Dr Lisa Brook
Chemical Engineer - Shell
Lisa has worked for Shell for more than 28 years, starting straight after graduating with a Degree in Chemical Process Engineering and Biotechnology. She initially spent 4 years carrying out fundamental research into combustion chemistry, which she used as a basis to gain her PhD. Since then, she has had a wide range of technical and marketing roles, including Technology Manager for Ferrari where she travelled with the F1 race team and was responsible for the development and tracking of the fuel and oil in their race cars.
In her current role, Lisa is the Academic Partnerships Manager for the UK, accountable for fostering, nurturing, and maintaining long-term relationships with highly regarded academia and research institutes in the UK to build mutually beneficial collaborations centred on innovative technologies that have the potential to solve key energy challenges.
Keith Winter
Engineer/Chartered surveyor
Keith is a retired Chartered Surveyor and Management Consultant. Initially he worked with construction companies as a quantity surveyor and then into general management. For twenty years he was a management consultant specialising in the application and practical use of the internationally recognised quality management standard ISO 9001 whose attributes are fundamental to all types of businesses and professions.
His time was spent; working as an assessor for one of the UK’s accredited certification bodies, running and presenting training courses and going into organisations as a consultant guiding them towards ISO 9001 certification.
Although based in the UK he also managed audits and training courses in; South Korea, Cyprus, Spain, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Kazakstan and Russia.
He is passionate that ‘quality management’ is
fundamental to an Organisation’s success and as such could be described as ‘a career within a career’ whether this be aerospace, zookeeping or anything in-between.
Dr David Murray
Chartered engineer
David is a Chartered Engineer whose career spans senior roles in major electronics companies, followed by establishing his own company. Currently he is a consultant on future hi-tech electronic equipment.
From an early age he has enjoyed building electronics, computing; radio and weather satellite receivers and similar – most worked! This led to an A level entry into a student apprenticeship which gave him practical as well as academic experience.
His career focused on radar, sonar, infra-red and other optics. Projects were used by the Navy and Air Force for surveillance applications.
He widened his academic qualifications by gaining a management diploma, and research Engineering Doctorate (Eng.D. – an engineering-based Ph.D.) focused on using simulation and synthetic environments for challenging technical applications.
David would be pleased to discuss careers in engineering and science, university vs apprenticeships, gap year, large vs small employers and general career planning including application and interview techniques.
Chris Norval
Chartered accountant and business owner - engineering firm
Chris Norval is an entrepreneurial business leader with a proven track record, ranging from running large industrial groups to successfully starting up new businesses. He is experienced in working internationally across cultures both in developed and developing countries.
Chris is a Chartered and Accountant by training and has spent a large part of his career in the resources industry.
Chris is the majority owner of Tenon Engineering (www.tenonengineering.co.uk) and Wallace Instruments (www.wallaceinstruments.com ) which supply precision laboratory Instruments to the material testing industry.