Portfolio
Writing about some of the things I learned as entry level talent. https://www.nicoleanalisecox.com/5-things-i-learned-as-an-intern-and-graduate-engineer/
I had 16 inches of my hair chopped off to donate to the Little Princess Trust! 🦋💜
Nearly 2 months later, I've completed Nand to Tetris Part 1! This has been a really interesting course that I've been chipping away at in my own time. Nand to Tetris is a project-focused course, an...
100 DAYS OF CODE COMPLETE ✅ Every day for the past 100 days, I have sat at my desk and spent at least an hour a day learning and coding. Over 100 hours have been spent on completing the App Brewery...
Representing Siemens as a firm rep for the Graduate Engineering Engagement Programme (GEEP). The programme is lead by SEO London and Royal Academy of Engineering, and we took part in a speed networ...
Passed the AZ-900 with a score of 838. The Azure Fundamentals certification surrounds cloud computing concepts, Azure's different services (such as compute, databases, networking, storage, Internet...
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN ENGINEERING DAY 👷🏻♀️👷🏼♀️👷🏽♀️👷🏾♀️👷🏿♀️ "If you're passionate about something and want to make a difference, I guarantee there's a way to do that with engineering." E...
Featured in Electronics Weekly regarding the BrightSparks Awards: Profile: https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/ew-brightsparks/ew-brightsparks-2020-profile-nicole-cox-2020-06/ Award winners: htt...
Volunteering as an iRail Ambassador at an event in Derby by Learn By Design, aimed at raising awareness of the rail industry to Year 9 students. Our group got to visit Network Rail and their Mobile...
Attended a very interesting and interactive Scrum Master training last month at work, and after a bit more self-study, this week I was happy to have passed the Professional Scrum Master I assessmen...
💡 THE POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE 🌿 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ngQERKI9ng By definition, "the difference in potential between two points that represents the work involved in the transfer of a unit o...
I became a Mental Health First Aider! This is something I've wanted to do for a long time. 🧠 I spent two days in Euston with 11 other Siemens employees with different stories to tell - all affected...
Spoke about mental health on the Siemens Mobility podcast
Attended an incredibly inspiring evening at the IET Young Woman Engineer Awards! Was great to attend with my fellow Siemens ladies, I'm really lucky to be surrounded by talented, amazing girls! The...
Busy couple of weeks completing various Rail training certifications - successfully passed my ICI, OLEC1, PTS and DCCR in preparation for my next placement in Construction.
Inspired, empowered and educated as part of the Time to Change Campaign Training Day in Manchester! Time to Change is ran by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, and they have been campaigning for seve...
Anxiety 0️⃣ - Nicole 💯 From the skydive to the marathon and tough mudders, they have all been a massive mental battle, conquering the 'what if's' and the part of your brain that says you can't do i...
Really enjoyed organising my second Siemens STEM event in collaboration with Ashby School, this time for Tomorrow's Engineers Week! We hosted 39 students over 2 days, and gave them the opportunity ...
Celebrating the Siemens Mobility ELT awards at the London Transport Museum, and super happy to win the Siemens Mobility EDI (Equality Diversity & Inclusion)/STEM Champion award, two things I'm very...
Happy Rail Week! I had a wonderful day volunteering at the 'Mind the Language Gap' event delivered by Business Language Champions, which hosted 84 school students at the University of Derby, and wa...
Completed my first FULL Tough Mudder! Alongside my colleagues from Siemens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAa7P79DuJ8
Completed my first Tough Mudder 5K in aid of Mind the mental health charity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grboDrsCdoM&t=335s
Over the moon to get a 1st in my final year project (design and build of a STEM tool to educate kids about rail engineering)!!
Last year I created the #IAmAFutureMaker campaign which aims to raise the profile and celebrate the achievements of women in engineering and encourage more girls to consider engineering as a career...
Over 20 easter eggs delivered to Falcon Support Services who support homeless and vulnerable people in Loughborough, donated by colleagues at Siemens Ashby.
Got involved with and help to support a STEM initiative called 'Routes to Rail' - a video sharing our experiences as ELT at Siemens and how we got there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdtoWQtenhs
I took part in Loughborough University Designathon, ran by Engineers Without Borders and Loughborough Design Society. The event was a 12 hour team-oriented design marathon, which had strong conside...
Over 2 days Siemens hosted 24 students from Ashby School for our Future Makers competition. I created, organised and ran the event: they had the opportunity to work in a team to propose a bid for a...
Loved helping out at the Smallpeice Trust Rail Residential in collaboration with the University of Birmingham! I lead a team to organise and execute a rail related 'treasure hunt' for 50 sixteen-ye...
Took part in the Siemens Ashby intern presentations reflecting on our time and skills we have learned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czONFaIpJbA
Volunteering at the Tata Consultancy Sercices Digital Explorers event at University of Bristol, alongside folks from Airbus and Rolls Royce. I really enjoyed representing Siemens as a panellist and...
Planned, coordinated and delivered event branding, marketing and social media presence for the Midlands Conference Cup multi-sport event as Media & Marketing Lead on the Senior Leadership Team. Man...
I took part in Futureland, a global Siemens hackathon. Our team was called the CIS Bright Sparks, and looked at the area of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, a topic that interests me and...
Brought my ideas to life under the #IAmAFutureMaker campaign for IWD! We have highlighted several women within several Siemens businesses and displayed there profiles at our site - it is very empow...
Repping Siemens at the Big Rail Diversity Event in Peterborough! This was an event attended by 55 teams of the largest companies and organisations in the Rail industry, including Great Western Rail...
For Mental Health Health Awareness Week, the Ashby site had a 'Secret Storyboard', in which we were invited to submit our stories of Mental Health illnesses anonymously. Seeing the multitude of sto...
I jumped out of a plane at 10,000ft!! Literally words cannot describe the exhilarating feeling and also the fear I had sitting on the edge of that plane, but it's pretty much written across my face...
It's a great feeling when an idea becomes reality - Loughborough Heads Up and other members of the Welfare & Diversity sector successfully ran Loughborough's first All-Inclusive Body Positive Fashi...
Nominated in The Tab's 'Top 100 most influential women at university' https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2018/april/students-nominated-for-most-influential-woman/
TfL Girls Network Day in London: we had the opportunity to speak to girls between the ages of 16-18 about our careers and how we got to where we our now. In turn we discussed what inspires them and...
A change of scenery from the office, the Siemens bid team and procurement team joined forces to help clear vegetation in the National Forest in Lount. https://youtu.be/-JU7HIsomQ4
After work I visited Ivanhoe College, representing Siemens at their S.T.E.A.M Fair (Science Technology Engineering Art and Maths). I was SO impressed by the kids hard work and passion they have put...
Supporting Time to Talk Day, a day when everyone is encouraged to have a conversation about mental health. Myself and Wellbeing Champion, Robin Edwards, have got together and ran a day to help rais...
Passed the APM Project Fundamentals Qualification with 92%!
Organised a charity collection 'Operation Backpack' over the winter period, which saw 257 items collected for Falcon Support Services, a homeless support service in Loughborough.
An wonderfully enjoyable evening at the iET Young Woman Engineer Awards hosted by Carol Vordeman.
My first time at the National Training Academy for Rail, as part of the Siemens SeeWomen initiative, presenting to girls in school about my career journey so far, from GCSEs to my placement, and wh...
Helping at the Digital Kids Show which aims to get kids excited about tech and engaged in STEM at a young age! Siemens Education Team had an interactive space including raspberry pis, VR, problem s...
Two awesome days at Big Data LDN! It was so interesting to learn more about AI, machine learning and being data-driven, as well as watching talks from the likes of Google and Amazon.
Myself and 3 graduates presented to management about Big Data and Data Science, and how it can add value within our business.
Scaling 212ft of Derby Cathedral (it seems MUCH higher when you're up there!) & raising over £300 for Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People.
As part of the EDI team (equality/diversity/inclusion) we were raising money for mental health charity Mind with the Great Ashby Bake Off! Also got to use my creative side and designed the poster f...
Three days representing Siemens as an industrialist at the Ashby School Skills for Success Conference, acting as Team Mentor. I had got as much out of it as the kids, and was so nice to see them im...
Ran my first ever marathon (Amsterdam Marathon) in aid of Mind the mental health charity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ld906V5ogI
First step into the professional engineering world