The IET’s Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards

Biography

Natasha Carpenter
Advanced Apprentice
Cable & Wireless Worldwide

Natasha was working as a Legal Secretary when she determined that she wanted to have a career and not just a job. She found herself getting very bored in the office but was always the person people turned to for help with a new phone or computer. Natasha wanted to know how it all worked in the network and decided to embark on an apprenticeship on Telecoms.

Entering the business from a non-telecoms background, Natasha knew that she would have to work extra hard to get through the apprenticeship. In her first year Natasha achieved a distinction in her BTEC Telecoms certificate and ultimately obtained a Double Distinction. She was also awarded ‘Telecoms First Year Outstanding Performance’ at her college and also won the outstanding apprentice award in-house. This achievement is even more amazing as Natasha has to juggle the responsibility of managing a family as a single Mother with her apprenticeship commitment.

Natasha is part of a team helping the Hot Staging Department. She helps configure routers which would be sent out to engineers to install at customer sites. The company also took on FMC apprentices who are part of a Tesco project and Natasha had to go to the sites on install new phones and, on some sites, was the lead engineer training other apprentices.

Natasha was featured in the Daily Mail where she promoted apprenticeships in IT and Telecoms.

Outside of engineering, Natasha enjoys watching and playing football.  She also has a real love of aeroplanes and hopes to be able to fly one in the near future.