Véronique Paradis, M.Sc. Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

This new management position at SAT brings together the Metalab research laboratory, the research valorization team and the Campus training team. My mandate is to ensure the coherence of innovation approaches and their strategic fit, to develop structuring partnerships and to define new relevant and innovative business models.

Terrebonne, Quebec

Centre for applied research offering consulting services in innovation strategies and sustainable product design to local manufacturers / entrepreneurs of various industries (furniture, manufacturing, municipal, pharmaceutical, transportation, etc).Researcher, Consultant, Project manager, Industrial Designer

Terrebonne

Industrial Design program that trains college level students to work as technicians on a product development team. Geared toward sustainable development, the program focuses on technical product development, ideation, sketching, 3D modeling and rendering techniques, prototyping, presentation and communication skills, ergonomics, aesthetics and technical documentation.

Quebec, Canada

L’Empreinte Québécoise is a training program that offers strategic design support to SME's in order for them to develop better products in a more efficient way. The program invites cohorts of high potential SME's to participate in a structured innovation process to develop an innovative product over the course of one year. The training program offers seminars, personalized support and design diagnosis and a collaborative platform to initiate participants to open innovation practices.

Montreal, Canada

Research & development of creative products/ services for various clients + Project ManagementGRomano Furniture : The Husky chair is an ecological multifunctional unit designed for small spaces that can be multiplied and reconfigured to suit your life style. Hackathon Montreal: Open innovation experience to enhance the health care at Ste-Justine HospitalStudio Jean-Claude Poitras: Creative director, haute couture and Prêt-à-porter closet design, Exhibition design, desk… Show more Research & development of creative products/ services for various clients + Project ManagementGRomano Furniture : The Husky chair is an ecological multifunctional unit designed for small spaces that can be multiplied and reconfigured to suit your life style. Hackathon Montreal: Open innovation experience to enhance the health care at Ste-Justine HospitalStudio Jean-Claude Poitras: Creative director, haute couture and Prêt-à-porter closet design, Exhibition design, desk accessories and stationary, branding.Société de transport de Montréal: Metamorphosis of a city bus into a mobile media space. (100% recycled materials)Le Quartier des spectacles: Urban design project manager, graphic designSociété des arts technologiques: Key collaborator in all of the phases of research projects and corporate projects (Interactive installations, exhibitions, immersive environments and digital collaborative platforms).Budgeting and project management. Show less

Montréal, Québec

Research and drafting of a case study with regards to a strategic change management in sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.

Montréal, Québec

The workshop was given to the graduating students in industrial design*.Using biomimicry as a source of innovation for the development of design strategies. Biomimicry is efficient in reducing the development time frame, in accelerating creative input and in enhancing collaborative interdisciplinary work. * I also gave this workshop the previous year (2011)

Adviser for the development of products and services with added value, branding and marketing strategies for North America. Responsible of developing and implementing cross-functional management tools.

Montréal

Coordinator of the telepresence team of the research project « Open Territories » aiming at developing an open source platform for digital artistic collaboration and production. Our team developed many immersive and interactive devices that were ultimately used commercially for applications such as distance learning, museology and interactive marketing.

Arese, Italy

Initiated by Fiat in its Advanced Design University Stage (ADUS), Zero-Uno is a mobility system to answer Milan's traffic and smog issues. Based on a bionics approach (biomimicry ), our concept team developed a system which integrates the synchronization in real time of all of the means of transportation to communicate to the travelers the quickest and shortest way to get to their destination through a state of the art information network. Zero-Uno also proposes a collective-taxi designed to… Show more Initiated by Fiat in its Advanced Design University Stage (ADUS), Zero-Uno is a mobility system to answer Milan's traffic and smog issues. Based on a bionics approach (biomimicry ), our concept team developed a system which integrates the synchronization in real time of all of the means of transportation to communicate to the travelers the quickest and shortest way to get to their destination through a state of the art information network. Zero-Uno also proposes a collective-taxi designed to enhance the experience of traveling time while keeping the costs down. This project was exhibited in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II during the European week for sustainable mobility in 2002. Show less

Master'S Degree, Management/ Strategy

Dess (Graduate), Management And Sustainable Development, Diplome D'Études Supérieures Spécialisées

Bachelor Of Science, Industrial Design

Erasmus, Industrial And Product Design

Design Art, Fine And Studio Arts, Minor