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Edmonton, Ab, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

Delft, The Netherlands

‣ Delft is among the top 10 design schools, and ranked as the 50th best university, in the world. I co-designed and lectured courses both in the undergraduate and graduate program. I.a. Business Culture and Technology, Design Roadmapping, Design Strategy, Identity and Portfolio, IDE Academy, and Managing Product Innovation.‣ Experience with coordinating courses with > 400 students, lecturing > 300 students, and coaching 50 students in a single work day.‣ Executed design-driven innovation projects for and with various organizations. I.a. Bang & Olufsen, Ford Motor Company, KLM, KPMG, PHYSEE, Red Cross, The School of Life Amsterdam, The House of Representatives of the Netherlands, and Think Big Act Now.

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

‣ As an innovation design consultancy, Meaningwise is specialized in the design of intelligent systems, products, and related services. Our project portfolio consists of SMEs and start-ups, mainly in high-tech industries. I.a. IT, Logistics, Media Production, and Mobility.‣ Our services range from (innovation) design strategy, to concepting, to agile implementation. I.a. Human Centered Design, Design-Driven Innovation, UX, and UI design. ‣ Experience in: Hiring, coaching, and managing designers; Creative direction; Onboarding the clients; Writing (joint) proposals and reports with clients; Design workshops and keynotes.

Europe

‣ I2SI (International Initiatives for Societal Innovation) is an open network-based platform that supports systemic and sustainable change through smarter dialogue, action-learning camps, effective interaction, entrepreneurial discovery, strategic conversation, gentle provocation, collaborative exploration, round table activities, and emerging transformation.

Paris Area, France

‣ The New Club of Paris is the agenda developer for the knowledge economy. The club’s main objective is to create awareness on what the knowledge society is and will be, and also support nations, regions, cities, communities, organizations, and companies in their transformation into the knowledge economy.

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

‣ Eindhoven is a design school specialized in designing intelligent systems, products, and related services that transform society. In this position, I facilitated the co-designed and probing of mobility and care Product Service System (PSS) solutions for and with public and private sector organizations. I.a. Toyota, City of Eindhoven, Design Academy Eindhoven, elderly associations, elderly care provider Zuidzorg, public transportation company Connexxion, and University of Twente.‣ Designed 2 undergraduate courses. Published 12 scientific conference articles on various topics. I.a. Design Education, Design-Driven Innovation, Mobility for Elderly, Participatory Design, Service Design.

Espoo, Finland

‣ ACSI (Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation) is an international self-fortifying innovation community, which is integrating research, innovation, and rapid implementation. ACSI is an innovation platform for societal challenges, organized by Finland's innovation university, Aalto.‣ As the youngest board member, I contributed to the design and execution of ACSI camps in Finland and abroad (i.a. South Africa, Sweden, The Netherlands). Working with top and senior professionals from different cultures and disciplines (i.a. academics, EU politicians, mayors, directors, consultants, lawyers, and artists) gave me international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary work experience.

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

‣ After meeting Reza Abedini, an Iranian graphic designer, I was inspired to develop my visual design skills. So I started designing PhD thesis covers, websites, corporate identities, and keynote presentations for various individuals and startups. This experience enabled me to develop my entrepreneurial skills as well.

Espoo, Finland

‣ After completing my internship at Laurea, I was offered a graduation internship by them. During this internship, I developed a co-design approach based on co-reflection in order to enable designers to both design for (speaking to) and design with (listening to) stakeholders.‣ I used this co-design approach for designing Laurea’s healthcare, wellbeing, and good life innovation collaboration platform.‣ My Masters graduation project eventually resulted into a scientific conference article published in the International Association of Societies of Design Research conference (IASDR2011).

Espoo, Finland

‣ Larea is one of the stakeholders in the Active Life Village, a Healthcare Living Lab as part of the European Network of Living Labs. Living Labs test and develop products and services in real life communities and settings.‣ I lead a project in which 15 experienced professionals were involved to prepare Laurea’s Active Life Village Living Lab for the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 event.‣ Lectured and coached in the Laurea’s Laurea’s Business Ventures and Master of Health program.

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

‣ In this job I was responsible for ICT services and related public relations.

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

‣ I was offered an internship as a designer by Steven Kyffin (back then Senior Director Design Research & Innovation at Philips) after he saw my Bachelor graduation project (Nava, A social home audio system). ‣ At Philips Design I was part of the Lifestyle Home project team in which we designed and prototyped various IoT products and related services. My graduation project inspired the redesign of Philips’ Pure Music Browser (click on link 3 for a movie). ‣ Lifestyle Home was showcased at Philips IFA 2006, won the ITEA 2007 golden achievement award, and 10 filed patent applications of which 2 are granted.

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

‣ As a first year BSc student, I designed and prototyped a mounting systems for solar panels intended for export.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Industrial Design Engineering

‣ Research topic: Authentic Designer Identity; Approach: Research through Design; Context: Design Education.

Master Of Science - Msc, Industrial Design

‣ Master’s thesis project: Designing for and with Stakeholders: Initiating Laurea’s Healthcare, Wellbeing, and Good Life Innovation.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Industrial Design

‣ Bachelor’s thesis project: NAVA – A social home audio system. Specialization: Interaction Design. ‣ In this project, I developed.

Exchange Student, Design

‣ During my undergrad education I did a 3-month exchange at the Man and Activity Department of Design Academy Eindhoven. Experiencing.