Vincent Ashikordi
Product Designer — London, United Kingdom
About
A product designer with an interest in the things that make a real difference in people's lives and the environments they live in; a sports fan; a thinker; an idealist-realist.
- Experience:
- 2 years
- Education:
- Brunel University
BSc Product Design Engineering
with professional development
2009 – 2012
Grade: First Class Honours
Activities and Societies:
Made in Brunel 2012 Story Team;
Brunel Volunteers
University of the West of England
BSc Product Design Technology
2008 – 2009
Grade: First Class
Association of Business Executives
Certificate & Diploma
Business Management
2005 – 2008 - Awards:
- Recipient of the 2013 UCL SERAus Santos Scholarship Award for "essay quality, academic standing and potential."
Regional finalist of the 2012 Royal Academy of Engineering Innovation Hothouse.
First Class Honours, Bsc Product Design Engineering with Professional Practice.
Dissertation: Encouraging Energy Conservation among Office Workers.
Winner of the James Dyson Foundation Made in Brunel 2012 Awards for "design innovation for a specifically understood market; the highest quality appropriate design thinking, with commercial understanding."
The 2012 Brunel University Gold Award for undertaking 200 hours of voluntary work in the local community.
Hunting Praying Mantis, featured in the Daily Feed of Cool
Projects from the Coroflot Member Gallery, 14 September 2009.
Winner of the 2008 Novartis Scholarship Award for excellence in academic endeavour.
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Resumé
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EXPERIENCE
Web Designer & Creative Consultant, osususalone.org; www.osususalone.org
August 2012 – October 2012 (3 months); Bristol, United Kingdom
Alumni Stories Co-ordinator and Story Team Editor & Copywriter, Made in Brunel
October 2011 – July 2012 (10 months); Brunel University, London
Design Intern, SevilPeach Architecture + Design
August 2011 – September 2011 (2 months); London, United Kingdom
Student Product Designer & Creative Consultant, Smallfry Design
August 2010 – July 2011 (1 year); Coventry, United Kingdom
Creative Consultant, CREATE FOR JAPAN
March 2011 – April 2011 (2 months); London, United Kingdom
Specialist, Apple Inc.
2010 – 2010 (less than a year); London, United Kingdom
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VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Alumni Stories Co-ordinator and Story Team Editor, Made in Brunel 2012
October 2011 – July 2012 (10 months)
Made in Brunel is a student-led platform for empowering talented people across the Brunel University School of Engineering and Design. It culminates in an annual exhibition to showcase the best of Brunel design and engineering innovation to industry.
Working with the Story Team, our main responsibility was to effectively communicate the journeys of the students in keeping with the 2012 'journeys fuelled by ideas' theme through a 7,000-copy, 320-page published book.
As the Alumni Stories Co-ordinator, I was partly responsible for contacting Brunel design and engineering alumni and creating visuals to communicate their journeys.
And as the Story Team Editor, I proofread and edited up to 180 project descriptions, titles and sub-titles and also undertook general-content editing.
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SKILLS
Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Pro/Engineer, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, Ansys CFX, Alias, SketchUp, HTML, CSS, Mac OS X and Windows.
Design strategy, design research, trend forecasting, analytical and creative problem solving.
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INTERESTS
Interested in the things that make a difference in people’s lives and the environments they live in. Other interests include: event design, design in business, user-centered & meaning-centered design, research, fashion, food and dining, travel, tennis, and Formula 1.
(References are available upon request).
