Home Services Projects Clients Our Story Contact back to home page Paul Blake Smith Paul started his career as a patternmaker for the plastic industry before progressing in to the cast metals industry serving a four year apprenticeship as a pattern maker for G Perry & Sons in Leicester winning several awards including the UK Skills Olympics and National competitions. Paul continued as a skilled patternmaker for a further 2 years with the ‘Pattern Equipment Company’ with whom he progressed in to the design department being one of the first users of Catia V5. After taking the challenge of becoming self-employed supplying design & manufacturing solutions for the foundry & Automotive industry Paul later teamed up with Andrew Randle & Patrick Mann to form Design Technologies UK Ltd. Patrick Mann Patrick started his tool-making career as an apprentice in a small family-run business in Leicestershire producing mould tools, patterns and non-ferrous castings. Having started as an apprentice, Patrick progressed to become tool-room supervisor before leaving the company after ten years. A further seven years in another family-run business followed, during which time Patrick again progressed to a supervisory role – this time within the CAD/CAM department. In 2001 Patrick moved to NPL Technologies in Nuneaton where he worked alongside fellow director Andrew for seven years, before leaving to establish Design Technologies UK Ltd. Andrew C Randle Andrew is a time served pattern-maker/model-maker, joining Nuneaton Patterns Ltd in 1989 where he served a 4 year apprenticeship in which time winning a number of national pattern-making and model-making awards. Andrew was taken on by Nuneaton Patterns Ltd at the end of his apprenticeship where he would go onto work for the company for 17 years. During this time moving from the shop floor onto CAD in 1996 working on Pro-engineer and Catia V5 software which included travelling to Mexico to work onsite on a number of different foundry projects, gaining valuable experience . In 2008 Andrew teamed up with Paul Blake-Smith and Patrick Mann to form the company Design Technologies UK Ltd. Sitemap Home Services Projects Clients Our Story Contact Privacy Policy Design Technologies Uk Ltd Unit 2 The Courtyard. Elliot Business Park’ Goldsmiths Way; Nuneaton, CV10 7RJ 02476 350 334 info@designtechnologiesuk.com Website created by Square Daisy