Aki Hirota

Sr. Industrial Designer at HP

boise, ID

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-Ability to develop a wide variety of concepts quickly through sketching and to create professional presentation.

-Create design concepts based on product specifications while incorporating research findings.

-Take product concepts through development with using CAD software and various prototyping methods.

-In-depth understanding of materials, manufacturing processes, and their appropriate use for the best results.

-Highly skilled in 3D CAD and rendering, 2D illustration, product graphics, photo manipulation, and business software.

-Ability to create design language appropriate for bland and market.

-Good understanding of ergonomics to improve the usability of products.

-Experience dealing with overseas vendors.
Education
- BS Industrial Design
  
  Arizona State University
  
  1988 - 1993
Experience
- Sr. Industrial Designer
  
  HP
  
  2011 - Present (10 years)
  
  Responsible to design printing devices.
- INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
  
  Freelance_PLUSONE ID
  
  2009 - Present (12 years)
  
  Assisting manufactures, start-ups and inventors to turn product ideas into appropriate, manufacturable products, while maximizing aesthetics and usability.
- Industrial Designer
  
  Micron Technology
  
  2010 - 2011 (1 year)
  
  Created reference designs and multiple working prototype LED lighting fixtures, one of which chosen for IDSA 2011 Finalist. Designed and created sales prototype of pico projector.
- Industrial Designer
  
  Loud Technologies
  
  2005 - 2008 (3 years)
  
  Successfully redesigned one of the company’s most popular products, HR studio monitors. Developed a new design language for ONYX-i mixer series, which becomes a standard for the other mixers. Other responsibilities include ideations, product renderings, CAD, drawing, artwork for product graphics, dealing with outside vendors and final article inspections.
- Sr.Industrial designer
  
  Strategix Vision
  
  1998 - 2005 (7 years)
  
  Worked on a variety of design projects for many different markets, including medical, fitness, consumer and high-tech products and contributed in many different ways, including ideation, brain storming, research, CAD, model making, interface design, presentation graphic and graphic design. A lead designer of many of the projects, one of which received the Good Design Award.
Industries
- Commercial Equipment
- Consumer Electronics
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