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Adelaide, Australia

Adelaide, Australia

Undertaking all areas of product design, from concept generation and CAD, through to rendering, prototyping and manufacture. Offering clients a complete spread of design skills and smart problem solving to give their products the noticeable edge against the competition. Spending time to fully understand a clients aims and target market, results in a more successful and integrated outcome. Innovative thinking is core to each project and drives all aspects of the design process.Some of my latest projects include:• A smart medical packaging solution requiring thin film material and providing strength through structure without compromising internal volume.• Sleep improvement device developed through extensive testing and development • Portable garden aid with a traditional yet simple approach, aimed at the 60 plus market • New range of furniture concepts developed through to finished renderings.

Adelaide, Australia

Gerard Lighting is the company behind Australia's most innovative and comprehensive group of lighting brands. The Group's brand portfolio is the envy of the industry incorporating some of the most well known names in lighting. The Gerard Lighting Group offers their client’s an innovative and sustainable lighting solution for any lighting design. The Gerard Lighting Group has been a well-known and respected name in the electrical industry since the 1930s.• Concept generation for lighting related products, in particularly control interfaces.• Research into trends in smart home automation and feeding this into the design process• Re-design and improvement of various existing core products. • Creating engineering drawings for toolmakers and suppliers.• Designing within the relevant electrical standards.• Liaising with offices in china to get prototypes built and components ordered. • Working to tight deadlines for tooling and product launches.• Materials analysis and selection.• Making and testing of prototypes and analysis of any changes needed.• Various types of stress analysis using F.E.A software.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Kinneir Dufort is an award-winning integrated research, innovation, design and product development company with over 30 years’ experience helping companies discover, create, develop and realise tangible new products, brands and experiences. Combining user-understanding with technical know-how, the expertise areas they offer encompass research, creative innovation, strategic branding, product design and development, prototyping, electronics & software and low volume manufacture.• Prototyping and design work for a wide range of clients, from consumer goods to complex military and medical equipment• Working within multi-skilled teams to produce innovative solutions to design challenges• Involved in idea generation through meetings and workshops • Adhering to ISO 9001 and ISO 13845• R&D: Creating test rigs and putting prototypes through their paces, analysing and fully documenting my findings• Creating, reviewing and adjusting parts using Solid Works and Rhino• Programming builds on SLA and 3D-printing prototyping machines• Material analysis and selection• Project management, including budgeting, timings, component sourcing and management of 3rd parties and suppliers• Creating working prototypes and highly finished models through building, detailing, spray-painting and assembly• Working with a variety of hand, power and bench tools. • Understanding and working within OHS guidelines

Liphook, United Kingdom

Formed in 1991, IML was a global event and meeting solutions company. Over the next 22 years, IML became an expert and trusted partner in fundraising, silent auctions and shareholder meetings for its clients all over the world. During this time they became the leading provider of interactive technology for the meetings and events market. In 2013 IML was brought by Lumi Technologies.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Industrial And Product Design, 1St

Activities and Societies: Selected for New Designers show in LondonThe course combined creativity and practicality, and focused.

Critical Fine Art, Fine/Studio Arts, General

Art And Design, Fine/Studio Arts, General, Art Foundation

Art/Art Studies, General, Gnvq Advanced

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