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Strategic Innovator, Design Leader

Miki Mehandjiysky

Portland, OR
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    Miki Mehandjiysky's leadership and unrelenting commitment to design excellence have led to the creation of some of the market's most iconic products, with outstanding visual appeal, user experience, ergonomics, customer satisfaction, and unsurpassed commercial success.

  • Education
    • Professional Certificate Innovation & Entrepreneurship
      Stanford Center for Professional Development
      2018 - Currently Enrolled
    • B.Sc. programme Industrial Design
      Art Center College of Design
      1995 - 1999
    • European Baccalaureate Programme Product Design
      Art Center (Europe)
      1995 - 1996
    • Master Programme Design
      National Academy of Art
      1992 - 1995
      Strong foundation in fine arts, figure drawing, anatomy, perspective, advertising design, art history, architecture, typography & color science.
    • Baccalaureate Programme Fine Art & Printmaking
      Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
      1991 - 1992
      1 year of studies, before relocating to Europe.
    • Certificate Japanese Language
      Kansai Kokusai Gaku Yuukai, Osaka, Japan
      1991 - 1992
      Intensive Japanese language course. Learned conversational and written Japanese (including Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana) from scratch, in just 1 school year.
  • Experience
    • Owner + Design Consultant
      mikidesign
      Portland, OR
      May 1998 - Present (27 years)
      Focus on start-up businesses, inventors and entrepreneurs. Variety of design projects with US, Japanese and European clients.
    • Design Manager, Innovation & Advanced Concepts
      HP Inc.
      Houston, TX
      Mar 2015 - May 2019 (4 years 2 months)
      Led the team responsible for all advanced front-end concepting efforts of HP’s Design Teams. Helped strengthen the design culture and thinking within HP Inc. Built an Industrial Design Innovation Team and its creative process from scratch. Generated a huge body of advanced concepts, and filed over 60 utility patents.
    • Design Manager, Consumer Products (Core)
      Hewlett-Packard Company
      Houston, TX
      Feb 2011 - Mar 2015 (4 years 1 month)
      Managed the front-end development of solutions, design language, advanced concepts, new product form factors & the product design strategy for all HP-, Compaq-, Pavilion- & Envy-branded consumer mobile PC clients (HP's Core business, Volume segment). Led the team successfully through multiple complex RFQs and negotiations. Managed engagements with multiple external vendors. Was responsible for the team’s goals, scheduling and all other line management duties.
    • Senior Lead Designer, Consumer Notebooks
      Dell
      Feb 2009 - Feb 2011 (2 years)
      Was responsible for Dell Consumer Premium / Luxury Laptops in the period 2010 ~ 2011. Led Adamo (XPS-15z) & Studio/XPS portables 2011/2012.
    • Asst. Manager, Industrial Design
      Samsung LA Design Lab
      Oct 2005 - Oct 2008 (3 years)
      Led Cluster ID Teams with focus on advanced concepts, new form factors, new experiences. Designed multiple successful mobile phones & accessories for the US market. Among these, the Samsung Alias 2 product stands out, as it was the first mobile phone to offer a multimode user experience, and to utilize e-ink displays under each individual QWERTY key (allowing users to switch between languages seamlessly and using the same hardware globally). The Samsung Capella jewelry-like headset concept was a unique look at wearables, in a moment when most other Bluetooth headsets were extremely conservative. The design won an Innovation Award at the 2009 CES in Las Vegas, but subsequently the company elected to cancel production, and released a much more conventional in-ear solution.
    • Founding Member, Designer
      Design Funhouse Enterprises (DFE)
      Jul 2007 - Sep 2008 (1 year 2 months)
      Co-founded a design-centric startup, aiming to change how household and pet products are designed, manufactured and sold. Generated a large number of advanced concepts and product ideas: a patented pet bed, made out of durable environment-friendly materials, modular recyclable packaging, kitchen accessories, water bottles, etc. As part of this creative work, the popular Drinkwell 360 pet fountain stands out- it is successful and continues to sell well in a variety of iterations. This startup experience was unique and inspiring, it enabled a creative collaboration with some of the most talented industrial designers of our time. The team experienced insurmountable hurdles due to the Great Recession of 2008.
    • Sr. Designer (Lead Designer)
      Nokia
      Jun 1999 - Oct 2005 (6 years 4 months)
      Was recruited fresh from college. Contributed to Nokia's success that led to a 500% growth in less than 3 years. Design patents for a large number of best-selling, award-winning mobile phones. Designed the Nokia 1100, which remains the unsurpassed global record holder, as the top-selling consumer electronics product of all times (over 250mil units sold during the phone's lifetime).
    • Sr. Designer / Expat Specialist
      Nokia Denmark
      Mar 2004 - Jun 2004 (3 months)
      Worked with ID, Marketing, Engineering and Procurement teams on the award winning L'Amour Collection of fashion phones, winner of IDEA Silver Award.
    • ID Intern
      Design Continuum Italia
      Milano, Italy
      Aug 1998 - Dec 1998 (4 months)
      High-pace product design internship in the heart of Northern Italy.
      Projects included:
      - Roche AccuCheck (blood sugar meter system for diabetics)
      - Puma: non-slippery water sandals, Ring mechanism running shoes
  • Awards

    2015-2019 : 60+ utility patents filed, many more pending

    2011-2018 : multiple Red Dot and iF awards

    2009 : CES Innovation Award

    2008 : Best Designer Award, Samsung Design

    2006 : IDEA Excellence Award (Silver)

    2003 : designed Nokia 1100, top-selling consumer product of all time (250+ mil units sold during the phone's lifetime).

  • Affiliations

    IDSA

  • Industries
    • Consumer Electronics
    • Desktop & Office products
    • Sustainability
    • Healthcare
    • Education
  • Skills
    • Concept Art
    • Creative Direction
    • Design Management
    • Design Research
    • Experience Design
    • Ideation
    • Industrial Design
    • Product Design
    • Product Development
    • UX
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