Lee is a partner at 3D 360 Ltd and brings 25 years of cross sector design expertise and a passion for additive manufacture. From his start as an apprentice fabricator welder to his role as technical director, he has led CAD design, rapid prototyping and production intent 3D printing initiatives while championing education and corporate social responsibility.
Lee is the other partner at 3D 360 Ltd and, like fellow director Paul, brings a vast depth of technical expertise and industry know-how to the company.
Over the past 25 years, he has worked across multiple sectors designing products for the automotive, plant equipment, commercial vehicle, health and safety equipment and nuclear industries.
Lee’s specialist skill lies in design and he has many years of experience in CAD, project management and designing products for manufacture.
Much like Paul, Lee completed a recognised apprenticeship as a fabricator welder for Northern Counties – a Wigan-based bus building company now known as Alexander Dennis. He returned to Northern Counties on three occasions, ultimately joining the drawing office team and embarking on his design journey.
For the past 15 years Lee has regularly used 3D printing to support design projects, most often to demonstrate concepts or validate designs through rapid prototyping.
Both Lee and Paul believe that, thanks to advances in 3D printing technology and materials, it is now possible to use additive manufacture to produce production-quality parts. They see volume production as achievable by setting up 3D printer manufacturing cells or farms, where multiple machines produce parts in parallel—one large machine versus 30 smaller, more versatile ones.
To achieve this requires educating designers and manufacturing engineers to design and plan specifically for additive manufacture.
Before joining 3D 360, Lee was technical director and co-founder of CAL International. Under his leadership CAL grew rapidly into a sizeable design house offering CAD design and 3D printing services from facilities in both the UK and Poland, employing over 30 people. Although he is no longer involved with CAL due to differences in business strategy, Lee brings that experience to 3D 360 and intends to help Paul grow the business into this dynamic sector of manufacturing.
Lee is also a passionate advocate of corporate social responsibility. As technical director at CAL he established an apprentice scheme and championed numerous events supporting STEM, IMechE and local charities in the Knowsley area—and plans to continue doing so through 3D 360.
Both Lee and Paul believe their hands-on experience of 3D printing is invaluable in guiding and educating both industry and academia on the benefits of additive manufacture and in promoting Industry 4.0.
Hobbies & Interests
Brick Homeless Charity
Lee is an active supporter of the charity and has taken part in a number of fundraisers and sleep outs at the DW Stadium in Wigan.
Rotary Club
Lee is involved in his local Rotary club of Hindley in Wigan and has organised and participated in many charity events in his 15 years as a member. During this time, he was club president 4 times and vice president 2 times. A few years ago, he designed and manufactured a new Christmas float for the club.
MNDA
Paul and Lee first met at the South Lancs Branch of the Motor Neurone Disease Association. Due to their mutual engineering backgrounds and experience they instantly struck up a rapport and over time became good friends and eventually business partners. Both remain active branch members and sit on the branch committee.
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