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Resume

PERSONAL DETAILS


Full Name
• CHRISTOPHER LEIGH BUERCKNER

Address
• 11/602-606 Waverley Road, Malvern East, VIC, Australia

Mobile
• +61 408 315 154

E-mail
• berkna@hotmail.com

Date of Birth
• 8th January 1986

Leisure Interests
• Football, Design, Music, Entertainment


EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS

University
• 2004 - 2007
• RMIT University, Melbourne
• Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design)
with Honours Class 2A


Career Objective:

The overall aim is financial and creative independance. The route to that point is sure to be interesting and involve highs and lows but that’s just one of the joys of being in the creative industry.

If I can maintain and improve on my standards, continually build my networks, skills and knowledge whilst moving closer towards my goals, then I will be a happy and more productive designer.

In the short/medium term my main aim is to develop and refine my overall skills so that I may seek greater opportunity that will eventually allow me the growth I desire in my own career.


Experience:

Current

• Working at Active Display Group
• CAD (Solidworks) lecturer for 2nd year students in the Industrial Design program at RMIT University (in 5th year of position)

2011

• Switched over to Active Display Group, one of Australia's largest Point of Purchase companies
• Continued collaboration with Simone LeAmon, primarily detailing a range of lighting products for Rakumba (www.rakumba.com.au) including the Prima Ballerina series and Ricotta

2010

• Employed full-time by Gush Creative (Point of Purchase company) as an Industrial Designer

2009

• Worked on various projects with JonesChijoff as a Freelance designer, including Victoria's 'State of Design' Paper Plane Academy (http://www.paperplaneacademy.com.au), in which I developed the 'aerial playground' for use by children in the event
• Employed as a Freelance designer for WingID, working on the FoodWorks rebranding programme covering 45 stores Australia wide. Project work included both internal and external signage, reviewing survey information, creating photovisuals of new signage options, maintaining revisions and working with a signage and branding standards system.
• Collaborated with Simone LeAmon in the design and manufacture of her chair, Lepidoptera, for the Cecile and Colin Rigg Award at the National Gallery of Victoria. The chair was awarded First Prize! It has been featured on Core77, among many other design blogs!! (http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/this_just_inbox_lepidoptera_chair_by_simone_leamon_
birdhouse_by_paul_clark__12861.asp)

2008

• Assistant lecturer in Industrial Design @ RMIT, Technology 3 + 4: CAD
with Michael Chijoff (of JONESCHIJOFF)
• Design Teacher/Consultant within PDM Challenge for Kangan TAFE,
teaching at Sunbury Downs College and St. Bernard's College
• Freelance work for JONESCHIJOFF working on Q-Motion Series range,
CAD refinements, drawings and documentation as well as Quality
Assurance Documentation for Manufacture

2007

• Major focus on 'professional practice' course and final Major Studio at
RMIT. Major Studio project, 'the Watree', has been published on various
design website/blogs and aspects of the project are still under
development. Project relates to the drought in Victoria (and Australia) and the importance of sporting communities and grassed playing surfaces

2006

• Collaborated with Simone LeAmon from O.S. Initiative on Petrach's Bath • Finalist in Reece's Bathroom Innovation Competition. I worked on the
design documentation and drawings as well as helping to refine smaller
design details


Software Skills Summary:

Specialising in Solidworks including:
• 3d modelling
• Assemblies
• Detailing
• Technical drawings

Also proficient in:
• 3d Studio Max (for rendering)
• Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
• Adobe Acrobat and InDesign


References available upon request