I am a traffic signals design assistant engineer for Amey in Sheffield, I have been with Amey nearly 6 years and have worked my way up from trainee technician to assistant engineer in that time, I have worked in almost every department from street lighting design to highways until I settled in traffic signals.

Before Amey I have worked as a semi-skilled machinist, where I made the alternators for bus engines and before that I was a test and inspector for magnets that went in to missiles.

Before I started working for Amey I took a career break of 15 years to look after my special needs sister after both our parents passed away, in that time I did a mechanical engineering degree at Sheffield Hallam University, once I knew that my sister was settled in here new home and happy I went back to pursue my career in engineering.

The thing that makes my story different is that when I was 7 years old I lost my left leg to an osteocarsoma or bone cancer. I have struggled all my life to be an engineer, but I knew that was what I wanted to be right from the point I took my artificial leg to bits when I was 12 years old.