Experience

Working with Innovate UK ( innovation agency) – £3 Billion a Year

Collaborative and Single Research Grant Scheme

Short Term Innovative Commercial Exploitation

Working with Lobby Groups

Previous Clients

  • Scottish Enterprise
  • Scottish Government
  • Welsh Assembly Govt.
  • Enterprise Ireland
  • European Commission
  • Highlands and Islands Enterprise

NEL – TUV SUD Ltd: Principal Consultant

Monitoring Officer, on behalf of Innovate UK, UK Government Innovation Agency

  • Monitoring Officer since 2009 with a broad experience of project types, industry sectors, technologies and commercial exploitation, including:
  • Collaborative R&D, Feasiblity Studies, Smart projects, Digital Construction, Assisted Living,
  • Sensor, Imaging and Power Electronics; Network Security; Creative Industries; Software Systems; Digital Construction.

Technical due diligence

  • Technical due diligence of innovation projects funded by national and EU government.
  • Clients include: Innovate UK; Scottish Enterprise; Invest Northern Ireland; Welsh Development Agency; Highlands & Islands Enterprise. Enterprise Ireland
  • Assessment of several 100 of projects over many years, including both technical and business due diligence( including Dyson and TOM TOM sat nav company). This work has given me wide experience of the key issues related to technical innovation, market prospects, project weaknesses, and how to achieve exploitable project outputs and achieve commercial success.

Business Development in Energy/ Renewable and Clean Energy Sector

  • Delivered multiple business research projects focused on the Energy sector, particularly Oil & Gas, on a wide range of topics including the growth of Virtual Metering, instrumentation in the O&G industry and the UK North Sea.
  • Most recently engaged in being programme director for Hydrogen for the Marine sector with Lead company Ferguson Marine and several organisation in Orkney Island.

Sustainable Technology Initiative (STI)

  • Monitoring of projects funded under the government funded Sustainable Technology Initiative (STI) in the areas of optoelectronics, digital technologies and manufacturing. Activities included advising on the project’s technical direction, project management, collaboration support and timely issue escalation. Technical and management meetings attended on a quarterly basis, with accurate and timely quarterly reporting undertaken.

Information Security

  • Lead auditor of Information Security Management system in accordance to ISO/IEC/27001 standard.
  • Information Security Manager with responsibility for the implementation and management of ISO/IEC/27001 Information Security Management Systems certification for TUV SUD in the UK. This responsibility covered the regular maintenance of the Information Systems Management System (ISMS) using PRINCE2 methodology.
  • IT Security adviser consultancy to SMEs.

Knowledge Transfer

Management, on behalf of government, of a wide variety of knowledge transfer events, programmes and international conferences on innovative technologies, which target SMEs, industry and academia. Subject matter includes:

  • Sensor and Sensor Systems Applications
  • Nanotechnology applications
  • High Temperature Superconductivity

Post Graduate Training Partnership Programme

  • Managed Post Graduate training partnership programme(PTP) in association with the University of Strathclyde, supervising doctoral students to get Industrial PhD degrees.

National Research Strategy Group (NRSG) for Nanotechnology

  • Member of the high level committee, National Research Strategy Group (NRSG) for Nanotechnology managed by DEFRA and sponsored by a number of UK government departments, such as BEIS and HSE.

Siemens AG 1995-1998

Secondment for 6 months to deliver the government’s Optoelectronics programme, undertaking project evaluation, assessment and technology transfer for companies within the UK.

To provide UK government with technical and programme management consultancy services, including:

  • Strategy document for the Advanced Control Technology Transfer Programme, running the resultant technology transfer and dissemination programme.
  • Formulation of ‘UK Online for Business’ flagship DTI programme for information superhighway within the UK. This was to strengthen the capabilities of SMEs in the areas of e-commerce and digital technologies.
  • Modelling and simulation of Industrial Robotic Devices within Advanced Manufacturing Cell in the continuous path welding application.

National Engineering Laboratory 1972-1995

Development of automated manufacturing systems using innovative applications of sensors, imaging and laser technologies with the use of robotic devices and complex industrial technologies, with the key focus on process and performance improvements. Responsibility for the installation of computer aided manufacturing systems using sensor controlled laser guided robots at several advanced industrial manufacturing plants. These needed substantial experience in specialist technical fields, such as sensor designs, computer interfacing and manufacturing management issues.

Principal project lead for an EU funded project under the Information Society Technologies (IST) collaborative R&D programme. The project looked at the dependability of enhanced distributed system and software architecture with commercial PCs. The multi partner, multi-cultural dimension to the project helped me understand the complex issues relating to business and technical risk management. Dissemination of results and exploitation were implemented within several European countries.

Established the High Performance Computing Group at NEL, which commercialised Distributed Computer Architectures research into industry applications. Leading a team of highly innovative postdoctoral staff, applications included key compute intensive tasks within manufacturing. The end users were Cham ltd, Rolls Royce, IBM, Martin Marrietta and JPL to name a few. These commercially sold applications generated a multi-million pound spin-off business unit.

  • High Performance Graphics
  • High Speed Imaging for a variety of applications
  • Parallelising Computational Fluid Dynamics package for Cham Ltd
  • Animation of highly compute intensive tasks for Digital Animations Ltd
  • Parallelising Ultrasound Imaging package for Ninewells Hosptial, Dundee


Technology transfer activities to high technology electronics and IT companies in the UK and the Far East. Key focus for these activities have been in Parallel Processing, applications in the prestigious research groups in the UK, North America and Malaysia in the software production developments in computational fluid Dynamics, high speed ultrasound imaging, digital imaging for sensing applications and signal processing for geothermal applications.

Additional committee work

BSI committee member in following technical committees:

  • IST/5 – Programming, languages, their environments and system software interfaces
  • JTC 1/SC 24 – Computer graphics and image processing
  • IST/ and IST/ /1 – Information technology executive committee
  • European Commission- Evaluator, Telematics Programme.

Executive Committee member- Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), Scottish branch.

Member of the high-level committee, National Research Strategy Group

Women in Science and Engineering, IET

Community based activities:

  • Active involvement and leadership in several community-based activities to maintain support for Indians abroad. Recent examples are helping International Indian students in crisis due to COVIOD 19 pandemic. This involved fund raising to help them with food, accommodation, tuition fee and repatriation through Vande Bharat Mission. Activities also included giving emotional support for affected students and vulnerable Indian community.
  • Support elderly groups and needs of the socially disadvantaged groups
  • Run activities for the elderly, retired members, and the children to address their needs
  • Facilitate in the community support by engagement with the governmental and local authority officials and promote social harmony and integration
  • There is an appetite to help youth by mentoring them in technology innovation and help in job placement.

All the above activities are on a voluntary basis to help of Indians and ethnic minority communities in Scotland. This is to help Indian Diaspora as an Indian citizen living in Scotland.