Design High School

RALPH ZOONTJENS

product & graphic designer

Personal

born: 09/28/1984, Tilburg, the Netherlands

phone: +31 (0) 6 40085314

e-mail: **************@*****.***

web: www.nothings.nl

address: Kijkduinlaan 58

5045 PK Tilburg

The Netherlands

ovies with Flash and Premiere.s

Objective

Finding a creative position at an innovative company, preferably in Texas,

USA.

Preferred Wage

35,000 - 45,000 USD.

Skills

o Design sketching and rendering (markers, pens, Photoshop,

Illustrator, Flash, Corel Painter, Sketchbook Pro)

o 3D CAD (SolidWorks, Catia v5, Rhinoceros, 3D Studio Max, Cobalt)

o Design for manufacture (plastics, metals, wood, rapid prototyping)

o Model making (foam, balsa wood, clay, rubber, cardboard, garment

making)

o Graphic design and illustration (Illustrator, Flash, Photoshop,

InDesign)

o Animations, scenarios, and movies (Flash, Premiere)

o User-Centered Design methods (contextual inquiry, probes, personas,

user testing, heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthrough, paper

prototyping, think-aloud protocol)

o Team-based creativity techniques

o Software programming (Processing/Arduino, Max/MSP, Visual Basic,

Java, Python, VRML, HTML, JAL, HB++)

o Creating interactive prototypes (Phidgets, Arduino, Lilypad, PIC

microcontrollers, electronics, several sensors and actuators)

o Interaction design tools (state transition diagrams, Petri Nets,

wireframes, flowcharts, UML)

o Native speech, reading and writing in Dutch, fluent in English, basic

in French and German

o Skills with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and Visio

Experience

03/2008-10/2008: Internship at Philips Design. With their Future Probes

group I explored the future of interactive technology and took

the vision from paper into the physical world by developing

working, full-scale prototypes.

07/2005-02/2008: Intern and later Junior Designer at Motio Development, an

award-winning product design and development studio that

focuses on mobility solutions. My main role was to come up with

innovative and manufacturable ideas and create convincing

visualizations employing sketches, CAD renderings, and physical

mock-ups.

08/2004-07/2008: Auditor at Inventarisatiebureau Tilburg. I was part of a

specialized team with rocket-like efficiency, doing the

inventory of several grocery, electronics, and DIY stores

across the Netherlands.

Education

09/2006-09/2009: Master's degree in Industrial Design at Eindhoven

University of Technology, the Netherlands

09/2002-06/2006: Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design at Eindhoven

University of Technology, the Netherlands

09/1996-06/2002: High School ('VWO', highest level) at "Koning Willem II

College" in Tilburg, the Netherlands

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