I am responsible for the training and assessment of all students and Union staff who wish to drive minibuses under the Unions permit. I am also one of the drivers of the Union Nightbus service.

I was contracted to provide support to an on-going project to develop a new project management process to be used in all engineering projects on site. Specifically, this involved programming a flowsheet in MS Visio to simplify the use of the new process for the Project Engineering team. This also involved modifying the MS Access project management database to support the new process, as well as modifying the database to support importing financial data from SAP. I was also responsible for training users in the new & modified systems.

This was my placement year as part of my University studies. I worked with the Project Engineering team on a wide variety of tasks, leading to substantial responsibilities by the end of my time there. Notably, this included overseeing the commissioning of a new storage tank, and programming a new site maintenance planning package interfacing with the site Maximo asset management database. In addition, I updated and re-organised the Engineering training records in preparation for an FDA audit.

My work during this summer job was primarily based around writing computer software modelling the behaviour of lubricants for global use.

During my year I participated in a wide variety of work. My primary roles were working in a lab, preparing and photographing samples for analysis, and developing a series of software expert systems. I also carried out a variety of other tasks, including managing the teams internal website to provide a source of information to users within the Shell intranet.