Product Designer & Automotive Professional
Avies Behzad
Product Designer
avies.behzad@gmail.com
Summary
Postgraduate Product Designer, Creative problem solver with concept design, product design & visualization skills & an aptitude to transform ideas into tangible products and usable experiences.
Exposure & Expertise
Product Development Life Cycle & Product Design process
Design Research including Contextual Inquiry, Ethnography, User research
Concept Sketching, Ideation, Form Exploration, Benchmarking, TRIZ, QFD, Product Design Specification, DFMA
Professional skills in CAID, 3D Modeling, Rendering & Class A Surfacing
Demonstrated ability in expressing ideas by Freehand Sketching, Story Boarding etc.
Exposure to User Centered Design, Usability, Human Factors & Ergonomics
Excellent Visualization skills including Manual, Digital & Photorealistic Rendering
Knowledge of Reverse Engineering, Rapid Prototyping and Mass production processes
Understanding of Materials & Manufacturing techniques, Automotive Manufacturing
Hands-on Model making experience in PU Foam, POP, Polystyrene, Wood, Plastic, Clay & Cardboard
Computer Skills
2D : Photoshop, Illustrator, Coreldraw, Sketchbook, Visio
3D : Alias, CatiaV5, UGNX5, ProE, Solidworks, Rhino, TcVis, Hypershot
Others : Flash, Dreamweaver, Creax Innovation Suite, Rapidform,
DFMA, Teamcenter, Office
Education
MSc (Engineering) in Product design, 2010, Merit
at MSRSAS, Bangalore (Affiliated to Coventry University, UK)
BE in Automobile Engineering, 2003, 10th Rank
at MCE, Hassan, Karnataka. (VTU)
Professional experience
Since April’06 – present - Engineer IE
May 04-April 06 - Engineer CAD
Projects Handled:
Product Development
User Testing and Usability
Product Visualization
Project Management
Bangalore, India