacturability, reduce cost, and accelerate readiness for next-generation automotive HUD products
Senior Liquid Crystal Scientist at Envisics Ltd (2021-02 – 2025-04)
- Led automotive qualification and validation programmes, ensuring strict compliance with AEC-Q100 standards and regulatory requirements across LCOS display materials.
- Provided technical and line management of researchers and engineers, guiding strategic decisions across materials development and manufacturing readiness.
- Drove cross-functional manufacturing process optimisation programme, achieving a 20% increase in efficiency and significant reduction in production costs.
- Owned material specifications, qualification criteria, and supply chain approval workflows for liquid crystals, polyimide alignment layers, and encapsulants.
Liquid Crystal Scientist at Envisics Ltd (2019-05 – 2021-02)
- Led LC and alignment layer development for LCoS holographic modulators, collaborating with OEMs, suppliers, and assembly houses in support of next-generation automotive HUD programmes.
Research Fellow at University of Leeds (2018-04 – 2019-05)
- Managed clean room fabrication facilities and supervised multiple Master's thesis projects, demonstrating early leadership and cross-functional project coordination.
- Conducted research on novel 2D/3D structures in flexoelectrically driven liquid crystal systems (Prof. J. Cliff Jones, FREng).
Research Assistant at Nottingham Trent University (2017-06 – 2018-03)
- Industrially funded feasibility project (Merck Darmstadt) studying LC flow alignment and viscosity; developed MATLAB image analysis scripts and COMSOL Q-tensor LC simulations.
