Garvin is a civil and structural engineer with over eight years of experience in highways and bridge design. He started his career with Mouchel (WSP) as a graduate engineer designing road schemes. He later joined the structures team, assessed and strengthened ageing bridges in Essex, and designed various new bridges to replace structurally failing ones. He was involved in the structural design, health and safety consideration for his plans and the cost of the schemes.

Garvin later joined an FE College with a vision to develop bespoke courses for large civil engineering firms, where he trained formally as a lecturer and designed courses focused on improving civil engineering education and meeting industrial needs through Higher Apprenticeship Programmes. While working in this capacity, he has consulted with various universities and training providers on curriculum design, apprenticeship provision, quality assurance, and e-learning.

He has expertise in civil engineering construction, structural design, quality management process in construction, tendering and estimating of construction works and advanced mathematics. He brings a wealth of good education practices with ample industrial knowledge through his experience and continuous collaborations within the civil engineering industry.