Martin Garland - Central Engineering & Mechanisms
In year 7 at school Martin entered an engineer's competition and decided to make a hovering car. It was ambitious but made him realize what he could accomplish if he put his mind to it and he hasn't...
Lee Hall - Graphic Designer
Lee Hall is a Graphic Designer at Northend Creative Print Solutions. He says "When I left university I applied for about 80 jobs. I got ten letters back, 70 no replies and I got about four or five interviews...
Gerry McKenna - Associate, Project Management
Gerry McKenna is an Associate Project Manager with construction consultants, Davis Langdon. His brothers are quantity surveyors, and it was casual work for them when he was a teenager that inspired him...
Stephen Payne - Naval Architect
Stephen Payne is a Naval Architect at Carnival Shipbuilding. He was inspired by a Blue Peter story about the QEII when he was seven years old. The presenter said that there wouldn't be any more big liners...
Rezia Wahid - Weaver
Rezia Wahid is a Weaver based at Cockpit Arts. She also teaches weaving. He father hoped that she would be a doctor, but accepted that that wasn't what she wanted to do. Her school supported her interest...
Lucy Fergus - Artist
Lucy Fergus uses waste rubber and silicone to make new products. She is based at Cockpit Arts. If she could do anything in the world she would choose to cover a large building, such as the Eiffel Tower,...
Sue King - Glass Artist
Sue King is a Glass Artist based at Cockpit Arts. She's an interior designer and set up her own business almost by mistake. She'd been made redundant and was making cards to earn some money, when her...
Scott Delaney - Assistant Construction Manager
Scott Delaney is an Assistant Construction Manager at Bovis Lend Lease. He's been a market trader and a black cab driver, but of all his jobs he realised he liked construction the best, so he went to...
Simon Vaughan - Senior Project Manager
Simon Vaughan is a Senior Project Manager for Bovis Lend Lease. "I'm the type of person who can't look at paper all day, wants to see some physical tangible reward at the end of the day, and the reward...
Sarah Cooke - Design Manager
Sarah Cooke is a Design Manager for Bovis Lend Lease, she wanted to be an architect at school but failed her A levels and took a glass design course instead. "I thought, 'What am I doing here? I've...
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