Moving from Engineering to Design
I am a 25 years old guy that studied Product Design Engineering in Barcelona, my hometown. Even though the technical development of products
is something I am really interested in, lately I have been refocusing my work and education into the design process: the creative part
rather than the technical one.
I completed my Engineering education in 2005 and after two years working as a junior R+D Engineer for Altran I saved money enough to move to another place
and continue studying. After leaving my job, I moved to Umeå, and that's the place where I am currently studying and living. I am enrolled in
the Introduction to Industrial Design course at the Umeå Institute of Design and I am willing to continue my "trip" with a MA degree in the field
of interaction.
If you want to have a look at my education and work experience, this is my cv.
CV
This is my contact information and a summary of my previous education and professional experience. Recommendation letters are available upon request.
Contact information
| Name |
Jordi Parra Ferrero |
| Address |
Fysikgränd 41, lgh 101
90 731, Umeå
Sweden |
| Cell phone |
+34 607 382 100 (Spain)
+46 733 257 106 (Sweden) |
| Contact email |
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| Hometown |
Barcelona |
Nationality
 |
Spanish |
Education
Work Experience
| 2004 |
Sound technician in Radio 7 Vallès and GTV.
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| 2004 |
Summer intern in ETEC working on the optimization for
production of structural parts for a new chassis by Nissan.
|
| 2006 |
Sporadic freelance works related with engineering
projects and renderings.
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2005 - 2007
|
Junior Engineer in Altran: working at Comexi Group's
R+D+I Department developing flexographic printers.
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Awards & Honours
| 2004 |
Selected for the exhibition of the DuPont Imagineering
Prize 2004 in Spain.
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| 2005 |
Final Degree Project Exhibition.
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| 2006 |
First Prize at the Spanish edition of the Corian Design Awards
2006 with the
lightning project Ensa.
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2006 - 2007
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Some articles were published in On Diseño, Experimenta and
other national magazines about the Corian Design Awards.
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Software
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, Alias StudioTools and Maya, AutoCAD, Pro/engineer, MS Office and
good skills coding in XHTML & CSS.
Languages
I am fluent in Catalan, Spanish and English. I am also studying Swedish.
If you have any question, collaboration proposal, internship or whatever you consider that might interest me, do not hesitate to contact me. I am alwawys open to all kind of comments and proposals.
Other information about this site
This site is running on MovableType and respects the XTHML and CSS W3C Standards.
It has been coded with coffe and HTML-Kit, and the FLV player I use is a free distribution of the JW FLV Media Player.
