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Germany

Berlin, Germany

We re:design and make open home electronics, good for people and the planet.Circular by design, decentralized by production, socially responsible, repairable, refurbishable and upgradable over time. Proudly CNC milled, 3D printed with Prusa MK3/MK4s and crafted by our team at the funktastic MotionLab in Kreuzberg, Berlin.

Berlin Area, Germany

I support start-ups and organisations to create meaningful design innovations and optimise product developments for successful product launches, efficient productions and sustainable product life-cycles, incl. support for engineering (NPI) and testing (EVT/DVT). I also advise and connect for sourcing of strategic R&D and production partnerships. I highly value and encourage the implementation of human-centered and circular design strategies, throughout the entire product life-cycle and its system.

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

- Piloting innovative design projects from concept to production, for wearable and IoT product solutions (hardware) in the field of smart healthcare and smart farming / food / industry 4.0- Offering, co-creating, prototyping and developing new design projects agilely with CEO, team and clients: Si-Ware Neospectra Scanner (EG), Caera Wristband (DE), Carepath Nela (DE)- Supporting our production team in Taiwan for mechanical engineering, product testing and technical developments

Berlin, Germany

- Leading Little Sun’s design and product development process, from design ideation to pre-production of final product solution.- Co-creating and developing the new designs agilely with LS founders, teams, stakeholders and key-customers (in Africa, EU and US) through frequent iterations for iterative prototyping and continuous product improvements.- Supervising and supporting our R&D and production partner in China for all technical developments, PCBA, performance testing, DFM, product optimisation and production set-up.- Upgrading and implementing a seamless design-driven QA system, in order to keep a good control on our project developments and product qualities.Design references: 2 products successfully developed and launched on the market, +1 to come:Little Sun Diamond (2017), Little Sun Charge (2016) - see my portfolio for more details.

Copenhagen, Denmark

- Leading product development process of various design projects until mass-production.- Creating, prototyping and developing new designs for different lifestyle design brands: Little Sun (DE), Weber Grills (US), RigTig by Stelton (DK), Nordlux (DK), Erik Bagger (DK)- Developing and implementing a seamless design-driven QA system, in order to keep a good control on our project developments and product qualities.- Supervising and supporting our production partners in China for all technical developments, performance testing, DFM, product optimisation and production set-up.Design references: 10+ products successfully developed and launched on the market - see my portfolio for more details.

Copenhagen, Denmark

- Supporting our design team and production partners on various design projects and technical developments until production.- Analysing and evaluating organisation’s work ow and product development process with clients and production partners.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Internship piloting the development of a complex design project, as part of my master thesis “Design + Engineering”

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial And Product Design

Performing directly the last year of the bachelor program in Industrial Design, Product Design at Rubika ISD (Institut Supérieur de Design.

Exchange Semester (Erasmus Program), Master In Design & Innovation, Engineering Design

Spring semester 2008

Master’S Degree, Design Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical And Production Engineering