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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Canada Area

Montreal, Canada Area

Led Bombardier's Design Lab physical installation and governance setup.The Design Lab is a dedicated research and mockup space, and a forum to bring new ideas to proof-of-concept outside of the programs’ critical paths. The team mandate is to focus on building knowledge on key subjects linked to User Experience for future cabin design and to mature these concepts to be ready for integration into new program development

Led a team of 5 seasoned, creative, and talented professionals.Supported individual growth, development and engagement.Captured user needs into scenarios, marketing objective and technical requirements.Acted as subject matter expert for user comfort questionsSupported marketing team by providing content for public unveil product activations and aircraft entry into service. Support sales efforts, trade shows and conferences.

Montreal, Canada Area

Bombardier Global 7000 and Global 8000 industrial design groupLead Designer of Seating Systems - Cockpit seats and cabin seats and divan - for Bombardier's new flagship program Awards2019 International yacht and aviation - best seat of the industry2018 Red Dot Award: Product Design in the ships, trains and planes category 10+ patents grantedGuest speakers at the following conferences:Oct 2014 - IQPC innovative aircraft seating - Hamburg, GEROct 2015 - IQPC innovative aircraft seating - Hamburg, GERJun 2017 - IQPC innovative aircraft seating - Seattle, WA

• Vehicle design: Ideation, styling and illustration of sports car, coach, duty vehiclesInvolved sketching, clay modeling, hand made illustrations, preliminary CAD modeling• Product design – sports goods, restaurant supplies…• City bus liveries graphic design • Company commercial and day to day management development. Set up of support tools for new customer approach and project follow-ups.

Extension of the Configuration Management Engineer previous position to the pre-project kick-off phase and to the production and delivery phase.• Pre kick-off definition phase: technical and commercial impact for each new interior project.• Close follow-up of schedules and detailed tracking of all departments activities – engineering, planning, sourcing, certification and production.• Reinforced collaboration with customer (Bombardier Aerospace) sourcing department.• Product improvement based on in-service feedback.

On Bombardier Global 5000 business jet:• Interior completion engineering definition and follow-up in accordance to commercial and contractual agreements.• Interface with Bombardier account managers and customer representatives.

• Ideation, illustration and prototyping of a complete new product line presented at NYC Toy Fair 04 – “RADIX”• Action figures, vehicle and playset design• Analysis of competition / new trends and tendencies in preschool boys section• Color texture and material analysis• Styling follow-up during development phase through a gate process• Modeling follow-up with Asian subcontractant and in-house sculptors• Development of final product and 3D files for plastic injection molds

Master'S Degree, Industrial Design And Transportation Design

Bachelor Of Engineering - B.Eng, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering