Name	Paul Taylor
Job Title	Engineering Development Manager
Company Responsibilities	I have spent all of my working life in the valve industry in various technical roles. At Blakeborough Valves I was in the water and steam section; Weir Valves and Controls in the control valve division; and Shaw Valves in the technical department where I developed a range of hazardous duty isolation valves, with zero emissions. This product won the Queens Award for the Environment at the time. I have therefore built up a wide range of experience complemented by our other experienced, and qualified, technical staff. Currently I have a wide range of responsibilities centred on the company's technical activities and processes, covering 3D rapid prototyping to application engineering. A strong element of my role is technical support to both internal and external demands. In short, if there are technical issues, I'm involved somewhere along the line!
Hobbies/Interests	I enjoy, when weather or time permits, quite a range of varied outdoor activities: Mountain Biking - plenty of hills around here in Yorkshire! Kite flying-mainly power kites - I'm a member of the Northern Kiting Group, and I am currently attempting to be an RC heli pilot, for the still days when there is no wind to fly a kite! Ha ha! But this hobby is proving quite a difficult one to master. I also have a go at fresh water fishing occasionally catching the odd Grayling or Trout. For when I can't be bothered to be out and about in the cold I keep cold water and marine fish.