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And multiple scottish representations racing in europe.  have also raced

During my time in america.

000m champion

Product Development Intern in Originals Footwear

I graduated with a Master's in Engineering in the field of Sports Engineering with a Merit award.

Our Masters degree let us work with companies to design solutions to real world problems, while also carrying out our own projects. I hope to take this forward into my career after University, and design sporting equipment/apparel to help athletes perform better in their chosen sport.  

Having completed 3 months of training in footwear development and production with Apache Footwear, one of adidas' best factories in China, I have now been accepted to study Apparel Design and Merchandising at Colorado State University from Fall 2015.  I am excited to work with CSU in enhancing my knowledge of the Sporting Goods industry, and help grow me to be a more desirable employee for International Companies.

In the meantime, I have just commenced a 6 month internship with adidas, working as a Product Developer in the Originals footwear range.  This will give me more experience of the footwear industry, where I will be helping to create future articles in a Project Manager role, while also being a central contact for Innovation projects with the factories.

Acting Product Development Manager - managing up to 110 articles simultaneously from hand-over through sample receipt, changes, and sign-off for final poduction.

Preparing PowerPoint presentations showing materials, issues and innovation project works. 

Using a project manager role to liase between Marketing and Design and Factories to develop and create the desired shoes to bring to market. 

Assisting others to book in samples, and reviewing samples to pass them for production. 

Creating Excel sheets of project works, and helping to streamline the efficiency of the sheets that were being utilised.

The role consisted of learning the complete development process, and then also learning all the various areas of the company to allow shoes to be developed and produced.  Areas covered included; development centre; costing; purchasing; business; production line including cutting, stitching, assembly and packing; quality control; outsole and midsole production; material treatment; and warehouse.  Following this, projects were carried out to analyse the production line, and to find methods of improving efficiency, and giving recommendations.  Further closer analysis was carried out on the board lasting process, and then I completed a project which reviewed the cement line marking process.

Management Trainee

At Gordonstoun I assisted the head of department in 2012 in teaching sport to 300 international children aged between 7 and 17, and I was promoted to Head of department in 2013.  As Head of Sport, I organized sporting competitions for the children; organized staff to take classes for the children; ensured all Health and Safety procedures were in place; as well as taking classes personally. There were also periods of chaperoning the children to activities out-with school premises.

One summer as Staff, one summer promoted to Head of Sport

Working with Giltech, the team were tasked with designing an innovative massage system to help the body recover.  Details of this cannot be released, due to a Confidentiality agreement with Giltech.

5th Year Industrial Group Project

I have just completed a Master's course in Sports Engineering at the University of Strathclyde where I passed with a Merit award.  When I am asked what that is exactly, I call is "sports equipment design".  We were taught various diverse classes during our degree; such as engineering, product design, sports coaching, human physiology and biomechanics.  This range allows use a broad understanding of how to analyse athletes, and help design sports equipment and apparel, that will help them perform better in their chosen sport.

Masters Student and Student representative

Working in a team during 4th year, we helped design a snowboard suspension system for a double leg amputee, who was having issues of spinal pain when snowboarding; due to the lack of legs to act as suspension for his body.

4th Year Industrial Group Project

Assisted technicians in the analysis of
blood samples. Also worked in out-
patient clinics, where the level of
anti-coagulation was checked. This
involved hands-on work with the public

Haematology Laboratory Assistant

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Martin Graham: Product Development Intern in Originals Footwear in Glasgow, ERW

Martin Graham

adidas

Apache Footwear India Pvt Ltd

Gordonstoun International Summer School

Giltech Ltd.

University of Strathclyde

Equal Adventure

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Northern Arizona University

University of Strathclyde

Woodfarm High School, Glasgow