Automotive Design at Jaguar Land Rover

Ajay Dhankar

Coventry, UK, United Kingdom

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Car and Product Designer, adept in executing projects from Concept-to-Model and Prototype.

Specialities: Problem solving and Idea generation, supported by Hand Sketching, 3D Modelling and computer Graphics.

Let's solve the present and future design challenges!
Education
- Masters degree Automotive Design
  
  Coventry University
  
  2010 - 2011
  
  Awarded ‘Best in Show’ and ‘Most Innovative design’ for the Final year project
- MA Automotive Design Car Design
  
  Coventry University
  
  2010 - 2011
- B.E. Mechanical
  
  CITM
  
  2001 - 2005
Experience
- Director
  
  Maximworx
  
  Mar 2012 - Present (14 years 3 months)
  
  Consulting for Design Projects in UK, EU, USA and India
- Automotive Designer
  
  Jaguar Land Rover
  
  Feb 2012 - Present (14 years 4 months)
- Deputy Manager, Industrial Design & Innovation
  
  Minda Industries Ltd.
  
  Feb 2006 - Aug 2010 (4 years 6 months)
  
  Team Leader for Industrial Design & Innovation, on research and development of new concepts, styles and features for Automotive Industry. Key responsibilities:
  
  • Concept design from scratch.
  • Generating Sketches and Renderings
  • Trend analysis & Market Survey.
  • Benchmarking against best in class products
  • Resolving ‘Ergonomics’ and ‘Tooling’ constraints with Engineering team.
  • Developing CAD, Mock-ups and Prototypes.
  • Presentation of final design to the customer.
  • Filing for Patent/ Design Registrations and awards.
  • Delivering fully packaged CAD model to Product Engineering team.
- Designer
  
  Maximworx
  
  Jun 2005 - Feb 2006 (8 months)
  
  Started Maximworx, a Product Design Consultancy for conceptual and 3D design services.
Awards

• ‘Best in Show’ award for the final project in Coventry MA Degree show 2011.

• ‘Most innovative Design’ award for the final project in Coventry MA Degree show 2011.

• Outstanding Performance award for the year 2007-08

• Outstanding Performance award for the year 2006-07,

Patents and Design registrations : 23
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- Transportation
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