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j. ricardo mejía s.resumé (cv extended version)

Strategic Product Designer (MSc.) / Projects Management Specialist / Industrial Engineer / Industrial Designer jrmejias@yahoo.es

CR / Mejía J.R.

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FORMAL EDUCATION / University (undergraduate and graduate)

• (MSc. Cum Laude) Master of Science in Strategic Product DesignGraduated with honours (Cum Laude)Automotive (Strategic Design) SpecialisationDelft University of Technology. 2007 – 2009.Full scholarship supported by the Program Alßan Delft, the Netherlands.

• (postgraduate MSc.) Master of Science in Project ManagementUniversidad Distrital FJC. 2001 – 2002.Part scholarship.Bogotá, Colombia.

• (BSc. 5 years) Bachelor of Science in Industrial EngineeringUniversidad Distrital FJC. 1992 – 2000.Bogotá, Colombia.

• (BA 5 years) Bachelor of Arts in Industrial DesignUniversidad Nacional de Colombia. 1994 – 1999.Part scholarship.Bogotá, Colombia.

WORK EXPERIENCE

•Industrial Designer (Intern) / MOTIO Development. / Awarded design studio that works in the fi eld of transportation and product design. Its portfolio consists of interior and exterior parts and both products with size varies from complete car design to a restyled components / www.motio.nl / Eindhoven, the Netherlands. 2009.

•Innovation Consultant (Intern) / IDOM / IDOM Innova is the Innovation and Tech-nological Development department that regulates all the know-how, technical and management skills of IDOM in the area of innovation and R&D / www.idom.com / Barcelona, Spain / 2008.

•Associate / Urbanimal made by humans Ltda / Agency devoted to develop fur-niture and interior projects to export to the USA. We work in a close relation with interior designers in USA. / Position: Designer and developer. / www.urbanimal.biz / Bogotá, Colombia / 2005 until 2007.

•Instructor, teacher and researcher _ professor / Pontifi cia Universidad Jave-riana / Architecture and Design Faculty / Department of Industrial Design / www.javeriana.edu.co / Bogotá Colombia / 2004 until 2007. (Research: Application of the Ergoecologic Method of Analysis.)

Curriculum Vitae JRMS_2009 (extended version)

J. Ricardo Mejía Sarmiento

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Passport: C.C. 79.694.007 Bogotá D.C. Date of Birth: February 4th / 1975. Nationality: Colombian.Gender: Male.Marital status: Single

CONTACT INFORMATION

Address: Poptahof Noord 22 C2624 PW Delft. The Netherlands.Cell phone: 0650730980E-mail: jrmejias@yahoo.eswww.pktweb.com

I am an autonomous Industrial and Strategic visual-design thinker with ten years of experience using various types of strategic, creative, product-design, expe-rience-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. I am interested in creating innovative projects, products and services advising cor-porations in different levels. As an entrepreneur my professional projection is framed for the environmental and social responsibility at work. I fi rmly believe in the need of permanent updating, creative thinking techniques, team work and constant experimentation.

I was partner and co-founder of different companies of design. I worked as Direc-tor of R&D department at Kassani design S.A. and as consultant and engineer for different enterprises. My teaching activity has an important infl uence in my professional work; I was a teacher in the Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana, Uni-versidad de los Andes and I taught in Universidad Nacional de Colombia. I was a researcher in technology, innovation and stage design.

I won various design contests at different levels: concept, product and furniture. My work has been shown in several places, Buenos Aires Argentina, Barcelona Spain, Schwering Germany, La Habana Cuba, Delft the Netherlands amongst others.

My professional projection is framed for the environmental and social responsi-bility at work. I have an important interest about innovation, creativity and entre-preneurship. I fi rmly believe in the need of permanent updating, team work and constant experimentation.

KEY SKILLS (balance between left and right brain functions): Lateral-thinker, team-worker, leader, visual-thinker, innovator, creative, social entrepreneur.

PERSONAL AND PROFESIONAL INTERESTS: Theatre, design, photography, arts, future-scenarios, swimming, trips & trekking.

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•Founding member / Prospekt Design / Agency devoted to create, design, de-velop and manufacture digital products and interactive sceneries. Located in Bogotá, Colombia, funded in 1999 by the designers Ricardo Cedeño M. and J. Ricardo Mejía S. / Position: Director of the Interactive Scenarios Department / www.pktweb.com / Bogotá, Colombia / 1999 until 2007.

•Professor part time / Universidad de los Andes / Architecture and Design Fac-ulty / Department of Design / www.uniandes.edu.co / Bogotá Colombia / 2005 until 2007.

•Director R&D / Kassani Design S.A. / Industry devoted to design, develop, manufacture and install furniture for public and private spaces / www.kassani.com / Bogotá, Colombia / 2004 until 2005.

•Associate teacher and researcher _ Full time / Pontifi cia Universidad Javeri-ana / Architecture and Design Faculty / Department of Industrial Design / www.javeriana.edu.co / Bogotá Colombia / 2002 until 2004.

•Teacher, researcher, instructor _ Part time / Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana/ Architecture and Design Faculty / Department of Industrial Design / Manager of Services area to Industrial Design Department / Coordination to the Interuniver-sity sample of movables design RAD 2002 – 2003 / Coordination to “technology innovation emphasis” in the industrial design career / Academic coordinator and manager to International workshop (industrial design aspects) / www.javeriana.edu.co / Bogotá Colombia / 2001 until 2004. - Occasional teacher _ Associate Instructor –lectures by the hour / Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana / Architecture and Design Faculty / Department of Industrial Design / Bogotá Colombia / 2001 until 2002.

•Part time / Universidad Nacional de Colombia / Faculty of Arts / Department of Industrial Design / www.unal.edu.co / Bogotá Colombia / 2001 until 2002.

•Auxiliary teacher –lectures by the hour and half time / Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas / Engineering Faculty / Industrial Engineering Depart-ment / www.udistrital.edu.co / Bogotá Colombia / 2000 until 2001. – Coordinator to academic accrediting team Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas / Engineering Faculty / Industrial Engineering Department / www.udistrital.edu.co / Bogotá Colombia / 2001.

•Free Lance Designer / DIES Industrial Design / Bogotá Colombia / 1999 until 2000.

•Auxiliary auditor for the National Public Tender LPN 007/99 for the Local Depart-ment of Education / aei Design Administration / Bogotá Colombia / 1999 until 2000.

PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES (Consulting, inspecting and auditing services)

• Consultancy for the “strategic plan” of IBS Diseños Especiales / Brochure and catalogue development and Strategic Plan 2006 until 2016 / IBS Diseños Espe-ciales Ltda. / Bogotá Colombia. / 2005.

• Consultancy for the “strategic plan” of Dtrez Diseño Ltda. / Brochure and cata-logue development and Merchandising Plan / Dtrez Diseño Ltda. / Bogotá Co-lombia. / 2006.

• Consultancy for the design and production of RTA furniture for exportation to the Veta S.A. organization / Design, development, production, industrialization and assembly / Product development / Veta S.A. / Bogotá Colombia. / 2005.

• Consultancy for the exhibition of hand made products for exportation to ACU-NAR. / Teach, design and development. / Universidad Nacional de Colombia / Bogotá Colombia. / 2002.

• Consultancy for the design and production of school furniture for the Inmema Ltd. organization (Public tender with the Local Department of Education) / Design, development, production, industrialization and assembly / Product development / Inmema Ltd. / Bogotá Colombia. / 2001.

• Audits for the design and production of the school furniture for the Local Depart-ment of Education (Bogotá D.C.) Public tender LPN 007/99 (Design, Develop-ment, production, industrialization and assembly / Product development) / AEI Design Management Ltda. / Bogotá Colombia. / 1999.

• Inspecting for the design and production of school movables for the Local De-partment of Education (Bogotá D.C.) (Control over the design, development, pro-duction, industrialization, assembly, quality and performance / Product develop-ment) / AEI Design Management Ltda. / Bogotá Colombia. / 1999.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / Awards

• Finalist “Hybrid Tuk Tuk battle” team Maqina. ENVIU Innovation in sustain-ability www.enviu.nl. Delft, The Netherlands and New Delhi, India 2009.• Creative facilitator. 11 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura. La Biennale di Venezia. Venice, Italy. 2008.• Scholarship for MSc. TU Delft (The Netherlands) / Supported by the Program Alßan. The European Union Program of High Level Scholarships for Latin Amer-ica. • Jury in 3rd academic award of design PAD 2006 / (Product Development cat-egory) / Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana / 2006.

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• Finalist the 15th Photographer Exhibition (Tolima) national competition / Museo de Arte Moderno Tolima / 2005. • Finalist “VIII Lapiz de Acero 2005” competition in the furniture category (food court) / Magazine of “Proyecto Diseño” / 2005. • Second prize in “VII Lapiz de Acero 2004” competition in the concept category (sonorama) / Magazine of “Proyecto Diseno” / 2004. • First prize in the 3rd international competition of ideas +A “ways of seeing in cement” in the design category / Magazine of Architecture and Design +A and Cemex of Colombia-Mexico / 2003. • First prize of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd competition “Week of the Industrial Engineer-ing” in the category of advertising poster. / Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas / 1997, 1998 and 1999.

Collective_Individual Exhibitions:

• Exhibition Formstudy 4 “Zen” / Delft University of Technology / The Nether-lands / 2008.• Built Emotion workshop “Experience design” / Faculty of Architecture / Delft University of Technology / The Netherlands / 2008.• 15th Photographer Exhibition (Tolima) national competition / Museo de Arte Moderno Tolima / 2005. • Interuniversity sample of furniture design RAD 2002 - 2003 / Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá / rad//2d/ (Design, Development, Production, Industriali-zation and assembly / Product development) / Mejía J.R. / Bogotá Colombia. / 2003. • 7th National Room of Industrial Design in the National University of Colombia / Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional de Colombia / Several projects design offi ce Prospekt Design / Bogotá Colombia / 2003. • Interuniversity sample of movables design RAD 2002 - 2003 / Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá / RADISON: Product Concept and Design: Angarita L., Leal J., Mejía J.R., Perea J.M., Zapata F., De los Reyes D.P. and Zubieta K. (Design, Development, Production, Industrialization and assembly / Product development) / Bogotá Colombia. / 2003.

Publications and Reviews

• From Ergoecologic Method of Analysis to MiDiPP. / Saravia M.H., Barrero G.E., Mejía J.R., Rincón O., and Daza C. / Memories of the VIII Congress “The re-search in the Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana” ISBN: 958-683-803-X Page 46 / Bogotá, Colombia / 2005.

• Access Of The Industrial Design In The Chains Of Production / Practicing design for developing small business at the Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana Industrial Design Career / Mejía J.R. / Memories of the XII Event Betriebswirtschaftli-che tagu zu Schwering, Germany 12: 56-70. / 2003.

• RADISON: An irreverent proposal of a fresh design for the industry / De los Reyes D.P. and Mejía J.R. / Magazine “El Mueble y la Madera” 40: 81-87. / Bogotá, Colombia / 2003.

• Responsibility of the design into the new territory / Mejía J.R. / Compiler: Este-vez A. / Memories of the workshop Artifi cial Landscapes 20: 11-17. / Barce-lona, España / 2003.

• Methodology for product development and processes design in the context of the MIPYMES (micro business, small and medium business) in Colombia. / Mejía J.R. / Memories of the event: International Congress of Design of ALADI in Argentina 3: 49-56. / Buenos Aires Argentina / 2002.

• Design of artifi cial scenery for a cinematography fi lm of science-fi ction / Cedeño R. and Mejía J.R. / Thesis to obtain the Industrial Designer degree / Universi-dad Nacional de Colombia / Bogotá Colombia / 1998.

RESEARCH PROJECTS (Exploration of Documents and works about de-sign):

• Application of the Ergoecologic Method of Analysis. / Research document / Bar-rero G., Daza C., Mejía J.R., Rincón O. and Saravia M.H. / Pontifi cia Universi-dad Javeriana and Colciencias / Architecture and Design Faculty / Industrial Design Department / Bogotá, Colombia / 2005 – 2006.

• Validation of the Ergoecologic Method of Analysis from its application in the design and performance evaluation of a craft. / Research document / Barrero G., Daza C., Mejía J.R., Rincón O. and Saravia M.H. / Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana and Colciencias / Architecture and Design Faculty / Industrial Design Department / Bogotá, Colombia / 2003 until 2005.

• “Design of an artifi cial scenery for a cinematography fi lm of science-fi ction” / Thesis to obtain the Industrial Designer degree / Cedeño R. and Mejía J.R. / Uni-versidad Nacional de Colombia / Bogotá Colombia / 1998.

• “Prefactibility study of an artifi cial scenery for a cinematography project of sci-ence-fi ction, planning activities, assignment of resources and costs accounting and fi nancing” / Lecture “Art direction for fi lms and television”/ Mtro. Ricardo Du-que. / Cedeño R. and Mejía J.R. / Universidad Nacional de Colombia / Bogotá Colombia / 1998.

• “Theatrical Scenery” / Research document / Mejía J.R. / Manuel Ancizar Lec-ture. / “Aesthetic and Modernity” / Universidad Nacional de Colombia. / Bogotá Colombia / 1998.

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PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, SYMPOSIUMS AND CONFERENCES:

• “Help Manuel” / Workshop with Base of the Pyramid (BoP) communities in Medellin (organizer) / Delft University of Technology & EAFIT University / Delft The Netherlands and Medellin Colombia / 2009.

• “3rd AlBan Conference - Oporto 2009” / Mobility as a complex context for design and innovation / Universidade do Porto (FADEUP) / Oporto Portugal / 2009.

• Round table: “¿Industrial? Design” / Round table / Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana / Bogotá Colombia / 2006.

• “New technologies in the Show Rooms” / Lecturer / Workshop “Tendencies in the Show Rooms” / Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana / Bogotá Colombia / 2005 and 2006.

• “From Ergoecologic Method of Analysis to MiDiPP” / Lecturer / VIII Congress “The research in the Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana” / Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana / Bogotá, Colombia / 2005.

• “Stages for the design in Colombia” / Lecturer / Universidad Nacional de Co-lombia; Universidad del Valle, Universidad Autónoma, Cámara de Comer-cio Cali and Universidad Icesi / Cali Colombia / 2004.

• “Access of the Industrial Design in the Chains of Production” / Practicing design for developing small business at the Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana Industrial Design Career / XII Betriebswirtschaftliche tagu zu Schwering, Germany / 2003. • “Design, how do we want it?” / Presentation / Pontifi cia Universidad Javeri-ana / Bogotá Colombia / 2003.

• Guest workshop teacher: “International Workshop, Project of International Stud-ies” / Universidad de Buenos Aires and Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia / Workshop Artifi cial Landscapes / Other workshop teachers: Architect Carlos Hernández, Architect Jorge Moscato / Paris, France; and Barce-lona, Spain / 2003.

• Guest workshop teacher in the: “International Workshop, Project of Interna-tional Studies” / Universidad Internacional de Cataluña Barcelona Spain, Es-cuela de Diseño LAI Barcelona Spain, Taller Beth Galí Barcelona, Spain; and Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia / Workshop New Territories, from the object to the artefact / Other workshop teachers: Architect Carlos Hernández, Architect Beth Galí, Architect Santiago Cirugeda and Archi-tect Alberto Esteves / Paris, France and Barcelona, Spain / 2003.

• “Methodology for products development and processes design” in the context of the MIPYMES (micro business, small and medium business) in Colombia./ Pres-entation / International Congress of Design of ALADI in Argentina / Buenos Aires, Argentina / 2002.

• “25 years of Industrial Design in the Javeriana University” / Moderator / 25 years to Industrial Design in the Javeriana University / Bogotá Colombia / 2002.

Languages

• English & Spanish (mother tongue)

Computers Skills

• Illustration and drawing: Adobe CS4 (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and Corel Draw. • CAD and animation: Solid Works / Inventor / Auto Cad.• Management: Project, Offi ce XP (Word / Excel / Power Point) / Internet Explorer / Netscape Communicator / Windows XP / OS 8.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• ALADI. Latin-American Association of Industrial Design / Latin America.• Research group of Technology and Innovation / Pontifi cia Universidad Jave-riana / Colciencias (Instituto Colombiano para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnología “Francisco José de Caldas”) / Bogotá Colombia.• Innovation Net / CCB Cámara de Comercio Bogotá / 5 universities / Bogotá Colombia.

REFERENCES

• Delft University of Technology / Industrial Design Engineering Faculty / Ir. Marc Tassoul / M.Tassoul@tudelft.nl / Phone +31 (0)15 27 82939

• Delft University of Technology / Centre for Entrepreneurship / Esther Blom / E.M.Blom@tudelft.nl / Phone +31 (0)15 27 89317

• National University of Colombia / Industrial Design School / AEI Design Manage-ment / Architect Jaime Franky Rodríguez / AEI Administration General Manag-er and Dean of Faculty of Arts in the National University / Phone: (571) 3165000 - 6005267 / (571) 3456937

• Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana / Industrial Design Career / M.A./I.D. Roberto Cuervo / Industrial Design Career Director / Phone (571) 3208320 Ext. 2390.