Graduate Profile - Laura Currie
Defence Business Analyst 
"Combining marketing with product design was a great idea! The marketing and research skills that I learnt at university, such as competitor analysis are now vital in my present role as a defence business analyst."
Course attended:
BA (Hons) Product Design with Marketing|
Laura came to Southampton Solent University from Lord William's School, Thame, Oxford. She was really impressed with the attitude and motivation of the course leaders, which made Southampton Solent University her first choice. The location was also great, not too far from her home in Oxford, yet near the sea. The course itself seemed ideal and put her in a good position with regards to what she wanted to achieve in her career.
Within a week of finishing her degree Laura was offered a job with Blazepoint, a project and product-based rugged engineering solutions company. Initially she worked as a design junior to help detail drawings but after six months she began working with the design engineers to project manage the range of printers and computers that the company produced. Laura has been with Blazepoint for over two years now and has just started as a defence business analyst, where her role is to interact with the client to investigate and determine user requirements in the project life cycle. In future she would like to work as an interface between the business development and design teams in helping develop logical concepts and practical solutions for Blazepoint.
Laura says:
"When I graduated from Southampton Solent University, I had no idea that I would be working within the defence industry. I really enjoy the challenge and am keen to continue to work within the defence market."
Go to our BA (Hons) Product Design with Marketing| course page.