About me

Me

I am an autonomous Industrial and Strategic visual-design thinker with ten years of experience using various types of strategic, creative, product-design, experience-design, and user-research techniques. I appreciate my own aptitude to manage complex problems in research & vision, strategy & concept, design & development and planning & management of objects, spaces and images, with special interest in the creation of a culture of design. My professional projection is framed for the environmental and social responsibility at work. I am interested in creating radically innovative new projects, products and services particularly as a social entrepreneur. I firmly believe in the need of permanent updating, team work and constant experimentation.

Formal Education

(MSc. Cum Laude) MSc. Strategic Product Design
Graduated with honours (Cum Laude)
Automotive (Strategic Design) Specialisation
Delft University of Technology. 2007 – 2009.
Full scholarship supported by the Program Alßan
Delft, the Netherlands.

(postgraduate MSc.) MSc. Project Management
Universidad Distrital FJC. 2001 – 2002.
Part scholarship.
Bogotá, Colombia.

(BSc. 5 years) BSc. Industrial Engineering
Universidad Distrital FJC. 1992 – 2000.
Bogotá, Colombia.

(BA 5 years) BA Industrial Design
Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 1994 – 1999.
Part scholarship.
Bogotá, Colombia.

Acknowledgments & Awards

First place Océ Research Competition. www.oce.com. Venlo, The
Netherlands 2009.

First place Océ Research Competition. www.oce.com. Venlo, The Netherlands 2009.
Finalist “Hybrid Tuk Tuk battle” team Maqina. ENVIU Innovation in sustainability www.enviu.nl. Delft, The Netherlands and New Delhi, India 2009.
Graduated with honours (Cum Laude) MSc. Strategic Product Design TUDelft. The Netherlands 2009.
Creative facilitator. 11 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura. La Biennale di Venezia. Venice, Italy. 2008.
Full scholarship supported by the Program Alßan (The European Union Program of High Level Scholarships for Latin America) for MSc. TU Delft. The Netherlands. European Union. 2007 – 2009.
Jury in 3rd academic award of design PAD 2006. Product Development category. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia 2006.
Finalist “VIII Lapiz de Acero 2005” competition in the furniture category (Food court) & Second prize in “VII Lapiz de Acero 2004” competition in the concept category (Sonorama). Magazine of “Proyecto Diseño” Bogotá. Colombia 2005 & 2004.
Finalist the 15th Photographer Exhibition. Museo de Arte Moderno Tolima. Colombia 2005.
First prize in the 3rd international competition of ideas +A “ways of seeing in cement” in the industrial design category. Magazine of Architecture and Design +A and Cemex of Colombia-Mexico 2003.
Part scholarship supported by the National University (BA) & Distrital University (MSc). Bogotá, Colombia. 1994 – 2002.

KEY SKILLS:
Lateral-thinker, leader, visual-thinker, innovator, team-worker, creative, social entrepreneur.
PERSONAL AND PROFESIONAL INTERESTS:
Theatre, design, photography, arts, future-scenarios, swimming, trips & trekking.
LANGUAGES:
English & Spanish (mother tongue)

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