Melissa is very passionate about being a role model, not only for engineers, but young entrepreneurs and females in ethnic minorities to show that engineering or being an entrepreneur can be a viable career choice for women.

At the age of 26 Melissa has achieved Incorporated engineer status, SolidWorks professional member, SolidWorks Champion, STEM and female role model, an advocate for women in engineering and is a successful entrepreneur, running an engineering consultancy business.

She does a tremendous amount of outreach work as she is very passionate about helping the next generation and her company takes on her mission to empower the next generation to take up a career in STEM through the activity days they do but also provides mentoring and uses her network to find jobs and placements for her mentees. She networks with other females to expand her network and tries to be the role model she never had when she was entering her career in engineering.

Was the first female employed in the technical department at a manufacturing company and excelled at leading the team to produce a successful stock part system in the factory, as well completed a successful innovate project to improve the design process of security products – saving the company 40% of the overall product development costs in a year.

Melissa has successfully completed a Research Masters (MSc) on The Digital Simulation of attacking structures in accordance to the standards LPS 1175 set up by the Loss Prevention Certification Board. During this project she identified new methodologies for improving the efficiency of the design process for security products – saving the company 40% of the overall product development costs in a year. She was the first female employed in the technical department at a manufacturing company and excelled at leading the team to produce a successful stock part system in the factory. She achieved a (BEng Hons) in Aeronautical Engineering and was a finalist for the Female Undergraduate of the Year Award in 2014 . She also achieved the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Outstanding Paper on an Aerospace Subject, RAeS University Prize and the Manchester Branch Project Prize.