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Shanghai, CN

Shanghai, China

Circular and Sustainable Design and Innovation

Shanghai, China

• Celebrating the beauty in the humble metro map with a range of beautiful full print T-shirts featuring locations from around the world!
• Conceptualized and brought to fruition an emerging retail business including strategic planning, forecasting, budgeting, staffing, market research and social media marketing in an ever-evolving industry.
• Own the product development life cycle by identifying the product roadmap, gathering requirements and integrating unique solutions that improvement market penetration.
• Develop visually appealing garment print artwork designs while overseeing all aspects of eCommerce setup and operations including basic website development and integration.

Shanghai City, China

• Conceptualised and created unique exhibition trade show booths for both in-house and external partners and produced engaging pop-up store concepts for clients in Food and Beverage, FMCG and Consumer Product industries.
• Achieved recognition by winning the C-Star 2018 Best Booth Design Award, increasing the number of top level consumer brands and companies as Candex clients from 10% to around 50%.
• Increased sales of Candex backwall products by around 70% through development of a new product range, successfully reigniting interest in a previously stale product category.

• Volunteer position providing graphic design support for IAESTE Asbl.
• Produced print layouts for 4 years of IAESTE Annual Reviews, with an average of over 100 pages per edition.
• Revitalised IAESTE brand vision through new visual identity rolled out across all 90 IAESTE countries worldwide.
• Recognised by the IAESTE Board for annual review designs and branding of 70th Anniversary Celebration.

Sydney, Australia

• Collaborated in a 4 person team dedicated to refining and adapting the Elumin8 business model and strategy through comprehensive research of product target audience and identification of market needs in the electricity.
• Devised and operated successful 2 week experiment trial testing key hypothesis of business model, interpreting and presenting the results and designed and implemented proof of concept MVP demonstration chatbot.

• Co-founded and conceived household energy efficiency startup, created all aspects of branding, industrial design, and UX design. Member of a 5 person team which investigated global environmental issues and problems.
• Featured in media as one of the top 3 teams at the inaugural CAMP (China Australia Millennial Project) summit of young leaders in 2015.
• Winner of the inaugural CAMP startup competition, resulting in pitching at the 2015 OTEC startup competition in Beijing and entering into the CSIRO ON Accelerator program in 2016.

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

• Spearheaded a 3 person team which developed industrial and system design for 10 new product concept applications of IoT wireless technologies.
• Prototyped products using 3D printing and identified and innovated preliminary business models, market opportunities and design strategy for IoT applications.

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

• Directed daily operations of a start-up design studio, including project management, lead designer and staff leadership guiding 4-5 junior designers.
• Initiated and oversaw creative development and ideation of projects across sustainable architecture, furniture, lighting, consumer electronics, graphic design, and web design.

China Australia Millennial Project (CAMP) is a world-first bilateral incubator uniting top young leaders, innovators and changemakers from China with their Australian peers.As part of the Energy and Sustainable Living think tank, through empathetic research and human centred design thinking my team developed Elumin8; a system to help people visualise their.

Melbourne, Australia

• Crafted product designs for 4 product lines of CNP Brands in-house developed products, developing mock-ups of products based on new and existing items for market launch.
• Achieved recognition for CNP Brands from a third party licensor for the high quality of our product designs and application of their IP.

Melbourne, Australia

• Redesigned and instituted visual identity style guides for 2 in-house brands including new logos, production packaging, point of sale material and instruction manual guidelines.

Melbourne, Australia

• Volunteer position with IAESTE Australia, a volunteer run not-for-profit organisation. IAESTE Australia is part of the worldwide IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience).
• Responsible for developing artwork and graphic design for promotional presentations, business cards and other promotional material.
• Responsible for organisation of promotional activities at marketing events, primarily those at universities. Included setting up and manning of IAESTE Australia stand and coordination of other people to assist.
• Delivery of promotional presentations to students at universities about IAESTE Australia and our activities.
• Oversaw re-development of website, providing design and working in conjunction with other members.
• Graphic design of IAESTE Australia 2012 TShirt

Lima, Peru

• Placement organised through IAESTE
• Developed redesign of existing mechanical machinery
• Mechanical component design and hydraulic system design

Melbourne, Australia

• Developed a series of product renderings of street furniture for a competition. The items were later shortlisted.
• Produced a short Youtube video to promote Swinburne University's Product Design Engineering
• Produced a short Youtube video to promote Swinburne University's Mechanical Engineering degree.
• Created a video loop for Swinburne University Electric Vehicle research which was displayed at the 2011 Australian International Motorshow.
• Authored a report for Demo Dairy summarising 2 years of research and development on a sustainability project to generate electricity from methane emissions.

Melbourne, Australia

• Volunteer position with IAESTE Australia, part of IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience).
• Assisted with organisation of activities for international trainees
• Produced video for IAESTE Australia promotions
• Produced and delivered presentation on IAESTE experience and Local Committee activities
• Graphic design work including advertising flyers, banner and sticker designs

Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

• Placement organised through IAESTE
• Design and engineering of new LED lighting products starting from concept development
• CAD development of new and existing products using Solidworks
• FEA and thermal simulation on LED heatsinks using Solidworks Simulation
• Creation of renderings for promotional materials using 3D Studio Max
• Developed LED fluro replacement tube from initial concept. Worked with manufacturing to ready production of prototype for testing

B. Eng (Honours), Product Design Engineering

Activities and Societies: German Study Tour, Industry Based Learning position in China Product Design Engineering is where industrial.

Victorian Certificate Of Education (Vce)

Activities and Societies: Year 11-12 Student Radio