About Me

Hello!
I am a passionate designer. Curiosity, lateral thinking and empathy, joined with hard skills like CAD, sketching and mock-up building. I enjoy research – having to become an ad hoc expert in the field I’m designing for. I enjoy pushing my own limits and sharpening my skills. Interaction, service and system design are among my interests that help me understand and design for the big picture.

27.11.1983, born in USSR (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
citizenship: Canadian

4998 Maisonneuve W. #1106
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
H3Z 1N2

Related work experience:
- Freelance and Contract industrial designer 11.2005 – present
(clients: i.materialise, Shapeways, Ironage, Huawei, Honeywell Kaz, …)
- Internship Shapeways, Eindhoven, Netherlands (03.2010-08.2010)
- Internship PininfarinaExtra, Torino Italy (09.2009-03.2010)
- Morelli Designers 01.2005 – 09.2009
- Surface.ID 07.2004 – 08.2009

Designer skills:
- Research                                                                -Excellent mechanical understanding
- Experimentation                                                    -CNC machining
- Focus on user, function and behaviour               -Sketch, rendering
- Prototyping                                                             -Video editing, basic electronics.
- Human Centered Design, Empathy

Computer skills:
- Pro-E wildfire 3.0                                                  -SolidWorks 2010
- Rhino 3D                                                                -Alias Studio Tools
- CorelDRAW                                                           -Photoshop, InDesign
- Various other 3D rendering/modeling packages
- MeshCAM, RhinoCAM, standard G-code

Education:
Masters Advanced Product Design 2008 – 2011
IDI 2007 – 2008
Umea Institute of Design
Design Aerobics packaging course 2007
DesignBoom.com
Pro-E beginner course 2005
Concordia University
DEC industrial design techniques 2001 – 2004
Dawson College

Language skills:
English (fluent written and oral)                             Spanish (beginner)
French (fluent written and oral)                              Swedish (beginner)
Russian (fluent written and oral)                            Italian (basic)