Spent a decade learning online ad strategy, gaining Google certifications and all-round ‘digital marketing’ skills, but Covid helped me realise it wasn’t too late to pursue something more meaningful and in-line with my passions, to take things apart and try to put them back together.

Naturally curious, creative, and love to push my capabilities. Calm under pressure and aim for right first time, taking pride in my work and leveraging fine motor skills, aptitude, and a willingness to fine-tune skills, whether hand tools or techniques. Thrive under the right mentorship and guidance. 

I have always been interested in electronics but thought it was too late to change careers, I am now 35 and in the last 2-3 years I have proudly developed:

• Soldering – including some through-hole, surface mount, D-sub and basic splices etc.
• Crimping – wide range of crimp types and tools including: ferrules, JST, molex, D-sub, circular pins
• Cable assembly – connectors including MIL type, following pinouts and diagrams, heatshrinking, branching and inspection.
• Electronic assembly – familiarity with concepts like grounding, some basic visual inspection.
• Fusion 360
• Arduino
• 3D Printing

I am self-funding a HNC in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, which I am half way through and on target for a distinction.