Creative Director
Creative director to Youth Re:Action Team in Barrow.  Linked with regeneration agency West Lakes Renaissance, Creative Partnerships Cumbria, the Barrow Excellence Cluster Partnership and local secondary schools and colleges.  Working with young people to creatively research regeneration issues and empower them to work with local agencies to design and build a better town that addresses their lifestyle needs. 2006-9

Mentor
Cumbria Arts in Education mentor 2006-8

Creative Director
Founder and creative director of Project 52.  Role encompassed artistic leadership, plus management and fundraising responsibilities for multi-faceted, environment based, arts initiative.  Partnership embraced public sector organisations, industry, local community and school groups.  Primary focus of Project 52 was employing artistic interventions to have a measurable impact on waste issues.  
2003-4 feasibility study, 2004-5 fundraising.  Current status - dormant

Consultant
Cumbria Cultural Skills Partnership Advisory Group – visual artist’s
representative 2003-4.

Curator
Curator of ‘Material Spaces ‘exhibition at Tullie House Art Gallery, Carlisle, 2003

University Lecturer
Part-time lecturer at University of Central Lancashire, Dept. of Design, 1999 to 2006.
Visiting lecturer at University of Wales Institute Cardiff (2005) and Cumbria Institute of the Arts (1999 – 2002)
Part-time lecturer at Carlisle College (January 1997-June 2001).  0.5 Course Tutor post October 1998 to September 1999.

Teaching Qualifications:    
7306 City and Guilds Teaching Certificate and TDLB Assessors Award D32/D33

Fashion Textile Designer
Payne and Inc., Glasgow 1997-9 - Designed textile collections, in embroidery, print and knit, for fashion industry.  Designs sold through the agency to international fashion houses.

Scott Leathers Ltd, Cumbria  1998 – designed range of leather designs for the R.Griggs Group “Doc Marten” coloured boots.