Welcome to TimBobTastic.com, Tim Bird’s home on the web.

I am a passionate engineer who has an opinion on just about everything and as you can see from my blog and twitter feed I enjoy sharing my thoughts and voicing my opinions with the world from time to time.

Engineering has been in my blood as long as I can remember. I first became passionate about the subject through my Father, (Richard) who was a Toolmaker by trade, in my opinion, a very good engineer…. probably one of the best. He taught me how to make models when I was very young, nurturing my skills and helping me to hone my abilities. My father had a sparsely equipped shed but he made all kinds of exciting things in his spare time from working small model steam engines to jewellery.

I started my career on the shop floor making everything from weighing equipment for the food industry to plant items to repair quarry machinery. I was passionate about engineering and had a thirst for knowledge, I wanted to learn every aspect of my chosen trade, I wanted to be a professional engineer, but was not in the position to pay for the university education needed to get me the title I wanted.

Deciding the only route to the top was to work hard, I started my career, always having my “Professional Engineer” goal in mind. Because of my career route and my passion to achieve my goal I am now considered to be the “professional” I have always wanted to be by my peers and colleagues. However I do not currently have a degree, but I am working towards this with my studies at the Open University.

Life has dealt me a few knocks, especially when I was a child, but I have never let them get the better of me, I firmly believe if it doesn’t kill me it will make me stronger.  When I was 7 I spent the best part of a year and a half in and out of hospital with a degenerative hip condition (Perthes Disease) that led to my first major surgery, followed by six months in plaster from the waist down. When I was 13 I had a diseased kidney removed causing me to have another 3 or 4 months off school.

These events definitely made me stronger, making me more determined to get better, to prove the doctors wrong when they told me I would never hold down a full time job that required me to stand up all day long. It was grit and determination that drove me to prove them wrong and it is the same grit and determination that has driven me to become the person I am today.

Short Bio.

Name:            Tim Bird
Location:        West Wiltshire
Status:           Divorced – but in a happy relationship
Children:        Two teenagers… one of each
Hobbies:         Cycling
.                     Photography
.                     Music (Anything goes, but 80′s always win)
.                     Reading
Occupation:    Design Engineer 

Career Progression.

  • Aurora Medical Limited  (2011 – Present)
    Senior Design Engineer: Orthopaedic Devices
  • Finsbury (Development) Ltd (2006 – 2010)
    Senior Research Manufacturing Engineer: Orthopaedic Devices
  • Micro Precision Instrument Ltd (1993 – 2006)
    Engineering Manager: Orthopaedic Devices
  • Ian Fellows Ltd (1986 – 1993)
    Engineer: Time Served Multi Discipline Apprenticeship
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