Angela joined the company from Strachan & Henshaw, a subsidiary of the Weir Group where she was responsible for the development of a tidal stream energy device. She began her career as a mechanical engineering apprentice with Markham &Co, in Chesterfield and obtained her honours degree at Sheffield Polytechnic (University of Hallam) whilst working on the design of Mining and Tunnelling Equipment. She then joined Butterley Engineering as a Project Engineer working on Moving Bridges and Dock Gates, before moving to Goss Graphic Systems in Preston as Engineering Manager. She spent 10 years in this role designing a range of high speed newspaper printing equipment. Angela then returned to the field of large civil engineering with Cleveland in Darlington. During this time she was responsible for designing equipment for constructing the suspension cables on a large suspension bridge in China. After a period as a consultant engineer working on a variety of projects including RoRo installations and moving bridges she joined Strachan & Henshaw. In her last role, Angela was responsible for the detailed technical assessment of emerging Wave and Tidal technology developers with a view to providing investment to Renewable Technology Ventures Limited (RTVL). More recently, Angela was appointed the Lead Engineer on Weir Group's own tidal stream device.