Following a 1st Class Degree MEng in Mechanical Engineering at Birmingham University, Annie completed her graduate training at JCB Excavators. During this time she was chosen to be a member of the engineering team that set a new Diesel Land Speed World Record with the JCB Dieselmax car in 2006 at Bonneville Salt Flats, working with John Piper who was Chief Designer of that car.

Annie is a member of The BLOODHOUND engineering team, involved in developing the engineering design of the car. Her work will carry on through the design period and into the running of the car at initial airfield testing runs, to be conducted probably at Filton, and then for the record attempts themselves in the desert location that is ultimately chosen.

Based at the design office in Bristol, Annie’s role is to help create the operational sequence of engineering events that allows the car to function properly. She will gather information from all of the various engineers and their respective sections of the car and compile this into a document that can be interrogated by the engineering team to check that they’ve got everything working in the right order. It's especially important to know that it's possible to turn the car around within the hour and get it serviced and ready for the return run, otherwise we won't get the record.

Some of her work will also lead into an engineering risk mitigation study, so that the team have considered and responded to all of the "what if this doesn't work” issues for the car’s operation.

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