PhD in the durability of solder joints under thermo-mechanical loading; application accordance to Sn-37Pb and Sn-3.8Ag-0.7Cu lead-free replacement alloy, 5 years’ experience as general design engineering, engineering materials and structural analyst in Oil & Gas and Automotive industries, nearly 1 year as academic at University of Northampton researching: Materials and Structural Integrity, Design, Robotics and Optimisation and Biomedical Engineering. I am an expert in Finite Element Analysis as applied to problems in structural mechanics and materials engineering which will be the principal analysis tool to be used in assessing the structural integrity of alternative designs.