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Mozambique

Greater New York City Area

Design for women empowerment and social change

Greater New York City Area

Industrial Design Consultant Projects

Greater New York City Area

•Develop a program to empower women and youth through craft production and marketing for the Kabuyanda Innovation Center. Improve their market opportunities by diversifying the product portfolio through new skills training and techniques such as glass bead jewelry.•Product value chain analysis and recommendations for specialty coffee production and market reach for the Ruhiira “Ntungu Coffee Growers Co-Operative.” Generate business plan and provide needed coaching to help the group… Show more •Develop a program to empower women and youth through craft production and marketing for the Kabuyanda Innovation Center. Improve their market opportunities by diversifying the product portfolio through new skills training and techniques such as glass bead jewelry.•Product value chain analysis and recommendations for specialty coffee production and market reach for the Ruhiira “Ntungu Coffee Growers Co-Operative.” Generate business plan and provide needed coaching to help the group get access to needed capital and acquire the appropriate technology to upgrade from dry to wet coffee processing.•Design and develop a low cost reusable sanitary pad targeted to reduce school girls dropout rate due to their lack of access to affordable sanitary products. Locally manufactured, the design is reusable and washable waterproof pad that can be stuff with disposable toilet paper or reusable washable cloth, giving the girls options to customize it according to their water availability and income.•Assess household water purification habits to determine the market possibilities of implementing low-tech ceramic water filters in the Ruhiira cluster. •Manage the design, production and logistics of baskets, jewelry and woodcrafts products made by three Millennium Promise Village cooperatives located in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, to be sold to and decorate Tommy Hilfiger stores worldwide (The Promise Collection). Show less

•Design and develop energy efficient kitchen appliances.•Research, trendscaping, feature and functionality assessment, ethnographies, consumer analysis, market dynamics and insight distillation.

Design and development of mass market products for companies such as Hewlett Packard, OXO, and Acer, including conceptual design: initial sketches, 3D CAD geometry, and prototyping and completion of final products

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

•Design and implement a new brand strategy and new product portfolio base on the principles of “Social and Environmental Responsible Design.” •Research and analysis of the business structure, market environment, and consumer base to identify key avenues for innovation, visualize and explore new concepts for business models, products, and services. •Exploration and implementation of leading technologies and innovative materials in the eyewear industry.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

•Design and development of child-care and sun-care products with an interdisciplinary team of engineers, designers, ethnographers, and marketers.•Design with Playtex R&D division child-care products suitable and affordable for markets in developing countries (i.e. Embrace Manual Breast Pump).•Perform ergonomic and ethnographic consumer research studies in US and South America and to drive product design solutions in current and future markets.•Responsible for designing a… Show more •Design and development of child-care and sun-care products with an interdisciplinary team of engineers, designers, ethnographers, and marketers.•Design with Playtex R&D division child-care products suitable and affordable for markets in developing countries (i.e. Embrace Manual Breast Pump).•Perform ergonomic and ethnographic consumer research studies in US and South America and to drive product design solutions in current and future markets.•Responsible for designing a new package to unify and elevate Hawaiian Tropic sun care line, while also significantly reducing the tooling and production cost, through exchangeable components across the line. Show less

Master Of Science (Ms), Sustainability Management

Activities and Societies: CUCSD | Columbia University Coalition for Sustainable Development

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Industrial And Product Design

B.A Industrial Design