Cliff Notes Podcast: Lead manufacturing

Katy Toms is an accomplished Civil Engineer and Chair of Institution of Civil Engineers Plymouth, and Senior Vice Chair of ICE South West Regional Committee. This year she moved to WSP as Senior Engineer. Finding her self nominated for all her work for Top 50 Women Engineers 2017.

We sat down to talk STEM, apprenticeships and the passion she has for working with others and having a possible effect on the community with Engineering. As Katy put it "Working in engineering and construction gives you the opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself."

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This episode of Cliff Notes Podcast: Ask a leader, host and founder of Holdingbay Tristan Bailey talks to Katy Toms for the Cliff Notes podcast. Katy is an accomplished Civil Engineer and Chair of ICE Plymouth, and Senior Vice Chair of ICE South West Regional Committee. Now a Senior Engineer at WSP.

This year she will be part of the organising committee to put on events for 200 years of Engineering adversary, and Uk government's the Year of Engineering 2018. ICE Plymouth to celebrate ICE 200 with Nigel Overton, Curator for Plymouth City Museum and Nick Ely, Area Coastal Engineer for the Environment Agency on the 1st May 2018 Evening on the water

As a personal journey Katy goes to Malawi with group of women from across the UK in May 2018 to trade skills with Malawian women entrepreneurs. Help raise money for the Scholarships

Show Notes: https://holdingbay.co.uk/cliff-notes/podcasts/13/

Tony Denyer works as Interim CTO for hire, with his consulting business inhouse.tech he offers to lead and grow your technical team, and deliver digital projects at scale.

Together with entrepreneurs, they turn unique ideas into successful products and companies. Acting as the perfect partner or co-founder to build strong and independent startups. They can help you build out your tech team and, when you're ready, they will take the training wheel off.

We talk about business of considering outsourcing your work, or bringing in more developers in-house. The need then for a professional experienced hand is not always the skill existing management teams. His consulting then reduces friction and lets him talk business with management and lead code with coders.

Read more at https://inhouse.tech/

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This episode of Cliff Notes Podcast: Ask a leader, host and founder of Holdingbay Tristan Bailey talks to Tony Denyer of inhouse.tech for the Cliff Notes podcast. Tony brings his years of experience with large business from pharma to asbestos auditing to publishing. Working in lean, agile and efficient ways to come in house with you for a period of time and scale and integrate your development team. Technical people need technical leadership and Tony can bridge that gap and get results.

Show Notes: https://holdingbay.co.uk/cliff-notes/podcasts/12/

Malcolm Myers of AMH Test System takes us on a learning journey of how applicable and scaleable LabVIEW software and testing equipment is for him and hundreds of other engineering and electrical business around the UK and World.

Recognised as a Chartered Engineer, Certified LabVIEW Architect and National Instruments Alliance Partner, he knows his craft. Working with audio, acoustics, power tools, telecommunications and renewable technologies around the UK since 1996.

We talk about what you need to get started and how an engagement works for him. Using this graphical programming software and wiring up the testing devices on site. So join us and see if we PASS/FAIL the test.

Read more at http://www.amhtestsystems.co.uk/about-us/

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This episode of Cliff Notes Podcast: Ask a leader, host and founder of Holdingbay Tristan Bailey talks Malcolm Myers. He has enjoyed a varied career with a broad engineering background, particularly in the areas of audio, acoustics, power tools, telecommunications and renewable technologies. Having used LabVIEW since 1996 he has now branched out on his own to provide expert testing services to industry.

Show Notes: https://holdingbay.co.uk/cliff-notes/podcasts/11/

Darren and HighRoller are working on a great new product and bringing it to the UK market, becoming recognised as the most effective foam roller for physio recovery or post workout. Working themselves to add to the R&D and improve the quality of this already highly regarded professional product from Finland.

I know Darren Teague and HighRoller though their marketing lead Esther Cochrane from many years ago working together on launching the John Lewis website. So it was good to catch up and we pick up the conversation where I learn what Darren has been doing with improving and marketing this product with Trade Shows, Pro Athletes and Retail.

Read more at https://highrollerfitness.co.uk/

This episode of Cliff Notes Podcast: Ask a leader, host and founder of Holdingbay Tristan Bailey talks to Darren Teague of High Roller for the Cliff Notes podcast. Darren is one of the owners and a strength and conditioning coach working with a variety of athletes including professional footballers, cricketers, amateur athletes, young athletes and more recently clients who have had brain injuries, has found the HighRoller to be an invaluable tool for soft tissue muscle management.

Show Notes: https://holdingbay.co.uk/cliff-notes/podcasts/10/

Joe Reynolds is an experienced engineer with a specific expertise in cutting tool and machine tool management. All round cutting tool knowledge from design and manufacture to application and sales, in the boardroom or the shop floor.

Marketing skills, CNC machine tool marketing, generation of sub contract machining from a range of industries including F1, aerospace, automotive and power generation. Plus genuinely a nice guy, was great to catch up and have a chat with him again.

Read more at http://www.mtdcnc.com/ Twitter follow https://twitter.com/joeydynamic Twitter follow https://twitter.com/mtdonline

This episode of Cliff Notes Podcast: Ask a leader, host and founder of Holdingbay Tristan Bailey talks to Joe Reynolds of MTD CNC for the Cliff Notes podcast on his machine tool design and sales background and buying to to business educating and marketing for other precision engineering companies.

MTD CNC offer high quality marketing and video production for businesses in manufacturing and those making tools and parts. All the team have highly technical backgrounds and talk to the guests on their YouTube shows on the same technical level. Also known to inject a bit of fun in the shows which make them compelling team viewing in the thousands of workshops and offices that join for the weekly updates, or to learn about purchasing options.

Show Notes: https://holdingbay.co.uk/cliff-notes/podcasts/9/

Sam Watts Director of Immersive Tech at MakeReal making serious fun for learning, training and new games with VR, AR, MR and physical products.

Read more at http://www.makereal.co.uk/ Twitter follow https://twitter.com/MakeRealVR Twitter follow https://twitter.com/vr_sam

Will be at VR Manchester in May: https://www.meetup.com/VRManchester/events/239749361/?a=socialmedia

VR Brighton, regular meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Brighton-Virtual-Reality/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/VRbrighton/?ref=br_rs

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This episode of Cliff Notes: Ask a leader Podcast founder of Holdingbay and host Tristan Bailey talks to Sam Watts of MakeReal for the Cliff Notes podcast on is game development background and moving into business uses of Virtual Reality.

Learning how they are making VR so valuable and cost effective to big manufacturing companies like EDF and McDonalds for young farmers. Also a side brand of great games like the new Loco Dojo and Radial-G.

Show Notes: https://holdingbay.co.uk/cliff-notes/podcasts/8/

Luke Hay, Analytics and UX Consultant with over 15 years industry experience in all forms of website management.

Talks with me about his new book Researching UX - Analytics: Understanding is the Heart of Great UX. By the end of this book, you'll have a strong understanding of the important role analytics plays in the UX process. It will inspire you to take an "analytics first" approach to your UX projects.

Buy the book https://amzn.to/2mTSmYr

Read more at http://www.lukehay.co.uk/

Twitter https://twitter.com/hayluke

This episode of Cliff Notes: Ask a leader Podcast. Tristan Bailey talks to Luke Hay to understand when a business should use UX and Analytics and how easy and valuable it is to get started. how can you get started with Analytics or UX in your business and where to begin.

Show Notes: https://holdingbay.co.uk/cliff-notes/podcasts/7/

Steve Fletcher, Business Development, Physical Digital. The big change is the use of Digital Manufacturing, collecting and using data intelligently through the manufacturing process and the products life cycle. Standardisation of systems and workflows especially within the Design, measurement and RE space.

Read more at http://www.physicaldigital.com Twitter https://twitter.com/p2dme

This episode of Cliff Notes: Ask a leader Podcast. Tristan Bailey talks to Steve Fletcher at Physical Digital, about his work in Aerospace with Rolls Royce and working at the highest level of quality control. Now with Physical Digital the specialise on 3D scanning parts for reverse engineering and quality control. Testing wear and tear post use and for batch samples from medical sizes to boat hulls. Also to rebuild legacy parts when 2D drawings have been lost or may have changed in the years since first fabrication.

Bringing these services into the production cycle and onto production lines as scanners get faster, changes the game for digital manufacturing to full circle service not just for testing for rejects.

... "Our business really is service on 3d optical scanning for measurement and reverse engineering but it's more than that you know, there's all the aspects of how acceptable the data is, how accurate the data is how useful the data is" ... -- Steve Fletcher

Show Notes: https://holdingbay.co.uk/cliff-notes/podcasts/6/

Ekaterina Grib, Business Development & Marketing at Kewazo, With a vision to develop robotic-based systems controlled by Artificial Intelligence. The pilot system will evolve from scaffolding assembly system into a frame of swarm robotics that will change the way of common large and medium size buildings construction

Read more at http://kewazo.com/

Twitter https://twitter.com/kewazoRobotics

This episode of Cliff Notes: Ask a leader Podcast founder of Holdingbay and host Tristan Bailey talks to Ekaterina Grib at Kewazo, in Germany about prototyping and building robots to climb scaffolding. Founding a company and what it takes to find market-fit and build and test a new system like this for more than 4 storey buildings. Growing out of top German Technical university to founding and growing this business and targeting to construction business.

Show Notes: https://holdingbay.co.uk/cliff-notes/podcasts/5/

Kyle Akerman, Web Analytics Consultant, Leveraging digital analytics to drive lead generation. Working with B2B clients to audit and connect their web analytics to business goals and get more traffic.

Read more at http://www.kyleakerman.com

Twitter https://twitter.com/KyleAkerman

Listen Wednesday nights to CHIRPradio http://chirpradio.org/dj/213

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This episode of Cliff Notes: Ask a leader Podcast. Tristan Bailey talks to Kyle Akerman about working with mobile phones and wave bands at Motorola Mobile for many years. Then making a successful transition to Digital Marketing and Web Analytics. Then finding time to volunteer to help local Chicago radio station CHIRP, learning more about being an audio engineer and giving us an excuse to chat music at the end of this podcast.

Show Notes: https://holdingbay.co.uk/cliff-notes/podcasts/4/