Profile

I love cycling and I am looking forward to getting out on my bike with my daughter when she is big enough. She is only 8 months old so my free time tends to be spend playing with her and cleaning up her mess.

I love my garden and we are trying to grow lots of our own vegetables and fruit. I have a japanese garden that I’ve created including designing and building a gateway into it. I hope to use my woodwork skills to build my daughter a playhouse soon.

Because of my love of sustainable travel, I specialise in designing infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians.

I lead the design on projects, writing reports explaining our decisions and handling the financial elements. I also project manage bigger projects with lots of teams inputting into the design.

Two days a week I am based in the office and two days I work from home. Sometimes I get to visit construction sites to check on progress when they are building schemes. I also have to meet clients and members of the public to discuss designs.

Depending whether I am working at home or the office, I either dress in comfy clothes or smarter clothes. If I am going to the office, I cycle in. Otherwise it is short walk to my desk at home.

I start off by sorting out emails and planning out what I and the team need to do that day. We work with colleagues in India who start work much earlier so often they will have done lots of work before I’ve had my coffee.

My day is a mix of meetings with colleagues and clients, doing design work, doing financial work like checking budgets and doing cost estimates and people management.

When I am at home, I can eat lunch in the garden with my family – my parent is a stay at home parent so they keep me fed and topped up with coffee during the day.