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Jennie Murray

    • About Me

      I'm creative, energetic, love adventure and fascinated by space.

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      Fave snow & water sports  – 🏂snow boarding, x-country skiing,  🏄‍♀️ wake boarding, paddle boarding and kayaking.

      Best bakes – 🥕carrot cake, coconut and lime cake cookies  🍪 and tiramisu.

      Love all things Canada – especially the maple syrup 🥞, forests 🌲and wild life 🐻- and my sister.

      Lived in Borneo rainforest for 2 months working with organutans 🐵, have been bitten by a lion 🦁 , been splashed by a humpback whale 🐋 and hope to see grizzly bears coming October while visiting my sister.

    • My Work

      👩🏻‍🚀I work with space inventors, entrepreneurs, researchers and businesses to ensure their satellite technology makes money and brings the best possible benefit to earth.

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      🚀 Satellite technology is used for Google Maps, by weather forecasters, for the location on your phone and soon for self-driving (autonomous) cars.

      🛰 Using satellite technology we can achieve so many cool things, we can help climate change, we can help track endangered animals, we can work with farmers globally to help grow the best possible food, we can help emergency services locate people in help in remote locations.

      🌍 I help teams think critically and creatively about what they want to do and why. I ask questions like ‘how will people use it?’ and ‘what’s the benefit to those that use it?’. We come up with new ideas of how people can use the information from space, and how it can change people’s lives for the better.

      👩🏻‍🎨My role can be called a number of things – a ‘design thinker’, a ‘service designer’ or ‘user centred designer’.

    • My Typical Day: 👩🏻‍💻I work mostly from home using my laptop to connect with my team members and colleagues. 💡📝 Starting work at 9am and finishing at 5pm, my typical day includes designing 'workshops', which are team activities to help generate new ideas and make decisions. They are fun and interactive, using lots of sticky-notes to write down ideas, and we draw pictures and diagrams to help explain things visually and connect new links.

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      ⚽️ Workshop activities are a bit like a training session in team sports. You will practice different things like shooting, or defending or attacking. Or activities will include different ‘drills’ to help us know how to score a business goal, and we decide our method of ‘attack’ by deciding how we are going to develop the technology and system to achieve what we want it to.

      🎯 The workshops include lots of different people, from core engineers and technical staff, to market researchers and business strategy leaders. We together share our expertise to help make the best decisions on what we should do and how we should do it. We will have a game plan and everyone will have their own role in making the project a success.

    • What I'd do with the money

      I would like to donate the money to in2science, who promote diversity and social mobility in STEM

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      In2scienceUK empowers young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve their potential through life changing opportunities that give them insights into STEM careers and research and boosts their skills and confidence.

    Curriculum Vitae

    • Education:

      Woodmancote Primary School | Cleeve School + Sixth form, Cheltenham | Loughborough University

    • Qualifications:

      GCSEs – Maths, English, Double Science, Art, Design and Technology, PE, Spanish | A-Levels – Art, Design, Maths | AS level Physics | University degree in Industrial Design and Technology

    • Work History:

      Design Engineer, Vax (the vacuum cleaner company). Product, Branding, Graphic and Packaging Designer at design consultancies. Design and Business Innovation Consultant at WMG for new technology companies and entrepreneurs (think Dragons Den).

    • Current Job:

      Senior Design Thinker

    • Employer:

      Satellite Applications Catapult

       

    • My Interview

      • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

        Creative, adventurous, friendly

        What's the best thing you've done in your career?

        Concept designs for Formula-E cars, Designed a chocolate bar. Designed lots of sports products.

        What or who inspired you to follow your career?

        I wanted to be able to create and make things. Being dyslexic I wanted a career that used practical and design skills, rather than a focus on writing. I love team sports so knew I would be best based in a team. I also love challenges and problem solving, so all these elements together with my studies, have guided me to where I am now.

        What was your favourite subject at school?

        Design and Technology, PE and Art.

        What did you want to be after you left school?

        An architect.

        Were you ever in trouble at school?

        Yes, for chatting. They call that 'networking' in the business world, so it was good career preparation really.

        If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?

        Architecture. I'd love to design inspirational spaces using sustainable materials and methods.

        Who is your favourite singer or band?

        Rend Collective.

        What's your favourite food?

        Ice cream and chocolate, though not a fan of chocolate ice cream strangely enough.

        What is the most fun thing you've done?

        cuddled an orang-utan!!

        If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

        Be able to speak to animals, be able to fly (really fast!) and to be able to speak any language

        Tell us a joke.

        What do astronauts like to read? Comet books.

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