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Head Smart Devices & IoT at Henkel

Robert Ruiz

Colonia, Germany
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    I have always been a passionate of the Man-Machine relationship and how the devices affect in our society; Objects, Products and devices describe how the relationship between us and the nature is. The devices can help to build a strong and friendly human environment. I truly believe that utility, functionality and understanding are the key factors to get a sustainable human progress.

    I’m a Senior Industrial Designer with six years of experience, three of them in a Management position. I had the chance to participate and lead several projects mainly focused on consumer electronics market. I have a deep understanding of the different steps on product development and innovation processes. During these years, I have realised about how the innovation and design applied transversely inside a corporation can be a key factor to get a sustainable growth and perfect coexistence between enterprises and human environment.

  • Education
    • Bachelor of Arts (BA) Industrial and Product Design
      EINA Barcelona Design School
      2002 - 2006
  • Experience
    • Innovation Packaging Manager
      Henkel
      Sep 2013 - Present (12 years 10 months)
    • Development Director
      IDAPT
      Mar 2010 - Present (16 years 4 months)
      • Industrial Design and Product Development: Responsible of Industrial design and follow up of design and brand values across all technical stages, from engineers team to factory production team. Apply design and creativity knowledge on engineering stage to get innovative technical solutions.
      • Creativity and Innovation Management: Apply creative processes to boost creativity throughout all product development departments. Ensure a good matching between creativity muscle and brand values such as aesthetics, functionality …
      • Communication: Responsible of communication among all creative departments involved on product launching and other departments, such as sales, through meetings and briefing reports.
      • Time control: Follow up of milestones and deadlines in accordance with Management and Marketing team through project management techniques. Control risks and evaluation of all project issues to get a fast response in order to face unexpected problems.
    • Industrial Design Director
      IDAPT
      Oct 2009 - Mar 2010 (5 months)
      • Industrial Design: Responsible of aesthetic concept, sketching, renderization, models and prototipes related all new products of the company mainly focus on Idapt I4 model
      • Product Development: Responsible of all technical steps from Design concept to Preproduction stage, include: 3d models, moldflow analisys and technical specifications.
      • Suppliers sourcing: Find new suppliers and assure design values in a final plastic pieces most of them in China
    • Industrial Design Manager
      Enea Management Services
      Oct 2007 - Oct 2009 (2 years)
      • Industrial Design: Responsible of aesthetic concept, sketching, renderization, models and prototipes related all projects of our customers
      • Innovation Management: Responsible of processes that boost creativity and innovation focus on plastic capabilities such as packaging, consumer electronics, lighting ….
      • Packaging Development: Responsible for all steps from Design concept to Preproduction stage, include: 3d models, moldflow analisys and technical specifications focus on injection, injection-blowing packaging, glass…..

      “ As an industrial design manager, I lead several industrial design projects for different kind of markets such as; Food packaging, Sport, Furniture, Lighting …we worked with multinational companies like Inditex, Nutrexpa, Laboratorios Faes, Tempe, Simon, BJC-Siemens, Legrand “.
    • Junior Industrial Designer
      JGDI Industrial Design
      2006 - 2007 (1 year)
      • Industrial Design Assistant: Assist to Senior Designer on tasks such as 3d modelling, conceptualization and rendering

      "As a Junior assistant I had the opportunity to learn the roots of good design and also I had the chance to testing myself in big professional challenges for big enterprises like Marset, Roca, Tombow, ABR products, Astralpool, Resol "
  • Awards

    Innovation product CES (2010, 2011)

    CTIA (2010, 2011)

    IFA (2010)

    Finalist Expohogar'07

    Selected for Exhibit: The Medium is the matter, Lisboa 2005

  • Industries
    • Consumer Electronics
    • Cosmetics
    • Soft Goods
  • Skills
    • Art Direction
    • Creative Direction
    • Industrial Design
    • Product Design
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