Resumé

Simone Pallotto
- industrial & strategic design -

PERsONAL DATA-------------------------------
Mobile Phone +32 (0)470 187966

PROFESSIoNAL EXPERIEnCE--------------------
_Tupperware Design Office
Product and Strategic Designer, present (from June 2006)

_Philips Design 2006
Strategic design concepts for a Philips Design’s client
( Persona based brainstorming – Creation of scenarios – “Technology and business” approach ), 1 week intensive workshop

_Vaisala Aviation Weather 2005-2006
IDBM (University) project
Creating a new business model ( Market opportunity analysis – user study ), 6 months

_Muova Design Center 2005
Strategic design for Jalas ( Industry research – competitors positioning – trend forecast – user study – ideas evaluation – product concepts design for short and long term – brand concept - graphic design ), 3 months

_Secco Finland Ltd. , 2003/2004
Product development and graphic consulting, 3 months

_Wellness Group bvba , 2003
Timeless design lamp concepts, 2 months

_Fila Sport S.p.a.
Stylistic proposals and design concepts in Footwear, 1 month

_Demec Oy. , 2002
CAD modelling and CAM realization of tuning bodywork's parts for Mercedes Vito, 5 months

EDUCaTION------------------------------------------
_Master of Arts programme in Industrial and Strategic Design
University of Art and Design, Helsinki (Finland) _ 2010

_IDBM (International Design Business Management)

Helsinki School of Economics & Helsinki University of Technology _ Dec 2007

_Bachelor in Product Design
Polytechnic of Pohiois-Savo, Kuopio Academy of Design (Finland)
Completed ECTS credits 255; average marks of 4.2 out of 5 _ May 2002

PROFESSIoNAL COURSeS--------------------------
_Customized training on Siemens Nx 5 modeling software, 3 full days, 2008
_Specialization "Footwear Designer", 400 hours, 2002
_Qualification "Industrial Automation Technician", 3D modelling with the software Pro-Engineer, 700 hours, 1998

SKILLs-----------------------------------------------
Expressing ideas on paper; Project planning; Action Research; Virtual 3D Modelling; Graphic & Industrial Design; Interactive Web Design; Photography & Filming; Working in multi-disciplinary team; Presentation; Model making; Reverse Engineering; Understanding of LCA; Ability to learn new softwares quickly.

DiGITAL----------------------------------------
_Siemens NX 5, SolidWorks, Rhinoceros Rhino3D, PTC ProEngineer, Alias Design Studio, PTC CDRS - Stratasys Insight
_Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator & Premiere – Macromedia Flash & Dreamweaver – Autocad
_MS Power Point, Word, Excel
_3d scanning with Microscribe arm – Digital painting

LANGuAGES------------------------------------
_italian mother tongue
_english spoken/written fluent level
_finnish spoken/written basic level
_french spoken/written medium level

PROjECTS sHOW/RECOGNiTIONS----------------
_Stepping Out of the box MA thesis published in

_Tupperware= RedDot Design team of the year 2009
_Notable entry "Greener gadget design competition 2008"

_IKS in shops, 2004
_Auki published in the official book of the competition "design a key and what it opens" , 2004
_Finalist in the competition "TCI_Regulate light!"
, 2003
_Sint exhibited in the "Salone del mobile", stand I.S.I.A.; Milan (Italy), 2002
_Kefy published in the magazine "Alto" (Year 2 n.6; pag.36), 2002
_Sint exhibited in the show "Designinformazione", Galleria Civica Guzzini; Recanati (Italy), 2001
_Award as best student of the course, scholarship from I.S.I.A.; Faenza (Italy), 2001

INTEREStS-----------------------------------------
_Hobbies: traveling, cooking, listening audiobooks
_Sports: swimming, mountain bike, snowboard, power-kite

REFeRENCES----------------------------------
_Mr. Jan de Groote
Design Director of Tupperware Worldwide

( jandegroote@TUPPERWARE.com / +32 478 41129 )

_Professor Peter McGrory
Head of the Finnish Design Management Institute FDMI

( peter.mcgrory@uiah.fi / +358 9 7563 0503 )

Projects by Simone Pallotto