Carlos is a Mexican Industrial Designer currently living in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He combines his design activities with teaching at a local university and co-managing the Dicojal (Jalisco’s Designers Association), advocated to promote and provide awareness about design as a professional activity.

Carlos is married and has a little 3 years old girl; she’s so cute and fun! Among his personal interests he likes reading, swimming and traveling (with a special affect for Asia, particularly for “kawai Japan”).

He has a great 1/18 scale car collection compiled over the past years, and admires the design effort behind brands like Smart cars, Apple, Koziol, Alessi, Phillips and for sentimental reasons, HP.

Professional Objectives

To contribute to the design and manufacturing of products for international markets by incorporating industrial design expertise with customer needs, manufacturing cost structures, and marketing trends.

Professional Experience

August 2007 – April 2009

Parts On Demand Mexico / Senior Industrial Design Engineer

R&D Lead Design Engineer

Main activities:

• Implementation of industrial design for a wide range of different products and projects.
• Overview and follow up with Mexican customers and manufacturing teams in Asia.
• Concept ideation by creating 2D handmade sketches for project presentations to customers in order to conclude final concepts.
• Generation of 3D files using SolidWorks to generate Rapid Prototypes for form and function verification, and to create files for final manufacturing of plastic parts.

January 2006 – July 2007

Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey / Advanced Design Center

Design Manager

Main activities:

• Overview of all academic, administrative and business related activities of the Design Center.
• Promote the services of the center and act as a liaison between academy and local productive sectors related to design in Jalisco.
• Drove marketing efforts to promote the center.

October 2005 – January 2006

Universidad de Guadalajara / Visiting Lecturer

Master program in Design and Product Development

February 1997 – August 2005

Hewlett Packard de México / Hardware Industrial Design Engineer

Research and Development

Main activities:

• Led the implementation of industrial design for digital copiers and paper handling solutions.
• Wide international experience in business negotiations solving diverse design aspects while teaming with Mexican, American, Canadian, German, Italian, Japanese and Chinese R&D and Manufacturing teams.
• Partner with cross-functional and cross-divisional teams in order to define a product that ensures a positive customer experience while meeting cost constraints.
• Drove product design strategies within division and across multiple product lines.
• Led the interpretation of technical information from engineering, marketing and usability areas to provide design solutions.
• Oversaw the industrial design of the product from initial concept until final implementation.
• Managed negotiations and design collaborations with several European and Asian OEM vendors.
• Coordinated the graphic and industrial design activities.
• Communicated ideas and concepts using 2D (handmade sketches) and 3D concept developments (SolidWorks), prototypes and mock-ups.

February 1999 - To date

Colegio de Diseñadores Industriales del Estado de Jalisco, A. C. [Dicojal] / Founder member and President.

Main activities:

• Co-lead the board of directors to meet organizational vision.
• ecruited and established a team of university and local industry sector representatives to provide awareness of regional design activities in Guadalajara.
• Coordinated several design conferences in order to bring prestigious national and international expertise to Guadalajara, as well as the participation of Mexican designers in local (in Mexico) and international design events.
Collaborator of the ‘Guía de Diseño Mexicano’, the main body responsible of promoting the talent of Mexican designers.

August 1994 - December 2001

Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, A.C. / Part Time Lecturer

Industrial Design Faculty

Main activities:

• Courses taught: drawing and illustration, models and prototypes, creativity and design workshops to undergraduate students.

Distinctions and Awards

September 2008, IV Design Biennial in Shanghai, China, chosen as a local designer to represent Jalisco, Mexico, during this event showcasing a collage of own designed products.

July 2007, Juror at the Jewelry Design Competition organized by the CEDIJ (Jalisco’s Jewelry and Design Chamber) to commemorate the 1st year of this organization.

November 2006, Gold mention granted to the HP Stapler Stacker for the LaserJet 4345 series at International a! Diseno contest in Mexico City. Category: Consumer Products.

November 2006, Gold mention granted to the HP Multibin Mailbox for the LaserJet 9000 series at the International a! Diseno contest in Mexico City. Category: Consumer Products.

September 2006, III Design Biennial in Shanghai, China, chosen as a local designer to represent Jalisco, Mexico, during this event showcasing consumer products designed for HP.

May 2006, winner at the Quorum´s Consumer Product Category with the Stapler Stacker for the LaserJet series 4700 of the Silver mention, Mexico City.

November 2005, winner at the design contest a! Diseño, in Mexico City within the Consumer Product Category with the Stapler Stacker for the HP LaserJet series 4345 mfp.

May 2005, nomination as a finalist contending for the XV Premio Quórum, Mexico City, in the Consumer Product category with the Stapler Stacker for the HP LaserJet series 4345 mfp.

November 2004, IV Saint Etienne Design Biennial Festival, France, 500 Sheet Stacker and 500 Sheet Stapler Stacker for HP LaserJet series 4000, honored by their industrial design.

May 2003, Bronze award at the XIII Premio Quórum, organized by the Mexican Design Council in the category of industrial design / consumer products, with the project 500 Sheet Stapler Stacker for HP LaserJet series 4000.

November 2002, III Saint Etienne Design Biennial Festival, France, 3000 sheet stapler stacker for HP LaserJet series 9000, recognized by its industrial design.

Participation in Courses and Conferences as an Expositor

ITESM Leon, Future of Mexican Design, (May 2009): Conference

Design Bienniale Shanghai 2008, Shanghai, China (September 2008): 2 conferences.

Expo Habitat 2008, World Trade Center, Mexico City, (May 2008): Conference

Design Week, ITESM campus Leon, (April 2008): Conference

Quien Sabe VI?, Queretaro City (Octobre 2007): Workshop

IFAC CEA, ITESM campus Monterrey, (September 2007): Conference

DIME Design Congress, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco (June 2007): Conference.

+ Diseno Industrial, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (Abril 2007): Conference.

3rd Design Week at the ITESM, Mexico City Campus (Octubre 2006): Workshop and conference

Design Bienniale Shanghai 2006, Shanghai, China (September 2006): Conference.

Jornadas del XXX Aniversario del Centro de Investigaciones en Biotecnología en Occidente del IMSS, (June 2006): Conference.

Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (May 2006): Conference.

Universidad Iberoamericana, campus Torreón (March 2006): Workshop and conference

Quién Sabe IV?, Querétaro City (October 2005): Workshop

Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (May 2005): Conference.

Quién Sabe III?, Querétaro City (October 2004): Conference.

UDG, ITESO, and ITESM, Guadalajara City (2002 ~ 2004): Conferences.

Universidad La Salle, campus León (April 2004): Workshop and conference.

Universidad Iberoamericana, campus Torreón (September 2003): Workshop and conference.

Languages

Spanish: Native

English 95%

Fluent in Spanish and English

Academics

2002 – 2004 M.S. Product Design and Development / University of Guadalajara

1989 – 1994 B.S. Industrial Design / University Autonoma de Guadalajara

Industrial Design Patents

US Patent D451,128: Ornamental attributes of a paper handling device. November 2001.

US Patent D455,172: Document Printer. April 2002.

US Patent D455,779: Document Printer System. April 2002.

US Patent D456,444: Ornamental Design for Document Printer. April 2002.

US Patent D462,086: Ornamental Design for LaserJet Printer. August 2002.

US Patent D462,380: Ornamental Design for Multifunction Finisher. September 2002.

US Patent D465,801: Ornamental Design for LaserJet Printer System 9000. November 2002.

US Patent D483,399: Sheet Stapler Stacker. December 2003.

US Patent D483,400: Sheet Stacker. December 2003.

US Patent D483,402: Color Multi Finisher Printer. December 2003.

US Patent D549,277: Printer Accessory. July 2007.

US Patent D545,891: Printer Accessory. July 2007.

US Patent D549,278: Printer Accessory. July 2007.

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• dicojal.com
• mexicandesign.com
• dimepolis.com