Resumé

Skills:

- Manage projects from initial prototype phases to usability tests to technological development delivery
- research on innovation in market & design trends
- concept ideation and prototyping
- creative styling skills
- ergonomic research and virtual development
- Digital 3d modeling & rendering
- Draft Virtual prototype production & presentation to the customer (PTC dvMockup, Opticore Opus realizer, EON Reality, Autodesk Showcase)
- Model making and prototyping capabilities using fast prototyping procedures (stereolitography, syntherization & urethane foam modeling)
- Hand sketching and rendering
- 3D Solid & surface modeling in Rhinoceros 3 & Autocad
- 3D Studio Max 2-8 procedures in rendering (light tracer, Mental Ray, Vray) & animation
- Adobe Photoshop procedures
- Capability in video production (Premiere) and post production (After effects)
- Ability to speak fluently and understand Dutch, Italian, English, French
- Responsible for Group PR & internal presentations
- trained for innovation, teamwork and communication of the team
- Ability to listen, communicate & explain to others design, engineering and manufacture related issues and to complete work independently under minimum supervision


Experience:

- Actual Job: Manager Design Visualization Lab. Role of management of a global team of visual designers. Assesment of global and local project development procedures and reporting to top management. Project coordination for the European team.

- Whirlpool Europe, Lead Virtual Reality and Multimedia designer for the Global Consumer Design Team, responsable for communication between the Global teams, responsable for Global working process setup.

-Whirlpool corp. (Benton harbor, MI U.S.)
6 months of experience as Senior Virtual prototyping & Visualisation designer
(responsible for startup of new departement)

- Whirlpool Europe (Varese Italy) http://whirlpool.co.uk
5 years of experience as concept, virtual prototyping & multimedia designer
Fast Virtual prototype development & visualisation for company and consumer testing
Virtual product animation for marketing and usability testing
Virtual mock-up for holographic & Dynamic imaging printing
Support for Web graphics and animation
Multimedia development for internal & external use
Corporate web site 3d animation development

- C.R.I.E.D Istituto Europeo di Design research center (Milan, Italy) http://www.cried.com
Product designer
Developed concepts (sketches, mock-ups, 3d models and technical drawings)
Bionic concept development for product development with customers as: “Motorola”, “Fiat”, “Unilever”

- Flash Laser Services (Milan, Italy) http://www.flaservice.com
3D model production for laser engraving in glass Cubes
Modeling & rendering for prototypes to be presented to the local international fair
Winner of the 3d glass engraving Euroflora award

- Nexus Design (Manno, Lugano Switzerland) http://www.nexusdesign.ch
Modeling and rendering of alloy rim

- 3M design (Milan, Italy) http://www.3m.com
Modeling, rendering & 3D animation for a digital wall display product

- Perfect Persuasion (Varese, Italy) http://www.perfectpersuasion.it, creative support

- 3M with Pininfarina, DVD for fair in Germany containing 3D animation for desk containers

- Politecnico (Como, Italy)
Assistant to the lecturer for various workshops about multimedia communication (2005-06-07)

Training:

IBM, Microsoft Frontpage 98 training, on site Whirlpool Europe 2000
Diploma available

Innovation Mentor training, on site Whirlpool Europe 2001
Diploma available

3d studio max 4 training, on site Whirlpool Europe 2002

3d studio max 7 trainig, on site Whirlpool Europe 2004

Project Team Leader training, on site Whirlpool Europe 2002

Customer Loyalty workshop, on site Whirlpool Europe 2003

Creativity and innovation mindset training, on site Whirlpool Europe 2007

Projects by Taco Van der Maden