 Paul Vaughan BA(Hons) MSc AIEMA CPFA
Oakdene Hollins Ltd warmly welcomes Paul Vaughan, who joins us from WRAP as a Technical Consultant.
Paul has worked with us before when, as a researcher at Cranfield University, he co-authored our 'Product Light-weighting' report, published in April 2007 by RE-KTN, which investigated the sustainable use of lightweight materials in the automotive and aviation sectors.
Paul has an MSc in Environmental Management for Business from Cranfield University, and is a qualified accountant. His MSc thesis examined the socio-technical aspects of refillable systems, focusing on the returnable glass milk bottle system, which was published as an article (The Sociology of Reuse: deconstructing the milk bottle) in the Journal of the European Society for Rural Sociology in April 2007.
At WRAP, Paul led the successful development of WRAP’s first Scottish Business plan, and for a while was Head of Local Authority Communications Support, responsible for WRAP’s behavioural change local fund which, with a fund of £14m over two years, promoted good quality design and simple messaging using the Recycle Now logo: you can't have missed it!
In previous incarnations, he was employed by the Office of Government Commerce (where he worked in the Efficiency Programme focusing on developing the Government’s corporate shared services agenda) and Liberata UK Ltd, where he was Director of a number of Business Centres, delivering finance and administration services to clients in the private sector and central and local government. Prior to that he had various consultancy and managerial roles with Deloitte & Touche.
Paul is a governor of the school in his local village, and is working with the LEA on the development of a bio-mass alternative to the school's oil-fired heating system.
He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CPFA) and an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (AIEMA), and a Hyder Business Services Prize winner.
 Simon Walton BSc
Oakdene Hollins is delighted to welcome Simon Walton who joins us as a Technical Consultant, initially with the Centre for Remanufacturing and Re-use.
Simon has comprehensive experience involving the origination and supply of manufacturing equipment and processes. He has worked with a range of engineering companies where he has been keen to re-use or re-apply existing equipment where possible within prevailing commercial constraints.
One of his many triumphs was extending the life span and improving the operating efficiency of buses by devising a procedure for retro-fitting a diesel/electric hybrid power plant to used chassis.
Most recently he has acted as a consultant to Eneco Ltd, advising on the development of alternatively fuelled power systems. Before that, as Design and Project Manager for APT Cenca Ltd, he designed equipment to re-use existing machine elements such as machining heads and electric and pneumatic control system elements, working on a Honda spoiler processing unit.
As he says "I increasingly believe that quality and adaptability should be built into products and I have sought to achieve that within my sphere of responsibility as a design and production engineer. This is an area where I see a bright future." Amen to that!
 Caroline Bartlett BSc (Hons)
Oakdene Hollins Ltd warmly welcomes Caroline Bartlett who joins us as a Technical Research Assistant.
Caroline recently graduated from Bath Spa University gaining a 2:1 in Environmental Biology and having achieved a First Class in her dissertation with field work carried out independently.
She’s a local girl, and was educated at Aylesbury High School where she took 'A' levels in Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics. She has worked as a Medical Laboratory Assistant in the histopathology lab at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where her ability to work capably and efficiently under pressure and under her own initiative was invaluable. As an Administrator for advertising company SWK Ltd in London, she planned events and undertook I.T. and numeracy work, and became competent in statistical methods.
Caroline tells us she has an avid interest in travel and conservation. She says, "During the five years before university I visited numerous countries, participating in many environmental voluntary schemes, ranging from aiding educational sites to construction of wildlife reserves." Being a world traveller gives you a fine sense of direction: Caroline says she spent a bit of time helping newly hatched loggerhead turtles find the sea in Bundaberg, Queensland, as they get disorientated by the bright lights on the road and head off the wrong way…
Her first role within Oakdene Hollins was researching the water savings opportunities available across UK business sectors and regions, as part of our comprehensive report into the value of resource efficiency for Defra. Latterly she has been involved in assessing the extent to which the Control of Pollution (oil storage) Regulations 2001 have achieved the targets set for them.
Caroline plans to develop her post-graduate training with a view to joining our team of technical consultants in the future. Welcome Caz!
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